The Legbar Thread!

[DeltaBluezTess]

I have four roos that are a week old....colors range from the typical roo color to a almost blonde color...hence my question. Looks like Blondie would be my best bet. What about grayish ones?

 

[lonnyandrinda]

I have four roos that are a weel old....colors range from the typical roo color to a almost blonde color...hence my question. Looks like Blondie would be y best bet. What about grayish ones?

As long as there is no reddish cast I would grow it out as long as you can. If you see color developing on their shoulders before about 10-12 weeks, they will probably have too much red.

 

[CibolaChooks]

Quote: its the ones the brits look for and want from what ive been told . really silvery grey with a yellowish head spot.

 

[KPenley]

Thank you Steen for clarifying! I think there has been a tiny point of confusion in the last few posts. If you have a yellow chick, it will most likely be a recessive white Legbar. You want silver/gray bodies on your boys, but with nice large white or yellow head spots

 

[CibolaChooks]

I have four roos that are a weel old....colors range from the typical roo color to a almost blonde color...hence my question. Looks like Blondie would be y best bet. What about grayish ones?

Since no one knows for sure id grow them all out and you can add to the data collected on chick down. 6 months ago everyone on here was miss lead and would have had every dark down chick culled. they all said not to keep a dark down that you wont get a cream male from it. Well they were wrong and I've got 3 from dark down. I will eventually switch over and will work towards my males being silvery Grey with cream or yellowish cream head spots because that's closer to what the sop calls for. but in reality if you listen to every ones opinions and don't just grow them out till 10-12 weeks like lonnyandrinda mentioned you have a big chance of culling your creams and keeping a gold. Chick down is one of those things lots of people has an opinion on but its just that an opinion not facts set in stone. just as many people get disappointed in their Grey chicks as they do the dark down ones. all your Grey ones might be golds and the one you least expect might be cream. Grey doesn't instantly mean cream. the SOP calls for the silvery Grey ones. the people i know in the UK like the Grey/yellowish ones to get cream. but your best bet is to grow them all out and chose around 12 weeks. that is just the safest bet for you to get a cream male.

 

[CibolaChooks]

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[CibolaChooks]

here is a pic sweetdreaming posted on the cream legbar page. the top right second from the right is the ones im talking about. very grey and yellowish head. they got 5 roos of all of the down types. but the ones i would call yellow headed is 2nd from the right on the top. and when you go look at this pic in full size on the Cream legbar page its really not as yellow as some that ive seen. its on the last page.

my best cream male came from a chick like the 5th from the right on the top. No one would have ever recommended him and would of had me keep others. well I would have ended up with nothing but gold males listening to everyone. now that i have cream I'm hoping my next batches of chickens will have the grey down ones and ill be able to switch over to a Grey down cream rooster, but you can never tell until you grow them out.

 

[nicalandia]

Quote:
While the SOP says nothing about the Dark Chick downs, its part of the Legbar genesis, you see this trait was introduced by Punnett when they used Danish Leghorn blood in the legbar, the Danish used had a Dark Chick down and it behaves as a simple recessive autosomal gene

 

[DeltaBluezTess]

Well I will grow the males out and report what color they ended up...will put leg bangs on them. As for the females, I have had a wide variety of color but still haven't been able to pinpoint which ones turn out silver....the first group I got FF, all were pretty much the same color and I have nice silver/cream to dark chestnut hens....I have 6 chicks right now from TOFH and GFF and will report how they turn out. I look at the ones who do NOT make the grade will go to the egg laying flock to lay eggs to sell...adds color to the egg carton and people just LOVE getting colored eggs....

 

[horsedirt]

I had the pleasure of visiting Greenfire Farms today. This is a Jill Rees Rooster. The operation is not as big as I thought it would be. Nevertheless, impressive, proffesional, clean beyond clean. Jennifer is wonderful and extremely educated. More pics to come. FYI, there is a huge pen/coop dedicated the Rees CLs.