The Legbar Thread!

[GaryDean26]

My understanding is that Jill Rees' birds all trace their origins back to Jilly Potter. I need to get to know Jilly she probably could connect all the dots on information for another chapter of the CLB history from the 1990's to the present day.

In 1988 the Cream Legbar was listed as one of the most critical of the auto-sexing breeds. Probably because it could not be out-crossed to the foundation breed to form new bloodlines like the Rhodebar, Wybar and other breeds could do. Sue & Shaun Hammon and David Applegarth were working with the CLB in 1988. I am guessing both of them out cross the CLB so I am guessing that there are at least two origins of the CLB now and possibly more since other have surely have outcrossed to leghorns, aracanas, etc. in the UK.

 

[GaryDean26]

At what age do you all think its safe to say they earlobe wont have leakage?

18 months?

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

Kind of surreal - and did you shoot this at 'the magic hour' for photography -- like an hour before the sun goes down..or is that a special effect thanks to your washing machine? This is a really intersting coloration. I'm thinking this is the basalt you were talking about.

Here is a comparison pict -

Really low light - but the dark neck and breast are new.... I kind of like it. It kind of reminds me of these CLs http://www.zazzle.com/diane_jacky/cream legbar

You have seen Diane Jacky's work if you have seen hatchery catalogs, posters in the feed stores and websites for hatchery. I think that we need to consider that the full range may also have an intense barring. What is really interesting too is this rooster is the same one that appears as slide 14 - on the Cream Legbar website gallery - so there is a variation of color that a bird can have over a lifetime - varied by seasons, molt, sun exposure, probably feed and age....All so interesting, isn't it?

I took the pic around 10 am pacific time, so a few hours after sunrise. I work at a dairy, so I always get to see the golden hour cast its light/shadows on the cows, trees, and fields, the only day I have at home to take pics with it is on Saturdays and most of the time I am too busy, lol. The camera made the breast a little darker than it is in person, imagine it just a little lighter and that is what he looks like. I talked to a friend who mentioned messing with the camera settings to see if it works, I figure I'll try it this weekend. About color changing- some of my pullets that started off bright yellow in the hackle are now a dull butter color after just a month of free ranging and change of feed brands

 

[ChicKat]

I took the pic around 10 am pacific time, so a few hours after sunrise. I work at a dairy, so I always get to see the golden hour cast its light/shadows on the cows, trees, and fields, the only day I have at home to take pics with it is on Saturdays and most of the time I am too busy, lol. The camera made the breast a little darker than it is in person, imagine it just a little lighter and that is what he looks like. I talked to a friend who mentioned messing with the camera settings to see if it works, I figure I'll try it this weekend. About color changing- some of my pullets that started off bright yellow in the hackle are now a dull butter color after just a month of free ranging and change of feed brands

Same here, the camera catches a bit darker than the eye. I'm thinking that my birds have all gone through quite a few color changes and they do range from butter to almost white in the hackles --

 

[ChicKat]

Here's something else for the mix....

we all know that canary bird are yellow -- right? In the book "The Practice of Breeding to Type" by C. J. Davies, he distinguishes between the inherited characteristics that result from breeding and those that are not inherited although they may appear in the parents. for example two dogs with a docked tail will produce pups with normal tails. Red canaries are created by feeding specific foods to canaries. The foods must be refed at molt time and the birds must be protected from light. The ability to absorb pigment to their feathers may be an inherited characteristic, but, the pigment of a canary hatched from red parents will be normal unless it is fed the feed that creates red plumage. Among the food that colors them is Carotene.

https://www.google.com/search?q=red...rViwLTx4GoDQ&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1920&bih=954

http://birdtee.com/Colorfeeding.htm

Now CLs, as a blue egg layer can use carotene to deepen the shades of eggshells. I'm wondering if the feed may have an influence on the coloration of the plumage. I'm feeding a lot of carotene to my birds right now...I wonder if I am turning them red? LOL

Once the color feed is discontinued and with subsequent molts, or when the birds are bleached by the sun - the red disappears.....

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

I know carotene does help with leg color. It can take a bird with average yellow legs and turn them near orange when fed in high enough amounts. With fish, when you feed them macro crabs, it enhances the color as well

 

[KPenley]

I know carotene does help with leg color. It can take a bird with average yellow legs and turn them near orange when fed in high enough amounts. With fish, when you feed them macro crabs, it enhances the color as well

What do you use and what amounts for the carotene? I know it's normal but I'd like to darken up the yellow in some girls before shows next year.

 

[horsedirt]

I posted this in the wrong place. Sadly, these 9.5 week olds need a new coop ASAP. Unexpected life change. I`m not sure if this is the right spot to post this. My apologies.I bought the eggs on ebay from "rogkat" I was having so much fun but they gotta go. PM me if interested. Plus I wouldn't mind a little critique here. For education, these pullets have different coloring. I`m not sure which is correct.

 

[chicken pickin]

Im a newbie to CLs but this is my thought. They are still a little young to know how the coloring will turn out, but I like the left color of the rooster and the left color of the pullet better. They are lighter and look a little more correct. Its hard to tell though.

 

[ChicKat]

Horsedirt -

Sorry for your life change. Talk about yellow legs! You may want to put them in the BYC buy/sell/trade pages.