The Legbar Thread!

[lonnyandrinda]

I was thinking about this over coffee today. Maybe we can use the Araucana egg color chart as a starting point (with their permission of course) and create our our own color chart. On one side we could have egg color and on the other we could have cream, gold, and silver colors. The chart would of course have a color calibration bar. I am going to reach out to a friend at Pantone and see if she will help. For those that don't want to purchase a chart (or have no idea how to calibrate a monitor), we could provide cross-reference numbers for paint samples of the common brands of paint at the big box stores. Paint chip samples should be color-accurate.

We can use the Araucana egg color chart for the egg color. But for the cream, gold, and silver colors, I suggest we start collecting feathers. Maybe if I give the girls mealworms they won't be so mad at me for stealing a feather or two.

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We would not use their actual chart but would just match the colors and create our own color correct chart for both eggs and cream, gold, and silver. Then anyone could use either our chart or just pick up the same color correct paint samples at a store.

I would love to have a goal of eventually having our own club's chart. We discussed it near the beginning and the cost and lack of an individual with the skills to do it curtailed that idea. Perhaps if you have time you might want to start discussing and collecting information and opinions and get one started, using what we know now about CL colors from the OAC colors and the Ameraucana chart. I did my own attempt to compare the color chips between the two so people who only had one or the other could see the colors being discussed; as chickat mentioned it is in the clubhouse files. I believe it would take you at least a year to have one ready to go.

For now though I am satisified with using the Ameraucana or OAC chart. Ameraucana chart is easier to get ahold of than Araucana, but I really like the larger swatches and more chip colors of the OAC; often the Ameraucana chart just doesn't match close enough to any of them for me. AND you can only compare egg color with it. With OAC we can look at autosomal red, salmon chest, cream/gold hackles, and gray barring shades as well. Within the limits of the chart of course. But I think it's a good starting point.

 

[TheTropix]

I think that's just creating a lot of extra work and expense when there are already afordable tools available for us to use. No need to reinvent the wheel. I'm satisfied using the OAC chart.

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[enola]

I agree whole heartedly with the two above posts

 

[WHmarans]

Raises a very good question as I have often been confused at what people do and do not consider "salmon". It's just one color but none of them really look the color I think of as salmon.

This is the best color I have to show really and it still looks more rusty than real salmon color to me.

 

[enola]

TheTropics bbeat me to it!

 

[lonnyandrinda]

This is what I consider my most correct hen. Here she was just a pullet. Her crest is larger now. But you can see the cream hackles, salmon breast, tucked up wing, nice barring in the tail. Good leg, beak, and ear color. Her comb stayed rather smaller than my others even once she started laying so that will be useful to keep the male's combs smaller. She is also the girl whose eye went all gray I think from an injury. But she still has gorgeous genetics so she STAYS!

ETA: to make her more perfect I would like a more even rounding from the breast to the leg, and less poof sticking out under her tail.

 

[Ramblin Rooster]

A cream legbar! I get it now! Legbars are like a cream legbar! I want those so bad... anyone got any hatching eggs?

 

[WHmarans]

She has a pretty face and right ear color too doesn't she? Cream hackle. That warm gray base color. Pretty hen over all.

 

[normanack]

A cream legbar! I get it now! Legbars are like a cream legbar! I want those so bad... anyone got any hatching eggs?

I have Ice Cream Legbars: Neo, Polly, and Tina. ;-) ;-)

 

[Ramblin Rooster]

I have Ice Cream Legbars: Neo, Polly, and Tina. ;-) ;-)

What's the difference between ice cream leg bars and cream legbars?

Oh haha I get it!