The Legbar Thread!

[GaryDean26]

Here is a picture of the 3 cockerels. Sorry for the blurryness, the camera lense fogged up when I went from the nice warm house out to the single digits. But the reason I'm posting is for type. The single combed cockerel in the center has a good type in my opinion. Plus, he has the size I want and he is the only single combed rooster on the place that didn't lose any of his comb to frost bite, other than less than a centimeter of a couple tips. The rose comb cockerels have high tails but I have a couple pullets with low tails that should compliment them well.

I love the shape of that fellow in the middle. Nice rounded front line, flat back that is nearly horizontal with just a slight downward slope, good tail angle, and judging from his mate on the right, he looks to have good size and have good vertical high too, so his legs must be good.

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

I love the shape of that fellow in the middle. Nice rounded front line, flat back that is nearly horizontal with just a slight downward slope, good tail angle, and judging from his mate on the right, he looks to have good size and have good vertical high too, so his legs must be good.

Thanks. He is just about perfect to me but I'd like him more if his breast was fuller and of course if he was bigger. Just based on his size, I am thinking he is out of Ingrid, my original GFF hen. He is bigger than his father which is good. Something that I noticed in many of my cockerels I hatched last year were bad tails. The tails were either too high or pinched, his is just about right, and the length isn't too long or short.
The rose combed cockerels are a work in progress but they are still in the 'project' phase. They have the same paternal line as the single combed male but their grandmother was a production bred leghorn. I will just be more careful with matings this year. I culled down to a total of 10 legbar females (both rose & single comb) which I think I might whittle the number down further. Now that the pullets from last year have filled in more, I really dislike the type on a few of them so they'll go as layers.

 

[GaryDean26]

Ya, I have done some whittling down too.

 

[Triplell]

I am in the market for some hatching eggs. I don't remember who I got my original paint from but I think it was Walden. I have the original hen plus her two sons and two daughters. I don't want to breed siblings together. Funds are tight plus I have several 4-H kids interested in the breed. We are wanting to have three different flocks going to choose the best two breed from. Each of us would have a flock. Help please.

 

[chicken pickin]

Some of you may remember about 2weeks ago I had posted a question asking about my CL roo because one of my CL cross pullets laid a brown egg. I just thought I would share an update.

This morning I didn't have anything to do so I sat outside all morn with the chickens and watched that coop to see who used the nestbox. Well the only chicken to go in the nestbox was an "olive egger" pullet she stayed in there for over an hour finally when she came out I looked inside and TADA she is the brown egg culprit.

Which means the other green egg I have found previously belongs to one of the CL cross pullets. Im so happy!

 

[normanack]

Some of you may remember about 2weeks ago I had posted a question asking about my CL roo because one of my CL cross pullets laid a brown egg. I just thought I would share an update.

This morning I didn't have anything to do so I sat outside all morn with the chickens and watched that coop to see who used the nestbox. Well the only chicken to go in the nestbox was an "olive egger" pullet she stayed in there for over an hour finally when she came out I looked inside and TADA she is the brown egg culprit.

Which means the other green egg I have found previously belongs to one of the CL cross pullets. Im so happy!

So much better than finding out that a brown egg you believed belongs to one of your brown-egg-laying hens actually belongs to your prized CL pullet . . . (ask me how I know . . .)

Enjoy your beautiful CL cross pullet -- she is truly gorgeous -- and her pretty green eggs!

 

[chicken pickin]

So much better than finding out that a brown egg you believed belongs to one of your brown-egg-laying hens actually belongs to your prized CL pullet . . . (ask me how I know . . .)

Enjoy your beautiful CL cross pullet -- she is truly gorgeous -- and her pretty green eggs!

That's a bummer that your CL pullet didn't lay blue eggs. That is what I was getting nervous about with my CL rooster, that maybe he wasn't passing on the blue gene to his offspring. Thankfully it seems he is.

 

[racinchickins]

I have a question about this roo. He was part of a group that I purchased from a breeder. One of the males from the group has the normal CCL coloring. There were two pullets that have normal CCL coloring without much gold. Then there were three like the pic below. As chicks, they looked a lot like the female pullets. I've processed the other two, but I like this one, so he's gotten to free range with the laying flock. He just doesn't get access to the CCL hens.

My question is this: Is his coloring due to a total lack of cream? Or is there more going on here than I suspect?

 

[KPenley]

I have a question about this roo. He was part of a group that I purchased from a breeder. One of the males from the group has the normal CCL coloring. There were two pullets that have normal CCL coloring without much gold. Then there were three like the pic below. As chicks, they looked a lot like the female pullets. I've processed the other two, but I like this one, so he's gotten to free range with the laying flock. He just doesn't get access to the CCL hens. My question is this: Is his coloring due to a total lack of cream? Or is there more going on here than I suspect?

Total guess, but I think there is no cream plus lots of red enhancers causing the abundance of color. The odd thing though is that there is so much red in the saddle and secondaries...a gold bird should be gold there...so there is either a plethora of red enhancers from his parents or perhaps a red too had a field trip???

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Total guess, but I think there is no cream plus lots of red enhancers causing the abundance of color. The odd thing though is that there is so much red in the saddle and secondaries...a gold bird should be gold there...so there is either a plethora of red enhancers from his parents or perhaps a red too had a field trip???

X2 I'd say this bird was not pure, especially if he looked female as a chick that would be just wild-type down not an autosexing chick.