The Legbar Thread!

[lonnyandrinda]

Myself and a few others have been refering to the non-cream legbars as light brown legbar. Light brown being the base with legbar being the pattern since it isn't a true crele type.

Good solution. Let's see if it sticks!

 

[Junibutt]

@Junibutt cute chicks!

It's a work in progress here in the US with Cream Legbars. "Gold Legbar" is an actual different breed that looks similar, crestless, that lays a white egg. So what we have here in the US are Cream Legbars and improperly colored Cream Legbars, we don't really have a name for these gold colored birds. Cream is a recessive gene so both parents have to carry it in order for the chicks to be cream. The only way it can be "lost" is if there was an outcross at some point and the birds are no longer pure for the Cream gene. Once you get your flock back to cream it cannot be lost.

Myself and a few others have been refering to the non-cream legbars as light brown legbar. Light brown being the base with legbar being the pattern since it isn't a true crele type.

Okay now I understand. Lets see what I have. I guess will have to wait about 2-3 months to find out? So if my source had pure cream, there is no way I would not have pure cream. However if the source somehow got polluted by a non-cream rooster, that will be the only way I will get a non-cream Legbar.

Thanks!

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Okay now I understand. Lets see what I have. I guess will have to wait about 2-3 months to find out? So if my source had pure cream, there is no way I would not have pure cream. However if the source somehow got polluted by a non-cream rooster, that will be the only way I will get a non-cream Legbar.

Thanks!

You can look for cream on the pullet's neck at 6-8 weeks. Roosters I find it takes longer to be sure, 10-12 weeks, look at the neck, saddle, and wing triangle (google it if you aren't sure where that is) to tell cream from gold.

 

[ChicKat]

Hope is 2 weeks old now and doesn't let me work on my laptop.
She weighs 100 g at the moment wheres Faith and Marco both are 90 g each.

BTW does someone maintain a growth chart for Legbar chicks to compare with standard growth rates?

Just love your chicks~~
I have some that are just about identical!

Glad you asked about the growth chart. It will be a valuable tool for those of us who like to track the metrics. The Cream Legbar Club has a fill-in-the-blanks form on the website:

http://www.creamlegbarclub.com/13-chick-weight-track-entry-form

It has just been started this year. After your first entry if you decide to enter data, I will send you link to the spreadsheet that results from the form and you can track your chicks for a long time - and compare to others that are that age.

I had some very fast growing chicks that were little giants - but alas needed to process them due to the move and the timing and the space and coop builds. By three weeks, they were all 1/2 pound!! By 10-weeks, one was 3 1/2 pounds! Hefty little chicks IMO.

You may want to designate in your first entry - where you put the chick identifier (name or number) if you are using pounds or grams so when we do analysis once there is a lot of data...we can compare apples to apples....

 

[Junibutt]

You can look for cream on the pullet's neck at 6-8 weeks.  Roosters I find it takes longer to be sure, 10-12 weeks, look at the neck, saddle, and wing triangle (google it if you aren't sure where that is) to tell cream from gold.

Thanks! That's very helpful

 

[BCollie]

I noticed this thread could use some more pictures ...so here's my little Cream Legbar girl. I love her, she's so sweet. I named her Lady.

 

[Flaming Chicken]

I agree! More pictures! Here are my latest hatch.

 

[dretd]

I noticed this thread could use some more pictures ...so here's my little Cream Legbar girl. I love her, she's so sweet. I named her Lady.

Thanks for posting--she is very pretty and I have to add that you take very beautiful pictures!

 

[dretd]

I agree! More pictures! Here are my latest hatch.

Very cute. I never tire of looking at cute baby pictures

How many total did you hatch? Are the boys separated out by down color (light/dark)?

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Don't have any pictures to add at the moment, but wanted to note a trend I am seeing. Since I have removed the last gold girl from my breeding flock 3-4 months ago I am seeing a lot less "cinnamon" tinted boys in my hatches. I see a pretty even split between light down and dark down, but only about 15% with the cinnamon tint on top of that. This is encouraging to me! Anyone else gotten to that point notice the same thing?