The Legbar Thread!

[ki4got]

These are photos of the chicks at just a few days old; they only hatched this past weekend. There were no females so no chipmunks.

Thank you all for the confirmation that the black chick is NOT a CL or a "throwback".

I believe he is a sex-link, too. I don't own a barred hen so I KNOW he didn't come from my girls. I left neutral feedback when I received the eggs because the "extra" egg, which arrived broken, when opened was not fertile--plus the eggs were very dirty.

Well, $40 and two roos...lesson learned on Ebay eggs!

....what else can I do??

$40 and a bit more would probably get you at least a decent pair or trio of chicks from a reputable breeder, if not more.

 

[Runawaylobster]

I just hatched these two chicks from my legbars, and i am trying to figure out if they are pure legbars or not, because my big fat lav orp rooster squeezed his way into the legbar pen. He was only in there for a couple of hours but you never know LOL... what do you think? They don't look like the orp had his way, but well.. !

 

[lonnyandrinda]

$40 and a bit more would probably get you at least a decent pair or trio of chicks from a reputable breeder, if not more.

Only if you could source them locally, not if you had to ship them though... $40 will hardly cover the shipping!

 

[KPenley]

Runaway, they look like CLs to me

 

[dretd]

I just hatched these two chicks from my legbars, and i am trying to figure out if they are pure legbars or not, because my big fat lav orp rooster squeezed his way into the legbar pen.  He was only in there for a couple of hours but you never know LOL... what do you think?  They don't look like the orp had his way, but well.. !

Hi Runaway! Orpingtons have white legs, which is a dominant trait. If either chick grows out with white shanks then you'll have confirmation that your Orpington had enough time to do the deed.

 

[Runawaylobster]

Runaway, they look like CLs to me

Hi Runaway! Orpingtons have white legs, which is a dominant trait. If either chick grows out with white shanks then you'll have confirmation that your Orpington had enough time to do the deed.

very cool... I can't believe that such a big rooster squeezed through that tiny hole... and then my legbar rooster (patch adams) didn't seem to bother at all :/

 

[ChicKat]

I will let you know in about 4-6 months. 100% of my chicks so far have what I would consider Willow, or at least Yellow-y Willow (not as Willow as EEs). That's 14 chicks from my first 2 hatches. There are 7 girls. I have 2 gold hens that have a little black tipping on some of their breast but a lighter taupe/gray body and one hen that is a much darker body but no black in her salmon breast. I have always thought of the darker hen as having more melanizers becasue of her darker ground color. I suspect there is more than one melanizing gene involved.

I have some Welcummers growing out which are somewhat similar to CLs (minus the barring and Cream of course) and they all have Ronald MacDonald Yellow legs and there are 2/5 girls with the same black tipping on some of their chestnut breast feathers that is identical to my CL girls. 2/7 of the Cockerels have black breasts and 5/7 have the correct black with red mottled breast so I suspect that the melanizers in this case are specific to the breast, cause more black in the breast of both boys and girls, and are unrelated to the leg color in this breed. Not sure if it the same in Cream Legbars or not.

For the first time - I am seeing some blackish tips in my 5-week olds too--- and I wonder if it is part of the feathering in process that I hadn't noticed before as they go from chick plumage colors to salmon.... I guess the melanizers are going to be a big focus for us as we delve into it - and I think that there are multiples.....

 

[jlynnp]

I was fortunate to find 6 Cream Legbar chicks only an hour away from me so shipping is eliminated. Parents of the chicks were purchased from Greenfire Farms. I am excited to pick them up tomorrow!!

 

[ChicKat]

I was fortunate to find 6 Cream Legbar chicks only an hour away from me so shipping is eliminated. Parents of the chicks were purchased from Greenfire Farms. I am excited to pick them up tomorrow!!

bravo!! show picts when you get them. Congrats!

 

[jlynnp]

I haven't taken pics of the new chicks yet but will. I ended up with 10 instead of 6 but that is chicken math!!