The Legbar Thread!

[Alexandra33]

My comical and adorable Cream Legbar, Arlene. Gotta love that funky "hairdo"!

Judging by Arlene's panting, it's been a very hot day.

Her eggs are so lovely, and add color to our cartons.

Arlene on left and an EE on right.

-Alexandra33

 

[TheGeekySheep]

All 9 of the eggs that went into lockdown hatched overnight! I believe I have 5 males and 4 females, hoping y'all can confirm?



I think the three on the far right are female, as well as the one on the left in the front. The other 5 have yellow head spots and not very defined stripes or eyeliner.

I'm unsure about this one, I'm leaning female, she has no head spot but her stripes aren't very clear either:

 

[ChicKat]

My comical and adorable Cream Legbar, Arlene. Gotta love that funky "hairdo"!

Judging by Arlene's panting, it's been a very hot day.

Her eggs are so lovely, and add color to our cartons.

Arlene on left and an EE on right.

-Alexandra33

arlene is a character from her expression. Pretty colors of eggs. Does your camera shoot very "saturated"? or is everything that dark in 'real life'.

 

[ChicKat]

All 9 of the eggs that went into lockdown hatched overnight! I believe I have 5 males and 4 females, hoping y'all can confirm?



I think the three on the far right are female, as well as the one on the left in the front. The other 5 have yellow head spots and not very defined stripes or eyeliner.

I'm unsure about this one, I'm leaning female, she has no head spot but her stripes aren't very clear either:

They are sure cute day-olds!!! You got 9/9!? Big congratulations -- Where did your eggs come from?
I see for certain - based on big light head blob 4-males and the 3 females that you have together...then two I can't tell due to the screen of my monitor etc. The one you are holding... If you look at her face straight on -- and there is a V above the beak - I would say girl-for-sure (providing no light down disrupts the V as it travels backwards. ) -- could you take a face-on shot of the front and a top-down shot of the back?

Maybe some of the others will have observations that will help on that one too.

Meanwhile -- you have Cream Legbars !!!

 

[tobit]

I feel like the one on your hand is a boy, I can't see a V, the stripes are fairly faint and it looks like it has a tiny "blonde" spot (although pulleys can have these too, and the eyeliner is pretty well defined)... Hard one, I have a feeling it's a male, time will tell!

 

[TheGeekySheep]

Thanks all. Sorry for the blurry pics, it's so hard to get them to stand still!

Here's another photo, the blurry one in the middle is definitely a girl. The iffy one I was holding is on the far right, he/she doesn't have a defined V, but he/she's rocking some serious eyeliner. I'll be curious what it turns out to be.

 

[TheGeekySheep]

They are sure cute day-olds!!! You got 9/9!? Big congratulations -- Where did your eggs come from?

I had a dozen, three quit in the first week (blood rings) but the remaining 9 all hatched, I was quite pleased. I got my eggs from Smithey Poultry up in North Georgia. They were a lovely sky blue, so I'm looking forward to some pretty blue eggs next Spring.

 

[chicken pickin]

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Thanks all. Sorry for the blurry pics, it's so hard to get them to stand still! Here's another photo, the blurry one in the middle is definitely a girl. The iffy one I was holding is on the far right, he/she doesn't have a defined V, but he/she's rocking some serious eyeliner. I'll be curious what it turns out to be. [/quote I'm thinking she is a pullet.

 

[ChicKat]

I feel like the one on your hand is a boy, I can't see a V, the stripes are fairly faint and it looks like it has a tiny "blonde" spot (although pulleys can have these too, and the eyeliner is pretty well defined)... Hard one, I have a feeling it's a male, time will tell!

I thought that the top of the head could be lighter too, but sometimes photos fool ya, it looks like no lighter area in the top-down photo -- and as you say -- eye liner is very definite.

Thanks all. Sorry for the blurry pics, it's so hard to get them to stand still!

Here's another photo, the blurry one in the middle is definitely a girl. The iffy one I was holding is on the far right, he/she doesn't have a defined V, but he/she's rocking some serious eyeliner. I'll be curious what it turns out to be.

Be sure to legband her or him -- because, they change soo so fast when they are babies..... I'm leaning toward......

Quote: X2 agreeing with chicken pickin - because all the other males have definite white headspots. I think maybe if you have the choice this is one you wouldn't use in your breeding program if you decide to breed CLs. But I'm still so happy for you to have such a fabulous batch of fuzzy-butts.

ETA - YOU are going to have to post a lot as they grow -- because 1. we need more pictures of baby CLs to make us happy and 2. we will be curious - all of us what this chick turns out to be.

also -- my job is to follow chicken pickin' around and post X2

 

[chicken pickin]

I thought that the top of the head could be lighter too, but sometimes photos fool ya, it looks like no lighter area in the top-down photo -- and as you say -- eye liner is very definite.

Be sure to legband her or him -- because, they change soo so fast when they are babies..... I'm leaning toward......

X2 agreeing with chicken pickin - because all the other males have definite white headspots. I think maybe if you have the choice this is one you wouldn't use in your breeding program if you decide to breed CLs. But I'm still so happy for you to have such a fabulous batch of fuzzy-butts.

ETA - YOU are going to have to post a lot as they grow -- because 1. we need more pictures of baby CLs to make us happy and 2. we will be curious - all of us what this chick turns out to be.

also -- my job is to follow chicken pickin' around and post X2

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