The Legbar Thread!

[ChickaLong]

One of my boys was trying to crow yesterday morning at 29 days old. I can see the crest forming on some.

 

[otakalhasas]

One of my boys was trying to crow yesterday morning at 29 days old. I can see the crest forming on some.

Any idea at what age a crest has to be there for show? Not that I'm interested (spent too many years in dogs for that!) in showing, just pretty eggs, but I do like having animals as close to their standard as I can get to help preserve the breed.

So far as breeding crested to non-crested, I know that in canaries breeding crested to crested equals bald! But obviously this is not the case with chickens!!!!

 

[Red Banks]

One of my boys was trying to crow yesterday morning at 29 days old. I can see the crest forming on some.

Love the picture (avatar) of your chicks. Mine are one week behind yours (21 days). Seeing lots of crests..... some bigger than others. Aren't they adorable?

 

[Rubydee]

When should roosters start crowing? My legbar rooster was hatched last spring (I bought him 2 weeks ago) and just noticed he finally tried crowing yesterday like twice when I first let them out, and it sounded AWFUL. he sounded like one of those poor roosters with a crow collar on:/. Could he just be finding his voice?

 

[ChickaLong]

Any idea at what age a crest has to be there for show? Not that I'm interested (spent too many years in dogs for that!) in showing, just pretty eggs, but I do like having animals as close to their standard as I can get to help preserve the breed.

So far as breeding crested to non-crested, I know that in canaries breeding crested to crested equals bald! But obviously this is not the case with chickens!!!!

I am new here and have no idea.

 

[ChickaLong]

Love the picture (avatar) of your chicks. Mine are one week behind yours (21 days). Seeing lots of crests..... some bigger than others. Aren't they adorable?

Yes

 

[ChickaLong]

When should roosters start crowing? My legbar rooster was hatched last spring (I bought him 2 weeks ago) and just noticed he finally tried crowing yesterday like twice when I first let them out, and it sounded AWFUL. he sounded like one of those poor roosters with a crow collar on:/. Could he just be finding his voice?

I would think that he should crow by the time his sisters start laying. If he is the dominant rooster much earlier. My last year mixed chicks, the dominant boy started trying at 2 months and tried every day.

 

[ChicKat]

When should roosters start crowing? My legbar rooster was hatched last spring (I bought him 2 weeks ago) and just noticed he finally tried crowing yesterday like twice when I first let them out, and it sounded AWFUL. he sounded like one of those poor roosters with a crow collar on:/. Could he just be finding his voice?

To tell the truth, I have had brooder babies crow at about 2-weeks. It sounds more like a screech or a scream -- I run over to see who's hurt -- like they got their leg caught under the Ecoglow or something...and they just casually go about their chick business. It isn't recognizable until you notice the timing and the tone -- it is an attempt at crowing.

I have an adult who is about 18 months old or so that has a stifled crow. -- Now think for a minute..... No crow collars can incorporate risk, surgery to reduce the crow costs a lot. You have one with a muffled crow already -- Maybe you could capitalize on it. If someone were not allowed to have roosters due to crowing -- a whole lot of people may appreciate one whith a crow that is hardly audible.

ETA I like your cockerel, and he has a nice low tail angle and long back. It is interesting that he has smallish comb and no sickles (yet). I think that he may grow up to be gorgeous... I think he has a lot going for him type-wise, and I much prefer the non-monchormatic Cream Legbar -- infact, I have to say that the background and the lighting in that last photo is fabulous... To my eye it looks like the type of picture that should be on a Calendar page for September or October..... Good job! Keep posting as he keeps growing please. :O)

 

[Rubydee]

Thank you

 

[Rubydee]

Here's another couple pics that are better (the other was from my Instagram so I think it has a filter) I appreciate the compliments! I bought a pair of cream legbars on a whim a couple weeks ago and didn't read up, before finding out they should have crests.