The Legbar Thread!

[jamesbwood]

The first egg is hatching right now. I'm a dad!

 

[Wolf-Kim]

It is really nice to see all the diversity in the imported lines. More room to play. Loving all the pictures.

 

[boykin2010]

The first egg is hatching right now. I'm a dad!

That is so Great! Do not forget to post pictures. I love seeing my chickens little babies

 

[Miss Molly]

Jamesbwood, Congratulation on becoming a Dad

My Trio is due to start laying any time now

I can't hardly wait!

Love seeing everyone picture... WOW some really beautiful Chickens...

 

[GaryDean26]

Thank you GaryDean for the info.

Yes, I do have a picture of her beside a darker pullet. I know it's her because of the little green band on her leg. The feathers on their necks are definitely different. I sure hope she doesn't lay white eggs!!!!!!!!

You don't have anything to worry about. That little gall is going to lay lot of blue eggs.

The Cream Legbars took a complete split from the Gold Legbar line. After the split the Cream Legbars were crosses with a Chilean Hen to see if the cream color in the Legbars was caused by the same gene as the cream color in the Chilean Hen. The Cream Legbars get the blue eggs from the Chilean Hen Cross (as well as the cresting). Anything from the Cream Legbar line should lay blue eggs regardless of whether they have the gold or silver plumage, are crested or non-crested, etc.

 

[ChicKat]

The first egg is hatching right now. I'm a dad!

Congratulations!!

 

[redchicken9]

Just to pass along, the cream legbar received a brief (partial sentence) mention in the Smithsonian's How the Chicken Conquered the World, so did GFF.

 

[Dirt Farmer]

Thanks. I just wish I knew what was going on with this batch of birds. I've had nothing be problems out of them. I have her in the house and I put Nutri-Drench in her water. I may put Corid in her water and feed her Poly-vi-Sol a few times a day.

Hi, I've been lurking on this thread pondering the purchase of some Cream Legbars. I recently culled my entire flock and started over due to disease. My advice would be to get that hen to a avian or poultry vet with access to a diagnostic lab. After you get a diagnosis, you'll be able to make better treatment decisions. Before I got my flock diagnosis I spent probably $60 on treatments that had no hope of helping and may have been detrimental. I had two options, the state lab which is free but sacrifices your bird, or a private vet. I used the state lab on the sickest hen to get a diagnosis, then I spent $127 on the private vet to provide initial treatment for the rest of the flock. The treated birds recovered but because my flock had a difficult to eradicate issue (M.S.) I eventually culled the lot of them to put an end to the cycle of misery.(New birds that I brought in got sick from the treated birds, and birds that never showed symptoms who were carriers.) Hopefully your issue is more treatable, but you won't know until you have a diagnosis. Diagnosis based on signs and symptoms alone is difficult because many issues can have similiar presentation, and the same illness can present quite differently from flock to flock, and bird to bird. Just my two cents based on a rough experience. I hope you keep us posted on the outcome. Good luck tracking it down.

 

[jamesbwood]

I'm a dad

 

[Miss Molly]

She is Beautiful