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Ditto... Ewe Crazy. I have networked with about 25 people with the Cream Legbars, and half of them are active on this forum.

I got Cream Legbars in January of this year after researching them for 3 months.

My cream Legbar pullets have all when from pale pink combs to bright red comes in the last two weeks. My first Cream Legbar egg could show up any day now. The Blue Bonnet Egg Contest in Austin, TX is on the 9th of June. With any luck I will be able to take Cream Legbar eggs to compete with. :)
 


Here's my oldest roo, does his comb look right to you all? Would you say he's acceptable for breeding to the standard? He's 10 weeks old. Thanks
 
For the person who wanted to know more about those of us on the thread, I have 12 cream legbars, 4 trios. I ordered half this; GFF and fate kindly brought extras. I've lost none, even my littlest gal. My #1 male has been crowing for weeks. He started at around 9 weeks. Spring warm weather with lots of grass and bugs is perfect for raising legbars. They have been free foraging since they were 4 or 5 weeks. My back and side pastures have fence lines down, (I'm changing things), so they are free to be anywhere. I think I may have eggs earlier than the 22 weeks. What is the earliest folks have seen eggs?

My legbars are seemingly disease free (knock on wood), healthy, and thrifty. Since about 3 weeks they've been raised with 10 blue laced red wyandottes that are a week older. My roosters are visually more mature looking and appear to outrank the single wyandotte roo I have. However, the wyandottes are, of course, mellow, larger, and fluffier. I'm looking at small flock certification after everyone hits 16 weeks. Only drawbacks are that I have other hens, plus 3 rogue mallard crosses from my neighbor, and a stray peacock (no one claims) that want to make my place home. Drawbacks being I've been worried about disease as the ducks raid the hen house. With too many stray birds liking our place, plus the wild ones at the pond such as heron, egret, grebe, Canada geese. I'm wondering if I can met NPIP. For those of you that have it, can you still free range your birds? How problematic is all this potential contact from other birds in terms of adding more disease to the flock? Will NPIP mean my birds need fenced? Thanks for any replies.
 
Here are some picture of my legbars. I have two trios right now. One roo each from Jordan Farms and Sunnydale farms and two pullets each from the same. All were from hatching eggs. I have 13 more cream legbars still in the brooder that are from GFF. eventually I will choose a roo to be over these for girls from the GFF auction. then have one of these roos over my GFF's girls and have two separate pens. These guys were trying to crow today....had to laugh. they are not quite there yet!
 
redchicken9 said:
For the person who wanted to know more about those of us on the thread, I have 12 cream legbars, 4 trios. I ordered half this; GFF and fate kindly brought extras. I've lost none, even my littlest gal. My #1 male has been crowing for weeks. He started at around 9 weeks. Spring warm weather with lots of grass and bugs is perfect for raising legbars. They have been free foraging since they were 4 or 5 weeks. My back and side pastures have fence lines down, (I'm changing things), so they are free to be anywhere. I think I may have eggs earlier than the 22 weeks. What is the earliest folks have seen eggs?

My legbars are seemingly disease free (knock on wood), healthy, and thrifty. Since about 3 weeks they've been raised with 10 blue laced red wyandottes that are a week older. My roosters are visually more mature looking and appear to outrank the single wyandotte roo I have. However, the wyandottes are, of course, mellow, larger, and fluffier. I'm looking at small flock certification after everyone hits 16 weeks. Only drawbacks are that I have other hens, plus 3 rogue mallard crosses from my neighbor, and a stray peacock (no one claims) that want to make my place home. Drawbacks being I've been worried about disease as the ducks raid the hen house. With too many stray birds liking our place, plus the wild ones at the pond such as heron, egret, grebe, Canada geese. I'm wondering if I can met NPIP. For those of you that have it, can you still free range your birds? How problematic is all this potential contact from other birds in terms of adding more disease to the flock? Will NPIP mean my birds need fenced? Thanks for any replies.
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Not sure if NPIP is standard across the nation but my birds free range quite a bit - we are currenlty re-seeding part of the lawn so they have been penned up for a few- and it did not affect my NPIP certification. I don't have ducks (yet) but with 13+ acres and a pond on the property I am sure that I have some affects of the wild life that filter in
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Here they don't test birds younger than 5 months also. They tested for Pullorium and A1 specifically but I could have asked and paid for other testing is the impression I got. It has made things easier for selling and swapping and the like so I'd recommend it. Ticks seem bad this year so my birds will be going at it and free-ranging again as soon as the front lawn has taken off.
Except for the tumor on one of the 2 younger roosters both my pairs are doing well, tested out just fine and and seem to have integrated well with the other birds. It sounds like you have a nice flock coming along.
 
I have six trios so far they will be a week old this tuesday. Fingers crossed. I dont know if I have too many or not. sometimes I feel overwhelmed. I also have golden laced brahmas, and a trio of orlandsk dwarfs.
 

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