The Legbar Thread!

[The Sheriff]

klf73 I might you up on some eggs just to try for a crested roo. let me know if you have any.

Mary

 

[crazyhen]

Sherriff, how many hens do you have at present? How many next Spring at hatching time? I have been looking for someone who has more than two or three so the eggs to be shipped will be really fresh. Shipping takes a hard toll on eggs here. Gloria Jean

 

[debs_flock]

Tonight my DH put down my beautiful rooster Reggie. I believe he injured his foot and got a systemic infection.

Mary, sorry for your loss, he was a beautiful bird. Seeing him (and the beautiful blue eggs) when we came to pick up the Isbar eggs is what made me want the breed.

Deb

 

[ronott1]

klf73 I might you up on some eggs just to try for a crested roo. let me know if you have any.

Mary

You can have one of Mine.



Ron

 

[juststruttin]

Its awesome to see so many people in Northern Cal with Cream Legbars. I have a trio that just started to lay and I am thrilled.

 

[The Sheriff]

I have two hens laying now, four more to start any day, three more in a couple of months and then the ones I am hatching. I don't plan to keep more than 10-12.

Thanks Ron for the kind offer but I want to stick to my bio-security plan of not bringing in started birds. I am not a patient person so it's not easy. I am re-building my Icelandic flock from my foundation pair too so I have a lot of waiting to do all around. I have Isbar eggs though!

 

[normanack]

I retract my questions about culling if they were inappropriate. I'm sorry.

 

[ronott1]

I retract my questions about culling if they were inappropriate. I'm sorry.

Thank you for our question! Any serious discussion about improving a breed needs to consider things like culling.

Culling just means not breeding them. There are rescue groups and people that live in the country that are looking for roosters. I have sold a lot of Cockerels on Craigs list.

With the Cream legbars you can sell them as project breeders to make various colors of egg laying flocks.

Ron

 

[Flaming Chicken]

Sadly I must report that I will be out of the cream legbar egg business for six months. Tonight my DH put down my beautiful rooster Reggie. I believe he injured his foot and got a systemic infection. Three of his toes were turning purplish black, he wasn't eating or drinking and barely able to move. Watching him try to move into the shade was torture. I tried penicillin injections with no response so we did what we thought was right. I feel blessed to have a husband who will do this for me when necessary. Thankfully it isn't often. I have eight eggs incubating and will put the others in until they are no longer fertile. I should hatch a male or two to grow out as a replacement. I don't bring started birds into my flock so starting from the egg up is all I can do.

Besides losing Reggie, it has been a wretched day and I am going to try to sleep.

So Sorry about Reggie. There has been some bad news on the board lately.

Hope you hatch some of his offspring to help with the loss. It seems like the boys are mature a lot sooner than the girls so you may have fertile eggs sooner than you think.

 

[The Sheriff]

The fact that you don't get an immediate response doesn't mean that people find your questions inappropriate. Everyone that breeds has extras that need to be dealt with. I am still reeling from the loss of my breeder rooster last night so I don't feel like addressing those issues this soon. It doesn't mean someone else won't. It isn't a taboo subject for most people who raise chickens.