The Legbar Thread!

[RyeRanch]

That is simply too cute. What a good little chicken!

 

[Phage]

While waiting and looking for a rooster, I put one of my lavender Ameraucanas in with the girls. It's a shame to not do something with their eggs! I was reading the previous post about the Barnevelder/Cream Legbar cross and successfully confused myself. What would this combination produce as far as chicks? Blue eggs at least! If I decided to keep going with this project, how long until I get an autosexed chick? By the time the chicks are breeding age, I'll have a Cream Legbar boy for them!

I put my roo in with the wheaten ameraucanas and they produced some fabulous babies, that actually look VERY much like legbars without the autosexing. Need to take pics....

 

[redchicken9]

Had a nephew show up since Sunday, so it's been go, go, go, and largely go swimming in the South Yuba River! I took some egg photos, but then needed to charge a battery. Four eggs so far, and each a pinch bigger, but still a small egg. Cracked the first 2 to see the inside of the shell (white). Is there a breed where the inside is blue? For those of you weighing eggs, what type of scale do you use? A little OCD could be fun! I still don't know my layer. I have plans for nesting boxes, but this summer is blowing by, one hot, blue day after another. I mean it's moving fast! I loved reading the last 2 days of posts (23 of them). So much variety of topics. Blackbird13 did you find those pullets? Leah21 and ChicKat thanks, I am so excited about these eggs. I've been reading about breeding programs. I think I'd like to have 3 lines and do Spiral Matings, see Harvey Ussery's The Small-Scale Poultry Flock, p250. I want to put a shout out on this book. It's a new purchase. After thumbing and reading a few of the back chapters, I think it's a good buy, plus it has details on building nesting boxes!

 

[madamwlf]

Well, after it dried, that first one turned out to be a female. The next three were whites followed by a male that hatched this morning. I gave one white and the female to a friend and kept two whites and the male for myself. Here they are:




The white that I gave to my fiend had very faint stripes on the back, almost unnoticeable. These two don't have any so I am assuming the might be boys. I still have nine eggs left in a very staggered hatch over the next two weeks.

Your whites look nothing like mine when I had some hatch. Even the boys tend to have a very faint chipmunk pattern on their back. Mine were more yellow.

 

[The Sheriff]

MIne were very yellow when they hatched but as they dried off they looked much whiter. I thought the ones with the faint stripes were girls that is why I gave that one to my friend. Oops, sorry Kelly.

 

[Phage]

Mary my 2 white girls from you both had very faint chipmunk stripes, and the inverted light tan cheveron on the head, ie darker over the eyes and light in the middle.

 

[Wolf-Kim]

The whites I hatched out were different shades of yellow until they feathered out white. Keep us posted on how these grow out. They are super cute.

 

[redchicken9]

Sheriff, Such cute chicks! Glad you have your boy! Hope he's super handsome!

 

[debs_flock]

Mary, these were my two. They do appear to be boy/girl based now on their comb development.

So my girl had fairly dark chipmunk stripes.

Deb

 

[madamwlf]

Mary, these were my two. They do appear to be boy/girl based now on their comb development.

So my girl had fairly dark chipmunk stripes.

Deb

Hmmm...those don't look completely like mine either. There was no dark colors on them. Just the different shades of yellow. Something new???