The Legbar Thread!

[redchicken9]

Hi GaryDean,
Just tried the link 3x, page not found. Can you send me the file? Thanks!

 

[normanack]

Testing.
http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/EPk8UC...lor/1 week to mature cockerel progression.pdf

This one works for me . . .

I dumped the raw address into this post rather than using the nifty planet-chain linky thing above.
You might have to copy and paste it into your address bar if it doesn't appear as a live link.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Yes, I noticed a few things and was hoping others would too (even though I know that is really hard to do from photos).

1) I don't think that the hackle color of the mature cockerels has anything to do with the down color. This I feel is governed completely by the cream gene (two copies, one copy, or no copies).

2) Both light colored down chicks had lighter colored head/faces in the juvenile stage while both the darker colored cockerels had darker heads/faces during the juvenile stage. I think this will be true in a large sample population too.

3) Both the light colored cockerels had a lot of chestnut color in the Juvenile stage while neither of the dark colored cockerels did. I need a larger population to draw any conclusions on this. The two dark colored cockerels could just lack the chestnut modifiers but it is also very possible that the darker chick down covers some of the chestnut color during the juvenile development.

4) I no longer have the blond cockerel from GFF, so he didn't make any of the final evaluations, but from the juvenile evaluations and evaluations of the lighter cockerel that was in the final evaluations it appeared that the lighter color down cockerels have lighter chestnut saddles than the dark downed cockerels (even though one of the darker cockerels had too dark of a hackle and one seem to have the about the same color hack as the lighter downed cockerel). So...again I need a larger population to test my theory, but think that the lighter color cockerels will across the board have a less vibrant color on the saddles than the dark down colored cockerels.

5) I need to check the under color of these cockerels to see what color they are. I haven't done this yet but am guessing that the light color down cockerels will have a cream under color and the dark down color cockerels a gray under color

6) The final comment is more for pullets. It appears that the lighter down color pullets will produce tan to gray crests while dark colored down pullets will produce black crests. The cockerels showed chestnut colored crests (again like the saddles more vibrant on the darker down cockerels), but I can really say much about the cockerel crests since only two in the final evaluation had visible crests.

On a personal note, the "B" cockerel who was the dark colored down cockerel from GFF is the only one that I have breed at this point. He has produced 100% dark colored down chicks from crosses with a dark colored down pullet and 75% dark 25% light from a cross with a light downed pullet. all of the pullets have produced cresting even though the cockerel has no visible cresting. I can't wait to see what the other two cockerels produce. I will be doing a lot of Cream Legbar hatches this fall.

This is absolutely great stuff. Thanks so much for sharing- I did go to the yahoo group directly to see the pdf file. I don't know og any way to do that here on byc. Thinking now about going out and banding my CL's so I can watch them more closely, they are about 3 weeks old now, just losing their down. I already see the starts of crests on the females!
Rinda

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Woops edited for double post.

 

[GaryDean26]

This is absolutely great stuff. Thanks so much for sharing- I did go to the yahoo group directly to see the pdf file. I don't know of any way to do that here on byc. Thinking now about going out and banding my CL's so I can watch them more closely, they are about 3 weeks old now, just losing their down. I already see the starts of crests on the females!
Rinda

Ya...I need to do the same. I have my pullets banned to mark which hen they are from, but I think I need to add another band to mark which ones have the light and which have the dark down form the light downed pullet so I can follow-up on the cresting color in CL pullets.

P.S. If anyone else is having trouble with the link you can send me a PM with and email address and I will send the PDF file as an attachment.

 

[omaeve]

well i want some legbars here in Virginia

 

[Zgoatlady]

I found 2 eggs in 2 nests today. My second pullet has started laying about 2 weeks after the first. One more to go
[qQuote name="CarolJ" url="/t/459044/the-legbar-thread/2360#post_9549019"]YEA!!! I got my first cream legbar egg today - at exactly 23 weeks old. Maybe that'll encourage the other two CLs to start laying. It's a little egg - but a pretty shade of blue - prettier than the Araucana eggs I've been getting. So excited!

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[omaeve]

Quote:

good to be a mama.

 

[ChicKat]

Question: Is there anyway to store or attach files on the BYC. I have tried to attach a file to the body of a reply on the threads as well as attached file through PM but always get error messages saying my setting don't allow this. If there is a way I can put files on the BYC I will. If not, I will continue to store Cream Legbar files in other locations.

Seems like you should be able to make a page. Under the brown learning center tab at the top---there should be a blue 'button' that says make new page or add page. (sometimes it appears there, and sometimes it isn't there.)

With a new page...you should be able to add endless photos...then a link to the page within BYC.......... ?? should work anyway.....

 

[Phage]

This pair of white cream legbars are about 11 -12 weeks old and hatched at the same time.
The one on the right is for sure a boy and is just trying to crow.

Is the other a hen or another late blooming boy? Although there is a big difference in appearance between these 2, the regular colored girls seems to have smaller combs. That may be an optical illusion though as the comb is very obvious against the white.
Both were thought to have been girls at one point.

Opinions greatly appreciated. Thanks!