The Legbar Thread!

[Papa Brooder]

OooooooooNoooooo PaPa Brooder! Crap! I'm am so sorry... Good Luck on your Friday Hatch...
How are your new Puppies doing? Would love to see more pictures of them. Molly

will try to take some better photos tomorrow. it will make me feel better talking about them.. i can't remember if i posted on this thread but lost a puppy as well today so it was a very bad morning! took me all day to recover. and on top of that I had to cull, "real cull" a BLRW that just was never doing well. I was so traumatized by my puppy and chick losses that I had to get a neighbor to do it for me. It was time. I had been putting it off for over a week and I just knew it had to be done. sad, sad day. holding the puppies makes it better

 

[Papa Brooder]

Oh man, that REALLY stinks, so sorry, we have had some awful losses ourselves recently, some our fault some not. All of them still hurt.... At least you saved one! Good luck- hope you have a great hatch on Friday!

Thanks much!

 

[omaeve]

Quote: If you are born in America you are an American.

If your Eggs mama and daddy were born in the uk , then they have duel citizenship.

 

[omaeve]

My first CLB chick just hatched....I already have 2 roos that I got from Richard. None of the rest have done anything yet....have more CLBs & Isbars....waiting

how exciting my babies are due to hatch this weekend.

 

[debs_flock]

Aww Jeff, sorry about your chicks. I hope your next hatch goes well.

Deb

 

[RachaelS]

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"Trilling" is a good word for it, a soft little trill. Seems everyone in TX got theirs from Samantha

 

[RachaelS]

will try to take some better photos tomorrow. it will make me feel better talking about them.. i can't remember if i posted on this thread but lost a puppy as well today so it was a very bad morning! took me all day to recover. and on top of that I had to cull, "real cull" a BLRW that just was never doing well. I was so traumatized by my puppy and chick losses that I had to get a neighbor to do it for me. It was time. I had been putting it off for over a week and I just knew it had to be done. sad, sad day. holding the puppies makes it better

I am so sorry for your loses

, I hope all the other pups are doing well.

 

[ChicKat]

"Trilling" is a good word for it, a soft little trill. Seems everyone in TX got theirs from Samantha

I think GaryDean got his directly from Greenfire? Or at least some.


Interesting to understand that Cream Legbars have vocalizations different from other chickens. My rooster crows at a different cadence than the EE rooster that was here...and different from roosters in my memory. (but I'm so used to mine now that it is the norm). No doubt these birds are fascinating.

 

[normanack]

I think GaryDean got his directly from Greenfire?  Or at least some.  


Interesting to understand that Cream Legbars have vocalizations different from other chickens.  My rooster crows at a different cadence than the EE rooster that was here...and different from roosters in my memory.  (but I'm so used to mine now that it is the norm).  No doubt these birds are fascinating.  

With the caveat that I got my first chickens last April -- . There are a bunch of breeds; many of them make trilling, purring, and almost growly noises. A quiet, sweet-sounding trill, which they seem to do as a group when they're in a happy little pile, seems to mean contentment. What I call a purr is a tad louder and I haven't figured out what it means. It's generally one chicken, not a group thing. A rough, lower-toned growly purry noise is a warning that something's up, but doesn't warrant the panicky bok bok ba-GACK noise that sends them all into the coop. Instead they stand very still. Do any of these sound like what you're hearing from your Cream Legbars?

 

[cjwaldon]

well here's my confession for the night. In the craziness of helping my golden retriever to deliver her puppies, I totally forget about turning the heat lamp on at night for my recently hatched chicks. It was a small hatch so they didn't have enough warmth and temps dropped into the low 60s and I keep them in the barn, when i checked on them this morning all but one CL boy had died and that poor guy was so cold. I immediately warmed him up and put him in with last weeks hatch and he was fine at the end of the day. so mad at myself. It was only 5 chicks but I was so excited to watch them grow out.... glad I have more hatching friday so I won't be able to hit myself in the face too many times between now and then!!

It got a little chili here a few nights ago, and even though I DID put the heat lamp on for some 30ish chicks, I still lost four of them, one of which was a cream legbar pullet. Don't beat yourself up too much. Sometimes these things just happen.