The Legbar Thread!

[RachaelS]

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Yep it does, but the trill sound the Legbars make is different from all my other breeds, it sounds much more like a song bird than a chicken. They do seem to do it when content, just like other chickens, but it just sound totally different, almost pretty and soothing.

 

[debs_flock]

Ohhh, you should try to post a video of that (with audio of course)!

Deb

 

[cjwaldon]

Hmmm, I never noticed a difference in trills between breeds.

 

[RachaelS]

Quote: Ohhh, you should try to post a video of that (with audio of course)!

Deb

Good idea, I will try.

 

[Extra Java]

Hello,

I've seen loads of photos of Legbar hens, roos and chicks but I haven't seen EGG photos.

Can someone post some please?

If there are photos somewhere, please post a link (Not Greefire's web photo and not UK).

Just curious as to what these US hens can do.

Thanks

 

[Papa Brooder]

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Thanks, it is nice to hear that it happens for other folks too. well not really "nice to hear" but comforting is perhaps a better word. I have 3 CLs hatched in this batch, 6 more pipped and waiting on 3 more. so I starting to move on.

 

[ChicKat]

Hello,

I've seen loads of photos of Legbar hens, roos and chicks but I haven't seen EGG photos.

Can someone post some please?

If there are photos somewhere, please post a link (Not Greefire's web photo and not UK).

Just curious as to what these US hens can do.

Thanks

Hi Extra

Hope it isn't tooooooo lazy, but if you go to my signature, jump to my blog and scroll down real fast to 6/23 and 6/16 of 2012, you can see my picts. from when the eggs first came in. I didn't do any color or white balance or saturation corrections on the photos---but it is somehow tricky to get the right color.

If you have the araucana or ameraucana color chart for eggs somefolks on here have stated their color matches, but even that is difficult. My hen's eggs are greener than I expected, but they are also more saturated than my other colored egg layer. A bluer blue is one of the things I will be looking for in the future.

 

[chichichickapea]

Roo?

 

[normanack]

 A bluer blue [egg] is one of the things I will be looking for in the future.  

If I ever have a big enough flock to pick and choose traits, this one is at the top if my list.

Dear husband,
I need an incubator. A good one.
Love, Anne


I wonder if that will work?
;-)

 

[Flaming Chicken]

It's a Boy!

I consider my broody hen experiment a near fail. I tucked 9 eggs under 2 broody hens. The eggs disappeared one by one and I had nearly given up. Much to my surprise I found this little guy not under the hen yesterday when I got home. In a mad scramble, tried to move the hen to a more private place, she rejected the baby and then got away and headed into the woods. We put him in the brooder and then caught the hen. She sits on the last 2 eggs, one more vanished last night. So I have this little guy all by himself.

Really though, I wanted to see if my eggs were fertile and they are, just really not effective broody hens. Our next plan-put some eggs in the incubator and see if we can get some sibs for this cutie pie.