The Legbar Thread!

[Lemonpie]

I have this breed mine i got on Friday 31st of August so they are about 4 weeks old we also bought wyandottes we bought 4 of each breed so we have 8 all up

 

[ChicKat]

if someone organizes it I would do my best to participate.

That's great. If we got several people interested we could test it out. -- Not sure the exact approach...but give me a week or two to come up with something we can try out -- starting kind of simply and then use that as a spring board to the 'real' thing.

 

[GaryDean26]

AH HA!!

Here is kind of something I am considering how it could be useful...and maybe this isn't possible. A spreadsheet...where different fields could be used to sort. (o.k. actually a database, but that isn't something most people have).

For example...I'm really happy with my flock but decide I would like to move toward eggs that are A1 on the egg color chart-- while I'm getting C15. Makes me think when it is time for a new rooster...I go to the table, sort by egg color...find the egg color codes, and lo and behold. Mr GaryDean26 has some stock with A1---so I try to get some hatching eggs or purchase a cockerel from his flock.

Or---from looking at pictures, I see that Ms Blackbirds13 has a color I really like (were all these people to put entries in this as yet imaginary place) - so I contact her for some hatching eggs.

And someone notices that my guy has a great comb--so they contact me for some spare cockerels.

Hmmmm I wonder. Kind of far fetched....but it is kind of the way I think I would work to improve my flock anyhow.

Every individual would enter their own flock data, of course. Wonder how long before it would break. (Before I retired, long, long, long ago, I used to work in the field of Information Technology..... So I know the underlying concepts.)

Too bad there isn't a person with a lot of technical expertise that is current...that would/could make it happen and say it is just a piece of cake to do.

Getting what you want when you want it? That is definitely the American way.

We have super discount retails stores where you can buy about anything you want off the shelf, we have fast food, we have the Internet where you can find information on about anything in the world, we seeing the world saved and numerous other impossible scenarios resolved in 60 minute on our TV programs, we have expressed shipping, can travel across the country in a few hours on high speed jets, and yes we have chickens that can be sexed as day-old chicks.

We are not nearly as patient as our grandparent's generation. We are not used to waiting to get the results.

I like the idea of knowing where my chickens come from and as much as I can about them and their parents and am willing to share my records with other so that they can have the best start possible, but ya... I still plan on spending 3-6 years working with-in what I have to get to my breeding goals. That being a heritage breed type layers of large blue eggs that produce high percentages of uniform Cream Legbars to the British SOP without defects.

 

[ChicKat]

Quote: I'm thinking I could nearly second that 100%

I think my priorities are healthy birds (with inbred disease resistance) that lay over 200 blue eggs per year and can be self-sustaning. (i.e. go broody, free-range, rear their young, live to a ripe old chicken age.) I'm using my yardstick of appearance more from the Punnett descriptions (as I understand them) ---

It's a fun adventure. Wondering if I would achieve in 3-6 years...or ever... ;O)

 

[Phage]

It is critical that we do this, as, as we have already seen, it is too easy for a mistake to happen.
There is software (that zoo etc use) designed exactly for this purpose. Will check it out.

The Basque and Pescadena roosters look so similar to the CL that mistakes will happen, and mixed birds will (have already) flood the market as pures. This is likely why the Ebay prices have sky rocketed again - folk want to start over and replace the dubious birds.

 

[RachaelS]

LOL I would have been the one begging hubby NOT to stop- but we would have stopped anyway and probably come home with as many as we could squeeze in, hm I wonder if we could leave a kid in exchange? We would still have 3 others!

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[CarolJ]

So excited! My first cream legbar chick just hatched. I'm trying to decide if it's a boy or a girl. The white part on the head looks like a spot but the it looks like part of a chipmunk stripe, too. What do you think?

 

[lonnyandrinda]

I would guess female... post another pic once it fluffs up!

 

[RachaelS]

What about using a google spreadsheet doc for now? It can be shared by many, each person could have a "tab" but all the "tabs" would request the same info. Just a thought.

 

[WyoChickenMamma]

Hi everyone....I have not been on here in a while thought I would say hello and give an update. My 4 birds from Jordan Farm are doing great, growing and looking good. I am also happy to report that my six from madamwfl are in the mail and on their way to me as I type this. Incubators are all shut off and we are getting ready for the change in weather here. We are just about finished with our pole barn and then on to another chicken coop with breeding pens. Hoping we can get it done before the snow flies.