The Legbar Thread!

[ChicKat]

I was thinking the same...

Cute boys. Congratulations on the babies.

 

[ChicKat]

Hello! So tickled to have hatched out 8 pretty cream legbar chicks a week ago Sunday!! 5 boys (ones coloring is very gold? with clear dot on his head) the other four's down is dark and light gray again with a clear dot on their heads...and 3 girls (one is noticably larger than the other 2)...really looking forward to seeing how they progress such a fun breed and such pretty blue/green eggs! I love that there is a cream legbar thread, looking forward to learning alot from all of you.

Agree 100%. Looking forward to pictures of your 8!!

 

[Miss Molly]

Yes, Boys...

 

[omaeve]

Quote: you can use food coloring in the nose

 

[omaeve]

Quote: thanks no he will not get well they did not find it till stage 4 and he has done suprisingly well tolerating chemo but the tumour's never stop growing..I never even thought of white noise, what a great Idea...I will look into it.

 

[Papa Brooder]

I'm so glad that you posted that GaryDean. I store my eggs too hot....but don't have anyplace cooler than 78 but at least 78 is consistent in the place I keep them. I know that the temps were well into the triple digits when these eggs were being laid, so some may have started themselves.

For last hatch, I only had a very short time span and only a few eggs...(7). For this hatch the timespan of eggs is longer and I think I had 11. One hatched yesterday afternoon, one hatched this morning, two are pipped and the rest are just sitting. So...I will really go through day 22 - for the duration before I give up on them. Thank you, thank you.

same thing happened to me I had pulled all the chicks, did a brief listen for any activity, checked for pips on morn of day 22, then sort of walked away and forgot about it. Later that evening I heard some chirping and sure enough a SFH that came out of nowhere.

Quote: Ok, do tell more about that. I've heard people mention it, but what do you do exactly and what is the result?

 

[Papa Brooder]

Ok, I was able to get a horrible pic of a couple of the legbarhorns for everyone. They are very leghorn like in the actions- flighty and fast. I was looking at all of them and realizing that there are maybe 6 pullets and 1 cockerel with good crests. The others have crests but not the best sized. I will work on getting a pic of some of them to show the type better

Looking forward to seeing more!!

 

[omaeve]

Quote: Ok, do tell more about that. I've heard people mention it, but what do you do exactly and what is the result?
ever considerd putting ice in the bator so they will stay cool till ready to hatch eggs just freeze a water bottle maybe

 

[omaeve]

Quote: Ok, do tell more about that. I've heard people mention it, but what do you do exactly and what is the result?
ever considered putting ice in the bator so they will stay cool till ready to hatch eggs just freeze a water bottle maybe
you put a couple of drops in each nostril. not yellow , and it barely marks the egg just enough you can tell who laid what..Write it down ..You may want to do this at night when chickens are sleeping.

 

[omaeve]

A Call to Arms: Chicken Pedigree Registries

Let’s turn for a moment
to chickens.
Traditionally, chickens
in America have not had
a registered pedigree.
Some cockfighters kept
meticulous ancestral
records, but as a general
rule in the United States
the pedigrees of most
chickens, even prize-
winning show birds,
have gone
undocumented. This
probably stems from a
number of reasons. A
single hen can produce a
large number of chicks;
maybe as many as 200 a
year for some breeds.
Roosters are usually
grouped with multiple
hens in a breeding flock.
Sometimes there are even
multiple roosters. This
group breeding approach
makes it impossible to
precisely identify the
parents that produced an
individual egg. And,
recordkeeping with old
technology was a time-
consuming a tedious
affair that required
organizing a large
volume of records for
animals that
individually were not
seen as particularly
valuable.

Today, the reasons to
ignore a chicken registry
have all but
disappeared. With
online computerized
databases it is easy to
assemble, manipulate,
and distribute large
amounts of data. Some
breeds of chickens are
now extraordinarily
valuable. For example, a
pair of Greenfire Farm’s
white American Bresse
sells for more than a
pair of our red wattle
pigs. With microchip
identification or even
just an improved
numbered leg band it is
now easier to identify
and track individual
chickens. And, since
many chicken breeds are
now being newly
imported for the first
time, it is possible to
begin recording the
pedigree of an entire
breed literally from the
time the first chick is
hatched in the United
States. So, why not
create an online registry
in the United States for
rare chicken breeds?

We can’t think of a
reason why not. This is
now being done in other
countries. For example,
Sweden has a gene bank
of its rare native chicken
breeds that contains a
registry by flock. There
are strict rules for being
in the gene bank
including that all
registered chicks have to
be hatched and brooded
by their mothers, not by
mechanical equipment.
It’s an intriguing
approach that promotes
truly self-sustaining
breeds.

In America, creating and
maintaining a registry
could actually give breed
clubs something valuable
to do. Let’s do the
thought experiment that
someone takes the
initiative to form the
American Cream Legbar
Club. The ACLC selects
board members, and a
written breed standard is
adopted. For a period of
three years the board
leaves open the registry;
it reviews applications
from anyone who
submits a cream legbar to
be included in the
registry. Each submittal
would require several
pictures of the bird, and
the board could
determine if the bird
came close enough to the
written standard to merit
inclusion in the registry.
Every bird included in
the registry would be
given a registration
number and have a data
file including its
pictures. After three
years, the registry would
be closed to entering
unregistered birds
(except in unusual
circumstances like a
newly imported cream
legbar), and in the
future only chicks that
were the descendants of
registered birds could
themselves be registered.
Cream legbar hobbyists
could register their birds
online for a small fee
(say, $3), and could
access genealogical data
about their birds. Over
a period of years an
enormous database
would grow with the
valuable result of
promoting pure lineage
and avoiding inbreeding.

At Greenfire Farms, we
are taking a small step
toward creating an
online pedigree database
for our breeding birds.
This experimental online
record will be limited in
scope. We’ll record data
for our breeding birds,
and hopefully one day
soon you can go to our
website and click on the
“Explore Pedigrees”
button. This will take
you to a database that
will allow you to see
pictures and detailed
information about our
breeding birds and
reveal a family tree of the
chick you received from
our farm. The creation
of the database and
populating it with
information will take
time, but we hope that
by the end of 2012 this
online database will be
operational.

How cool is that?
Perhaps this
experimental database
can be the seed crystal
that inspires others to
begin open registries for
rare chicken breeds. We
see this as potentially the
single best thing we can
do to elevate the chicken
fancy in America, and if
you’re willing to promote
the concept of registry
databases, you can be an
important part of it.
http://greenfirefarms.com
/2012/02/long-
overdue-chicken-
pedigree-registries/