The Legbar Thread!

[chichichickapea]

My hens have been doing that....we have had a couple of little cool snaps, for us anyway, and their laying is defininetly off then. Mine will lay good for several days then go several days and nothing....but they only started laying for the first time 3-4 weeks ago.

As far the missing hens, so sorry.....and I hate to be the downer here, but the trail suddenly ending at feathers probably means that some predator ate that hen, I would think.....hope not. But, that is my opinion.

 

[Papa Brooder]

I was working on a mottled silkie project (still sort of am), and crossed exchequer leghorns with a very nice white white rooster.
All the F1 babies were black, crested, had super super soft feathers, 60% had 5 toes, all had black skin, though the females were blacker, and all had a walnut comb. Some may have have had beards, and some wattles, and they all had some leg feathering.

So the white was recessive
The crest, black skin, comb, feathered shanks, 5 toes were dominant or at least partially expressed with one gene.
These were super cute chickens!

The best of the roos were crossed back to 2 white unrelated silkie hens. They produced:

Mottled, white, black and partridge color
silkied and non silkied
most had 5 toes, big crests, black skin, feathered shanks.
some single combs (of course they turned up on silkied mottled birds

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Now I am waiting for eggs from the mottled silkied x mottled silkied.

Have to say the non silkied mottled birds were stunning with huge crests, and probably nicer than the silkied!

Opps sorry - off topic

no thanks, I really enjoyed that. I want to do these sort of projects just have to keep getting rid of breeds until I have pen space to actually play!

 

[Phage]

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Well lack of space is why this project now lives with a friend.... (Sigh).
She is super nice though and will give me eggs back to hatch.

 

[redchicken9]

Thanks guys, there is one place i didn't look were i think she might be, alive hopefully

, here is Floras injury to her back:

Poor Floras!!!

 

[redchicken9]

Hi, i went to my hens today to find there had been an attack, Melow and my ex batt flora were missing, i found flora dead with a big bite and i followed a trail of feathers to find Melow and the feathers just cut off and i searched for two hours and couldn't find her, will look again tomorrow, i hope shes alive, i love her! at first i thaught it was the two chick coz mama came up the field alone but it wasnt, it was little Melow and flora! hope i find her, she was a good mama to them two chicks! even though she didnt lay blue eggs. :'(

Ohh, I'm just reading all this, so I hope you found her!

 

[Flaming Chicken]

I had at least 2 of my hens laying daily for a couple months. Then as soon as the daylight shortened to less than 14 hours a day, the eggs stopped. I am going to give them the Winter off and see when they start laying again in the spring. I have usually had my blue egg layers (EEs) quit laying in the Winter as well even with supplemental light.

I have a legbar hen who just started laying and then suddenly stopped last week. Her first two eggs were sort of "fart" eggs and did not have a yolk. She then got it together and laid about 7 more eggs that were smallish but respectable size, then nothing.

She free ranges with the flock all day so I have spent the last week convinced that she is laying a clutch of eggs somewhere. After turning up the yard and finding nothing, I locked the whole flock in thier coop/run for the last 5 days and have determined she is just not laying. She is about 23 weeks old, seems healthy and normal. I have noticed that the other hens are not layin with the frequency that they were and have sort of attirbuted it to shorter daylight hours.

Anyone have any experience with legbars being very sensitive to shortened daylight hours or a stop/start laying when they first start? I would love to know.


Thanks!

 

[Johnn]

Looked again today still no sign

 

[RachaelS]

Looked again today still no sign

 

[Flaming Chicken]

After 1 week of being ill, Norbert is standing up! Started him on Antibiotics a week ago, Monday morning I found him lying on his side and barely able to stay upright. We put him on Steroids Tuesday and the vet said he wasn't holding out much hope but if it was going to work, we would see improvement by today. Well I just found him standing at the door to the cage and looking out. I was sure he was not going to make it but now, it is looking more optimistic.

 

[Phage]

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