Wyoming Unite!!!!

[R2elk]

^^^^-------- and that's the person to talk to if you want Sapphires!!

Yesterday I put 194 eggs in the incubator. Seventy-six of them are White Leghorn eggs whose father is a Crested Cream Legbar. That combination makes Sapphires. Another 51 of the eggs are purebred Welsummer eggs. There are 3 dozen eggs from Rose Comb Brown Leghorns/Cream Legbars bred back to the legbar rooster. There are a number of mixed breed eggs and a baker's dozen of pure Crested Cream Legbar eggs.

Hatching should start on April Fools Day.

 

[Blooie]

Oh, sure! Dangle those Crested Cream Legbars in front of my face again this year.......

 

[R2elk]

For anyone that is close enough to be interested (Casper area), now that the ground is thawed out I have Crandall Clove Currants, Woods Roses, American Plums and others FREE for the digging.

 

[R2elk]

Oh, sure! Dangle those Crested Cream Legbars in front of my face again this year.......

You might be safe Blooie. I suspect that the Legbar eggs might not be fertile. I only have the one hen and it appears that she was hiding from the rooster. Now that I let the other rooster back in with them there may be fertile eggs later.

 

[Blooie]

Well, I can postpone nurturing that CCLB bug for a bit then.

 

[N F C]

Yesterday I put 194 eggs in the incubator. Seventy-six of them are White Leghorn eggs whose father is a Crested Cream Legbar. That combination makes Sapphires. Another 51 of the eggs are purebred Welsummer eggs. There are 3 dozen eggs from Rose Comb Brown Leghorns/Cream Legbars bred back to the legbar rooster. There are a number of mixed breed eggs and a baker's dozen of pure Crested Cream Legbar eggs.

Hatching should start on April Fools Day.

Let us know how your hatch goes Bob!

I don't think I've heard of the Sapphires before...I take it they lay a blue egg?

 

[R2elk]

Let us know how your hatch goes Bob!

I don't think I've heard of the Sapphires before...I take it they lay a blue egg?

Sapphires were developed in the UK. The difference between Sapphires and Super Blue egg layers is the Crested Cream Legbar rooster vs an EE rooster. Both varieties use the White Leghorn hen as the mother. They are an F1 hybrid and as such will not breed true. The Sapphires that I kept to the laying stage laid a large to extra large blue egg and were nearly as prolific laying as their white leghorn mothers. I kept 2, one did just like normal chickens and stopped laying during her molt and the other one did just like a white leghorn and slowed down but kept laying right through her molt.

If the legbar rooster that is used only has blue egg genes, the Sapphires will lay blue eggs since the blue egg gene is dominant over the white egg gene and each chick will have one blue egg gene and one white egg gene. A lot of legbars on the market today also carry the brown egg gene so the pullets may end up laying a blue or a green egg.

 

[N F C]

Sapphires were developed in the UK. The difference between Sapphires and Super Blue egg layers is the Crested Cream Legbar rooster vs an EE rooster. Both varieties use the White Leghorn hen as the mother. They are an F1 hybrid and as such will not breed true. The Sapphires that I kept to the laying stage laid a large to extra large blue egg and were nearly as prolific laying as their white leghorn mothers. I kept 2, one did just like normal chickens and stopped laying during her molt and the other one did just like a white leghorn and slowed down but kept laying right through her molt.

If the legbar rooster that is used only has blue egg genes, the Sapphires will lay blue eggs since the blue egg gene is dominant over the white egg gene and each chick will have one blue egg gene and one white egg gene. A lot of legbars on the market today also carry the brown egg gene so the pullets may end up laying a blue or a green egg.

Thanks for the info Bob. Do you have any pictures of the birds and/or eggs?

 

[Blooie]

Thanks for the info Bob. Do you have any pictures of the birds and/or eggs?

Hmmmm...do I detect a hint of "doggone it, I miss my chickens and I'm getting more-itis?" And why do people in Wyoming wake up so early in the morning? I've been up since 5:00 (time change means my body says it was 4) and can't do a doggone thing yet because Ken's still sleeping!

 

[N F C]

Hmmmm...do I detect a hint of "doggone it, I miss my chickens and I'm getting more-itis?" And why do people in Wyoming wake up so early in the morning? I've been up since 5:00 (time change means my body says it was 4) and can't do a doggone thing yet because Ken's still sleeping!

Definitely miss my chickens Blooie. When I saw the first batch in TSC I started crying and DH had to hustle me out of there. I'm hoping we'll be able to build a small coop here at the house so I can have a few but that will be up to the "powers that be" since we live in company housing.

I don't know, why do WY people wake up so early? I've been up since 3:30. The quiet time gives me a chance to catch up on BYC so in that way, it's good. Of course, I'm wiped out by 9:00 pm