The Legbar Thread!

[flyingmonkeypoop]

I am in Deer Park, north of Spokane. I am surprised how many local people have them. Other than marans, legbars seem like the most common non-hatchery breed here.

 

[ochochicas]

I'm a Washington Peep too. It looks like we are hijacking the thread!

My big blue eggs are awesome. Since the girls are finally done molting I'm getting 5 - 6 egg per week from each of them. Unfortunately we said good-bye to our rooster so we aren't breeding pure Legbars. I think we'll go for some Olive eggers this spring. My Marans laid two whole eggs this week. LOL I love the color and her personality as well. The CCLs are snobs, but the Marans takes it to a new level - she's a princess snob.

 

[ChicKat]

 

[Frenchcuffs13]

I'm a Washington Peep too. It looks like we are hijacking the thread!

My big blue eggs are awesome. Since the girls are finally done molting I'm getting 5 - 6 egg per week from each of them. Unfortunately we said good-bye to our rooster so we aren't breeding pure Legbars. I think we'll go for some Olive eggers this spring. My Marans laid two whole eggs this week. LOL I love the color and her personality as well. The CCLs are snobs, but the Marans takes it to a new level - she's a princess snob.

That's fantastic! Pics pretty please if you can! Is that normal for CL to lay that much? What do you feed?
The Marans- hahaha!

Are you doing CL crosses then if your roo is gone? Someone here I thought was doing CLxLeghorn. They look good to me- love those mutts!

 

[ochochicas]

I don't have any leghorns...I think that was flyingmonkeypoop maybe.

My rooster now is a Marans so I can make some olive eggers. I'll be putting the CCL girls in with the Marans as soon as I can get the new coop finished. I'm a rather slow builder.

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

I did CL x leghorn. The pullets are genetically pure legbars and indistinguishable from pure birds. Since legbars are a composite breed, I used leghorns since they are one of the main parent breeds.

 

[ChicKat]

I did CL x leghorn. The pullets are genetically pure legbars and indistinguishable from pure birds. Since legbars are a composite breed, I used leghorns since they are one of the main parent breeds.

Hi FMP-

genetically pure Legbars and at the same time heterozygous for crest and blue-egg gene right?

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

Correct. They lay nice sky blue eggs and have crests but I'm sure if I bred back to a leghorn, some offspring would be noncrested and lay white eggs.

 

[ChicKat]

Thanks!

 

[stryker]

Are the inside of the eggs also blue or are they white with blue outside? I have some that are off blue/slight light green. They are white inside with blue outside. I have two that have blue inside and outside. I of course are going to simply breed the blue insideout this year.