Cream Legbar Chickens
History
The Cream Legbar is a crested chicken which is a true autosexing breed which means that you can tell the sex of the chicks by the colour of the feathers. It is an old pure breed which originated in the 1930s as a cross between Brown Leghorns and Barred Rock with some Araucana blood in them. They are very firm, muscular birds with a wedge shaped body which is broad at the shoulders and tapers towards the rear. The wings are large carried close to the body and the back is long and flat while the tail is held at 45° to the back. The head has a strong beak and large single erect comb with five to seven even spikes. They have a crest which lies at the back of the head behind the comb which is small in the male and larger in the female. The face is smooth with pendant cream or white ear-lobes, long thin wattles and the neck is long and well feathered. They have a yellow beak, red face, comb and wattles. The yellow legs and feet are strong and unfeathered with four evenly spaced toes.
Behaviour
The male weighs in at 6-7½ lb and the female is around 4½-6lb.
Varieties
The male has cream barred neck hackles and the saddle hackles are cream barred with dark grey and have cream tips. The back and the shoulders are mostly cream barred with dark grey. The wings have dark grey barred primaries and secondaries with cream tips. The breast and tail are barred dark grey and the crest is cream and grey. The female has softly barred cream neck hackles. The breast is almost salmon coloured while the body is silver-grey with broad barring. The wings are speckled with grey and the tail is silvery grey with light barring.
Status
Fairly common
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Latest Reviews For Cream Legbars (3 of 36)
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Beautiful
- Hamish, 25 May 2013
Beautiful birds lay great blue eggs and happy birds
Brilliant birds
- Steve, 04 May 2013
I have a trio of these lovely hens. They lay loads of blue eggs and are good mothers. I this chicken is good for any size garden and is happy in confinement. Very pleased with this chicken.
Cute tittle chicks
- Mags, 23 April 2013
We have just got our 6 week old chicks from a local breeder. We are putting them into the greenhouse at night, then onto the garden in the day. They are living in a dog cage at the moment, with a recycle box for a bed. When they are bigger they will be released to live with our other hens. We have a Legbar who is 2 years old, and is a very nosy hen, so paying a lot of attention to them. Will keep you updated on their progress.
Amazing egg colour but skittish birds.
- Emma, 28 January 2013
Berfore purchasing this breed I had been warned that they can be flighty but having 6 ft metal fencing I thought we'd be fine. How wrong I was! I had 7 POL pullets quarentined in a barn before putting with my other birds and despite having perches 2 ft off the ground, they all decided to fly up to the rafters and perch on the cross beams which are over 8 ft off the ground! I was a little nervous putting them outside as I have dogs that just love the taste of chicken but to my surprise they have stayed within the 30ft by 40ft pen. They obviously prefer large open spaces! They still remain nervous although they do come running for some grain. I have also raised some of this breed myself and although handled alot, remain at arms length. They seem to lay well during the colder/darker months and their eggs are a medium sized egg ranging from sky blue to olive green and turquoise, although blue is the desired. Overall, an interesting breed but unless you have a large area to keep them in, they might not suit the small back yard.
Bright, active birds-blue eggs autosex
- Katrina, 30 September 2012
Bought my sexed youngsters from Beacon Stud in Kent and because I bought them as youths-they have been great to tame up and are now as friendly as a pet dog-lovely, healthy birds and just started laying at 20 weeks now and so we will have blue eggs in the bowl! Spent a long time with these helpful people and was so happy with the care and attention they gave us-all good advice 1st hand and loads of tips-strongly recommended.
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