New Life...

[bonniethomas06]

...Aww, this is the first of our Cream Legbar chicks that hatched yesterday . Another hatched this morning. I think we are lucky as they both appear to be female - although anyone more in the know please correct me if I am wrong.

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[happyhippy]

Looks like spring has sprung!How cute!Names??????

[eco-mick]

awwww.. I want more new chicks, better get my incubator back out

[Milims]

Awwww that's soooo cute!

[oldjerry]

Bonnie,I know zero about this breed,how come you can sex them so early?(I can only do it with RIR x LS,but I know SA about this breed and it sounds like maybe I should).

[bonniethomas06]

Hi OJ,

I don't know much either, I am just relying on this website:

http://www.creamlegbar.co.uk/

ours have the 'eyeliner' and dark stripes. Or perhaps it is just wishful thinking?

[oldjerry]

Hmm..interesting,let us know how prolific they are(should be pretty hardy if they do well up there,cos blackrocks are pretty good,and I'm pretty sure they originate from there too).

[becks77]

Awwwww, lovely....goes off to find egg incubator;)

[benshort]

http://chirpychicks.com/cream_legbar.htm is another site with a better picture of the chicks.

Where your predictions correct?

[Stonehead]

.I think we are lucky as they both appear to be female - although anyone more in the know please correct me if I am wrong.

Definitely lucky. Our last hatching of Scots Greys resulted in 11 cockerels and one hen. Lots of chicken dinners but not many eggs in prospect.

[red]

yay - new chicks are always ace. we have at least 3 appeared under one of my broodies :) - we also got lucky - hatched CLB, only one hatched at it was a girl.

[bikinigardener]

my bad luck is always too many boys, not enough girls...cant bring myself to slaughter the boys, so they go off to a friends house when they mature

[bonniethomas06]

Yep predictions thankfully correct - the surviving chick was definitely female, sadly the first one to hatch failed to thrive - only reached half the size of the later one and hardly any feathers (the ones it had were all curly and deformed), and died over easter

[red]

Yep predictions thankfully correct - the surviving chick was definitely female, sadly the first one to hatch failed to thrive - only reached half the size of the later one and hardly any feathers (the ones it had were all curly and deformed), and died over easter

aw shame - but sounds like it was just not made right.. it happens

hurray the other one is a girl!