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New Life...
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 1:50 pm
by 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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Re: New Life...
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 4:57 pm
by happyhippy
Looks like spring has sprung!How cute!Names??????
Re: New Life...
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 8:29 pm
by eco-mick
awwww.. I want more new chicks, better get my incubator back out
Re: New Life...
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 9:00 pm
by Milims
Awwww that's soooo cute!
Re: New Life...
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 11:02 pm
by 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).
Re: New Life...
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 11:48 am
by 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?
Re: New Life...
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 1:27 pm
by 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).
Re: New Life...
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 2:39 pm
by becks77
Awwwww, lovely....goes off to find egg incubator;)
Re: New Life...
Posted: Wed May 04, 2011 11:21 am
by benshort
http://chirpychicks.com/cream_legbar.htm is another site with a better picture of the chicks.
Where your predictions correct?
Re: New Life...
Posted: Wed May 04, 2011 12:21 pm
by Stonehead
bonniethomas06 wrote:.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.
Re: New Life...
Posted: Wed May 04, 2011 12:41 pm
by 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.
Re: New Life...
Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 5:27 pm
by 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
Re: New Life...
Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 9:22 am
by 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
Re: New Life...
Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 10:10 am
by red
bonniethomas06 wrote: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!