Cream Legbars for an SS flock?

[Wannabefree]

I know they are some fancy shmancy birds But, they are autosexing, meaning you are able to visibly sex them as day olds, without running two flocks to breed sex links. That a HUGE difference. They are smaller birds, not very meaty, but even at that, they are very interesting, and being they have Leghorn in their blood are terrific layers of BLUE eggs. I'm thinking of maybe getting some when prices go down a bit as a decent homestead bird. What does everyone else think about the breed? The eggs would sell well because everyone likes the blue eggs. The birds would sell decent because of the autosexing. I could give up a little meat to know ahead of time which ones were keepers and which were for meat

 

[pinkfox]

there quite popular in the uk but i havent seen ny here in the us (at least not true legbars being offered, alot of leghorn/barred rock first gens though...)
i knwo the strains in the uk are leghorn, barred rock and araucana origionally and noe breed true to type multi gen. they actually dont do badly as a meat bird if you like breast meat, legs ar elong and lanky compared to typicaly meat breeds but they do have a deacent breast on them. great layers form what ive known of them too, not as good layers as leghorns but better broodies (leghorns rarely brood)

they are definatly pretty

 

[Wannabefree]

Greenfire Farms in Florida just exported them last year, so they are here now too. Just VERY expensive at the moment

Oops I meant IMported

 

[BarredBuff]

Interesting...

 

[Wannabefree]

6+ eggs just sold on Ebay for 40.50 plus 16.00 shipping

 

[BarredBuff]

I wish these had sound effects!

 

[Bettacreek]

I don't know enough about them, HOWEVER, I count money makers as being self-sufficient as well. My button quail won't be worth much of anything for the typical SS reasons, however, they're my money makers, so I consider them SS. Both will produce lots of eggs (they'd be similar if comparing feed intake to output) and you can certainly eat the eggs, but they are worth more than to eat them... It costs about the same to feed a leghorn as it does to feed a cream legbar, but guess which one will bring in more money? lol. Tis the way I see it anyways.


P.S. - BYC has the swap thread, and the cream legbars tend to pop up over there... Might be able to message the person and work out a barter deal.

 

[BarredBuff]

Betta has a good point

 

[terri9630]

I know they are some fancy shmancy birds But, they are autosexing, meaning you are able to visibly sex them as day olds, without running two flocks to breed sex links. That a HUGE difference. They are smaller birds, not very meaty, but even at that, they are very interesting, and being they have Leghorn in their blood are terrific layers of BLUE eggs. I'm thinking of maybe getting some when prices go down a bit as a decent homestead bird. What does everyone else think about the breed? The eggs would sell well because everyone likes the blue eggs. The birds would sell decent because of the autosexing. I could give up a little meat to know ahead of time which ones were keepers and which were for meat

If you breed them you may get all kinds of off spring since they are cross breeds. I have some California whites that just hatched some chicks. The CW's are a cross between the California grays and leghorns. I got some chicks that are all white, some that are black with a white spot on their heads and some with white and black feathers. I don't know what color egg they will lay or how they will lay yet as they are still babies.

 

[so lucky]

It would be interesting to see if the ones with the white spot on their head are males. I think I read that it is a sex-link trait in some crosses.