Cream Legbar Chickens

Cream Legbar Chickens

The Legbar breed of chicken has three varieties: gold, silver, and cream.

 The gold and silver varieties are a type of Leghorn and lay cream-colored or white eggs. 

The Cream Legbar, though, is an autosexing, blue egg layer, which means you can tell the sex of the chick by the color of its feathers. 

Cream Legbars are very popular for their egg laying abilities. 

They lay green and blue eggs.

This breed is a mix of Barred Rock, Brown Leghorn, and Araucana breeds.

 Through much trial and many generations of mating, the Cream Legbar was developed. 

The process began in the 1930s. 

If you were to cross your own chickens of the aforementioned breeds, you mostly will not have the same result. 

Through the generations of breeding, the ideal hybrid was developed with the dominant genes presiding to ensure colorful eggs.

Cream Legbars have a yellow beak, a smooth, red face; red comb; and red, long and thin wattles. 

The comb is a single erect comb with five to seven even spikes. 

The comb is smaller in males than it is in females. 

The earlobes are pale blue on both the male and female. 

They have a crest on the back top portion of their head.

 Their skin is yellow with a clean leg.

 Cream Legbars have four evenly spaced toes on each foot. 

Their shanks are typically strong, clean, and rounded.

The roosters are muscular birds with long, feathered necks and a tail that sits at a 45-degree angle. The females are decent egg layers and produce about 180 eggs per year. 

The temperament of both genders is flighty. 

They are noisy birds with cackles that are similar to those of the Araucana. 

They are hearty in any climate, but do not bear confinement well. 

They are non-broody, but nervous.

If you are looking for a bird to provide you with a colorful array of eggs and you are able to tolerate the noise, this may be the breed for you.