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Lesley Eggsistentialist

Lesley

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Clare - the yellow chicks will be Cream LegbarxWhitestar cockerel crossed with a Whitestar hen so a bit Heinz 57. They are beautiful though and if it is a hen, she would be fairly small so wouldn't tower over your bantams.

 

If it is a hen, it may lay pale blue eggs.

 

Our eggs don't seem to be doing much. I've checked the temperature and nothing seems to be wrong. I hope they get a move on - I don't want a rerun of the last few days with a poorly chick - or three :?

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Clare - the yellow chicks will be Cream LegbarxWhitestar cockerel crossed with a Whitestar hen so a bit Heinz 57. They are beautiful though and if it is a hen, she would be fairly small so wouldn't tower over your bantams.

 

If it is a hen, it may lay pale blue eggs.

 

The white chick is cute, and a lot bigger than the other two. Rosie has nick-named it Herbert the Sherbet as it's a pale yellow sherbert colour. I'd love another blue egg layer, but seriously only really have room for one other hen, and I have set my heart on a barnie bantam. if you need a broody to bring up some of your bantie chicks, then bring them over Lesley, I am sure that Lavinia can fit another two under her petticoats,a nd she is a very protective mother.

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This is great - I think we will try some eggs next year when the Bantams are old enough to brood.

I fancy either silkies or some sort of blue layer :P

 

Clare,is your broody seperate from the rest of the flock,& will they raise any old egg & chick as their own?

 

Lovely pictures - so exciting :P:P:P

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I have put them in the Rablu (bunnies back in their big wooden hutch) and they seem fine i there. I used the lid off photocopying paper box as a nest box, just cut one side off and she's been happy in there. I understand that they will raise any tiny chicks as their own and I think that Lesley has put some incubated chicks with one of her motherhens.

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Lesley - this is interesting, and I don't know whether you've observed this with your legbars, but according to something I just read online, the chicks are supposed to be autosexing, in that the males should be pale yellow and the females more brown at hatching. Bearing this in mind - young 'Herbert' ought to be a boy, unless the cross with a white star messes that up :?

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The pure breed Cream Legbars are autosexing - the hybrids aren't, as far as I know.

 

We had a disaster overnight - the two legbars which hatched first, died. They suffocated each other - they were top to toe and each was smothering the other's head :( That left us with the one egg that was still in the incubator and that had hatched an was fine - except now it is on its own, until I can put it in with the Barnevelders. Short of staying up all night, there was nothing we could do to save the two little chicks. They were fine at 11.30pm and dead by 6.30am.

 

All the little chicks are doing well - I will post a photo tomorrow - they have a 'Mummy Mop' to look after them :wink:

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