CREAM LEGBAR

(Rare breed)

The Cream Legbar, which produces blue eggs, is a cross between the Brown Leghorn and the Barred Plymouth Rock with some Araucana blood mixed in

Characteristics

These birds are muscular bird with a alert and perky carriage, with a wedge shaped body, broad at the shoulders tapering to the rear. They have a strong beak and a large single comb, with five to seven spikes with broad bases. There face is smooth. With well developed pendant ear-lobes, and a long thin wattles. Strong clean, round shanks, with four toes evenly spaced.

Male

The male has a slightly barred neck hackles, saddle hackles are cream barred with dark grey tipped with cream. The back and shoulders are cream, barred dark grey. Wings have dark grey barred primaries and secondaries, with barred coverts and cream tips. Breast is barred dark grey as is the tail but with sickles (some white is allowed). The crest is grey and cream.

Female

Their Neck hackles are cream with soft grey barring. Pretty salmon coloured breast, silver grey body with broad distinct barring.
The wing, primaries are peppered grey, secondries lightly barred, coverts are silver grey with light barring. Wings, primaries peppered grey, secondries lightly barred, coverts and tail are silver grey with light barring.

Both

Have yellow beaks, legs and feet. With red face, comb and wattles. Their Ear-lobes are cream or white.

Eggs

Are blue in colour sometimes a cream one is produced 

Chicks

Cream Legbar chicks can be sexed at hatching from the colours of their down which makes this one of the few auto-sexing breeds.