Cream Legbar chicken
The Cream Legbar is the crested, blue-egg autosexing Legbar, very popular with backyard keepers.
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The Cream Legbar is a pure-bred chicken breed in the PCGB Soft Feather Light class. Its origin is given as Cambridge, UK. It appears on the RBST Watchlist as a priority breed, so keepers of pure stock help conserve it.
It is kept in large and bantam forms. Recognised colours: Cream (crested).
Expect roughly 180–200 eggs a year, with blue/green shells.
Compiled from poultryclub.org, rbst.org.uk, en.wikipedia.org. See sources
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Identity
- Species
- Chicken
- Type
- Pure breed
- PCGB class
- Soft Feather Light
- Origin
- Cambridge, UK
History
Developed at Cambridge in the 1940s by adding Araucana to the Legbar to bring in the crest and blue egg.
Appearance
Light, small crest, single comb; cream and grey barred. Autosexing: chicks can be sexed at hatch by down colour and pattern (males paler, females darker with clearer stripes).
Recognised colours
Cream (crested)
Size and weight
- Forms
- Large, Bantam
Eggs
- Eggs a year
- 180–200
- Egg colour
- Blue/green
- Notes
- Some hens can lay more than this.
Temperament
- In short
- Active, can be flighty
- Keeping notes
- Active, alert and a good forager; can be flighty.
Hardiness
Hardy
Broodiness
Rarely broody
Flying
Good flyer
Suitability
- Beginners
- Suitable for beginners
- Children
- Generally fine with children (unconfirmed)
- Good to know
- Commercial 'Legbar' hybrids exist; pure Cream Legbars are less prolific.
Conservation status (RBST)
A priority breed on the Rare Breeds Survival Trust Watchlist.
Breed club
- Autosexing Breeds Association, umbrella · Website
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