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chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35934
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 13 6:04 pm Post subject:
I'm having good results with Legbar x Leghorn - I've got one hen, she's just come in to lay with the most beautiful green eggs and I'm hoping she'll follow her mother's trait for laying loads.

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9717
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 13 6:55 pm Post subject:

Chez wrote:

I'm having good results with Legbar x Leghorn - I've got one hen, she's just come in to lay with the most beautiful green eggs and I'm hoping she'll follow her mother's trait for laying loads.

excellent - what do the birds look like?

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35934
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 13 7:11 pm Post subject:
She's basically Black Rock colouring but Leghorn shaped. (I'm only 99% sure she's a leghorn cross. But she might be barnevelder cross. But I don't think so. I am about to start repeating the experiment, though.)

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 13 7:50 pm Post subject:
The chap who I had the Welsummers off, is also a leading Maran breeder. He keeps high quality strains of both birds and from time to time, crosses the two to get birds that look like Black Rocks. Some of the birds that win the egg competitions are infact Welsummer/ Maran blends.

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9717
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 13 8:08 pm Post subject:

Bodger wrote:

The chap who I had the Welsummers off, is also a leading Maran breeder. He keeps high quality strains of both birds and from time to time, crosses the two to get birds that look like Black Rocks. Some of the birds that win the egg competitions are infact Welsummer/ Maran blends.

yeh a welsummer cockerel over a cuckoo marans result in golden necked black hens and single barred cuckoo boys

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42207
Location: North Devon

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 13 8:16 pm Post subject:

Chez wrote:

She's basically Black Rock colouring but Leghorn shaped.

(I'm only 99% sure she's a leghorn cross. But she might be barnevelder cross. But I don't think so. I am about to start repeating the experiment, though.)

Oooh, is this the Arseless Wesh Black for gritty urban chicken keepers?

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35934
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 13 5:45 pm Post subject:
Yes. I will be plucking out their tail feathers before selling them . I think that anything barred over anything not barred results in hens that are coloured like black rocks. But I am not sure. In my ill-fated experiment to recreate Barnebars from scratch, the first generation cross definitely followed that pattern.

SandraR

Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 2346
Location: Devon

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 13 6:14 pm Post subject:
Did you give up on the Barnebars Chez? I'm still looking to start the Welbar project this year. Sourcing good utility Barred Plymouth Rock hens appears to be the first stubbling block. I'm now looking at hatching eggs.

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35934
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 13 6:19 pm Post subject:

I gave up starting a new line because of my time issues; but I have a quartet (a Barnebar cock and hen and two Barnevelder hens) that are going great guns. Fertility is good; I am putting another lot in the incy tonight or tomorrow.

I am really pleased with the cock birds; they are very large and broad breasted and grow really well. The only surviving yearling hen is laying really nice eggs - not as brown as the Barnevelders, but not bad.

That reminds me that I need to start a new thread about manky eggs, though.

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Sat Mar 16, 13 6:32 pm Post subject:
I can't see chipping but I can hear cheaping.

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Sun Mar 17, 13 12:02 pm Post subject:
My precocious little Light Sussex have started to hatch a whole day early. Two of them have hatched in the last hour. There's plenty of time for the Welsummers to start but no signs from any of them as yet. They wont have been in for the full 21 days until tomorrow night, so I'm still very hopeful.

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Wed Mar 20, 13 7:30 pm Post subject:
Some of my precious babes. The two in the foreground were the last to hatch and they've just been added to the main bunch.

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Fri Sep 27, 13 4:56 am Post subject:
Do you remember this post from back in February? Well time flies and life has gone full circle. Yesterday I got the first egg from one of the Welsummer pullets. I've must say that I'm pretty pleased with the result.

Spruengli

Joined: 12 Jul 2006
Posts: 537
Location: Dorking(ish)

Posted: Fri Sep 27, 13 6:24 am Post subject:
Lovely

tai haku

Joined: 17 Apr 2011
Posts: 472

Posted: Sun Oct 13, 13 12:51 pm Post subject:
bosh! that looks an awesome colour.

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