Adult Plumage

Chicks normally moult 4 or 5 times befor ehty get their adult plumage at about 15-16 weeks.

This is the offical colouration of the cream legbar

Female - Neck hackles cream with soft grey barring. Salmon coloured breast, silver-grey body with broad indistinct barring. Wings, primaries peppered grey, secondaries lightly barred, coverts silver grey as is the tail with light barring

Male - Cream slightly barred neck hackles, saddle hackles cream barred with dark grey tipped with cream. Back & shoulders cream, barred dark grey. The wings have dark grey barred primaries and secondaries, grey barred coverts with cream tips. The breast is barred dark grey as is the tail but with paler sickles some white is allowed. The crest is cream and grey.

But basically the pullets are a uniform grey/brown with a salmon coloured breast, and the cockerels are barred grey