[death of rats]

Bought some hatching eggs off the Ebay site. When they hatched they looked like the cream legbars they were supposed to be but now only 2 of them look like Legbars the others are ginger with black showing on their tails.
I assume that one has been had and these are not legbar hens. which leads me to wonder at the purity of the ones that look like legbars.
Any one keep Cream Legbars and am I just hoping beyond hope that these ginger looking hens are going to turn in to legbar hens?

[Mrs Bee]

I have one cream legbar but I go her at poin tof lay and she is absolutely a cream legbar. We bought her from the farm where we stay on holiday.

I also bought a legbar cross and she was gingery/gold/cream but had the little top hat that legbars have. She was a beauty and laid olive green eggs.

Maybe you should wait and see what colour the eggs are and what they look like when they are older.

Have you got piccies of your girls.

[darkbrowneggs]

I you just "google" Cream Legbars there are quite a few sites and piccies to show you what you should be looking for, though in my experience the colour shows through early and it is unlikely to improve.

[joyfull]

this page explains all about the genetics of the cream legbar.

The blue egg laying gene of any bird will always have come from the Araucana, but the advantage of the cream legbar is that they are auto sexing thus there is no more having to spend money feeding a bird until it reaches 20 weeks and then find out that it starts crowing (one of my araucana hens waited until she was 9 months before suddenly getting the characteristic male saddle, neck feathers and started crowing  ).