Description
The Hoover's Hatchery Cream Legbar Chickens are auto-sexing, egg-laying chickens. Auto-sexing means that generation after generation the chicks can be sexed at one day of age by the color of their down. Legbars are a lightweight British breed created in the 1930s by mating blue egg-laying birds from South America (similar to the Araucana) with Golden Penciled Hamburgs, and Buff, Brown, and White Leghorns. The goal of the geneticists was to develop a blue egg-laying chicken that was auto-sexing. Auto-sexing means that generation after generation the chicks can be sexed at one-day of age by the color of their down. After about 15-years of work, the Legbar finally came into existence and was first exhibited at the London Dairy Show in 1947. The plumage is a mix of cream shades overlaid with faint black barring and features a small crest on the top of the head. Your purchase includes 10 baby chicks ready for you to raise. The chickens produce blue, medium sized eggs at a rate of about 280 eggs per year. Package Quantity: 10 baby chicks Chicken Purpose: Egg laying chicken Egg Production Rate: Female chickens lay approximately 280 Eggs/Year Cream Legbar chickens produce blue eggs Egg Size: Female chickens lay medium eggs Cream Legbar Characteristics: Active, hardy Mature Weight of Cream Legbar Baby Chicks: 5-7 lb.
