Old Cotswold Legbar Hatching Eggs
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Cream leg bars produce blue eggs, although it can be a bit hit and miss, with some producing more normal ones.
Ebays pretty good for eggs, we've bought rare breed chickens and ducks as well as geese, turkeys and guineafowl. (Were overrun with poultry here). Fairly easy to breed and look after, but they do smell!(aloe-vera chaff bedding is brilliant)
Edit; there's various forums that you could peer into, as well as the rare breed society, even though they may not be classed as rare breeds some people may still breed them alongside others.
Ebays pretty good for eggs, we've bought rare breed chickens and ducks as well as geese, turkeys and guineafowl. (Were overrun with poultry here). Fairly easy to breed and look after, but they do smell!(aloe-vera chaff bedding is brilliant)
Edit; there's various forums that you could peer into, as well as the rare breed society, even though they may not be classed as rare breeds some people may still breed them alongside others.
Apologies in advance if i'm teaching you to suck eggs...
Have you/parents had chickens before? Why hatching eggs and not chicks?
I have Cotswold Cream Legbar growers atm (got them at a day old). They will be at POL in September. When they should lay blue or olive green eggs.
I wouldn't recommend them as a first hen. They're feisty things, flighty, noisy and not a calm friendly bird like many of my other hens. They are however lovely looking birds.
You can differentiate between cocks and hens with these birds at a day old (hens have a stripe). If you/your parents hatch your own would you have the disposition to dispatch unwanted cockerels or if not the capability of keeping or homing them?
Whilst it's great fun to hatch eggs, it's relatively easy to find a breeder and place an order for 'x' amount of day old female chicks. You can rear them under a brooder lamp (around £30) in as little as a high sided cardboard box for 6 - 8 weeks before introducing them to outside.
There's a lot of chicken owners on PH and a fair amount of threads on their upkeep throughout this forum.
Good luck.
Have you/parents had chickens before? Why hatching eggs and not chicks?
I have Cotswold Cream Legbar growers atm (got them at a day old). They will be at POL in September. When they should lay blue or olive green eggs.
I wouldn't recommend them as a first hen. They're feisty things, flighty, noisy and not a calm friendly bird like many of my other hens. They are however lovely looking birds.
You can differentiate between cocks and hens with these birds at a day old (hens have a stripe). If you/your parents hatch your own would you have the disposition to dispatch unwanted cockerels or if not the capability of keeping or homing them?
Whilst it's great fun to hatch eggs, it's relatively easy to find a breeder and place an order for 'x' amount of day old female chicks. You can rear them under a brooder lamp (around £30) in as little as a high sided cardboard box for 6 - 8 weeks before introducing them to outside.
There's a lot of chicken owners on PH and a fair amount of threads on their upkeep throughout this forum.
Good luck.
Cotswold Legbar eggs are protected by trade marks registered in May 2001. For this reason, Cotswold Legbar hatching eggs are not available. Cotswold Legbar pullets are only available through Legbars of Broadway or one of their retail outlets. These hens are covered by a guarantee. Buyers should be beware of fraudsters attempting to sell hens or eggs using these or similar names.
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