The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: MiriMaran on January 25, 2010, 04:54:18 pm
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We have 2 Cream Legbars that lay beautiful blue eggs, well they used to. They layed for a year after we bought them and we have now had a year of them not laying at all. Do Cream Legbars have a very short laying life? They were supposed to be POL, but looked a bit maturer than that, but don't look old now. I'm really missing my beautiful blue eggs, but don't want to buy more Legbars if this is a problem with them. Can anyone advise please.
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I bought six and have two left. They stopped laying when they moulted about August last year - nt a sign of an egg since. I also bought them POL last Spring. I haven't given up hope and they are lovely birds, especially in their new plumage.
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they are cute.
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They are definitely my favorite looking birds, Delia is especially beautiful. Infact, Rosemary, I think I originally found this site through Googling Legbars and sent you a photo of Delia to ask your opinion of whether she was true to her breed! We bought her from a rather dodgy farm.
I don't like having non-productive hens, but I don't think I could kill them just 'cause they don't produce eggs. Maybe I'll end up with 30 hens, spending a fortune on feed and then going to the shops to buy eggs! :o
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Blue egg yesterday! They must have known we were talking about them!
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lol, no such luck for me! I've separated them into an ark to see if they are laying. I thought that maybe they spent last summer laying away from the sheds. Delia is looking fabulous and really ought to be laying I think. Doris still looks like she has the winter/moulting blues.