Baby Chicks: Cream Legbar

Cream Legbars are friendly, easily handled, good layers, and are one of the most highly sought-after—and rarest—breeds in this country. Cream Legbar eggs are a beautiful blue, ranging from light blue to light turquoise. And while their eggs aren't jumbo, they lay prolifically.

Legbars are wonderful foragers and love to be outside. If you like to go a-hunting for your eggs, this is the breed for you, because for some odd reason, laying outdoors is their favorite. Legbars do well avoiding predators in a free-range environment, although they can easily adapt to small yards and runs, too. Finally, Cream Legbars are fun looking, with unusual little crests tucked behind floppy combs, looking something like they're wearing berets accented with flowers--very cool!

Since Cream Legbars are "autosexing," which means the males and females look different at hatch, sexing can be done with virtually 100% certainty.

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