Layable

Layable
Cream Legbar (young hen)
Origin:	England
Year:	Bred 1945–1958
Colour:	Gold Kennsperber; Silver Kennsperber; Creme Kennsperber
Weight:	Rooster 2.7-3.4 kg hen 2.0-2.7 kg
Laying output per year:	180-200 eggs
Eggshell color:	White, cream, cream Legbar: blue, green, olive
Breeding standards:	Entente Européenne
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The Legbar is a rare breed of British domestic chicken cared for by the Rare Poultry Society and the Rare Breeds Survival Trust . It was bred in the first half of the 20th century by Reginald Punnett and Michael Pease at Cambridge University in England, from Leghorn , Plymouth Rock , now extinct Silver Cambar , and Araucana chickens. It is a characteristic colored domestic chicken breed. Identifying color means that the sex of the chicks can be determined from the color of their down on the first day of life.

In Germany, the English Legbar line of the Stuttgart / Hohenheim research institute was merged with "German Kennhühnern", which were later recognized as Bielefelder Kennhuhn by the Association of German Pedigree Poultry Breeders , and thus enriched the large Italian poultry family.

description

The appearance of the Legbars is similar to that of the sparred Leghorn, whereby 'Creme Legbar' have a feather hood due to their Araucana heritage. The roosters weigh between 2.7 and 3.4 kg. The hens weigh between 2.0 and 2.7 kg.

Legbar cocks are muscular birds with a wedge-shaped body, with a broad chest and broad shoulders that narrow slightly towards the tail. The back is long, flat and sloping slightly towards the tail. The well-feathered tail is carried at a 45-degree angle to the back. The large wings are carried close to the body. The head has a strong beak and a reasonable single comb with five to seven evenly-shaped teeth. The face is smooth with white or cream-colored ear discs and long thin wattles . The neck is long and well feathered. The beak is yellow while the face, crest, and wattles are red. The eyes are red or orange in color. The yellow, featherless legs and feet are strong and have four equally splayed toes.

The chickens resemble that of the roosters in their appearance, but follow the gender-specific differences. In contrast to the roosters, the comb of the chickens can be upright or it can fall elegantly to one side without covering the eye. The hens also carry the tail at a flatter angle.

Varieties

The Poultry Club of Great Britain distinguishes three types of legbar: gold, silver and cream-colored.

• Gold Legbar were raised from brown Leghorn and plymouth rock chickens and recognized in 1945.

The rooster has a pale gold to straw-colored neck hangings that are black and gold-colored stripes. The back, shoulders and saddle are pale gold to straw in color with golden brown stripes. The wings are dark gray with white and chestnut colored stripes. The chest, belly and tail are striped gray, with the sickles being lighter.

The hen has pale gold neck hangings with black stripes. The salmon-colored breast is clearly delimited from the dark slate-gray to gray-brown body, which has light, indistinct stripes. The wings are dark gray-brown, the tail dark gray with broad suggested light stripes. They lay between 180 and 200 white or cream-colored eggs a year.

• Silver Legbar were raised from Gold Legbar, White Leghorn and Silver Cambar chickens and recognized in 1951. The Cambar was a distinctive breed of chicken that had been bred at Cambridge University in 1929 from gold-colored campines and corked Plymouth Rock chickens.

The rooster has a silver-colored neck hangings that are sparsely striped with dark gray. The tips of the feathers appear silver. The back, shoulders and saddle are silver with dark gray stripes, with the tips appearing silver. The wings are dark gray with silver gray stripes. Breast, belly and tail are evenly striped silver-gray and dark gray, with the sickles being lighter.

The hen has a silver neck hanging with black stripes. The salmon-colored breast is clearly demarcated from the silver-gray body, which has indistinct stripes. The wings are silver-gray, the tail silver-gray with broad indicated stripes. They lay between 180 and 200 white or cream-colored eggs a year.

• Cream Legbar (or Crested Cream Legbar) were raised from Gold Legbar, White Leghorn, and Cream-colored Araucana chickens and recognized in 1958. Due to the legacy of the English Araucana (with a tail and tail), the animals of this variety have a feather bonnet in contrast to the Gold Legbar and Silver Legbar and the hens lay between 180 and 200 blue or green eggs a year.

The rooster has a cream-colored neck hangings that are sparsely striped. The saddle is cream-colored with dark gray stripes and cream-colored tips. The back and shoulders are cream colored with dark gray stripes. The wings are dark gray with stripes and cream-colored tips. Breast, belly and tail are evenly striped dark gray, with the sickles being lighter. The hood is striped cream and gray.

The hen has lightly striped cream-colored neck hangings. The salmon-colored breast is clearly demarcated from the silver-gray body, which has indistinct stripes. The wings are mottled gray, the tail silver-gray with broad, suggested stripes. The hood is cream-colored and gray-striped and more pronounced than that of the rooster.

The dwarf chickens Zwerg-Legbar ( English Legbar Bantam ) and Cream Legbar Bantam correspond in their characteristics to the large breeds. The roosters weigh only 850 grams, the hens 620 grams. Dwarf Legbar are the only dwarf breeds, the formerly nine known English color-coded breeds. They correspond to the characteristic colored dwarf Italians .

Sex determination

Legbars are color-coded, similar to the Bielefeld Kennhuhn . In these breeds, newly hatched chicks can be divided into male and female chicks from the first day of life on the basis of their different down patterns. Female chicks have distinctly pronounced dark and light stripes along their bodies. Male chicks, on the other hand, appear lighter in comparison with washed-out stripes and have a bright yellow spot on the head. This difference is due to the fact that the sex chromosomes are distributed differently in birds than e.g. B. in mammals . Roosters have two Z chromosomes , while hens have a Z and a W chromosome. The sparrowhawk factor ('barring' (B), 'non-barring' (b +)), which leads to striped plumage, is located on the Z chromosome in chickens. Phenotypically caged cocks have either the genotype B / B or B / b +, while caged hens always have the genotype B / -. In order to be able to distinguish between male and female chicks on the basis of the down color, the male chicks must carry two copies of the sparrowhawk factor, i.e. have the genotype B / B.

See also

• List of endangered livestock breeds

literature

• Victoria Roberts: British poultry standards: complete specifications and judging points of all standardized breeds and varieties of poultry as compiled by the specialist breed clubs and recognized by the Poultry Club of Great Britain. Blackwell, Oxford 2008, ISBN 1-4051-5642-2 , pp. 53-56 (English).
• Rüdiger Wandelt, Josef Wolters: Handbook of Chicken Breeds . the chicken breeds in the world. Wolters Verlag, Bottrop 1996, ISBN 3-9801504-5-3 .
• Rüdiger Wandelt, Josef Wolters: Handbook of the bantams . the bantam breeds of the world. Wolters Verlag, Bottrop 1998, ISBN 3-9801504-8-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Native Poultry Breeds at Risk. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: rbst.org.uk. Rare Breeds Survival Trust , archived from the original on July 1, 2014 ; accessed on January 15, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   
2. ^ The Breeds We Cover. In: rarepoultrysociety.co.uk. The Rare Poultry Society, 2013, accessed January 15, 2016 .  
3. ↑ Layable. (No longer available online.) In: rbst.org.uk. Rare Breeds Survival Trust , archived from the original on January 14, 2016 ; accessed on January 15, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   
4. ↑ Cream Legbar. (No longer available online.) In: rbst.org.uk. Rare Breeds Survival Trust , archived from the original on January 14, 2016 ; accessed on January 15, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   
5. ^ R. Wandelt, J. Wolters: Handbuch der Hühnerrassen . 1996, Legbar, p. 253 .
6. ^ ^{A b c} Victoria Roberts: British Poultry Standards . Ed .: Poultry Club of Great Britain. 6th edition. John Wiley & Sons, March 16, 2009, Legbar, p. 53 (English, preview in Google Book Search [accessed January 15, 2016]).
7. ↑ ^{a b c d} Victoria Roberts: British Poultry Standards . Ed .: Poultry Club of Great Britain. 6th edition. John Wiley & Sons, March 16, 2009, Legbar, p. 53–55 (English, preview in Google Book Search [accessed January 15, 2016]).
8. ^ R. Wandelt, J. Wolters: Handbuch der Hühnerrassen . 1996, Cream Legbar, pp. 369 .
9. ↑ ^{a b} R. Wandelt, J. Wolters: Handbuch der Zwerghühner . 1998, Zwerg-Legbar, p. 256-258 .
10. ^ R. Wandelt, J. Wolters: Handbuch der Zwerghühner . 1998, Cream Legbar Bantam, p. 414-415 .
11. ↑ Victoria Roberts: British Poultry Standards . Ed .: Poultry Club of Great Britain. 6th edition. John Wiley & Sons, March 16, 2009, Legbar, p. 56 (English, preview in Google Book Search [accessed January 15, 2016]).