The Legbar chicken is a British breed created by Reginald Krundall Pennett and Michael Pease. It is now a rare breed, bred in the early 20th century at Cambridge University’s Genetics Institute. The main purpose of creating this breed of chickens was to create a useful breed with an emphasis on egg laying.
The Legbar chicken is a self-sexed breed, which means that males and females are easily distinguished by color after birth. The developers used a crossover program with two excellent layers; Plymouth rock with bars and Livorno chicken. Barred Plymouth Rock was used in Livorno to introduce a sex-linked inhibition gene.
The Gold Legbar chicken was standardized in 1945 and was created by crossing a Brown Leghorn and a Barred Plymouth Rock. The Silver Lagbar hen was created in 1951 by crossing a Gold Legbar with a Silver Cambar and a White Leghorn.
And the Cream Legbar chicken was created by crossing the White Leghorn chicken and the Araucana. Cream Legbar was standardized in 1958 but nearly died out in the 1970s. Because blue eggs aren’t in demand. Below are the characteristics, behavior, temperament and complete profile of the Legbar Chicken Breed.
Characteristics of a chicken knife
Chicken Legbar resembles Chicken Lattice Leghorn in appearance. Legbar roosters are sturdy, muscular birds with a wedge-shaped body and a prominent chest. They have a long, flat back and their large wings are held close to the body.
They have a strong beak of yellow or horn color. They have large, straight, simple, bright red combs with five to seven equal tips with a wide base.
The Cream Legbar is small and compact, well laid back with red or orange eyes, and falls from the back of the head under an elongated crest. Their face is smooth, red in color, with smooth, drooping cream-colored or opaque white earlobes.
Legbar rooster piglets are long and slender, red. They have strong, round, clean feet with four evenly spaced toes. They have long, hairy necks. Their skin color is yellow. Roosters have plumage of a silky texture without coarse or excessive feathering.
On the other hand, Legbar hens share some common characteristics similar to roosters. A single comb, however, can be vertical or fall gracefully to either side of the face without obstructing vision. The chickens tail is held at a smaller angle.
The comb of the cream legbar hen is somewhat wider and thicker than that of the roosters. But the comb should never be large enough to cover the eyes. The legs and legs of Gold Legbar or Silver Lagbar chickens can be yellow, orange or light willow in color. On average, Legbar roosters weigh about 3.4 kg, and hens about 2.7 kg. Photo from Wikipedia.
Behaviour/Temperament
The legged hen is a useful breed, mainly adapted for egg production. The Legbar Cream Chicken is a rather noisy breed. And their voice is very similar to Araucanum. These legs are fickle and tend to get jittery. Laying hens lay cream or white eggs, but Cream Legbar hens lay blue or green eggs.
They are not considered good winter laying hens. Chickens do not incubate. The breed is very good for a free range system and does not like confinement. Roosters are easily tamed and can become aggressive during the breeding season. See the complete Legbar Chicken Breed Profile below.
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| Breed name | leg bar |
| another name | everything |
| Purpose of the breed | egg layer |
| Broad temperament | Resists confinement poorly, manageable, noisy, unstable |
| Breed size | big |
| sullen instinct | Rarely |
| comb | A |
| climatic tolerance | All climates |
| egg color | Cream or white, cream paws lay blue or green eggs |
| Egg size | medium |
| Egg performance | Medium to high |
| feathered feet | Not |
| scarcity | Ordinary parts |
| Varieties | Cream, gold and silver |
| Native country | UK |
