Egg Color: Blue- Medium Size
Baby Chick Minimum is four with a limit of 10
**We are Closed for Chicks in March & April- Please Choose May or June**
We sell hatching eggs and baby chicks- make sure you change the type for correct pricing
** These are a working project- although genetics is a science, there may be situations or issues we never predicted or expected in the variables. Please breed at your own risk 🤣 **
These are our favorites, but they are still a working project. But anything from this coop=== is a stunner and one-of-a-kind. A true-- orginal --- in a world of normal.
We feel blessed to be offering these, but even more fortunate because the creator= of the Blue Legbar, Patrick Joseph Reindel Jr., who owns and operates The Big R Ranch in Caldwell, Idaho, also added Christine Simpson's line of legbar chicks to this variety. If you are unfamiliar with Christine Simpson, she resides in Canada and has the last of the unrelated imports of legbars brought to the United States by Greenfire Farms.
We are going crazy over this gorgeous line, which lays beautiful blue eggs. We are lucky to have added a bit of these to our flocks—even more luck in acquiring these beautiful blue legbars.
When I started this project, I only had one hen, a blue legbar, so for several years, we have been breeding them to cream legbars. The results should be 50% cream and 50% blue legbars.
As luck would have it we always hatched more Cream Legbars than Blue Legbars. After much time, tribulation, and stress- we finally got a good-looking Blue Legbar Rooster and have taken this project to the next level.
We really don't rush things and allow them to happen almost in a symbiotic relationship so it did take us a little bit of time to establish the direction of our blue legbar project.
In this pen, we create- White, Splash, Blue, or Cream Legbars. The Blue and Cream are autosexing- they have characteristics that differentiate between pullet and cockerels at hatch. The Blue Legbars as chicks may resemble creams in coloration. As they age you will see the subtle changes and their feathering and they start to get a blueish hue.
These we breed like Black, Blue and Splash -- Replace the Black with Cream.
To our dismay--- the White and Splash chicks can be difficult to sex at a day old-- due to time limitations, so these and the Splash are sold straight run.
We have found the following--
Blue x Blue= 50% blue, 25% cream, 25% splash
Splash x Splash= 100% splash
Cream x Blue= 50% cream, 50% blue
Cream x Splash= 100% blue
Blue x Splash= 50% blue, 50% splash
25% of the chicks are white
**Our Blessful discovery - Early 2023, we hatched a few test eggs as we do with all of our coops before opening them up for the season. We discovered we have the recessive white gene in our blue legbars. Our hatchlings/chicks, on average, are 25 % white.
2025- we will be adding another Blue Legbar Breeding pen. We finally have bred enough Splash Legbar hens to cross with a Cream Legbar Rooster- thus, all the offspring will be Blue Legbars. We are super excited to keep this beautiful project rolling.
** We hate to limit selling these, but with this being a working project, at least until some of our younger hens start laying a limit of one dozen per purchase. ** Chicks 10 -- these could be white, blue, cream, or splash legbars- straight run. ** If we can determine gender -- you will get pullets--
Please be aware that all orders are custom-- so if you want chicks, there is at least a 21-day wait.
We may open this offering up to more chicks- as in more than the limit of 10, later in the season if we find that the fertility out of our new pen is doing well and things are moving forward as we had planned. Our package of 10 chicks will include- Blue, White, and Splash Legbar. Just a friendly reminder the white and splash are harder to sex as days olds and will be sold as straight run.
We suggest that they are blue-based- even the whites - they should not be used with Opal Legbars or their Splits. As Blue and Lavender do not mix.... These work well with cream legbars.
We also use these with our Blue Copper Marans to create first-generation olive eggers. I have used the splash, blues and whites hens. They make a lovely, beautiful olive egger.
If you have any questions, please reach out.
Please make sure you have read our Shipping & Farm Pickup Agreement on hatching eggs and chicks. By purchasing, you agree to those terms and understand that shipping is risky with such products. Please ensure you have selected enough chicks—reminder: our boxes are big, but our minimum is four regardless of pickup or shipping. Due to the recent price increase from USPS with perishable items such as hatching eggs and baby chicks, we offer several options to fit your needs. We have two flat-rate options for up to 2 dozen hatching eggs. The cheapest option does not include insurance, and we do not state that they are perishable. This means if you have damage in shipping, there is no recourse through the USPS- nor do we offer refunds or replacements. The other flat-rate option establishes that the eggs are perishable, and you can file an insurance claim if there is damage. If you want more than two dozen, please purchase them separately. We only ship baby chicks via Express- we feel they deserve that higher level of care. We have established a flat rate pricing for up to 25 chicks. This price includes a Horizon Chick shipping box, aspen pad, heating pads (if needed), gel, and feed. Please be aware that all orders are custom, so if you want chicks, there is at least a 21-day wait.