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British heritage · Autosexing · Blue eggs
Cream Legbar
Autosexing, crested, and crowned with sky-blue eggs.
A rare British breed you can sex on day one. Lively, crested, and a dependable layer of sky-blue eggs.
HenAutosexing, crested, and crowned with sky-blue eggs.
A rare British breed you can sex on day one. Lively, crested, and a dependable layer of sky-blue eggs.
Open dates are highlighted in gold. Tap one to see how many females, males, and straight-run chicks are left.
Every Cream Legbar hatch is currently reserved. Join the waitlist and we’ll email you the moment new dates open.
Join the waitlistBred at Cambridge in the 1930s and standardized in 1958, the Cream Legbar carries a clever trick in its genes: it’s autosexing. Day-old pullets wear darker down with a clear back stripe; cockerels are paler with a pale head spot — so when you order hens, you get hens.
A touch of Araucana in its ancestry gave the Legbar two more gifts: a jaunty little crest and the gene for sky-blue eggs. They’re active, inquisitive foragers with a slightly flighty streak, so they reward a bit of space and a taller fence.
Count on around four medium blue (occasionally soft-green) eggs a week from a lean, lively, good-natured bird.
Autosexing: chicks can be told apart by down color at hatch — so they can be sexed without a lab.
Crested heads and sky-blue eggs, courtesy of Araucana ancestry.
Active and a little flighty — give them room and a higher fence.