Cream Legbar
The Cream Legbar is a British autosexing chicken developed in the twentieth century at Cambridge by Reginald Punnett and Michael Pease. Its background includes Leghorn, barred Plymouth Rock, and Araucana blood, which helped combine active laying ability, sex-linked barring, a small crest, and blue-shell egg genetics. Mature birds have a cream and grey barred, crele-like pattern; males are lighter and more barred, while females show warmer salmon tones on the breast.
In backyard and breeding flocks, Cream Legbars are valued for blue to blue-green eggs and for chicks that can often be sexed at hatch by down pattern when the line is pure and well selected. They are alert, rangy foragers rather than heavy table chickens, so they do best with secure fencing, dry housing, and room to stay busy. Breeders track egg color, crest size, and chick autosexing clarity; buyers should distinguish registered or standard-bred Legbars from generic blue-egg crosses sold under similar names.
Colors: Barred, Birchen, Black, Blue, Brown, Buff, Columbian, Cream, Crele, Cuckoo, Duckwing, Gold, Gold Laced, Laced, Lavender, Mille Fleur, Mottled, Partridge, Penciled, Porcelain, Red, Silver, Silver Laced, Spangled, Splash, Wheaten, White
