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\"CLB_148_02\"<\/a>Appleworm\u2122 Orchard is pleased\u00a0to be able to offer for purchase\u00a0some very nice Cream Legbar pullets. Cream Legbars were created in post-WWI Britain and first imported to the United States in 2011 by Greenfire Farms.\u00a0 Appleworm acquired some of these birds at that time.\u00a0 We discovered, as did many other breeders, that birds forming Greenfire’s initial flock failed to conform to some of the English standards.\u00a0\u00a0Several notable failures were floppiness in the roosters’ combs (they should be upright),\u00a0gold\u00a0in the hens’ breast plumage (it should be salmon), and small or non-existent crests on the females.\u00a0 Subsequent Greenfire importations made\u00a0large strides in correcting these shortcomings . . . \u00a0and we bought\u00a0birds, both from Greenfire and from breeders around the country, including Greenfire’s most recent importation, its birds from Jill Rees. Most recently, in December 2014, we bought the entirety of two of Greenfire Farms’ flocks: its “B-Line” and “C-Line.” \u00a0(Greenfire discontinued these two flocks to focus on its Rees line.)<\/p>\n

\"CLB_148_03\"<\/a>Our initial intention had been to compose two flocks, one consisting entirely of Jill Rees’ birds, the other of the best from all of Greenfire’s other imports. \u00a0But, after observing all of these birds, we concluded that we did not like the appearance of the Rees roosters and that this line\u00a0was\u00a0considerably less hardy than earlier imports. \u00a0So we don’t have a Rees flock.
\nWhat we have done instead is to compose\u00a0two flocks\u00a0from our various birds. For\u00a0one of these, our smallest, our goal is to breed for hens that conform well to the breed’s plumage standards. \u00a0At the present time, we are selecting for crest size and color. Once those traits are true-breeding, we will move onto others. \u00a0The hen pictured on this page was hatched in early 2015 from this line. \u00a0To this flock we have given the name Punnett Square in homage to the man who created the auto-sexing chicken.<\/p>\n

\"CLB_148_05\"<\/a>In the other flock (called “Wessex”) we are directing our attention to the color of the hens’ eggs. \u00a0We desire that the eggs be large, spherical, and very blue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Appleworm\u2122 Orchard is pleased\u00a0to be able to offer for purchase\u00a0some very nice Cream Legbar pullets. Cream Legbars were created in post-WWI Britain and first imported to the United States in 2011 by Greenfire Farms.\u00a0 Appleworm acquired some of these birds … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":497,"parent":2,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-530","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appleworm.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appleworm.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appleworm.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appleworm.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appleworm.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":45,"href":"https:\/\/appleworm.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2407,"href":"https:\/\/appleworm.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/530\/revisions\/2407"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appleworm.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appleworm.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appleworm.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}