Hatching Eggs – Chicken – Cream Legbar (auto-sexing)

Description

We hatch our own Free-Range chickens every year on our farm and it is this same egg stock that we share with you here. 🐣

The Legbar is a rare breed auto-sexing breed of chicken, created in the early twentieth century.  Their main egg colour is blue, green, or olive.

Cream Legbar chicks can be sexed at birth by their down colour. The photograph attached shows the difference between the male (who is lighter in appearance and has a yellow spot on the top of his head) and the female (who has a darker back with darker stripes).

Our own chickens that we hatch every year are beautiful, healthy and lay well.

😮 Very occasionally our Cream Legbars throw a white chick.  These are known as White Legbars also known as White Sport Cream Legbars and are one of the most highly desired and extremely rare breeds of chicken 😮

• • Freshest laid eggs provided for you (8-48 hour laid)
  • Carefully individually selected for maximum chance of hatchability (not all fertile eggs are good to hatch)
  • Carefully hand prepared
  • Carefully packed in clean, home-compostable packaging
  • Package clearly externally marked as fragile (using paper fragile tape) and box marked on 4 sides for orientation.
  • Download the incubation guide free of charge. It really is very good!
  • We help you along the way within our Facebook Group ‘Home Farm Customer Hatching Stories’ where you can also see other customers experiences.
  • Postage** – We use Royal Mail Tracked 24 service so you can see where your eggs are all along their journey to you.  Should you prefer not to take the risk of postal delay, we have provided an option for you to choose Royal Mail Special Delivery.
  • Packaging – we are proud to say that we do not use any polystyrene or plastic packaging in any form. All our packaging is home compostable.
  • Collection – you may collect your eggs from us. They can be collected from our farm 24/7/365. There is no requirement for contact. We will email you to let you know when they are ready for collection.

Latest fertility rate is 85% (testing 100% of eggs over 5 consecutive days) June 2023

For advice on how to care for your chickens please visit https://www.rspca.org.uk/adviceandwelfare/farm/farmanimals/chickens

🐣 Have Fun Hatching! 🐣

Additional Information

*fertility – although we cannot guarantee fertility we have an extremely high fertility rate (see above).  We hatch our own birds every year on our farm and it is this same egg stock that we share with you here. It is impossible to tell whether an egg is fertile until it’s been incubated for about 7-10 days. 

**Please note – Postage is very hard on hatching eggs.  We and the postal service can’t guarantee how carefully the boxes are handled and no matter how well we pack them, sometimes you end up with cracked eggs, detached air-sacs, or otherwise “scrambled” eggs on delivery. The latter are unlikely to develop. 

We can’t be held responsible for damaged eggs or postal delays.  Regarding any postal delays – fertility holds reasonably well up to 7 days, but declines rapidly afterwards.  After 3 weeks of storage, fertility drops to almost zero.

• • When we pack and send – see website shop front.
  • We do not delay posting out orders unless specifically requested to do so by the buyer, or we may delay over long bank holidays if we judge egg viability to be otherwise compromised.
  • PLEASE NOTE – WE GIVE OURSELVES 1-2 WORKING DAYS TO DISPATCH.  VERY OCCASIONALLY OUR BIRDS MAY HAVE NOT LAID ENOUGH THAT DAY (FOR WHATEVER REASON) OR THERE HAVE BEEN BREAKAGES.   IN THIS SCENARIO, YOUR ORDER IS PLACED TOP OF THE LIST FOR THE NEXT DAY.