I ordered recently Easter Eggers, Olive Eggers and Cream Legbars from Cackle for my flock. My Easter and Olive Eggers are doing amazing, and I beg you to consider filling your flock with those breeds instead of this one. These birds seem to lay a sage green egg which are much smaller than my other hens. In fact my Easter Eggers lay more ‘blue’ eggs than these birds. The biggest issue is their health, however. I am currently considering culling the last two I have for this reason, as I am at my wit’s end trying to keep them healthy among an otherwise perfectly healthy flock. I ordered three of these cream legbars hoping to add blue eggs to my daily egg collection. I received one extra making a total of four chicks, which was good because one died a few days in (failure to thrive.) This was expected as a possible outcome. When they got older and were able to be transferred to a coop, it became apparent one was a rooster. I would have kept him because I liked his temperament, but he was absolutely tiny compared to the others in the brood and had very gnarly, curly toes. The two that remain are in mixed health. One is only just barely as big as my other girls and lays fairly well, but her feathers are so thin that she must always wear a mating saddle (unlike the others who can more or less handle the one rooster I did keep.) I give her breaks in between to clean and rest from the straps, but this is a heck of a chore compared to my other birds who need it much less frequently. The last one is the smallest of every hen I own and needs to be culled because the feathers that should be growing back normally have actually created cysts underneath the skin. Some feathers aren’t coming back at all. I’m at a loss for this because I’ve never seen this in a bird before. It’s really unfortunate because I love their little fluffy heads and their lovely personalities, but I wish I’d just saved myself the trouble and gotten another breed.
