någon som vet något om en gammal hönsras kallad Cotswold Legbar,
These are beautiful placid poultry bred for there amazing eggs, which can be many shades of pastel blue, the variety of the eggs is astounding ranging from sky blue, turquoise, olive and even pink.
They get the blue pigment from Araucana genes, when
this breed was developed in the 1920's Araucana's were crossed with White Leghorns and Gold Legbars to give us the breed as we know it today.
They are great egg layers laying well into the winter months, but they
don't go broody very easily, we have found that if we give our hens a deep nest box with a 50/50 mix of straw and shavings and make it very dark then the hen will sit on her eggs, but she can spook easily and leave the eggs, so a backup broody or incubator is always a good idea..
They are a large fowl with very strong wings and trust me they really can fly quite a distance. so a high fence is also recommended.
Cotswold Legbar are Hybrid birds that have been created to lay blue eggs and as always to lay as many eggs as possible in their early years. She is a prolific layer, producing in excess of 230 eggs in the first year.
The Cotswold Legbar is not a pure breed but a hybrid and
is not autosexing they come in a wide variety of colours.
