Chicken breed
Cream Legbar
The Cream Legbar is a British breed that lays sky-blue eggs. Hens are friendly and active and do well in warm climates. Their larger combs make extreme cold harder on them.
At a glance
180–220eggs a year
3–5eggs a week
17–24weeks to first egg
4.5–6 lbhen weight
6–7.5 lbrooster weight
Mediumegg size
Traits
- Cold hardymedium
- Heat toleranthigh
- Goes broodylow
- Egg colour
- blue (sky blue; some green reported)
- Temperament
- friendly, active
- Good with kids
- Usually, yes
- Origin
- England (UK)
- Comb
- single
- Bantam size
- No
- APA standard
- Not recognized
- Purpose
- eggs
Good for
- blue eggs
- warm climates
- families
Watch out for
- larger comb is vulnerable in extreme cold
- not an APA-recognized breed in the US
Looks and feathers
Crested (small crest on some birds); not on the APA accepted list.
Our drawing shows the most common US variety; colours vary.
Similar breeds
All breedsSources
- 1Cream Legbar Day Old Chicks (product/breed profile)Meyer Hatchery
- 2Cream Legbar Chicken (product/breed profile)Cackle Hatchery
- 3Accepted Breeds & VarietiesAmerican Poultry Association
- 4Legbar (breed page)My Pet Chicken
Hatcheries often disagree on eggs a year; ranges span every source we read. How we check the facts.