Goats
Myotonic-Fainting Goats
Myotonic's are breed for their docile and friendly disposition. Mine rarely challenge a fence. They are also well adapted to low-input forage systems and seem to be more worm tolerant in this southern area. We have the miniature line not the larger meat goat line. They are rated on a scale of myotonia from 1-6 sometimes not expressing until 3-6 months. Doelings-$100-500 (Average $350) Wether-$100-300 (Average $250) Bucks-$100-500 (Average $275) Deposits We suggest visits to the farm to determine which breed of goat is right for you. Pricing is based on the cost that goes into raising the babies and the mothers and is non-negotiable. We require 1/2 down at the time they are born. We usually have a waitlist. The remaining half is due at the time of pick up. We do not "meet" folks who purchase goats. We feel it is very important to have the time to show you how to trim hooves prior to going home and answer questions that come up. This can not be done safely at a gas station. We are proud of our farm and suggest you think twice about buying a goat from a farm you have never visited or will not allow visitors. Stud Services If you have goats from us we know they came from a clean tested herd. If you have other goats on your property not from our herd, we do require the entire herd be tested for CAE and Johne's first so no disease if brought back to our farm. We test our herd every other year. Stud service is a one time fee of $75. Most often this takes about 30 minutes. If they are present during a stool sample rotation they would be included as well. When you purchase goats from us you have a lifetime a free advice, teaching, and goat conversation. We don't just sell the goats and forget about you. There is a large learning curve that can take a year or too to get into a rhythm with. We start the education process before they go home and continue when needed. |
Sheep
POULTRY
CRESTED CREAM LEGBAR
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The Crested Cream Legbar is a unique auto-sexing chicken. This means you can easily tell a female hen from a male roo immediately after hatching. Female chicks (pullet) have a dark brown triangle on the top of their head. Male chicks (roo) are lighter in color and have a white/yellow spot on the top of their heads. The Crested Cream Legbar breeds true generation after generation.
Characteristics:
The Crested Cream Legbar is a medium sized chicken. The male weighs in at 6-7½ lb and the female is around 4½-6 lb. They are very firm and muscular birds having a wedge shaped body, broad at the shoulders and tapering towards the rear. The wings are large and carried close to the body. The back is long and flat while the tail is held at 45 degree angle to the back. The head has a strong beak and large single erect comb with five to seven even spikes. The Crested Cream Legbar is named after their crest which lies at the back of the head behind the comb. The comb is small in the male and larger in the female. The face is smooth with pendant cream or white ear-lobes, long thin wattles and a long, well feathered neck. They have a yellow beak, red face, comb and wattles. They have yellow legs and feet which are un-feathered. They have four evenly spaced toes.
The male has cream colored, barred neck hackles and saddle hackles which are accented with dark grey and cream tips. The back and the shoulders are mostly cream barred with dark grey. The wings have dark grey barred primaries and secondaries with cream tips. The breast and tail are barred dark grey and the crest is cream and grey. The female has softly barred cream neck hackles. The breast is almost salmon colored while the body is silver-grey with broad barring. The wings are speckled with grey and the tail is silvery grey with light barring.
History/Origin:
In 1927 a British horticulturalist. Clarence Elliott, set out on a plant collecting expedition that eventually took him to Chile. Along with ornamental plants, Elliott brought back many animals for the London Zoo including three hens. He gifted these hens to Cambridge Professor - Reginald Crundall Punnett (1875-1967) who was doing pioneering work on poultry genetics. Professor Punnett had already identified a sex linkage between gold males and silver females, and also the sex linkage carried by barred feathered birds. He began his breeding programs to utilize this to a create autosexing breeds.
Around 1932 the Gold and Silver Legbar was the second of these breeds to be created at Cambridge Agricultural Research Department. The Gold Legbar was first standardized with the Poultry Club of Great Britain as a breed in 1945 and the Silver Legbar was standardized six years later in 1951.
From this the Crested Cream Legbar was developed. In 1939 Michael S. Pease was trying to improve the productivity of the Gold Legbar. Through several mating combinations, he developed a crested, blue egg laying, auto-sexing breed he named the Crested Cream Legbar. The Crested Cream Legbar was first introduced at the London Dairy Show in 1947 and received a written standard by the Poultry Club of Great Britain in 1958.
The Crested Cream Legbar grew in popularity to fill a niche market in the British egg industry for pastel eggs produced by free-range birds. Today a variant of the cream legbar produces eggs that are marketed under the name of the Cotswold legbar, borrowing the name of Britain’s productive and beautiful pastoral region. They are viewed as the pinnacle of locally produced gourmet eggs in that country.
References:
Cream Legbar Club http://www.creamlegbarclub.com
Characteristics:
The Crested Cream Legbar is a medium sized chicken. The male weighs in at 6-7½ lb and the female is around 4½-6 lb. They are very firm and muscular birds having a wedge shaped body, broad at the shoulders and tapering towards the rear. The wings are large and carried close to the body. The back is long and flat while the tail is held at 45 degree angle to the back. The head has a strong beak and large single erect comb with five to seven even spikes. The Crested Cream Legbar is named after their crest which lies at the back of the head behind the comb. The comb is small in the male and larger in the female. The face is smooth with pendant cream or white ear-lobes, long thin wattles and a long, well feathered neck. They have a yellow beak, red face, comb and wattles. They have yellow legs and feet which are un-feathered. They have four evenly spaced toes.
The male has cream colored, barred neck hackles and saddle hackles which are accented with dark grey and cream tips. The back and the shoulders are mostly cream barred with dark grey. The wings have dark grey barred primaries and secondaries with cream tips. The breast and tail are barred dark grey and the crest is cream and grey. The female has softly barred cream neck hackles. The breast is almost salmon colored while the body is silver-grey with broad barring. The wings are speckled with grey and the tail is silvery grey with light barring.
History/Origin:
In 1927 a British horticulturalist. Clarence Elliott, set out on a plant collecting expedition that eventually took him to Chile. Along with ornamental plants, Elliott brought back many animals for the London Zoo including three hens. He gifted these hens to Cambridge Professor - Reginald Crundall Punnett (1875-1967) who was doing pioneering work on poultry genetics. Professor Punnett had already identified a sex linkage between gold males and silver females, and also the sex linkage carried by barred feathered birds. He began his breeding programs to utilize this to a create autosexing breeds.
Around 1932 the Gold and Silver Legbar was the second of these breeds to be created at Cambridge Agricultural Research Department. The Gold Legbar was first standardized with the Poultry Club of Great Britain as a breed in 1945 and the Silver Legbar was standardized six years later in 1951.
From this the Crested Cream Legbar was developed. In 1939 Michael S. Pease was trying to improve the productivity of the Gold Legbar. Through several mating combinations, he developed a crested, blue egg laying, auto-sexing breed he named the Crested Cream Legbar. The Crested Cream Legbar was first introduced at the London Dairy Show in 1947 and received a written standard by the Poultry Club of Great Britain in 1958.
The Crested Cream Legbar grew in popularity to fill a niche market in the British egg industry for pastel eggs produced by free-range birds. Today a variant of the cream legbar produces eggs that are marketed under the name of the Cotswold legbar, borrowing the name of Britain’s productive and beautiful pastoral region. They are viewed as the pinnacle of locally produced gourmet eggs in that country.
References:
Cream Legbar Club http://www.creamlegbarclub.com
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