Cream Legbar
Gallus gallus domesticus
✨ Fun Fact
The Cream Legbar was created by R.C. Punnett — the geneticist whose name is on the Punnett Square taught in every biology class worldwide. Punnett deliberately engineered auto-sexing into the breed using his own discoveries about sex-linked genes — the same tools he used to invent the square that now appears in textbooks from Oslo to Tokyo.
A British auto-sexing laying breed created at Cambridge University in the 1930s by geneticists Michael Pease and Reginald Crundall Punnett by crossing Leghorns with Barred Plymouth Rocks and introducing Araucana blood for the blue-egg gene. Cream Legbars are auto-sexing — male and female chicks have distinctly different down patterns at hatch, making vent sexing unnecessary. Most importantly, they lay distinctly blue to blue-green eggs — a highly unusual characteristic in a productive commercial-style layer. Recognised by the Poultry Club of Great Britain (PCGB) and enormously popular with British backyard keepers.
🏷️ Breed
Cream Legbar
💭 Temperament
Active, alert, flighty, independent, good forager
📏 Size
Medium (2.3-3.2 kg)
⏳ Lifespan
5-8 years
🎨 Colors
Cream-grey barred body with salmon-buff breast on cocks; small crest on head
🌍 Origin
England — Cambridge University; created by Pease and Punnett, 1930s
🏠 Habitat
Free-range or large run; active breed needing space
🍽️ Diet
Layer pellets; excellent free-range forager
🎯 Purpose
Egg
🥚 Egg Colour
Blue
👑 Comb Type
Single
🏅 EE Class
Large Fowl