← All breeds Legbar Legbar breed profile: Blue eggs, single comb, yellow legs, medium, good layer.
Standard at a glance
Eggs
Comb Single comb
Barring Barred feathers
Legs Yellow
Skin Yellow Size, laying and temperament
Frame height medium
Egg production good layer
Broodiness rarely broody
Docility easygoing
Bone density medium
Foraging skill good forager
Cold hardiness fairly hardy On the app's 1 to 5 scale. Load this breed as a goal and every bird you score is matched against it.
Crosses with Legbar What a Legbar hen throws with a rooster of each breed. Open one for both directions and the full genetics.
× Ameraucana Blue eggs, pea comb, sex-linked × Araucana Blue eggs, pea comb, sex-linked × Barred Plymouth Rock Green eggs, single comb × Bielefelder Green eggs, single comb × Black Australorp Green eggs, single comb, sex-linked × Black Copper Marans Green eggs, single comb, sex-linked × Blue Andalusian Blue eggs, single comb, sex-linked × Buff Orpington Green eggs, single comb, sex-linked × Cochin Green eggs, single comb, sex-linked × Delaware Green eggs, single comb, sex-linked × Dominique Green eggs, rose comb × Easter Egger Blue eggs, pea comb, sex-linked × Faverolles Green eggs, single comb, sex-linked × Golden Comet Green eggs, single comb, sex-linked × ISA Brown Green eggs, single comb, sex-linked × Jersey Giant Green eggs, single comb, sex-linked × Light Brahma Green eggs, pea comb, sex-linked × New Hampshire Green eggs, single comb, sex-linked × Olive Egger Green eggs, pea comb, sex-linked × Polish Blue eggs, single comb, sex-linked × Rhode Island Red Green eggs, single comb, sex-linked × Silkie Green eggs, single comb, sex-linked × Silver-Laced Wyandotte Green eggs, rose comb, sex-linked × Speckled Sussex Green eggs, single comb, sex-linked × Welsummer Green eggs, single comb, sex-linked × White Leghorn Blue eggs, single comb, sex-linked Now with your own birds Load the Legbar standard as your breeding goal in one tap. Add your flock, set a breeding goal, and the pairing engine ranks every hen and rooster you own against it. Free for up to 15 birds.
Sources Breed standards and profiles The Livestock Conservancy: breed pages and the "Pick a Breed" comparison chart (egg colour, rate of lay, broodiness, temperament, foraging, cold hardiness) Oklahoma State University, Breeds of Livestock: chickens (comb, skin and shank colour, egg colour, weights, origin) University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension A2880, Chicken Breeds and Varieties (egg colour, skin colour, comb, class and use) American Poultry Association, recognised breeds and varieties (which breeds and varieties are standardised) The Poultry Club of Great Britain, breed pages (British and rare breeds) Checked September 2026. Hybrids and breeds no reference covers are marked approximate. Egg colour on these pages follows one rule: Brown is any shade a buyer would call brown; Cream/tinted is off-white.