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In 1989, Philip and wife Janet, formed the Clarence Court egg business, at Millhampost Farm, Winchcombe. The business name was coined from the Queen Mother’s home, Clarence House, because rumour had it, that the Queen Mother enjoyed a blue egg for breakfast. Their stunning new eggs were to bring a touch of elegance and refinement to what had become a boring utility product. Minimum life based on 'use-by' date of product. Average life based on last week's deliveries. Life guarantee shown based on delivery tomorrow with the Life guarantee starting the following day.Thanks to Legbars of Broadway, anyone can enjoy the pleasure of owning some elegant Cotswold Legbars. They bring life and beauty to gardens, and have taken up residence in some of the finest country homes and estates across the UK. The Cream Legbar (or Crested Cream Legbar) is the most popular autosexing Legbar today, thanks to them laying blue coloured eggs. It is well-known that genetically, these birds obtained this trait from the Araucana, but few people know how the Crested Cream Legbar came about. then the araucana was added to cross the Gold legbar with purly for the blue egg gene which also made is go a silvery colour and was finally seen as its own breed and recognised as a Cream Crested Legbar now known only as the Cream Legbar

Liste des races et variétés homologuée dans les pays EE (28.04.2013). Entente Européenne d’Aviculture et de Cuniculture. Archived 16 June 2013.NOTE: Beware of rogue dealers selling look-alike inferior hens and claiming that they are Burford Browns ! The Old Cotswold Legbar The Legbar has three colour varieties: gold, silver and cream. [15] The cream variant has a crest and lays blue, olive or green eggs. [11] :53 The Legbar is considered a rare breed by the Poultry Club of Great Britain and, until the Autosexing Breeds Association was re-formed, fell under the Rare Poultry Society. [9] :60 [16] Use [ edit ]

The Cotswold Legbar is not suitable for keeping in a small run and if free-ranging isn’t an option, the run space should be a minimum of 10 square metres per hen, which is the legal requirement for commercial organic hens

The Gold Legbar was the first to be standardised in 1945, followed by Silver Legbar in 1951 and the Cream Legbar in 1958.

Clarence Court goose eggs are rich and creamy, and apparently perfect when soft-boiled with asparagus soldiers or shavings of truffles. They’re pretty big, too – one goose egg equates to 2.5 medium hen’s eggs. Sophie McCallum (2020). Rare British Breeds: Endangered Species in the UK. Yorkshire; Philadelphia: Pen & Sword Books Limited. ISBN 9781526763631. The Cream Legbar is very different in makeup from the Gold or Silver Legbar, so many people consider it a separate breed. Still, at this time, the Poultry Club of Great Britain classifies it as a variety of Legbar.You can use Guinea Fowl eggs in any recipe that calls for hen eggs – 10 Guinea Fowl eggs equals around seven hen eggs (they’re 30% smaller), so do bear that in mind. Bantams are a rare, ancient breed of hen (explorer Marco Polo wrote about them in his journals) which produces blue-shelled eggs similar to the Cotswold Legbar hen eggs, but smaller. The yolk to egg white ratio is 50/50 (much higher than a standard hen’s egg) and the yolk is intensely dark in colour.