With its spiky feather crest and its penchant for laying vast quantities of sky-blue eggs, the legbar is definitely one of Greenfire's favorite new imports. But, the appeal of these obvious features pales in comparison to the revolutionary practicality cream legbars offer Americans: the ability to produce visually sexable chicks, generation after generation.

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—and are viewed as the pinnacle of locally produced gourmet eggs in that country.

Cream legbars are medium-sized fowl that are known for their active foraging and ability to survive in a free-range environment. The roosters are vigilant and protective of the hens, and the hens efficiently go about the business of gleaning every seed and insect from the fields and pastures they prefer. They are well-suited for the small homestead and life outdoors.

Given their flamboyant feathering and ability to produce blue eggs, it’s easy to overlook the enormously practical advantage that cream legbars bring to the backyard poultry breeder; their auto-sexing function. It’s a little surreal to see cream legbar chicks hatch and helpfully provide a clear visual signal as to their gender.

In 2011, two unrelated breeding groups of Cream Legbars were imported into the US by Greenfire Farms.