Recent content by AtaraxyAcres

Just had a record Bielefelder egg ...96 grams.... my previous record was 84 grams.

I ordered a dozen pullets from Greenfire and they all turned out the be culls (white earlobes/white eggs). I have not heard that GF has done anything to getting their Biele breeding stock back to standard. I gave all of them away as BY chickens/pets ..at $30/ea that was an expensive and failed...

Thanks for the thoughtful response. Disappointed, but not to the point of quitting. The cost of failure is really not very large ... I will still end up with good backyard chickens. I have learned a lesson ..and hope others will not make the same mistake.

Seems there are a lot of people out there that are either maliciously pawning culls, or are ignorant about genetics and the breed standard. I relied on the GFF marketing material about saving these 'rare' breeds from extinction, and thought this might be a good endeavor on my part. Never thought...

This is a relativly new breed, and ostensibly needs more focussed management of the genetics.I have no way of knowing what GFF has done to manage their stock to the standard, but the chicks I received exhibited gross (disqualifying) defects. Their current stock is not representative of the...

Disappointed in GFF Bielefelders. 7 out of the 11 surviving ( lost one hen to an unidenfied ailment) I received from GFF have stark white earlobes, 2 more have mostly white earlobes with a fleck of red. I have raised these to laying age, only to find they are culls (for breeding purposes)...