Member Reviews: Campine

I have a silkie X campine cockerel and it is untame as anything, it is very friendly once you can get it. As cockerels don't lay eggs, I don't really know if they are good egg layers. I have one fertile campine egg in the incubator at the moment.

My Golden Campine,Tightrope, is sweet. Tightrope is a good layer. Campines can fly really, really far. Neat breed do better in warmer climates.

I got one of these as a mystery chick from one of the hatcheries. We quickly bonded. I name her speckles, he would run up to the edge of the brooder every time I opened it up and fly onto my hand. He would sit on my hand and shoulder for hours and never poop. I could do anything with him and he would always play along. I loved that girl. She would follow me around the yard and where ever I went. I would take her to the compost pile where she could nibble on bugs and watermelon seeds. The only drawback, Is that she was way too smart and a escaped when in a stall and we lost her for forever. I called for her for hours. And I'm still searching for her- waiting for her to come home :( I...

On my list next year

We have around 20 chickens of different breeds, opringtons, rhode island reds, silver sussex, cochins, silkies, bantams, wynadottes and others... but we have a campine called dotty who is so friendly. She stoops for you to pick her up, she lays all the time, is so nosey!! follows you around garden and likes to see what you are upto! We then decided to hatch some campines, (only 1 hatched) but rolo is just as friendly and is only 12 weeks! My favourite are campines!

We have one Golden Campine pullet and she's as fun as can be.  She is the first chicken to run up to greet me in the morning.  She loves free ranging and I'll even find her sitting on the front porch in the .am morning  hours.  The only drawback I can find in raising the golden campine might be their flightiness and they can be rather loud at times.  If you live in the country I highly recommend this breed.

We have two bantam that need to have their own area from our 60+ orpingtons Will follow with photos - check www.diastolealpacafarm.com under chicks Our goal is to raise them with the alpacas for fly control - once the livestock guardian dogs accept them into their "herd".

From the day I got my tiny little Golden Campine chick, she was very curious and assertive.  She approached me without fear and of that batch of mixed female chicks, she was the first to do everything.  She follows me around, eats out of my hand (or plate, or fork, or coffee mug) but she does not like to be picked up and handled.  She is a good flyer and can get over most any fencing, so I agree with the other reviewer about the problem of keeping Campines in a city backyard.  I do live in town, but I'm on 1/2 acer and my neighbors don't mind if she occasionally pays them a visit.  Ziggy does her own thing and is rather independent of...

I have raised a few through the years and always enjoyed them. Decent layers of white eggs. Can be hard to confine if you don't have a top on your lot. They love to forage and are good flyers.