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  1. DiamondDust

    Barnevelder breeders lets work together and improve the breed

    How exciting! She looks like a Barnevelder to me!
  2. DiamondDust

    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Hey Tajuano, I'm Diamond Dust with the Barnevelder chickens in Kitsap County (ish). They are rare in the US so there are not many of us here in Western Washington who breed them but I have both blue double laced (which are not yet accepted in the APA but I do show them too) and the standard...
  3. DiamondDust

    Barnevelder breeders lets work together and improve the breed

    I've never seen a comb like that on a Barnie girl but I would think it would indicate that she may have something else in her...like a genetic throw back or something, you know what I mean? Her lacing isn't great either, which also indicates to me that there is something else at play. Is she a...
  4. DiamondDust

    Barnevelder breeders lets work together and improve the breed

    Henerz101 I'm not sure what kind he is but I don't think he's a Barnevelder. It is possible he's part Barnie but he could be a number of other things as well...he definitely has partridge coloring and it looks like he is either moulting and his tail is gone or he's young and it hasn't grown...
  5. DiamondDust

    Barnevelder breeders lets work together and improve the breed

    I would say #1 looks fine but #2 has WAY too much red. #2 appears to be a cockerel and should not have so much red, and should have lacing on the shoulders and upper part of the wing...that one does not. I wouldn't use him for breeding for sure as he's likely to pass that on. Hope that...
  6. DiamondDust

    Barnevelder breeders lets work together and improve the breed

    This is not the same bird as the earlier picture you posted, correct? This is not a hen I would take to show personally as she has quite a bit of "shafting" on her breast. Her comb is pretty big too but that would probably not be an issue if her lacing were better...ie: without the shafting...
  7. DiamondDust

    Barnevelder breeders lets work together and improve the breed

    DEFINITELY!! I would take her to show. I think you could clean up with that hen! DD
  8. DiamondDust

    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    I had a pullet that started plucking out feathers this summer. I took her out of the pullet pen and put her in with the "big girls" and she stopped right away. The older hens didn't put up with her and put her in her place She is still in with the hens and they all seem to get along fine now...
  9. DiamondDust

    Barnevelder breeders lets work together and improve the breed

    If I were take a guess would say you have a boy and a girl. The splash chick looks like a male to me. Your older girls are very nice. I like them a lot. If you do end up with a splash rooster and breed him to your standard hens you will get all blue offspring. So far it looks like he has...
  10. DiamondDust

    Barnevelder breeders lets work together and improve the breed

    Hi Andy, I'm not sure what you mean by "her background" but if you are asking where I got her from the answer is that she hatched from an egg from TLS in CA. I'm very pleased with the birds hatched from those eggs last year. I am glad that I have been able to get my start with Barnevelders...
  11. DiamondDust

    Barnevelder breeders lets work together and improve the breed

    Hi Andy, I see that you are from the Pacific northwest too...do you show your Barnies? I have started showing this year but rarely see others at the shows. Corvallis is a bit far for me and since the show in Vancouver was canceled I couldn't go to that one. I'd love to meet up with other...
  12. DiamondDust

    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    I happen to have chicks hatching tonight...if she wants to give them to her broody it's best if they are only a couple of days old. I'd be happy to enable...er, I mean help out!
  13. DiamondDust

    Barnevelder breeders lets work together and improve the breed

    Here's the problem with darker layers...the dark egg, by necessity, tends to mean they don't lay as many eggs as it takes longer for the egg to go through the "paint shop" part of the egg tract. Barnies lay pretty well for darker than average layers but no dark egg layers lay as well as...
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