It is extremely frustrating and has been a quite expensive endeavor to get true black roosters to work with. If anyone wants to call me to talk that is fine. my internet is cell phone and texting is not real good took about 15 minutes to post this.
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Victoria
I am not in Columbus. You are definitely new to the breed. Black is very hard to come by.
I had Partridge and got rid of them.
I posted here first. Tomorrow I'll post to darkegglayers and other groups.
My pair came from eggs from an Egg Auction at the time from Tom's birds. Was glad I hatched out a pair to work with. Please add me to your list for chicks when you do hatch some out to sell, definately could use another Roo and a couple of Pullets for sure to help the Gene Pool even if it is...
They look really Good! Will you be selling any hatching eggs or chicks from them in the Spring?
Did yours come from LuAnn, I know it was mentioned somewhere in past posts but couldn't remember.
Victoria
My Empordanesa/Penedesenca cross Rooster has frost bite to the lobes of his comb, so just at the back of it now, it's been down below zero here too. I have Texas and the one Black Hen inside for the Winter, same with the Crele pair they are inside for the winter. The Geese are the only ones...
Thanks Elias,
I was just concerned about Staph and Staph Areous infection so thought it best to ask right after it happened how to prevent anything like that form coming into play. Never had a bird do this before.
Victoria
Medical Question,
I let my pair of Creles out inside today and have never had a problem with letting any of my other birds out inside with anything happening to them, after they was out about 2 hours I caught the cockrel and put him back in the tote and the pullet was a little harder to catch...
I'm just trying to stay away from Penedesenca Marans crosses, my Bantam Marans could use better egg color but I'll keep breeding them to their own kind, I'm getting some imporovement in each generation with them. I know the Penedesencas pass their egg color I just won't use them with Marans or...
Texas is doing fine Denise, I have him inside with a few other select birds for the Winter, not taking any chances of anything happening to him.
My one Black Penedesenca Hen that beat herself up when I moved the birds to the coop and covered run was a mess to begin with, I think anyone else...
Denise,
I'm thrilled to have Texas to finally be able to breed these Black Hens.
Jeremy,
There are too few Black Penedesencas around that are pure for being Black Penedesencas to even consider them as dual purpose at this point, it has taken me over a year to finally locate a Black cockrel to...
In my Bantam Marans they are a white legged breed, I had 2 different Roosters I am using, one is Cuckoo from Trish Foss lines, and I only used that Rooster with 2 Bantam Black Copper Hens that are also Trish Foss line birds, I got split gened chicks for gold and silver in my F1s and that is...
Hey!
Just wondering does anyone have pictures of Olive Egger Eggs using a Penedesenca? And do you breed Penedesenca Rooster to Araucana Hens or Araucana Rooster to Penedesenca Hen?
Anyone have pictures? And could you list which cross you used?
I don't have any Olive Eggers and wanted to see...
I know I've had the same issue with the posts not coming thru my email and I always select subscribe to this topic everytime I post, so it must be a Glitch.
Congradulations on your new chicks Denise. When you get some pictures of them it would be great to see them, if you took pictures now it...
Geebs,
I had one Hen that was 1/2 Partridge and 1/2 Black, I was not going to use her for breeding, she was Black looking with a few copper feathers in the neck close to the skin, and she had a peppering of brown on some of her body feathers, her eggs were destined for the refrigerator only. I...
I agree.
I am just curious though, are all of the rest of you already members of the Penedesencas USA Club?
If so, why not have Elias create a Website for the Group and have everyone Band together to get the breed APA Approved? And just go with the Penedesencas USA Club that is already...