I'm not an expert just a breeder...Just like you....i pick the smallest birds with the best double lacing I can hatch and keep them as breeders...The rest are "culled"...But by doing this my egg color lacks the typically accepted dark Barnevelder color...Again I'm working on that....And being...
the problem with bantam barnevelders, bantam/standard anythings that are not yet accaepted into the Standard, is there is room for personal interpretation. As I said in an earlier post, this particular breed is still "being developed" so 1 breeder may have different sized chicks/chickens than...
I agree you definitely can tell a barnevelder egg when you see it...and as far as the bantams The egg color and conformity seems to be the last trait that needs fixing, in my flock as well as others that breed them...As far as I know anyway...
I have a small barnevelder flock (standard) as well as a few, bantams....The bantams are kind of rare, I guess, and are still very random as far as size, color, and egg,shape,size,color...but we are working on that...I have found that some of the hatchery birds that I have seen have that V...