Chicken Breed Focus - Bielefelder

Hamburg said:

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Maline chick

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Faraday40 said:

I highly recommend Bielefelders the gentle giants. The grow fast & lay relatively quickly for their size. (My orps take 8-9 mo to lay & the Bieles only took 6 mo to make their 1st egg.)
The hens are docile, friendly & VERY CURIOUS. They followed me around making all kinds of funny noises. (almost like gossiping about the other hens) The roo quickly became our favorite. He was a big gentle boy, always alert, & got along well with his orpington "brothers." The 3 cockerals worked as a team to protect the flock. The Biele was the best hawk spotter & never went inside the run until ALL the hens & pullets were inside.




Bieles can look cute or very grumpy depending on the camera angle.







As you can see our young cockerel was HUGE. This is my DD holding HER baby. The Bielefelder hatching eggs were part of her poultry science project.

Here's our 1st Biele pullet egg.


Our Biele Boy grew very larger, very fast. Then when he was 6 mo old, he just died. No other chickens died or became ill. He had no external injuries, and we never did find the cause. Because we could no longer breed them & had to reduce our number before winter, we decided to sell off the pullets. I still miss them, but we hope to hatch them again someday. One of the people who bought our surplus Bielefelders, still thanks me & sends me pics of his beautiful flock. Perhaps he will want to swap some eggs in spring 2016. (BTW- My DD hatched 9 chicks out of 9 eggs. 7 females & only 2 males. We only wanted 3-4 Bieles, so we had to sell the extras.)

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