Isbar thread

Never heard of them.

Please post pictures when you get them.

I thought about getting some, but it's so hard to get Isbars that are purebred. It's ridiculous, I AM in Sweden and have a hard time finding good hatching eggs
Unfortunately it seems that many breeders in my area were crossbreeding with Araucanas to make the egg color "better", but not thinking about how this messes with comb and type of the birds

Have fun with your Isbars and please post pics as they grow up!

Oh it's totally fine that people mix the Isbars for themselves, project birds are fun. It's just kind of unfortunate that many still say they have Isbars and don't label them as Isbar/Araucana/whatever mixes when selling eggs or birds. *sigh* Maybe next year I'll find some

Certified Swedish black hens are even harder to come by. I don't have true Swedish black hens, even though some of my birds closely resemble them. But my flock is just an old barnyard variety from my area, which has Swedish black hen ancestors mixed in with "who knows what other landrace". Genetics soup pretty much lol.

Swedish Black Hens are certified?

Sure there's a gene bank certificate for many types of Swedish landrace chickens and the heritage club is very careful about who is registered in their genebank.

Just to not totally highjack the Isbar thread the Isbars are not landrace type chickens. They are a modern production breed which was designed by Martin Silverudd, who also made the Fifty Five Flowerys (autosexing breed). The Isbars were created around the 70s (I think) to be a single combed green egg laying production breed. From what I read RIR, New Hampshire and Cream Crested Legbars were used to create them. Depending on the source some also say that there's Leghorn in them. Unfortunately Mr. Silverudd died before finishing this breed and there's little documentation about the creation of the Isbars, so nobody knows what he had in mind as a finished bird and there's no actual standard for them.
They come in blue/black/splash but the preferred variety to breed/keep are the blue ones, hence they are usually called "Blue Isbars". Many of them also show silver or gold in the neck and saddle areas.