I'm not new to chickens at all, i have lived with them all my life.I started getting purebred birds 4 years ago.
We currently have about 136 birds on the farm! These include: Ayam Cemani, French White Maran, Silver Campine OEG Bantams, Serama, Black Sumatra, White Orpingtons, French Black Copper...
I just had several chicks hatch. Father is a purebred Welsummer. Potential mothers include golden campine, silver campine, and silver leghorn. The chick on the right in the first pic was mothered by a RIR, but the black one and the chick in the second pic could be from any of the hens listed...
In the spirit of helping to educate people about the virtues and history of the Campine breed, I have uploaded three historic, public domain articles on Campines.
They are as follows:
The Campine by Judge Card (1914)...
A Village Poultry Plant
by C.S. Valentine
(Country Life in America; August 1916)
When the latest United States census enumerated poultry, it took no account of any except that kept on farms, and thereby committed an egrarious blunder. Not only are large numbers of poultry kept in towns and...
In writing this article on Improved Campines, I do not want to belittle any other breed, for I have bred various breeds for fifteen years and a found a number of breeds to be profitable I handled properly, but I find the Campine is the most profitable breed under all conditions.
Breeders who...