Barnevelder breeders lets work together and improve the breed

[sumi]

Hi all, please come share your pics and stories on our breed focus this week:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1092477/chicken-breed-focus-barnevelder/0_30

Thanks!

 

[trailrider330]

Just curious if any of you have ever taken much time to document how Barnie chick down impacts final lacing as an adult. More specifically, do wider or crisper-edged stripes as a chick, correlate with better lacing as an adult? What has your experience been?

 

[Double Laced]

I have spent quite a while documenting how undercolour affect offspring and the quality of the lacing in adults.

Barny chicks undergo 3 partial and 1 full moult before maturity and the feathers of the chicks don't really tell you much.

It is way to long to publish here but if you take a look at my site it will be appearing there in the next few weeks

 

[Redcap]

h² means heritability
Poultch mean the difficulties to get speckles on dark eggs - well the ink jets of dark egger are working better.

http://www.hyline.com/UserDocs/Page..._Incidence_of_Speckles_in_Brown_Egg_Lines.pdf

A few hours ago I found this paper ... it's about the sex-linked trait of speckles in Great Tit eggs to the maternal line.
Even if it just about wild sing birds - It is really fascinating, that egg colour is rather female linked than male linked!
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1690839/pdf/11197121.pdf

There is an study which shows that there is a female bias in poultry aswell ... finally it makes more sense than the claim, that rooster dominate the inheritance of shell colour.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2435.2012.02001.x/pdf

 

[Elliemae1230]

Can someone please post a pic of a splash or buff laced chick. I've just had my first hatch out of a blue over blue and I think I have 3 out of 8 that are splash which seems unusually high

 

[Elliemae1230]

Not that I'm complaining, I was hoping for at least one splash out of 13 set. My daughter, bless her little heart has been praying for a bunch of splash chicks

 

[Double Laced]

Buff laced?

 

[Elliemae1230]

Sorry, I've heard them called both and I'm not sure of the proper terminology

 

[Double Laced]

https://www.barnevelders.net/poultry/content/blue-double-laced-barnevelders

third picture down is a splash.

 

[Elliemae1230]

Very pretty. I'll post some chick pics later this evening