Campine Chicken thread?

[Drieslag]

Hi everyone,

I've posting my new site http://campines.tumblr.com/ anywhere I could the last couple of days, except here, stupid me.

If anyone would like to have a look and give me some feedback, that would be very nice.

I also managed to get the first Campines back into their native Belgium in probably more than 7 decades. You can find their progress on my youtube channel, http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMX0miF0SHX-SDiNSX2LfXw.

Since I have come across a lot of posts from people desperately looking for Campine chicks or eggs, I added a page where I'd like to group all Campinists wordlwide. Please let me know if you'd like me to add your contact.

 

[RossAussie]

Hi everyone,

I've posting my new site http://campines.tumblr.com/ anywhere I could the last couple of days, except here, stupid me.

If anyone would like to have a look and give me some feedback, that would be very nice.

I also managed to get the first Campines back into their native Belgium in probably more than 7 decades. You can find their progress on my youtube channel, http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMX0miF0SHX-SDiNSX2LfXw.

Since I have come across a lot of posts from people desperately looking for Campine chicks or eggs, I added a page where I'd like to group all Campinists wordlwide. Please let me know if you'd like me to add your contact.

Hi Dries Lag,

Excellent posts. It's good to meet a fellow Campinist.

Kind regards,

Ross

 

[Wisher1000]

They will be put to good use here, I can tell you! Excellent information and all the leg work is done! Thank you!

 

[kbh82310]

Is it normal for a 3 day old "female" to have a comb already? I got her from Meyer as a female and while I was checking for pasty butt I saw a comb.

 

[Wisher1000]

If it is large, it is likely a cockeral. You should have no doubt about the gender by three or four weeks. The little boys have bigger, pink combs and are trying to crow by then. The pullets take longer and they will keep their tiny combs until they start getting ready to lay.

 

[kbh82310]

Here is a pic of my 4 day olds comb.

 

[Wisher1000]

It's too early to tell for sure, but I think it's either a boy or a girl.

 

[campinechickens]

Hi everyone,

I've posting my new site http://campines.tumblr.com/ anywhere I could the last couple of days, except here, stupid me.

If anyone would like to have a look and give me some feedback, that would be very nice.

I also managed to get the first Campines back into their native Belgium in probably more than 7 decades. You can find their progress on my youtube channel, http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMX0miF0SHX-SDiNSX2LfXw.

Since I have come across a lot of posts from people desperately looking for Campine chicks or eggs, I added a page where I'd like to group all Campinists wordlwide. Please let me know if you'd like me to add your contact.

Drieslag,

Great website! I will definately be using it!

 

[campinechickens]

well I finally got batteries for my camera and the CSU forum is locked. So I guess I will post them here. (By the way, the cock in the photo below is not blind in that eye, he just blinked right when I took the picture.) He also had some frostbite last winter so his comb is a little different.






Here is one when he was a cockerel


And here is a young cockerel I hatched this year. Sorry I could only get the one side


Any comments?

 

[Drieslag]

the barring in the tail feathers looks nice, but he does seem a bit heavy and short.
i found some pictures in F.L. Platt's 'The Campines Silver and Golden' and he reminds me of cock number 4 in the picture below that.
Even lower I added a drawing of what in 1914 were seen as ideal Campines.

You find Platt's book on following link http://archive.org/details/cu31924003118621.