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Biels gain fat very fast. Before the modern broiler hybirds that are raised on grain "broiler chicken" were mostly raised on the compost and manure. People just hadn't the money to feed lost of grain to any lifestock. Here in germany we are known for our many varieties of dark bread but the...

Here is a link to a short anatomy of chickens... often the Standard discusses body parts and how they should look like. http://articles.extension.org/pages/65352/external-anatomy-of-poultry-kept-on-small-or-backyard-flocks:-chicken

Barbu d'Anvers are tiny, friendly and a good choice if you search for a more pet like chicken. They will follow you around in the garden.... and the house if you let them. They are perfect if you have only limited space and do well with other pets.

The EE-Standard disqualifies pure white wing and tail feathers, the somewhat longer German breed introduction says that mostly white feathers are not desirable... but bevor you can paint a house, you need to build it, so a bird with a good bodytype with a white tipped tailfeather should be...

Okay, photos are not the best way to jugde a chicken, but some of the good things: Straight back and all the hens show, more or less, three different color patches (brown mantle, yellow neck, redish breast) and they have the barring and all don't show too much leg. Some not that good: All birds...

HenDaisy: https://www.youtube.com/user/HenDaisy/search?query=bielefelder

On Youtube are two channels that show chicken vids incl. Bielefelder. HenDaisy visits shows from club exhibitions to the big EE and Robert Höck who is more into heritage breed. He covers more or less every kind of lifestock you can think of and shows them in their original envionment. I highly...

Breeding Bielefelders is not the easy. The color pattern is tricky, the body line has some challanges and you have to keep an eye on egg performace, weight and character. So Bielefelders are great for first time holders, b/c they are - in you climate- robust, calm and friendly but if you want to...

Here is are some Bielefelder hens at 19:03 with a nice close-up to the head. And note: The roo is a young bantam with a somewhat high tail.

I love your x-breeding experiments, DesertChic. And Bielefelder are from Bielefeld and Bielefeld is a rainhole with over 200 rainy days, something between 800-900 liters rain per m²... so more than 230 gallons on 10 sqft every year... and a average temp over the year is below 50°F. But I still...

Maybe a double-egg and maybe you will finde a egg inside the egg.... When hens begin laying, the egg building process often not as syncron as it should be and so they have double-eggs. Keep an eye on your girls. A hen with this problem may be prone to get eggbound.

Raw milk tastes very different and if you drink it the first time, don't drink a gallon. The texture of the fat and the enzymes in it is not easy to process for a unlearned stomach. So many people get light diarrhea from raw milk the first time. The body doesn't know what to do with it and tries...

Hi! He is a handsome guy. Do you have some pics of him standing still? B/c the in this pics I can not see the "lines". Unlike the Biels a Niederrheiner should have a more a U-Line in its body. Maybe this vid helps al little

I think, the law that makes it possible for the Farmer to sell raw milk on their own property was just a relict til recently. But when the price for milk went under 20 EuroCent per liter, many small Farmers searched for something.... everything that would help them feed the cows and some...

In Germany you have to register all livestock to the national Livestock Insurance Fund and do a proper vaccination. With my menbership in our club all expences are paid for vaccination and registration. Every 3 month we do our vaccination against NC and Brochitis and most breeders vaccinate...