just saying hello and happy new year -- my main flock is still recovering from a late molt this year, so no pictures -- but i also have an extra pair of young silver campines, in case anyone here is in northern CA and interested? i will get pictures once this crazy rain lets up!
laura
just saying hello to all you campine folks -- i haven't been on BYC much at all this spring, but my small flock of silver campines is still doing well -- very regular layers, and i swear every egg that is incubated hatches successfully. haven't done any concerted breeding (have been focusing on...
and, here's a little video of them out and about:
my rooster doesn't have any long tail feathers at this point, not sure why -- he really blends in with the girls!
i have not weighed any of my campines -- they are super-flighty and do not like to be held, and it seems unnecessary to stress them out at this stage, when i'm not even sure i'm going to breed them seriously -- it may be too much of a challenge for me!
i have one rooster and six hens, one...
excellent attitude!
i'm planning on separating the rooster & one or two of the whitest-necked girls for egg collection a little later in the season, to see if i can get a hatch with better hackles... something to shoot for, at least!
i'm seeing the same thing in my girls -- although one that had no black in the hackles in her first year, does after last fall's big molt -- so i wonder whether it varies from year to year? i've still got tails that are too high, too...
wow, such fascinating photos! i ended up hatching all five campine eggs i'd set (along with seven other chicks) -- they seem incredibly vigorous and healthy after a week! here's another picture from right after they hatched:
hello all, and happy new year! my life got crazily busy this fall and I've not been on the BYC site since October, but i did take a couple of photos of my silver campines (7 all together) recently, and so thought i'd share here:
they are all (six girls plus Fred) doing great, and have been my...
i've been off of BYC for a while, just too darned busy (and also wayyyyy behind on getting new photos of my campines), but just wanted to say, hey @Wisher1000 the photo of your pullet's banding is impressive! it looks quite a bit cleaner than mine, i think (although mine are so skittish...
very cool image!
i'm home after a week's vacation and now doing some chicken-pen reorganizing -- and i think i've decided which of my five silver campine rooster/cockerels to keep, as only one of the boys has NOT inherited their dad's squirrel tail -- so, he stays. have separated dad & the...
thanks Deb -- i don't have a copy of the standard yet, have been holding out since i hear there will likely be a new version next year? i think i saved some images folks have posted here though... thanks for the guidance! (and for my founding rooster, since he came from eggs from your flock!)
yay for the grandchicks!
so i have one campine rooster and four young cockerels (roughly 3 months) -- is it too early to cull? their dad has a squirrelly tail, and it seems like a couple of his sons have better ones -- and i realize they aren't completely feathered in yet, so can't tell how...
i just weighed the four eggs from my one laying hen that i have on hand -- they are 46, 47, 47, and 55 grams. she's just a little over a year old and hasn't molted yet -- i'll be interested to see whether they get larger after her first molt?