I'm sorry but I won't have any available for a while. Maybe later next year. I'll keep my ears open though :) if you ever hatch shipping eggs, TLSranch has great hatch rates!
Trisha,
I am not so sorry to inform you that your mailbox may be filling up ;) you remember those hatching eggs you sent last Spring? Well one hatched and grew into this beautiful girl, "Amanda", who my son James showed Saturday. They won RV and RB in the Junior Show, and Amanda was the first...
Mine don't lay for a couple of months this time of year, but I don't use lights either. The ones who just started to lay will probably continue for a while. Maybe someone with more experience can chime in?
Question for the show folks! If you had a 4 lbs pullet with great markings versus a 4 lbs 12 oz pullet with poorer markings (lacing is clear but the black is standing out more than the brown, making her look predominantly black), which will perform better in show?
I signed up for 2 pullets to...
Oh, ok! She's probably a much better bird than it appears. Pictures are hard to examine and harder to take sometimes! Maybe if you could get one of her standing? If you're looking for feedback on type, etc? :D
Pozees, do you have any pics? At 4 months the boys should be getting bigger than the girls! That's good. Best wishes, and welcome to another beautiful breed!
Especially for Trisha-
We just got back from our first show and had a little surprise from our Barnevelder pullet, hatched from your shipping eggs (all the way from CA to SC!!!)...
My DS showed Lily in the Junior Show and the judges loved her...loved her so much they gave her this...
I...
I'm guessing that we'd just need to start one :) but I sent off a note to the secretary of the APA just to check.
Also, the cream legbar group is kind of starting a club right now. Other than the standards, which could one day be useful in bring new color combinations to APA, their lead could...