A Bielefelder Thread !

[bluejean55girl]

We are having some very bad weather.  I live a few miles from Tallahassee.  Maybe that is part of the problem.

Any sign of peeps? Hopefully it was just a weather delay?

 

[bluejean55girl]

Funny story:
The only other "live" package I received lately was an order of Giant Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches. (I'm a sci teacher,    & well,     that usually explains many of the crazy stories & situations we have here.)  Anyway, the package was sent to  the wrong distribution center & like you, all I could do was read the latest location updates.  They arrived 2 days late, but the seller sent many "extras." Thankfully the number of living insects was about what I had ordered, so the "extras" helped keep the survivors alive.  Of course the humorous part is that at one point my cockroaches were marked "out for delivery" but still in the wrong zip code.  Can you imagine some poor elderly woman opening my package?  Not only does the box hiss, but it's filled with giant 4" cockroaches!

Give somebody a heart attack! :cd

 

[bluejean55girl]

This was a total for 4 different shipments. The first last june, it was 8 babies all dead, they were delayed. I cried for an entire day. The next three were this fall/winter with half of one shipment of 30 alive, next only 1 of 12 alive (who is stunted in growth now), and lastly 5 out of 11 alive with one death two days later which were replacements for the previous 11 deaths. For the 16 out of 30 dead i took eggs as replacements, only 4 hatched then lost one of those. I am not going to try again. I have tried more shipped eggs with varied results. I've decided to drive to get eggs. The only problem is the breeds i was wanting are hard to find here in North Idaho. Arline tickets are spendy, and how do you explain a box full of eggs to TSA?? LOL

Ouch. I'm so sorry. Don't blame you one bit.

 

[bluejean55girl]

I contacted them via email and this was GradeEhFarms answer:

Hi Candy, 
There is a farm (close friend)planning on importing them to the USA this year for sales in the fall of all goes well. We are gearing up for inspections as we speak. I'll be blogging about and posting on Facebook. I've got a list of about 200 people wanting them in the states and found this was the easiest route to go. The outcrosses used to create the breed are every bit as nice in my opinion. 

Stay warm! 
Thanks,
Matthew 
[COLOR=000000][COLOR=000000]www.gradeehfarms.ca[/COLOR][/COLOR]

That's good news! Looks like a long waiting list already!

 

[Saris]

I contacted them via email and this was GradeEhFarms answer:

Hi Candy, 
There is a farm (close friend)planning on importing them to the USA this year for sales in the fall of all goes well. We are gearing up for inspections as we speak. I'll be blogging about and posting on Facebook. I've got a list of about 200 people wanting them in the states and found this was the easiest route to go. The outcrosses used to create the breed are every bit as nice in my opinion. 

Stay warm! 
Thanks,
Matthew 
[COLOR=000000][COLOR=000000]www.gradeehfarms.ca[/COLOR][/COLOR]

That's awesome, I wonder if that means they won't import elsewhere, at least we know they're coming soon.

 

[Chickielady]

This is from youtube's hen daisy.... like the channel, plz, he/she seems to spend all her/his money to visit European Poultry Shows.
.... and a ad from a craig-list-like site. Click on the pic...
Yes, 50 Euros for a roo and four girls in silver. As I said money is not the biggest problem.

Thanks so much for your post !
I have noticed here on the Canadian website, several things, first of all, these bird(s), mainly the hen, appear to have golden or even a slight salmon breast, (such as they used a BBR in their program ?) and I also think they developed their "silvers" by mating of Malines, which explains their "silvers" being a pound or 2 heavier "then their Austrian cousins" I think they said.
Malines are very large Cuckoo marans (as far as color) and I kind of did the same thing with Cuckoo Marans.
I have not gonr to step 2 in the "recipe"

That is supposed to happen this week, as there is finally room in the incubator and breeding pen for the mating of the F-1 cockerel back to his mothers (the Biel hens) I am going to let him have 2 hens, as the rest are laying for Biel hatching eggs for sale.

The F-1 cockerel, the only one hatched that is an "impure gold/silver" male, is a beautiful bird, for all the world looking like a Biel...but he has the longest hackle I have ever seen!
All over his body except breast, he has long hackle.
We call him "Hackle Boy"
If I were to breed for pure silver, I might have to go about the "recipe" differently than the "recipe" used for Golden Cuckoo, in which Gold is desired, whereas in Silvers, Gold is unwanted.
@Saris has seen Hackle Boy before.

I really wasn't going to go into this breeding program cuz I have so many others ongoing....but maybe....
Here is "Hackle Boy"





In these pics he is about 5 mo old...his hackle is not only all over (except flight feathers and breast) his hackle is long...
He is a beautiful boy....and according to the recipe he gets bred back to his mother to hatch F-2... and that recipe is for Golden Cuckoo.
In the Golden Cuckoo you use a Silver Cuckoo Marans, and a Black Copper Marans.
I used Silver Cuckoo Marans and Bielefelders....so maybe have to change a few things...to eliminate the gold rather than save it.

 

[Chickielady]

are you still at the f1 cross or working on f2 or more already?

Going into F-2, see my other post

 

[Chickielady]

We (husband, son and I) stripped the chicken pens this weekend. Bad news is one of my cockerels decided to attack my husband while we were moving them. And the girls stopped laying again. I have 8 of their eggs in the incubator but I haven't had a egg in almost a week. I kind of miss the Ameraucanas at this point.

It's still early spring where you are...they should start up again when they get used to new digs.

 

[Chickielady]

I'm so sad! My latest Greenfire order is lost! It was supposed to be here (CA) this afternoon and it's last known origin was last night leaving FL!

2 Biel females
3 Rees line legbars (2 girls, 1 boy)
3 Swedish Flower Hens
1 BCM

BUMMER!!

 

[Chickielady]

I am so sorry to hear that. The FED EX and USPS strike again! I wish I had the capitol to start up a chicken shipping company.

I wish you did too!!!