A Bielefelder Thread !

[DesertChic]

http://sellers.kippenjungle.nl/page3.html

lists some genetic stuff with different genes

This is an awesome link! Thank you!

 

[bluejean55girl]

The genetic issues came with this batch of frizzled and smooth EE eggs I had purchased for hatch. Roughly half of the birds showed severely crooked inner toes, which I've also found reports linking back to fertility issues in the case of dominant vs recessive tendencies. The cause....most likely inbreeding. I decided to include a few eggs in this hatch to check dominant vs recessive. Dominant it is! I have a beautiful and extremely healthy red Ameraucana rooster that came from a blue egg that I'll breed to my EE girls to help clean up their genetics, and I'll probably have to cull my little Chewy, whether by placing him elsewhere, homing him alone, or butchering (which I'm not sure I can bring myself to do). 

you do a lot of research too. I'm addicted to it. And come to think I hated studying but read a pile of library books growing up. Internet has made research much easier.

 

[DesertChic]

you do a lot of research too. I'm addicted to it. And come to think I hated studying but read a pile of library books growing up. Internet has made research much easier.

Yeah...I'm a total nerd. I spent two years researching chickens before buying my first one. I tracked down and purchased every book I could find on poultry husbandry, most of which were written in the early 1900s. I have a stack of books roughly three feet high that I read prior to keeping chickens...just to prepare myself, and probably spent four months just studying the genetics. (Not sure how much of that I actually retained.) I tend towards being autodidactic.

 

[bluejean55girl]

Yeah...I'm a total nerd. I spent two years researching chickens before buying my first one. I tracked down and purchased every book I could find on poultry husbandry, most of which were written in the early 1900s. I have a stack of books roughly three feet high that I read prior to keeping chickens...just to prepare myself, and probably spent four months just studying the genetics. (Not sure how much of that I actually retained.) I tend towards being autodidactic. 

cool, now thanks to you I now have a new word for my obsessive reading. Been researching on line breeding for years already. Grins

 

[Saris]

All done for reals now. The last 2 ended up being boys, and I had one little pullet die overnight, unknown cause.

6 boys and 10 girls remain. Even Yolkie Face is still kicking, his yolk is mostly absorbed with just a little dried scab now.

2 girls have been sold already but I snapped a pic of the rest.

 

[Chickielady]

Thanks, the hatch is basically done. 1 boy hatched himself out with some of his yolk sack out side of his body and 1 girl suffocated mid zip while my hubby and I were trying to help yolkie face. So mad at myself for that... 2 girls were pipped but shrink wrapped so they have a remoistened membrane and are finishing up absorbing their blood vessels.

The currently breathing chicks are 4 boys and 13 girls.

wow, great hatch !

 

[Chickielady]

I completed the first candling tonight and am a bit disappointed with my Biel girls. Only one of them had fertile eggs. Granted, she's my favorite one...and the boys' favorite one too...but I expected fertility in at least one of the other girls' eggs. Now for the real surprise...finding out who the daddy is. It's not likely to be one of my Biel boys, but could be. I guess I'll find out in about 2 weeks.

Don't you just love the surprises ???

Remember I crossed my Silver Cuckoo Marans to my Bel hens ? Then I bred the F-1 hens (I call Silvers) back to the Silver Cuckoo Marans, and got 3 white chicks....such a surprise !

So is it a white Marans, or is it a Silver Bielefelder ?

Either way, it is exciting!!!

 

[Saris]

Don't you just love the surprises ???

Remember I crossed my Silver Cuckoo Marans to my Bel hens ? Then I bred the F-1 hens (I call Silvers) back to the Silver Cuckoo Marans, and got 3 white chicks....such a surprise !

So is it a white Marans, or is it a Silver Bielefelder ?

Either way, it is exciting!!!

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Awesome!

 

[DesertChic]

So my favorite Bielefelder hen, Gretel, figured out how to take a selfie while sitting on my lap, LOL!

 

[UGLYFOOT]

So my favorite Bielefelder hen, Gretel, figured out how to take a selfie while sitting on my lap, LOL!

Before I started following this thread, I bought my first auction that included Biele's among other breeds. I named the two Biele surviors Hansel and Gretel. Then I joined this thread and saw you have two with the same name. How funny. I will get up to date pics to show you.