A Bielefelder Thread !

[alflowers]

Yes, I know! I am wondering if these two could be Bielefelder hybrids. I messaged her to ask but did not get a reply.

 

[UberchicRanch]

@jbkirk No kidding - there's a standard on how many points? That's a new one on me. Where are you citing this from?

 

[scandiafowl]

Just a quick intro for me! 

We bought 16 Bielefelder chicks two weeks ago now, 12 females and 4 males. Ours came from Grade Eh Farms in BC (I live in Canada).

Lots of great info on this thread, looking forward to reading along. I'll have to take some pics and share them tonight!

Just love the name of that place!

 

[scandiafowl]

Any suggestions on tagging or banding day old chicks to keep up with traits along the road to maturity for breeding programs. I have seen leg bands but do they have ones for young chicks then remove for juveniles?

Some folks use toe tags. I can't stand the thought of piercing any part of a chick.

Bantam bands are supposed to work for chicks but I usually find them laying around later. Zip ties work as well.
Stormbergs has a good selection.

 

[Red Banks]

blue legs are not bielefelder.

No but the chick does look like a Biel and a pullet. Could be a mix since the original agreement was for a mix, CL/Am. Maybe it is a Biel/Am....

 

[DesertChic]

Any suggestions on tagging or banding day old chicks to keep up with traits along the road to maturity for breeding programs. I have seen leg bands but do they have ones for young chicks then remove for juveniles?

I used small, colored rubber bands on the chicks, changing them out for larger bands and eventually zip ties as they mature. You can buy the bands on eBay pretty affordably, or sometimes you can find inexpensive small, colorful hair bands at your local all-purpose store.

 

[alflowers]

Which chick, the lighter or darker one looks like a Bielefelder hybrid? I am guessing the darker one? I am trying to ascertain all of this because at some point I may want to offer up chicks from these two babies to friends and would like to have a credible guess as to what I am giving them.

 

[Red Banks]

Which chick, the lighter or darker one looks like a Bielefelder hybrid? I am guessing the darker one? I am trying to ascertain all of this because at some point I may want to offer up chicks from these two babies to friends and would like to have a credible guess as to what I am giving them.

The one in the bottom picture looks like a Biel pullet to me.

 

[alflowers]

Yes, that is exactly what I thought as well. When the breeder sold the chicks to me she said that one "might be" a Bielefelder but she did not say hybrid. Still, I am fine because the chicks are healthy, I am not a breeder (yet...... I am reading and being tempted), and I was looking for sweet natured chicks for my already sweet natured flock. The top chick is worrying me. Though I live on acreage, the builder of our neighbor's home put their house as close to ours as legally possible, mere feet away. The neighbors are very elderly (Korean War Vet) and in very very poor health. I can't have a rooster being noisy because of this. And I can't kill a chicken or give it away knowing it will be killed. Hopefully the top chick is just what an Ameraucana/Cream Legbar hen looks like at 2 1/2 weeks. There are not many photos to help me know. One thing about chickens that has surprised me... I am loving raising and stewarding these animals way more than I expected.

 

[scandiafowl]

Emailed with the owners at Brinkhaven Farms, their stock is from Greenfire Farms. As some wrote earlier, that would be the only source.