A Bielefelder Thread !

[Faraday40]

Save up a couple dz and try a pickling recipe. There are lots of different flavors and ingredients to use. Don't think "pickles" goes way beyond that. Yummy!

Thanks for the tip. It may be a while..... still waiting for that sandwich! We're up to 9 eggs so far.

 

[Coop de Grass]

The auto sexing trait comes from a combination of a wild type base and sex-linked baring. You wouldn't see any autosexing/sex linking with a biel boy and a marans hen. all your babies would be solid colored and have a single copy of barring. If you had a marans rooster over biele hens you would get sex-linked offspring with solid colored girl chicks and solid with barring boy chicks.

Thank you so much @Saris

 

[Saris]

The auto sexing trait comes from a combination of a wild type base and sex-linked baring. You wouldn't see any autosexing/sex linking with a biel boy and a marans hen. all your babies would be solid colored and have a single copy of barring. If you had a marans rooster over biele hens you would get sex-linked offspring with solid colored girl chicks and solid with barring boy chicks.

Thank you so much @Saris

Happy to help!

 

[Red Banks]

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I like to pickle eggs and beets together. Beautiful and tasty.

 

[LiraEstates]

Hi there. I was recently sold what I thought was a Bielefelder but apparently was a Rhode Island Red to Barred Rock cross. I was very angry and tried to search the internet and couldn't find much info. I found this information on this blog post http://uberchicranch.blogspot.com/2017/01/buyer-beware-those-arent-bielefelder.html. Would you say this has some good information? Is there another place where I could find some information on this topic?

 

[otakalhasas]

There shouldn't be a problem. All of the alcohol will have baked off. I'm curious to hear how they like the bread though.

As someone who's yet to venture into baking bread from scratch (other than banana bread and zucchini bread) I applaud you. I'm gearing up to make Challah and Brioche this coming weekend...if I can make the time, that is.

They were not as impressed with the rye as I thought they would be (shoot, I thought those caraway seeds would get them going!). So it's back to banana and French!

 

[Faraday40]

They were not as impressed with the rye as I thought they would be (shoot, I thought those caraway seeds would get them going!). So it's back to banana and French!

I find that surprising. Of course one would think that my birds hardly ever get treats. They go crazy over any type of bread or scratch thrown down. It's only the green veggies that don't send them into a feeding frenzy. (After all, they're on green grass all day long, so perhaps I can understand that a little.)

The funniest treat I ever witnessed was my sister's watermelon. She had carved it into a basket & filled it with fruit for a party. Knowing how much they love watermelon, I got my camera ready, but none would eat it. I went back out a few hours later, & the watermelon was still in tact. It wasn't until it rolled to its side that I realized the problem.

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The fruit was simply too scary to eat! Once I smashed it up, they attacked it as usual.

 

[otakalhasas]

What a hoot! That's really something when they won't go after watermelon unless it is in small pieces. But my crew just gets the leftovers which are already sliced up, so that explains that!

 

[Red Banks]

What a hoot! That's really something when they won't go after watermelon unless it is in small pieces. But my crew just gets the leftovers which are already sliced up, so that explains that!

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https://www.backyardchickens.com/content/type/61/id/7458224/The fruit was simply too scary to eat! Once I smashed it up, they attacked it as usual.

That is funny. I used to cut the watermelons up. Now I make sure no birds/animals are in the way and I toss the whole watermelon from the porch. It breaks into pieces and later in the day I go out and pick up the "skins". They clean the watermelon rinds to nothing.

 

[Faraday40]

Yes, I do not cut up veggies like zucchini, cucumbers, tomatoes. I usually just punch a hole into it or break it in half so they have access to the insides. They do the rest. They are very familiar with watermelon & strawberries thanks to our next door neighbor who enjoys feeding them her extras. We also get a decent donation of jack o lanterns & they have no problems with those either. It was just this particular watermelon that was simply too scary for them. My family laughed about it for days.