Back in Bresse!

[FoodFreedomNow]

Bonne chance!

Merci beaucoup!

 

[CNJ]

Probably Marans, New Hampshire, and maybe even Easter and Olive Eggers.

I crossing my Bresse hen with a Dark Cornish Cockerel, I hoping for a white pea comb rooster with blue legs. I just paired them up, I will start collecting eggs for the incubator on Dec1. I also, have 3 fertile eggs from my cornish x female/Bresse rooster, they will start to hatch this Sunday. I wonder how they will turn out?

 

[FoodFreedomNow]

I crossing my Bresse hen with a Dark Cornish Cockerel, I hoping for a white pea comb rooster with blue legs. I just paired them up, I will start collecting eggs for the incubator on Dec1. I also, have 3 fertile eggs from my cornish x female/Bresse rooster, they will start to hatch this Sunday. I wonder how they will turn out?

Looking forward to seeing!

 

[AgnesGray]

Following to see how it goes! I ordered bresse eggs once on ebay and got deformed and crossbeak birds that didn't do well. Likely highly inbred. I would like to try again with them or another sustainable meat-type bird in the future.

 

[CNJ]

Following to see how it goes! I ordered bresse eggs once on ebay and got deformed and crossbeak birds that didn't do well. Likely highly inbred. I would like to try again with them or another sustainable meat-type bird in the future.

There are two Bresse Farm that I ordered from, one with out the s on farm. I ordered eggs from both farms, but I had better results from the one with out the s from Florida http://bressefarm.com/
This is his listing on ebay https://www.ebay.com/itm/133717318505?hash=item1f222c5b69:g:UMUAAOSwk4hcfc~Q

I had a bad experience with the other farm ( https://www.bressefarms.com/). I placed two separate orders for a doz and both times, zero fertility. I found out latter that the Breese Farms from Mississippi had a bad reputation.

Its best if you can order live chicks from the original importer Green Fire Farms. https://greenfirefarms.com/available.html
But one chick cost $29 and it cost $35 extra to ship to Hawaii.

I had one hatch with crooked toes from Breese Farm, but his offspring had straight toes. I think it may have been a vitamin deficiency. He has both imports from Green Fire Farm.

 

[FoodFreedomNow]

Following to see how it goes! I ordered bresse eggs once on ebay and got deformed and crossbeak birds that didn't do well. Likely highly inbred. I would like to try again with them or another sustainable meat-type bird in the future.

Same - my first experience with the breed was not good, but there were enough positive attributes to make me try again. I'm sorry to hear about all the challenges your hatchlings had because of what sounds like indiscriminate breeding by that seller...it's not ethical to inflict that kind of emotional trauma on the buyer or to handicap chicks with those kinds of congenital issues that affect quality of life.

In this hatch, about half of the chicks needed assistance (not unusual with shipped eggs, in my experience). With the exception of one FTT chick that hung on for almost a week and died, everyone else is looking good - toes look good, voracious eaters, mellow temperaments, feathering well.

In the group I hatched from shipped eggs some years back, their feathering was very poor (even with high protein feed), and the hens often had missing and broken feathers. Combined with their eggs' failure to hatch (they would develop but quit before hatch), it simply wasn't sustainable - and that was one of the key reasons I chose the breed.

I'm hopeful that this experience will be better and American Bresse will become a foundation breed around here.

 

[CNJ]

I notice that we can visually tell the sex of the Bresse chicks when they start to grow their feathers. The females has longer or faster feather growth and the male feathers look short and kind of restricted.

 

[CNJ]

Same - my first experience with the breed was not good

Me too, I ended up buying Bresse chicks from a local farm from another island on Maui called Paradise Poultry. They said they got their Bresse from Green Fire Farms. I already had a male and female Breese hatched from eggs, but I bought 5 more chicks because I didn't want to breed brother and sister together and I wasn't having a high hatch rate from mail-order eggs. They were only $8 each in comparison to the $29 from Green Fire Farm. My chicks grew to look exactly like adult chickens shown in the picture from the link below.
https://www.paradisepoultryhi.com/shop/american-bresse

 

[AgnesGray]

There are two Bresse Farm that I ordered from, one with out the s on farm. I ordered eggs from both farms, but I had better results from the one with out the s from Florida http://bressefarm.com/
This is his listing on ebay https://www.ebay.com/itm/133717318505?hash=item1f222c5b69:g:UMUAAOSwk4hcfc~Q

I had a bad experience with the other farm ( https://www.bressefarms.com/). I placed two separate orders for a doz and both times, zero fertility. I found out latter that the Breese Farms from Mississippi had a bad reputation.

Its best if you can order live chicks from the original importer Green Fire Farms. https://greenfirefarms.com/available.html
But one chick cost $29 and it cost $35 extra to ship to Hawaii.

I had one hatch with crooked toes from Breese Farm, but his offspring had straight toes. I think it may have been a vitamin deficiency. He has both imports from Green Fire Farm.

I try to catch Greenfire's egg auctions on ebay, but lately haven't seen many. I will check out that top source also. Thanks for the info!

 

[AgnesGray]

Same - my first experience with the breed was not good, but there were enough positive attributes to make me try again. I'm sorry to hear about all the challenges your hatchlings had because of what sounds like indiscriminate breeding by that seller...it's not ethical to inflict that kind of emotional trauma on the buyer or to handicap chicks with those kinds of congenital issues that affect quality of life.

In this hatch, about half of the chicks needed assistance (not unusual with shipped eggs, in my experience). With the exception of one FTT chick that hung on for almost a week and died, everyone else is looking good - toes look good, voracious eaters, mellow temperaments, feathering well.

In the group I hatched from shipped eggs some years back, their feathering was very poor (even with high protein feed), and the hens often had missing and broken feathers. Combined with their eggs' failure to hatch (they would develop but quit before hatch), it simply wasn't sustainable - and that was one of the key reasons I chose the breed.

I'm hopeful that this experience will be better and American Bresse will become a foundation breed around here.

I look forward to following along. They do seem to have the potential to be an excellent and sustainable meatbird option if the kinks can be ironed out.