barbezieux chicks

[Pollymarie]

Hi!I'm new to the forum. We have had chickens about 6 months now. Over the summer I was given a young Barbezieux rooster. We are interested in ordering some chick after I read many reviews of trying to hatch the eggs. I have very different pricing on the fuzzy little creatures.
I see people refer to GFF in this thread. Is that Gold Feather Farms or Green Fire Farms? Has anyone ordered from these places with success?
This is my pretty boy Barbe peeking over a tree.

 

[JRNash]

Hi!I'm new to the forum. We have had chickens about 6 months now. Over the summer I was given a young Barbezieux rooster. We are interested in ordering some chick after I read many reviews of trying to hatch the eggs. I have very different pricing on the fuzzy little creatures.
I see people refer to GFF in this thread. Is that Gold Feather Farms or Green Fire Farms? Has anyone ordered from these places with success?
This is my pretty boy Barbe peeking over a tree.

Green fire farms. Expensive!!!

 

[Eggscoozme]

This link suggests that the Barbezieux is also considered the Black Minorca.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minorca_chicken

If that be the case, then, Black Minorcas can be purchased from Mcmurray Hatchery for $3+ per hen.

Not sure they are the same, though, as one site says Barbezieuxs are great for meat, but Minorcas are not, sooooo???

 

[Sylvester017]

This link suggests that the Barbezieux is also considered the Black Minorca.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minorca_chicken

If that be the case, then, Black Minorcas can be purchased from Mcmurray Hatchery for $3+ per hen.

Not sure they are the same, though, as one site says Barbezieuxs are great for meat, but Minorcas are not, sooooo???

Minorcas are indeed a larger Mediterranean class of chicken and the Blue Andalusian are a sub-breed of Minorca that have been accepted as their own APA breed. However, the Barbezieux are known for being the tallest European chicken breed. They stand heads above other breeds in a flock which I don't believe Minorcas are known for.

 

[Hyrum]

Did you ever find a place to get Barbezieux chicks? I would love to buy a few myself.

 

[Sylvester017]

Did you ever find a place to get Barbezieux chicks? I would love to buy a few myself.

Sunbird Farms in Central California. They have a website:
http://sunbirdfarms.com/chickens-at-sunbird-farms/french-barbezieux/

 

[DB_Tex]

Necro-post back from the brink--- Any referrals to breeders that will be selling eggs/chicks in 2018?

 

[Sylvester017]

Necro-post back from the brink--- Any referrals to breeders that will be selling eggs/chicks in 2018?

Sunbird Farms in Central California still shows Barbezieux on their website so give them a call or email to see if they still sell them. Sunbird has usually concentrated on carrying rare meat-type birds for sale like Ixworth, Faverolles, Barbezieux, Bresse, Marans, and other breeds over the years. Otherwise you'll have to go through Greenfire Farms in Florida. Check Facebook (Sunbird Farms has a FB page) to see if there are any Barbezieux owners. I'm not on Facebook, don't like it, but if you have FB check it out.

 

[JohnMichael]

Minorcas are indeed a larger Mediterranean class of chicken and the Blue Andalusian are a sub-breed of Minorca that have been accepted as their own APA breed. However, the Barbezieux are known for being the tallest European chicken breed. They stand heads above other breeds in a flock which I don't believe Minorcas are known for.

I think maybe they had the same origin at some point. They look almost identical, but my barbs were bigger (had before and just hatching eggs to have again). The Minorcans look thinner / slimner than my barbs were. My biggest roo was 28 inches tall and was close to 12 lbs.

 

[JohnMichael]

I think maybe they had the same origin at some point. They look almost identical, but my barbs were bigger (had before and just hatching eggs to have again). The Minorcans look thinner / slimner than my barbs were. My biggest roo was 28 inches tall and was close to 12 lbs.

Also, many references I have seen regarding Barbeziuex say they have been around since the middle ages.

The same wiki article that mentions Menorcans being exhibited in Paris as Barbeziuex also states "The international type of Minorca was created by the British from indigenous Menorcan birds. This process began during the British occupation of the island from 1708 to 1783, but It is not clear if it took place there or in Britain. It is likely that it began in Menorca and continued in Britain, where imports of chickens from Menorca in the 1780s are documented" so I suspect the reference to the Barbs in Paris was based only on appearance and English bias and not an understanding that Barbeziuex Chickens had been in the Barbeziuex region of France before the British occupation of Minorca