Barnevelder anyone lets see them?

[Bluehenhatchery.com]

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egg trade?

 

[corancher]

I will try to get some pictures of my Barnevelder's posted this weekend. My roosters don't look anything like yours either. Mine looks like Chickndaddy's rooster. Really pretty birds.

 

[Bluehenhatchery.com]

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Im starting to get concerned that I am the only one that have roosters that look like this. Is this a bad thing?

 

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

Hi,
I'm not a breeder, but think our barnevelders are beautiful. I'd love to hear what others think - do they look like hatchery stock or are they nicer looking birds. They are still pullets - about 15 weeks old, so I imagine they will change a little more as they mature. One of them is black with brown lacing - the other has a lot more red in her.

We bought most all of our chicks, except the two barnevelders, at our local feed shop. I then saw an ad on craigslist from another shop and they had barnevelder chicks for sale (only barnevelders - no other chicks), so I thought they may have purchased them from a local breeder.

I took these photos this morning. This is the two of them together, waiting for me to let them out into the yard:

This is a picture of the black one (Penny):

This is the reddish one (Lacy):

edited because of wrong photo

 

[Bluehenhatchery.com]

I just found I guy that says he imprted his stock from the Netherlands 5 years ago Im on the list for eggs in june.

 

[Bluehenhatchery.com]

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Im no expert but the look just like my birds.

 

[chook-in-eire]

@ArizonaDesertChicks, the dark hen looks fine. The more reddish ones are, well, too red. Their lacing is not well defined, the hackles have too much red, and the breast looks like its salmon-coloured with strong shafting.

@ all
Here's a link to the American Breed Standard.
http://www.geocities.com/barnevelderclub/index.html

As opposed to the American (and British) Standard which asks for a "each feather reddish brown with a sharply defined lacing of lustrous greenish black" in the breast, the Dutch Standard actually requires a black breast in males. I think that's the only difference.

In terms of colour the emphasis in the hens is on "each feather reddish brown, free of black peppering, with a well defined outer lacing of lustrous, greenish black and a well defined inner lacing of lustrous, greenish black. The outer lacing to be distinct yet not so heavy as to give a black appearance to the bird in the show pen" for back, breast and tail coverts.
The female neck hackles are to be of a "lustrous, greenish black" whereas in the male neck hackles each feather is to be "black with slight reddish brown edging and reddish brown shafts, tips of feathers black."

Here is an idealized depiction:

HYH
chook

 

[Chickndaddy]

BlueHenHathery - I honestly wish I could remember where I got those birds from. It aggravates me that I can't. I know they were from a well-reputed breeder and I got them, the Cuckoo Marans, and the Welsummers at the same time when they all started to gain in popularity. I believe they were from the Lowell Barber line?

My avatar picture is my Blue Cochin rooster from McKinney and Govero's stock before they liquidated their flocks.

My original birds were all very dark like the ones in the pictures. A few generations in though I did see lighter birds crop up. I always intended to set up a breeding pen just to see what they would throw. The roosters looked very similar to yours, but the hens I remember differently. I don't have any pictures though to see if I remember them the way they were. They were a light honey color with dark lacing. Almost like the pattern was reversed. I never bred them, they just ran on "the yard" with all the other laying hens.

 

[Bluehenhatchery.com]

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looks like we found our expert. If you go by the depiction some of the roosters may be too dark we probably need to be some where in the middle

 

[WiseChicks]

Bluehenhatchery -

Can the Barnevelder roo have a bit of gold lacing on the breast? I have 2 roos that were given to me from a City Chicken person who split an order of very rare chicks, and got two roos that they couldn't keep. I've been going nuts trying to figure out what they are, and when I saw your pictures I said, "There are my mystery roos!!!"

Katie