Barnevelder breeders lets work together and improve the breed

[pinkchick]

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Hi Shannon! Congrats on the new layers!

The egg color washes off of Marans, Welsummers, Barnevelders and Penedesenca's eggs because these breeds of chickens have something like a little mini paint booth going on in there and the color is sprayed on as the egg travels through the oviduct on the way to nest box or the coop floor. The longer the egg is in transit the darker the egg should be, but each girl is different and so are the paint booths and painting techniques.

By the way.....my 2 year old Barnie girl doesn't lay in the nest box either, she prefers the floor of the coop just as you step in the door.

 

[pinkchick]

Congrats on the eggs Happy Chooks!

Welcome home Trisha...glad everything is good and can't wait to see the fluffy butts popping like popcorn in the 'bator!

 

[mountainvieworchards]

I have enjoyed watching other members blue projects develop, Trisha and now Kim. The progeny from the Wyandotte crosses look promising. I took a different approach and used another breed with extended black to introduce blue, so no lacing in the F1. This year I will get laced individuals. Its a numbers game in 2012 so I am gearing up to raise lots of chicks so I have something to choose from next winterl. I am planning to develop both blue double laced and also silver double laced since the outcross also brought the silver gene to the hybrids.

I have a couple pictures from my blue barnevelder project with my first progeny (F1) hatched last spring. I have four blue pullets and two cockerels from my F1 cross.

This winter I will put the F1 males with my pure barnie hens and I will put my pure barnie roo on the best of the four blue F1 pullets.

The blue girls just started laying. The eggs are in between a barnevelder and the mother hen I crossed them with, who was a very good layer.

The legs are very dark on the F1 pullets but that will get fixed when I back cross multiple times. The legs on one of my roosters are nice and yellow, the backup boy has darker legs in the front half.

Just a note in the pictures one looks really blue and one really gray. In real life they look the same, somewhere in between the two shades, so it must have been the lighting as it was very gloomy wet Oregon afternoon.

Andy

 

[acw123]

look forward to seeing your project birds progress. Keep us posted.

 

[mountainvieworchards]

I had some guesses as to what I crossed with the Barnevelders to get blue. Just to make it fun, lets see if anyone can guess based on the pictures?

I will tell you when someone guesses correctly.

Hint: it wasn't marans.

Andy

 

[Josie360]

Orpingtons?

 

[Shireshome]

Blue Rocks?

 

[RachaelS]

Buff orp?

 

[RachaelS]

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Sorry did not see this when I posted mine

 

[mountainvieworchards]

Yes Blue rocks! Good guess.