Barnevelder breeders lets work together and improve the breed

[Tncowgirl1903]

just got him/her yesterday. Gyu said this was a rooster and I think it might be a hen, but I dont know that much about them yet so Im not for sure and he also said that it is about 3 months old.

 

[Jobele]

Ah don't be so hard on yourself Shana. I had a similar experience with my first hatches from shipped eggs. I felt the same way you do, and the guy I bought the eggs from said I probably had not done anything majorly wrong, which made me feel better and he said 50% hatch from shipped eggs he considered to be a good hatch, and it is often lower. Many hatches of shipped eggs later and many more of home raised eggs later and I would agree with what he said to me. On another of my first hatches that was my Johan line Barnevelder eggs from the man himself, I hatched only two out of 16 and though it seemed like a bust at the time they were two of my favorite chickens ever and became the foundation of my flock.

In hind sight I was more careful in my first hatches than I am now. I watched over them too much and worried about the temperature too much, sort of like you do with your first kid. Now I have confidence in my incubator. The ride, flight, ride, sorting bin drops and who knows what temp extremes happened on the way it is a miracle any of the eggs hatch. Chicks that survive that just plain tough so you start out with vigorous chicks by default.

While I mostly hatch my homegrown eggs now, I still occasionally buy some that have to be shipped. If I get "some" to hatch from shipped eggs I feel pretty good. Sure I am happy with high percentage hatches but honestly they don't happen too often for me with shipped eggs, and they do all the time with homegrown "non-shipped" eggs and I am convinced shipping makes all the difference.

A good thermometer is helpful as is a good hygrometer. How often you have to check it depends on your incubator and the temps- humidity of the room you hatch in. I run hovabators with both electronic thermostat and also with the wafer model and I find both of them very good. I find that I check the wafer thermostat more often but rarely do I have to touch it.

So enjoy the chicks that hatched and better luck next time.

Andy

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[Jobele]

Wow, yep, these are some crosses! Not even sure what, LOL! Dang so sorry this happened. The two you said may be Barnies, could be but their lacing is really bad. Reminds me of one of my first sets of Barnie eggs, got some really ugly ones. They are gone now, LOL! Thanks for posting the pics, hope you get some better eggs soon.

Is that not a hoot! Poor things......their like the red-headed step child that nobody wants to be related to! HaHa!!!! It's okay....I got took!! Everybody ought to have that experience at least once! I just roll with it!

 

[Jobele]

I could not be anymore upset/mad. Two days ago I switched two of my pens around. One my Barnie birds and the other BLRW. This was also the first time I let my barnies out into their separate run. Everything seemed fine that night.

The next morning my dad texted me when i was at work and said 5 of your babies are died. I went out there when I got home. Apparently three of them got into the BLRW pen and they killed them. The other two were dead in their Barnie pen.

As I opened the coop I notice that there isn't that many chicks(fully feathered but still little) I start counting and there is only 9. I originally had 19 babies. 5 were killed, that means that 5 are just GONE. I can't believe it!

I'm so sorry you lost your chicks.....if it's an open barn a lot of things can get them....snakes, rats(they usually leave a mess though), owls, etc. etc. etc. But, it still sucks when you loose the babies! I hope all the others grow up okay and you don't loose anymore.

 

[Helen in the Desert]

just got him/her yesterday. Gyu said this was a rooster and I think it might be a hen, but I dont know that much about them yet so Im not for sure and he also said that it is about 3 months old.

Looks girly to me...

 

[crazy4eggsJulie]

Hello everyone,
I was "gifted" some Barnevelders when a breeder accidentally got my Orpington order and someone else's Barnie order mixed up. So now I have several of both- standard and blue laced barnevelder cockerels. None of the females ended up being blue (

) so I'm not sure which color rooster to keep. Can someone tell me what I'll get either way?

Regular male crossed with regular female
Blue male crossed with regular female

Thanks so much for any help!

 

[ebinion]

Hello everyone,
I was "gifted" some Barnevelders when a breeder accidentally got my Orpington order and someone else's Barnie order mixed up. So now I have several of both- standard and blue laced barnevelder cockerels. None of the females ended up being blue (

) so I'm not sure which color rooster to keep. Can someone tell me what I'll get either way?

Regular male crossed with regular female
Blue male crossed with regular female

Thanks so much for any help!

black x black = black
blue x black = 50% black 50% blue

 

[crazy4eggsJulie]

black x black = black
blue x black = 50% black 50% blue

Oh, well that's easy enough. And the buffs...are they just a fluke thing every now and then on blue x black?

 

[ebinion]

Oh, well that's easy enough. And the buffs...are they just a fluke thing every now and then on blue x black?

I think so not sure

 

[RachaelS]

If by “buff” you mean “splash” this was posted by pickledchecken, should help you out.

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