Barnevelder breeders lets work together and improve the breed

[BantamCastle]

Andy,
PM sent.

 

[ChickNmamma]

Well hello everybody, I have finally read all the way thru this thread from the beginning. I started when I claimed some Barnvelder eggs on the Hatching Egg/Paypal swap to see what I had gotten myself into.

Some really beautiful birds here, and the silvers are amazing.

I set the eggs and had 5 hatch today. 3 dark chests and 2 light chests. The only pictures I have of them yet are sleeping, and its almost that time for me too - so here is sleeping chick pile (with a few SFH and one silly.. er Silky).


I had to go back through the chick pictures on this thread and see if anybody had hatched out one like my Brownie. She is all brown and black, no stripes (seen sleeping at the bottom of the temperature sender there). It will be fun to watch these grow up.

 

[sherpagirl]

Well hello everybody, I have finally read all the way thru this thread from the beginning. I started when I claimed some Barnvelder eggs on the Hatching Egg/Paypal swap to see what I had gotten myself into.

Some really beautiful birds here, and the silvers are amazing.

I set the eggs and had 5 hatch today. 3 dark chests and 2 light chests. The only pictures I have of them yet are sleeping, and its almost that time for me too - so here is sleeping chick pile (with a few SFH and one silly.. er Silky).


I had to go back through the chick pictures on this thread and see if anybody had hatched out one like my Brownie. She is all brown and black, no stripes (seen sleeping at the bottom of the temperature sender there). It will be fun to watch these grow up.

I have had some chicks with stripes that were extremely hard to see. I described them as having no stripes. I asked Farmer Johan (the eggs were from his farm) about it, he said it was okay. I know his flock didn't have any other breeds mixed in.

Donna

 

[sherpagirl]

Hello Donna,

First of all welcome and what beautiful Barnies you have!

When it comes to Silvers we are all still learning and I find myself confused more often than I'd like to admit. For me, my biggest focus has been primarily on getting the red genes out while also keeping an eye out for type and pattern. I have read a lot of books and talked to a lot of folks about how simple Silvers 'should' be to create. Apparently my birds haven't read the same books, because in practice there seems to be more alleged 'autosominal red' genes than simple logic would allow (at least in my flock). That said, every year with proper selection, my birds get whiter and whiter and I am very excited about what I'm already seeing this year. I've hatched 200+ and am only keeping the ones which are white as snow, hoping that fixes it once and for all. Here are some pictures of this years' crew at about 7 weeks. I will dig up some picture of my breeder rooster very soon.






BTW: Your website looks terrific, did you do it yourself?

~Al

Hi Al,

Thanks for sharing all the pics! I have only hatched my first 50 this year. They are 4 weeks old. I sold off the brown ones (which were all girls) right away and now I have a pen of silvery looking things that are mostly rambunctious boys! I am seeing two patterns, one that looks very partridge like the lacing on the SPRs and the other looks similar to the pattern on my regular (black) Barnie chicks. I'm trying to figure out if i can safely sell all of the partridge looking ones? I will try to post some pictures soon.

My son did my website for me, thanks! It needs some tweaking but beggars can't be choosy!

Donna

 

[BantamCastle]

Donna,

I'd love to see pictures of your chicks. Are these first generation (F1) crosses with SPR? I also used SPR and bred them both ways (M/F and F/M) but didn't get any partridge or rather silver penciled birds in the F1 generation. This is because Melanotic is dominant so heterozygous birds just look double laced. Silver penciled did come back in later generations as the recessive genes recombined. All that aside there is still more variation in the chicks at all stages then you would see in an older more established breed.
~Al

 

[ChickNmamma]

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Thank you. I did find some chick pictures that looked similar in coloration, and now that they have had a chance to dry out some more I can see a faint outline of what would be a darker center and lighter outside. I am glad that is ok.

 

[Tailfeathers]

Took a look at some of my RC Barnies today and I'm really getting excited now. I'm thinking they're gonna be where I want them this year! The RC is really looking nice now. Everything else was there last year.

On a side note, Trisha and Andy's project with the BL birds got me wondering about something. Since I already have been working on the RC Barnies, I wondered what would happen if I put a BLRW cockerel over the RC Barnie pullets. So I'll have a few of them hatching in a week or two.

God Bless,

 

[sherpagirl]

Took a look at some of my RC Barnies today and I'm really getting excited now. I'm thinking they're gonna be where I want them this year! The RC is really looking nice now. Everything else was there last year.

On a side note, Trisha and Andy's project with the BL birds got me wondering about something. Since I already have been working on the RC Barnies, I wondered what would happen if I put a BLRW cockerel over the RC Barnie pullets. So I'll have a few of them hatching in a week or two.

God Bless,

BL is a blue laced, what is a RC? Sorry, I haven't been paying attention.

Donna

 

[RachaelS]

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I believe is is for Rose Comb, I think Tailfeathers is making a winter hardy Barnie.

 

[tls_ranch]

Took a look at some of my RC Barnies today and I'm really getting excited now.  I'm thinking they're gonna be where I want them this year!  The RC is really looking nice now.  Everything else was there last year.

On a side note, Trisha and Andy's project with the BL birds got me wondering about something.  Since I already have been working on the RC Barnies, I wondered what would happen if I put a BLRW cockerel over the RC Barnie pullets.  So I'll have a few of them hatching in a week or two.

God Bless,

BL is a blue laced, what is a RC? Sorry, I haven't been paying attention.

Donna

I believe is is for Rose Comb, I think Tailfeathers is making a winter hardy Barnie.

Hi Royce,

You could make some blue rose comb barnies, but of course out crossing would set you back a few generations in type and lacing again. You will go back to single lacing etc. I still think rose combed barnies for cold weather climates are a good idea. It's just making sure the barnie type, lacing and egg color gets back to standard.

I got a bunch of chicks hatching right now. They surprised me by starting to hatch early while still in the auto turner and at low 30% humidity...oops. This will probably be my last hatch until fall. My bator is packed with over 60+ eggs, LOL. I was planning on sticking some these eggs under broody hens to hatch, but didn't have time to set them up in the middle of the night.

If anyone wants hatching eggs either pure barnie or blues...let me know ASAP. I will be switching around my breeders and maybe even " culling" a few to make room for all these chicks.

Trisha