Barnevelder breeders lets work together and improve the breed

[LolaBlue]

Just wondering if my 16 week old pullet still seems very dark?

 

[Happy Chooks]

Hiya Kim!

Nice to see you back!

I have not had any stubs in my barnies, but I did have that one welsummer chick hatch with 1 lonely feather from Kim. It was not used for breeding.

 

[mountainvieworchards]

The Johan line that I started with came right from Farmer Johan and were clean legged. I have had a few birds over the years that had stubs, both male and female, and they were not used for breeding. Sometimes it was a feather or two down the shank, other times it was very very small feather follicles between the toes. I would expect this to be a recessive gene since it popped up from two parents that did not show stubs. If so it could pop up again.

But the problem of breeding from one showing the stubs is it is hard to cull for if it is recessive since your progeny could all be clean but carrying the trait and it will pop up in the future. So unless his silver is very good I agree with Royce's idea of not breeding from him.

Andy

 

[Chickenman76]

That sounds like good advice since he is knowledgable about breeding patterned blue breeds.

I got an ok pic of one of my best roos yesterday.

Wow, he is a Beauti

 

[Tailfeathers]

I got an ok pic of one of my best roos yesterday.

That is a terrific looking bird. If he's just "one of your best" boys, you've got some tough decisions on your hands. There are just two things I see that I'd be looking to improve on but his Type is great! Very, very nice bird.

God Bless,

 

[Little Red]

May I ask a simple question? I have 8 Barnies that were hatch on Feb 20. That makes them 14 weeks today! On average does anyone know how long it takes Barnies to lay?
Thanks,
Justin

 

[mountainvieworchards]

May I ask a simple question? I have 8 Barnies that were hatch on Feb 20. That makes them 14 weeks today! On average does anyone know how long it takes Barnies to lay?
Thanks,
Justin

Mine start to lay at about 20 to 24 weeks.

 

[sherpagirl]

Mine start to lay at about 20 to 24 weeks.

Mine usually lay at 26 weeks. And if that happens to be in the winter they will lay all winter long.

 

[tanya06horse]

Welcome Tanya! Oh wow that is so neat that you got some imported! What breeder did they come from? My daughter was living in Scotland for a while, I wanted her to smuggle some silver Barnie eggs in for me, lol. There are several people in this group working on making silvers. I myself am only in my third year and have been asking the same question as you, what are they supposed to look like when they are young? I hope you will post more pictures so that we can see what the silvers should look like by looking at yours! Congrats on your survivors (sorry there weren't more

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Thanks! im not sure what breeder there from but the adults they came from looked similar to the bantams only there bigger like the standards, my good friend lives out there in the UK now and moved from Utah were im at, and i asked her to send me some

but again no baby chicks to see, i did try to make them but the waiting on them to grow up and redoing it omg takes forever lol.. i used a barnevelder roo with my penciled rock hen and my pencil laced wyandotte but when the babies were 6 month the neighbors dog got into my coop, i cried for days but now ill do the easier way and just buy them with my new inforced coop!!

 

[tls_ranch]

Welcome Tanya! Oh wow that is so neat that you got some imported! What breeder did they come from? My daughter was living in Scotland for a while, I wanted her to smuggle some silver Barnie eggs in for me, lol. There are several people in this group working on making silvers. I myself am only in my third year and have been asking the same question as you, what are they supposed to look like when they are young? I hope you will post more pictures so that we can see what the silvers should look like by looking at yours! Congrats on your survivors (sorry there weren't more  )

Thanks!  im not sure what breeder there from but the adults they came from looked similar to the bantams only there bigger like the standards, my good friend lives out there in the UK now and moved from Utah were im at, and i asked her to send me some  but again no baby chicks to see, i did  try to make them but the waiting on them to grow up and redoing it omg takes forever lol.. i used a  barnevelder roo with my penciled rock hen and my pencil laced wyandotte but when the babies were 6 month the neighbors dog got into my coop,  i cried for days but now ill do the easier way and just buy them with my new inforced coop!!

Welcome to the barnie thread and BYC. Yes, it does take a long time to work on projects. I fell in love with blue barnevelders, but couldn't afford the import fees. So, I decided to make my own. Making my own still cost a lot, but little by little not all the cost up front. I really enjoyed the challenge of making my own . Import fees and paperwork can be a hassle. I also started a silver project, but I'm not sure if I will carry through with it due to lack of space.

I do see one issue with both your normal barnies and silver chicks. They have "V" head markings which are incorrect. Barnies shouldn't have those markings. The " V" head markings could mean they carry wild type patterns like welsummers.

Trisha