Barnevelder breeders lets work together and improve the breed

[pickledchicken]

I just had to share these pictures of the blue laced barnies I hatch out. Eggs were from Pickledchicken - shipped 12 eggs to me, 10 hatched and all but 2 were blue. Very excited to see these guys grow up!

 

[Happy Chooks]

Nice looking babies Diane!

I took some pictures yesterday as well. These are all 3 month old juveniles.

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And my almost 8 month old blue barnevelder cockerels:

First is Skippy, who usually holds his tail higher than he is here. He was so sweet yesterday, bringing in a grape leaf to one of my broodies for her to feed to the chicks.


And my other boy:

 

[Tailfeathers]

Hi Everyone,

It's been quite some time since I've posted anything but I've been keeping us with the thread as much as I can. Been super busy with work and home stuff. I finally got a few standard Barnies hatched out but not near what I had planned. Been having terrible fertility problems this year with all my breeds. I don't know if it's the weather going from cool and rainy to warm and sunny and then back (Like today. And it rained so hard last night that it blew out my satellite TV signal.) or something else.

Anyways, I found myself with a little extra time last night wondering what I should do before dark. So I went in and got the camera and took a few pics of my Barnie F2 RC cockerel and a F3 pullet. I'm trying something for the first time so I hope it works. Gonna see if I can load the pics as a movie.

The main thing I wanted to point out is the Type for both and especially the lacing in the cockerel. I bred him back to some F2 and F1 females that I know are not homozygous for the RC and am hoping I'll get a decent SC male with nice lacing from him. I am really quite happy with him even though his RC isn't quite what it should be. Am hoping his progeny will be much better. Speaking of which, you'll notice the little RC pullet is looking pretty nice too. Good Type and nice lacing. (If I do say so myself! Sorry, hope I'm not sounding too prideful here.) But the one thing I wanted to get a shot of, I forgot all about. Hopefully, you'll be able to make out her RC well enough. It's much better than her Mom's.

Well, neither of those worked so let me see if I can do this YouTube thing...




God Bless,

Royce

 

[islandgal99]

I have my first hatch of Barnevelder chicks. 6 little ones and another batch in the bator. There is one little welsummer x blrw in the mix also. Barnevelders are hard to find up here in Canada, with most coming from hatcheries. I was able to find two lines that had old German origins and were not hatchery birds, and these are the first of the chicks from an outcross of the two lines. I'm pretty happy so far. I'm hoping that in 3 or so years I will have a nice stable line of Barnevelders to share with others who also love barnevelders, and I know I have much work to do. The rooster I selected because of his size, yellow legs, bone, structure and attitude, I know he doesn't have the best of comb but the little boy chick already seems to have a better comb than dad but time will tell. I had a second rooster who was quite a bit smaller but better head, and I had let him go to a new home with a deal of eggs back, but she also took in other new birds at the same time and ended up having to destroy all her birds because of disease - so sad. So this boy is all I have for this year, though I did get more chicks from the same line as the boy and if I get a better boy I will keep him.

I had one little chick that had a screaming white chest, so I will be able to test the colour sexing theory with him and he will be marked to see. Pretty sure that one is a boy. I had one that was sort-of inbetween, and the other 4 I'm already pretty sure are girls but time will tell. I'm hoping to get a really nice boy from this years chicks and plan to breed it back to the mother and those females. And if I get a nice boy from the chicks I bought from the father line, I will breed it to the new pullets hatching this year. I guess I have to wait and see what I can get. I like the eggs the boy line comes from, super dark. The girl line I have have very light eggs. Hoping to get the best of both worlds.

If any of the experts see any chicks that should definitely not be used for breeding, please let me know but be gentle...these were the only birds I could get and I don't expect them to be great for a long time. I know there is lots of work to be done here.

And super excited as I might have found a (real) farm to move us to...we're already feeling kind of cramped where I'm at, and I hope this works out for moving. It would be in the fall, just in time for cockerals to start crowing.

Edited multiple times trying to get the photos in here, think I got it now. But the baby baby pictures are at the bottom.

 

[tls_ranch]

Hi Everyone,

It's been quite some time since I've posted anything but I've been keeping us with the thread as much as I can. Been super busy with work and home stuff. I finally got a few standard Barnies hatched out but not near what I had planned. Been having terrible fertility problems this year with all my breeds. I don't know if it's the weather going from cool and rainy to warm and sunny and then back (Like today. And it rained so hard last night that it blew out my satellite TV signal.) or something else.

Anyways, I found myself with a little extra time last night wondering what I should do before dark. So I went in and got the camera and took a few pics of my Barnie F2 RC cockerel and a F3 pullet. I'm trying something for the first time so I hope it works. Gonna see if I can load the pics as a movie.

The main thing I wanted to point out is the Type for both and especially the lacing in the cockerel. I bred him back to some F2 and F1 females that I know are not homozygous for the RC and am hoping I'll get a decent SC male with nice lacing from him. I am really quite happy with him even though his RC isn't quite what it should be. Am hoping his progeny will be much better. Speaking of which, you'll notice the little RC pullet is looking pretty nice too. Good Type and nice lacing. (If I do say so myself! Sorry, hope I'm not sounding too prideful here.) But the one thing I wanted to get a shot of, I forgot all about. Hopefully, you'll be able to make out her RC well enough. It's much better than her Mom's.

Well, neither of those worked so let me see if I can do this YouTube thing...




God Bless,

Royce

Looking nice Royce So you are going for the laced breast in the males (German/UK style) rather than the solid black breast of the Dutch standard?

Trisha

 

[tls_ranch]

It's raining...so odd in late June in CA. It seems like April, LOL. But I took some picks of my huge splash cockerel. I wasn't going to keep any splash this year, but he's so huge. If he turns out nice, I might use him to keep adding size to my flock.



Next to a pure barnie pullet the same age.


Trisha

 

[tls_ranch]

Some more pics.

Here's a nice barnie cockerel. Pardon his tail...it is just starting to grow in. His underfluff is pretty dark grey and I am betting he doesn't show any fluff when he's adult. Getting rid of the white tail fluff is one of the many things I want to work on.






Trisha

 

[tls_ranch]

My one silver project pullet. Don't like her head shape, but she's huge. I still don't know if I will continue with the project....just don't have the coop space right now.




Trisha

 

[tls_ranch]

My favorite barnie hen one of my originals. She's currently raising about 20+ chicks.





Trisha

 

[RachaelS]

Wow great pics Trisha!!!

I have officially gotten out of chickens for now. To much going on in other areas to have the stress of trying to keep them alive during a Texas summer. When I lost my original girl, I think something just snapped.

Anyway, I had SPPR X Barnie eggs in the incubator. A friend wanted them for just "pretty" layers, he was planning on eating any of the boys. Then when I told him they would hatch in a week he no longer wanted them, guess he went out and got Turkeys and did not have the space anymore. So if anyone in the Austin area is interested, 7 hatched yesterday, just let me know. They of course will need a LOT of work to get them to resemble a Silver Barnie, but they are from excellent stock. Trisha's hens and a Dickhorsman Rooster. I am selling them on CL, but would give them away for free to a BYC member.