Barnevelder breeders lets work together and improve the breed

[Tailfeathers]

Having been to Australia, it's all I can do to hold back the urge to make a comment about books being expensive in Australia and the ability to read.

But alas, I shall contain myself.

Seriously, great country. Wonderful time. Fantastic people. And they LOVE Americans!

God Bless,

 

[Illia]

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Happy Chooks, here is her egg.

Holy cow! What lines is she and how much do you charge per dozen?

I just randomly decided to check out this thread and wowzers I'm with ya on that - Amazing girl, amazing lacing, amazing egg color.

 

[pinkchick]

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Happy Chooks, here is her egg.

Holy cow! What lines is she and how much do you charge per dozen?

DITTO!!!!!!!! What Happy Chooks said!!

Nice egg!

 

[pinkchick]

First ever - 100% hatch rate!!!! WooooooooooWHooooooooot!

I'm so proud of my little flock...they rock! Now if only they would give me some more eggs.

I believe I have 3 cockerels and 3 pullets. Photos to come in a couple days, we will be out of town or a day or so and the chicklets are going to my best friends house for chicksitting. Guarantee she will try to keep a couple Barnies.

 

[RachaelS]

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Congrats! That is great news

!!!!!

 

[tls_ranch]

Everyone has been sharing pics of such beautiful Barnies VERY nice pullet and egg ggibson

Here's some more eyecandy. I'm hoping to start working on hatching the next generation in a few weeks

The Tank: He's SO meaty with more breast meat and weight to him than any cockerel I've ever raised. His back is very broad too. His tail still needs to grow in, but I like the angle, fullness and lack of fluff.

My best blue pullet

My best blue F1 hen. She's finally done with her moult and I hope to get some more eggs from her soon

 

[tls_ranch]

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Congrats! That is great news

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[nicalandia]

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this birds seem to be segregating for Melanotic.

 

[tls_ranch]

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this birds seem to be segregating for Melanotic.

They are a project

I'm still working on back crossing them to pure barnevelders to get the proper red intensifiers and modifiers needed to make more "exhibition" coloring. The F1 hen is Heterozygous for Co that makes her lacing incomplete. I just like her body, size and egg laying traits so I'm keeping her. The second generation pullet looks to be homozygous ebeb PgPg MlMl co/co.
It's hard to tell if the cockerel is heterozygous for Co but his breast is almost solid blue. If he was Co/co he should have messy lacing on his breast. He is too light or brassy in his hackles and saddle, but that should improve when I cross him back to pure barnevelder hens.

edited to add: I had a very nice looking, darker cockerel, but he was too aggressive. I refused to use him for breeding even though he would of gotten me much farther along with the project and maybe saved me a whole year of work. I really didn't want to produce a beautiful line of blue laced barnevelders that no one could get in the pen with. The lighter blue cockerel is much less aggressive. It's just going to take me an extra generation to get the darker hackles and saddle.

 

[mountainvieworchards]

Nice Work Trisha

That blue cockerel is a bruiser. The color contrast on the girls is striking and I look forward to seeing the double laced when you breed out the Columbian gene. Also good call on culling the mean blue rooster. The rooster temperament of the breed is so important, and worth the wait.

I got excited by your blue project last year and I have started one of my own using another breed to introduce the blue gene and the silver gene. Nothing to show this year, but next summer it will be skittles chickens when I breed the blue pullets back to Barnie roos.

I have a cockerel that I kept from my crosses onto the pullets I got from you in 2010. So far no white fluff and I am crossing my fingers that it doesn't pop up, he is 5 months old and a looker. I am hoping he will bring some of the darker egg shell with him and pass it to his daughters. I am breeding him back to my Johan hens and I may put him on my blue pullets as well next spring.

Andy