Barnevelder breeders lets work together and improve the breed

[tls_ranch]

Can you tell if these are hens or roos?

They look like pullets to me. By this age my cockerels have bright red combs

Trisha

 

[tls_ranch]

Hey!! I finally passed 800 posts. It only took me 3 years LOL.

Trisha

 

[Buckhunter76]

They look like pullets to me. By this age my cockerels have bright red combs

Trisha

Thanks, cool, I was hoping for that

 

[vegaschick]

Hey!! I finally passed 800 posts. It only took me 3 years LOL.

Trisha

Congrats! Someday I will too....

 

[RachaelS]

Hey!! I finally passed 800 posts. It only took me 3 years LOL.

Trisha

LOL! At least you have something to post about that is good

 

[Tailfeathers]

The lacing I've seen on the US type Barnevelder males is very over melanized..resulting in breast feathers that are so heavilly laced that the breast appears to be solid black. If you look, you sometimes can see a reddish gold center to some of the breast feathers on the males. This may be a case of having to double mate and keep pullet and cockerel breeding lines like they do in other partridge/pattern breeds in order to get perfect males and pullets for show.

From what I've seen the darker males produce females with thicker and cleaner lacing (though sometimes overly thick). Lighter males produce redder females with thinner black lacing. The redder hens tend to have more peppering in their lacing than the darker hens. Probably due to melanizers or lack of. So like everything else one need to balance the traits to get what you want. I personally would rather try and find a balance than resort to a double mating system.


Trisha

I'm with you Trisha. I'd much rather find a balance to get what I want than have to resort to double mating in order to get both the males and females where they should be. If I have to do that, I'll either stop breeding and showing the Barnies or just show the females.

Btw, what did you think of the F2 RC Barnie?

God Bless,

 

[tls_ranch]

Royce,
Your F2 RC Barnie looks really nice I love her type and the lacing looks good too. So many neat projects this year! Love your new camera too

Trisha

 

[tls_ranch]

Quote:

I felt a bit left behind with so many others quickly making it into the "thousands" of posts. Glad to know I'm not the only one

Trisha

 

[tls_ranch]

I was checking out the local Craigslist and found a link for a California hatchery I hadn't heard about. I noticed they Barnevelders and I think drop ship most of their birds.

But.... they are using MY pic of my Barnevelder momma hen and chicks

http://www.signaturepoultry.com/brown-egg-layers/


I've posted tons of pics and haven't watermarked all of them, but it would be nice if people would be polite enough not to use photos with out asking.

 

[BlueCamas]

That ain't right!!!