Barnevelder breeders lets work together and improve the breed

[tls_ranch]

I think you have some pretty nice bantams. I would show them. The roo doesn't have the nicest comb, but just select for nicer combs over time. Barnevelders and bantam Barnevelders are still pretty rare, so I doubt there's a whole lot of competition out there. It's not like your going to be showing against the more popular breeds. Patterned birds are ususually the hardest to show because you have more to work on. It's tougher to find the "perfect" bird in one animal than some of the solid colored breeds.


Trisha

 

[BlueCamas]

Thanks, yeah unfourtunatly with Bantam Barnevelders you can only compete against other Bantam Barnevelders, that's it. So when I enter them I'm going to hope there are other Bantam Barnies there.

What do you think of the red on one of the girl's neck? Is that good or bad?

Thanks again

 

[Tailfeathers]

Hi Folks, Been awhile since I've been to the thread. Finally made it thru I don't know how many pages but I think I got caught up.

Peeka, just FYI, there have been Bantam Barnies at the last two shows I attended. I think there were two exhibitors but maybe only one and I think one was from OR if I recall correctly.

God Bless,

 

[Tailfeathers]

Oh btw, I'll throw a quick note out there on my brooding system.

First, I leave the chicks in the hatching tray for at least a full 24 hours after the last has hatched. Sometimes it might even be two days. Then they go to a big Rubbermaid stock tank that I keep in the house and it has the "Small Flake" white shavings in it. Feeder and waterer is put up on marble blocks to keep them clean of the shavings.

After a week or two (depending on what & how many I've got hatching), I transfer the chicks from the house brooder outside to the pumphouse brooder. I have a portable oil radiator type heater that I can turn on if needed. The pumphouse brooders consist basically of wooden boxes on legs with a hardware cloth bottom. Under the hardware cloth is a sheet of heavy duty plastic stapled around the bottom so that it forms a funnel and a hole is cut in the middle to which a 5 gallon bucket is placed underneath. I have two of these in the pumphouse and I'd have to measure them to see their exact size but I know that I can get each one out the door of the pumphouse when I want to in order to give it a good cleaning down if needed.

After a couple of weeks or more in the pumphouse (depending on how many are in the brooder and whether I need to move chicks from the house or not), I move them to a chickhouse. I have two 4x8x4 chickhouses outside. Inside each house is a heatlamp, feeder, and waterer or course. They are then housed here for another two weeks to a couple of months. Depending on weather, number of birds in the house, etc.

Once the birds are fully feathered and can at least jump/fly up about 18", they go to the lower 10x12 coop. They have to be able to jump/fly that high so they can get back in at night as the coop is up on cocrete cylinder blocks. Though I still occasionally have to go try and round a bunch up that are huddles underneath the coop or such and put them back in at night.

Eventually, if I can ever make some money at the job, I'm going to fix up some much nicer arrangements but for now that is making do.

God Bless,

 

[tls_ranch]

The local weather here is calling for 105 temps today and windy too

Trisha

 

[tls_ranch]

Correction....107 today for the high! But, luckily all the chickens are doing ok so far.

Trisha

 

[AyaBlodgett]

Good luck with the temperature today, Trisha. It should be cooler. Aya

 

[RachaelS]

Wow that is not good we only hit 95 but on the same day last year it was 106. I hope it gets better!!!!!

 

[pysankigirl]

I am so depressed. I think both of my barnvelder chicks are cockerels.
I just wanted some eye-candy for my little flock...bummed.
they are 5 weeks old and definitely have little combs growing in.

 

[Kenshan1]

I am so depressed. I think both of my barnvelder chicks are cockerels.
I just wanted some eye-candy for my little flock...bummed.
they are 5 weeks old and definitely have little combs growing in.

Do they have marking in the chest feathers? My 4 chicks last year totally had me thinking I had 3 roos & 1 hen just because I was going off the crowns, turns out I only had 1 roo. Some chicks will grow crowns faster then others doesn't always mean roos.

If you have pictures we could tell you alot easier.

Shannon