Barnevelder breeders lets work together and improve the breed

[AyaBlodgett]

Good Luck Andy on the show. I will be very curious to know what the judges think and say. Keep us updated! Next yearI will show too if all goes well!
And thanks for the encouragement. He is a Johan roo and somehow I thot that made him exempt from some of the troubles we seem to have as BV breeders. Well, I will try to get a picture. His white fluff looks a lot like Trisha's blue guy with the white fluff. He is young. I'll check the hen to see how her undercolor is.
Thank you everyone. It is all very helpful to this neophyte. Aya

 

[BlueCamas]

I just received the catalog for the Pacific Northwest Poultry Association- Northwest Winter Classic show on October 13 -14 in Salem Oregon. The show has moved from its previous location in Stevenson WA. While we always enjoyed going to the beautiful Columbia River Gorge, this venue closer for many Oregonians and the facility at the Oregon State Fairgrounds is excellent.

I hope some of you Barnie people plan on attending thi show in Oregon and especially in showing some of your birds. I am going to show some of my pullets that will be grown up enough by then and maybe some of my hens if they are not in full molt, like they were last October. I am planning on thinning my pullet and cockerel pens at that time and will have some to sell or trade. I will also have a few blue laced project birds that are 75% Barnevelder for someone who wants a head start on a blue project. I have several extra blue laced cockerels and perhaps a blue pullet or two.

It would be fun to get a nice showing of Barnevelders at the PNPA show, so I encourage you Northwesterners (including Nor Cal and Idaho) if you can make it please try. It is a double show so that your birds will be judged by two sets of judges on Saturday, once in the AM and once in the PM, a chance for extra feedback.

Hope to see you and your chickens there.

Andy

I'll attending this and I can hardly wait! I'm really excited of the idea of "two shows in one", gets you twice the feedback. I'll be entering some Bantam Barnies in Open Show and my Bantam Rocks and d'Uccles in the Youth Show. If you can come, be there! It's going to be a blast!

 

[CP-FARM]

Hello all!!! I'm new to this forum and would like to say you all have some BEAUTIFUL Barnevelder chickens

. I can't wait to get some of my own.

 

[RachaelS]

Hello all!!! I'm new to this forum and would like to say you all have some BEAUTIFUL Barnevelder chickens

. I can't wait to get some of my own.

Welcome! Glad to have you on this thread. You should check with TLS_Ranch she is in CA but I think Southern, where it gets HOT LOL!

 

[AyaBlodgett]

Well, here is one of the Roosters. He is from the Johan line, he is 4 months old. What do you think of this white fluff?? The hen is from Trisha. She is only 3 months old.

Will he be any good at a show?? Or is it too early to know?
Aya

 

[tls_ranch]

Aya,
His fluff doesn't really seem bad at all. It looks like he just has to mature and grow in more saddle and tail feathers. Most of the time the big cotton ball fluff appears when the tail set is too high or has a sharp "break" from the back to the tail rather than a sweeping tail set. While the cockerel isn't posing for the pic very well, I don't see that he has issues like that. I would just give him time to mature He look's pretty nice to me.

Trisha

 

[CP-FARM]

WOW!!!

Trisha! Your Barnevelders are soooo BEAUTIFUL

I'm in love with this breed...I have a small farm, about two acres..3 dogs, Two of them are Doberman and one 2Lb. Chihuahua that thinks she is a Doberman.

I also have 52 sweet chickens.

3 Golden Lace Wyandotts
15 Black Australorp
7 Berrad Plymouth Rock
10 Black Sex Links
8 Golden Sex Links
5 Rhode Island Red
4 new peeps that I'm not sure yet?

There cute though

my first hatchlings.. I will try and post photos of them, two of them have dark feet?

 

[CP-FARM]

This is a current photo of the two peeps at one week old..please help if you can..




This is the Father of them.. he has one Black foot

The other peeps are my Black Australorp

 

[mountainvieworchards]

Hi Aya

I usually don't show cockerels until they are 7 months or older, and based on that I would say he has about 3 months more growing to do before you write him off. If I were you I would plan on showing him and if something develops in the mean time that makes you decide not to then you can change your mind. I think showing them is a good way to learn about whether or not you should show birds. The judging teaches you how to look at your birds with more discrimination. He will be prime for the late winter and early spring shows. He is still classed a cockerel up to a year so let him grow. If you use him in a breeding pen or let him spar with other boys he will be worse for the wear by the time you get him in a show pen. That is why I say plan to show him, then you will be thinking ahead when you decide where to house him etc.

The fluff looks pretty white in the one picture, but I agree with Trisha, he has more feathers to grow in the backside. That being said, he has lighter colored fluff than a typical Johan roo so keep that in mind when you pair him up.

Its amazing how much they can change at this age. I have some cockerels that I was pretty sorry about three weeks ago and now they are growing tails and looking better. It helped the overall picture after I culled the runts of the bunch.

Andy

 

[AyaBlodgett]

Thanks, Andy. the show here in San Luis Obispo is in Oct, so I will wait until next year. That way I can see whether the white fluff is still showing.

I got the eggs from Mrs. Johan ,I was two weeks late from meeting Johan himself. I brought the eggs home on the plane after visiting my daughter in NJ. There were 12 eggs, I carried them in my carry-on, no problem. plunked them in the incubator right away and 3 hatched!

Here is his brother.
Aya