Bielefelder thread!!!!

[kurby22]

Wow a bantam Bielefelder? That's so cool. How big is she supposed to get?

GFF has these two photos to show the difference Which is much more suitable for my backyard

 

[BlueBaby]

Just got my first Bielefelder this week! She’s a bantam too!! Someone local managed to get two hatching eggs from Greenfire Farms and sold me the one that hatched. I’m very excited about her, she’s already the favorite

Yes, they can come in the bantam size too. I have the larger sized ones.

 

[Sally PB]

Awww, how adorable! If I had a bantam Biel, I'd probably never be able to let it stay in the coop. It would be my pocket chick and then house chicken.

My dog would have something to say about it, so it's not a good idea.

 

[kurby22]

Awww, how adorable! If I had a bantam Biel, I'd probably never be able to let it stay in the coop. It would be my pocket chick and then house chicken.

My dog would have something to say about it, so it's not a good idea.

Yeah, I was sold all the rest of his Greenfire farms hatch, so I got a bunch of random chicks for $30 total! GFF sells the bantam Bielefelder females for $99/each and I got her for $5!!! Super excited. So she is in the house in a brooder with two Silverrudd's Blues, a naked neck, a Spangle Orloff and a Silver Spangled Spitzhaben. She's just adorable and I'm already preferentially holding her the most often haha. I hope she grows up big and strong and healthy...shipped eggs chicks always seem a bit less hardy. My dog has very much had to learn that chickens are not meat treats or dog toys...it's taken 2.5 years, but he is finally there! I've lost a few quail along the way as they are not nearly as calm and cooperative when they escape...but we got there. Now he focuses on the rats instead....much better choice!!

 

[BlueBaby]

Yeah, I was sold all the rest of his Greenfire farms hatch, so I got a bunch of random chicks for $30 total! GFF sells the bantam Bielefelder females for $99/each and I got her for $5!!! Super excited. So she is in the house in a brooder with two Silverrudd's Blues, a naked neck, a Spangle Orloff and a Silver Spangled Spitzhaben. She's just adorable and I'm already preferentially holding her the most often haha. I hope she grows up big and strong and healthy...shipped eggs chicks always seem a bit less hardy. My dog has very much had to learn that chickens are not meat treats or dog toys...it's taken 2.5 years, but he is finally there! I've lost a few quail along the way as they are not nearly as calm and cooperative when they escape...but we got there. Now he focuses on the rats instead....much better choice!!

It's good that he's trying to help you get rid of the rat's.

@Sally PB No, I haven't started doing a hatch of mine this year yet. I'm waiting on hatching so that the pullet's won't be molting the first year. I do have that incubator that can hold 55 egg's though.

 

[Awaytome]

Just found my first egg, the coldest morning of the year! Silly bird.

 

[BlueBaby]

Just found my first egg, the coldest morning of the year! Silly bird.

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Congrats! There will be more to come, and they will start getting bigger.

 

[Awaytome]

It is pretty small, but excellent for a first attempt!

 

[BlueBaby]

It is pretty small, but excellent for a first attempt!

The first one's are always small. She's getting her system going now and her shoot that the egg travels down will stretch more to be able to accommodate a larger egg. It takes time.

 

[Sally PB]

Congratulations! First eggs are magical.

My very first egg was from an Australorp and weighed 17 (!) grams! That is HALF the size of peewee eggs! Peewee is the designation that is smaller than small.

I think all my Bielefelders started out in the 50ish+ gram range.