Breda Fowl thread

[Sylvester017]

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Yep -- all that and more! DH finally got me established. He's the techy one in the family!

 

[maryellen21]

My 10 day old breda chick died last night, found it this morning

Is this common for the breed to just die at 10 days old when it was doing fine previous? ?

 

[RFR of CA]

Chicks are fragile and I find the rare breeds are more so due probably to their tight gene pool. My Breda are on the more fragile side when little, and their growth and maturity rates are very slow, but they turn into pretty hardy chickens as adults.

 

[chicken danz]

Chicks are fragile and I find the rare breeds are more so due probably to their tight gene pool. My Breda are on the more fragile side when little, and their growth and maturity rates are very slow, but they turn into pretty hardy chickens as adults.

I totally agree. It takes someone with lots of time and attention to get these off the ground. But once they get older they seem to be super hardy. All in all I think they are worth it. It would be nice to have a resurgence of interest and have someone import some different blood lines.

 

[maryellen21]

Mine are not from GFF, and I am home with them, I was hoping it wasn't true . I have 4 chicks left that are all 10 days old. I'm really hoping they make it. They are in my house in my living room, I clean the brooder 2x a day to keep it poop free too. One died 3 days after hatch with a leg deformity and wouldn't eat, 2 died in the egg before hatching, so I have 4 live breda chicks left.

 

[Sylvester017]

Mine are not from GFF, and I am home with them, I was hoping it wasn't true . I have 4 chicks left that are all 10 days old. I'm really hoping they make it. They are in my house in my living room, I clean the brooder 2x a day to keep it poop free too. One died 3 days after hatch with a leg deformity and wouldn't eat, 2 died in the egg before hatching, so I have 4 live breda chicks left.

Don't get discouraged. The little buggers are hard to get going and there'll be a little heartbreak when one is lost but the hardy ones will be the ones you want to grow up to adulthood any way. My Mom always said chicks were delicate -- she had chickens, ducks, and geese -- so I kinda got a heads-up about some poultry characteristics from growing up on her farm. They didn't use hatching incubators on most oldtime farms -- the hens and ducks hatched their own eggs.

Mom and her little sister herding poultry on THEIR folks' farm around 1929-'30.

 

[boskelli1571]

Don't get discouraged. The little buggers are hard to get going and there'll be a little heartbreak when one is lost but the hardy ones will be the ones you want to grow up to adulthood any way. My Mom always said chicks were delicate -- she had chickens, ducks, and geese -- so I kinda got a heads-up about some poultry characteristics from growing up on her farm. They didn't use hatching incubators on most oldtime farms -- the hens and ducks hatched their own eggs.

Mom and her little sister herding poultry on THEIR folks' farm around 1929-'30.

Wow! love that old picture! I think it's so neat to see pix of 'homesteading/farming' back a few years.
Chicken danz is sending me some Breda chicks soon - I have asked her to delay a week or so since we are supposed to have a big storm Monday-Wednesday. Last time I got chicks in March they arrived dead all but 1 and she was blind. I'm sure it was the cold that 'fried' her vision. She still bumbles around tho' - of course, she isn't spoiled at all. Just needs her meal worms in the morning and she's good to go!

 

[boskelli1571]

Mine are not from GFF, and I am home with them, I was hoping it wasn't true . I have 4 chicks left that are all 10 days old. I'm really hoping they make it. They are in my house in my living room, I clean the brooder 2x a day to keep it poop free too. One died 3 days after hatch with a leg deformity and wouldn't eat, 2 died in the egg before hatching, so I have 4 live breda chicks left.

Sorry you have lost some chicks. It's frustrating, but nature takes the weakest....

 

[chicken danz]

Regardless of whom you got your Breda, from most of them came from the same gene pool at some point from overseas. There were limited imports a few years back and prior to that, they became a forgotten breed in the U.S. for nearly a century. Many of our modern day birds were produced by farmers mixing other types of birds with Breda fowl. Most people either say "Interesting" when they see my Bredas. Never have figured out if that is a negative or positive comment but I am a often asked if I will be hatching any.

 

[Sylvester017]

Wow! love that old picture! I think it's so neat to see pix of 'homesteading/farming' back a few years.
Chicken danz is sending me some Breda chicks soon - I have asked her to delay a week or so since we are supposed to have a big storm Monday-Wednesday. Last time I got chicks in March they arrived dead all but 1 and she was blind. I'm sure it was the cold that 'fried' her vision. She still bumbles around tho' - of course, she isn't spoiled at all. Just needs her meal worms in the morning and she's good to go!

That's a good call to wait on the weather. RFR of CA delayed my Breda pullet shipment about 3 months because she and I were having horrible heatwaves and didn't have a clue how adequately USPS would handle delivery. We waited for temp drops before shipment.

The old pics are fun. I like going over them occasionally but really like the farm photos best.

How sad about getting dead chicks on arrival except for one. You take such sweet care of your chickens

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