Calling all Penedesencas Owners/Breeders

[Hangtown Farms]

wow what a shame sorry no one could take them

 

[Hangtown Farms]

you should keep these and freeze some of the others lol.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

I am puzzled. in my younger run of chickens as far as hens go I have
3 black penedesenca
2 white empordanesa
2 crele penedesenca
2 u of a blue egg layers
buff x wheaten ameraucana ( easter egger but from true ameraucana)

Im getting a bunch of darker to medium warm eggs
some blue eggs
and someone is laying a cream egg

I guess i will know for sure once I move the proper hens to the proper runs.

I have a good crele rooster and 2 good white empordanesa rooster plus the black rooster I got from Ron.
he looks good but no white earlobes still much better looking than the sandhill roosters with white earlobes that looked more like leghorn x penedesenca crosses. aka not real meaty

 

[ronott1]

I am puzzled. in my younger run of chickens as far as hens go I have
3 black penedesenca
2 white empordanesa
2 crele penedesenca
2 u of a blue egg layers
buff x wheaten ameraucana ( easter egger but from true ameraucana)

Im getting a bunch of darker to medium warm eggs
some blue eggs
and someone is laying a cream egg

I guess i will know for sure once I move the proper hens to the proper runs.

I have a good crele rooster and 2 good white empordanesa rooster plus the black rooster I got from Ron.
he looks good but no white earlobes still much better looking than the sandhill roosters with white earlobes that looked more like leghorn x penedesenca crosses. aka not real meaty

Best guess is that the Ameraucana is laying the cram egg.

The Black Pene pullet that hatched along with your Black Pene Cockerel has white over pink ear lobes, so there is some white there. You should be able to get the white back easier than fixing the body conformation.

Build the barn and then paint it I suppose.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Best guess is that the Ameraucana is laying the cram egg.

The Black Pene pullet that hatched along with your Black Pene Cockerel has white over pink ear lobes, so there is some white there. You should be able to get the white back easier than fixing the body conformation.

Build the barn and then paint it I suppose.

lol yep

 

[Jeansrie]

This is my week-old partridge Penedesenca chick (sorry for my incorrect spelling in my first post). Any guesses to its gender? I apologize if it's really to early to tell, thanks for any insight.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

I am puzzled. in my younger run of chickens as far as hens go I have
3 black penedesenca
2 white empordanesa
2 crele penedesenca
2 u of a blue egg layers
buff x wheaten ameraucana ( easter egger but from true ameraucana)

Im getting a bunch of darker to medium warm eggs
some blue eggs
and someone is laying a cream egg

I guess i will know for sure once I move the proper hens to the proper runs.

I have a good crele rooster and 2 good white empordanesa rooster plus the black rooster I got from Ron.
he looks good but no white earlobes still much better looking than the sandhill roosters with white earlobes that looked more like leghorn x penedesenca crosses. aka not real meaty

grr I moved the 2 crele and empordanesa I had been growing out to the proper empordanesa , crele runs.
I gave whitey and rocky my roosters away as well. putting the 2 empordanesa and 1 crele pene roos in the proper runs.

in the run with the black pene's are the blacks u of a blues and 1 wheaten ameraucana x buff ameraucana ee cross( Ron the one from Candy)
alot of molting going on so egg production is down.
However all im getting in that run is blue and tan eggs. My feeling is the black pene's are a joke from Sandhill

 

[ronott1]

My Black Pene pullet from Florida laid her first egg today.

The one in the middle:

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Best guess is that the Ameraucana is laying the cram egg.

The Black Pene pullet that hatched along with your Black Pene Cockerel has white over pink ear lobes, so there is some white there. You should be able to get the white back easier than fixing the body conformation.

Build the barn and then paint it I suppose.

I agree. When I first started with them, most of the boys had way too much copper coloring so I only ended up with 2 that were all black. The copper ones had the best lobes.
But I'm getting all birds with nice white lobes now. The European standard is for white surrounded by red. The white is a layer over the red. After a squabble, one rooster lost part of the white on one lobe and it didn't come back.
Lots of the Spanish birds I've seen don't have white at all.
If selected for, I think the white lobe and especially the carnation comb is the easiest thing to keep going.
The conformation is all over the board here. I'm trying not to hatch eggs from the lightest hens but they're eggs are among the darkest.

This is my week-old partridge Penedesenca chick (sorry for my incorrect spelling in my first post). Any guesses to its gender? I apologize if it's really to early to tell, thanks for any insight.

Your spelling is correct.
Is that your only pene chick? The male's comb grows extremely fast. Right now I have some 3 week olds and the combs of the boys' are obvious.

grr I moved the 2 crele and empordanesa I had been growing out to the proper empordanesa , crele runs.
I gave whitey and rocky my roosters away as well. putting the 2 empordanesa and 1 crele pene roos in the proper runs.

in the run with the black pene's are the blacks u of a blues and 1 wheaten ameraucana x buff ameraucana ee cross( Ron the one from Candy)
alot of molting going on so egg production is down.
However all im getting in that run is blue and tan eggs. My feeling is the black pene's are a joke from Sandhill

Almost all my birds are either molting or broody so I'm getting VERY few eggs. My wife actually had to buy a dozen.

I think that's the first time in well over 4 years.
The raccoons eating all my other Mediterranean breeds didn't help either.
Most of the eggs I get are very dark for a while and then lighten considerably and then darken again later in the year. I haven't been able to put my finger on the reason yet. Not sure if it has to do with the amount of foraging. Time may tell.

 

[Jeansrie]

Quote: Yes, it's my only one - I hatched a "mix" of rare breeds. I just snapped this pic today of its comb - it's about 2.5 weeks old. It came from such a pretty egg, I would love to hold on to it if it's a female.