Calling all Penedesencas Owners/Breeders

[nukusjeff]

it seems to be an incomplete dominate gene... I'm not 100% sure but from my breeding's yes you can get straight combs out of 2 parents with kings comb... but so far every cross bred i have hatched had it as well...

My only laying pp I noticed has a straight comb from MPC. She lays nice dark eggs and otherwise looks good. Very tame. She's a pet so not headed to the block but do you think I should leave her out of the breeding program?

 

[ChickenCanoe]

My only laying pp I noticed has a straight comb from MPC. She lays nice dark eggs and otherwise looks good. Very tame. She's a pet so not headed to the block but do you think I should leave her out of the breeding program?

It's a gamble but if your roo has a nice comb it will probably prevail. It depends on her other qualities.
I only have and only will ever have blacks. I just don't have the room to do justice to more than perhaps 2 breeds and I eat all the culls so the DP thing appeals to me.

Update.

By the time hatch day/hour/minute arrived which is right now, 22 of the 84 eggs set hatched. 8 of the eggs were shipped and aren't due till tomorrow.
As luck would have it, the only one I could candle, a white Minorca, apparently wasn't fertile.
Another must have had a crack because when I weighed at 11 days it had lost 34% of it's weight and didn't develop.
That left 82 with only room for about 50 in the hatcher.
What a dummy I am for setting so many at once. I also pedigreed them requiring 16 different batches I had to keep separate and leg band as they came out.
This hatch is the most labor intensive I've ever had.
I have 10 week olds in the brooder house I have to house elsewhere so I can put these out there. No room in the basement for that many.
HELP!!!!!!
More pipping now. Will keep in touch. I have to go back to leg banding now.

 

[nukusjeff]

It's a gamble but if your roo has a nice comb it will probably prevail. It depends on her other qualities.
I only have and only will ever have blacks. I just don't have the room to do justice to more than perhaps 2 breeds and I eat all the culls so the DP thing appeals to me.

Update.

By the time hatch day/hour/minute arrived which is right now, 22 of the 84 eggs set hatched. 8 of the eggs were shipped and aren't due till tomorrow.
As luck would have it, the only one I could candle, a white Minorca, apparently wasn't fertile.
Another must have had a crack because when I weighed at 11 days it had lost 34% of it's weight and didn't develop.
That left 82 with only room for about 50 in the hatcher.
What a dummy I am for setting so many at once. I also pedigreed them requiring 16 different batches I had to keep separate and leg band as they came out.
This hatch is the most labor intensive I've ever had.
I have 10 week olds in the brooder house I have to house elsewhere so I can put these out there. No room in the basement for that many.
HELP!!!!!!
More pipping now. Will keep in touch. I have to go back to leg banding now.

Wow, you are a busy man! I was all set to whine about my wife taking off today 'til Sunday for a conference in TX... leaving me with the 4 kids to get to school, feed, etc. But you have a lot of work ahead my friend. Our roo looks great (big crown comb) but he is still just a pup and has no crow, cheeps yet.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

It's a gamble but if your roo has a nice comb it will probably prevail. It depends on her other qualities.
I only have and only will ever have blacks. I just don't have the room to do justice to more than perhaps 2 breeds and I eat all the culls so the DP thing appeals to me.

Update.

By the time hatch day/hour/minute arrived which is right now, 22 of the 84 eggs set hatched. 8 of the eggs were shipped and aren't due till tomorrow.
As luck would have it, the only one I could candle, a white Minorca, apparently wasn't fertile.
Another must have had a crack because when I weighed at 11 days it had lost 34% of it's weight and didn't develop.
That left 82 with only room for about 50 in the hatcher.
What a dummy I am for setting so many at once. I also pedigreed them requiring 16 different batches I had to keep separate and leg band as they came out.
This hatch is the most labor intensive I've ever had.
I have 10 week olds in the brooder house I have to house elsewhere so I can put these out there. No room in the basement for that many.
HELP!!!!!!
More pipping now. Will keep in touch. I have to go back to leg banding now.

22 is still alot of chicks,pictures needed

 

[heritagehabitatfarms]

start selling some of them if your getting to many to hatch yourself... im really glad to see your dedication in breeding the blacks they really need it bad...

It's a gamble but if your roo has a nice comb it will probably prevail. It depends on her other qualities.
I only have and only will ever have blacks. I just don't have the room to do justice to more than perhaps 2 breeds and I eat all the culls so the DP thing appeals to me.

Update.

By the time hatch day/hour/minute arrived which is right now, 22 of the 84 eggs set hatched. 8 of the eggs were shipped and aren't due till tomorrow.
As luck would have it, the only one I could candle, a white Minorca, apparently wasn't fertile.
Another must have had a crack because when I weighed at 11 days it had lost 34% of it's weight and didn't develop.
That left 82 with only room for about 50 in the hatcher.
What a dummy I am for setting so many at once. I also pedigreed them requiring 16 different batches I had to keep separate and leg band as they came out.
This hatch is the most labor intensive I've ever had.
I have 10 week olds in the brooder house I have to house elsewhere so I can put these out there. No room in the basement for that many.
HELP!!!!!!
More pipping now. Will keep in touch. I have to go back to leg banding now.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Here are my Blacks

and Whitey my Rooster

 

[heritagehabitatfarms]

Very nice!!! He is looking good...

 

[ronott1]

The Australorps and the Penedesencas got to go outside yesterday! At 4 weeks old the Penedesencas fit through the panels! It was funny. They are very fast little things. One ran off the to bushes, hid inside and started chirping loudly, probably for it's "mother" the 5 week old Blue Australorp.



Pullet:



Jason's Cockerel:

 

[Hangtown Farms]

The Australorps and the Penedesencas got to go outside yesterday! At 4 weeks old the Penedesencas fit through the panels! It was funny. They are very fast little things. One ran off the to bushes, hid inside and started chirping loudly, probably for it's "mother" the 5 week old Blue Australorp.



Pullet:



Jason's Cockerel:

I introduced mine to the 2 week older easter eggers last night. I had to put them back in the grow up run today. There was just too much size difference. I will try again next week. Hopefully by then the easter egger roosters will show themselves so I can give them away. If I can get this guy from Ron then I will put the other Black penedesenca roosters from Sandhill over the easter eggers

 

[Hangtown Farms]

has anyone seen a lighter colored crele penedesenca rooster? I saw someone advertising some that has 2 lighter roos and a darker one over there hens?