Calling all Penedesencas Owners/Breeders

[Blackhorsehill]

Well, that is really exciting!!

We are hoping it warms up here in the next couple of weeks. I have been doing Cherokee dances to help it along, but so far it isn't helping.

In the meantime, I am going to be posting some translated files on the Penedesenca yahoo group. Just need to get caught up on other work from when I was sick the last 3 weeks. It might help as far as understanding the background and standards for the breed. The Irish website is thankfully in English, but I am interested in the Spanish and German websites as well.

Another good project would be to take a survey of all those who are active with the breed now, and try to trace back the origins of stock currently being used.

Any thoughts anyone?

 

[josh44]

I am going to try to have a friend translate the german site for me,
I will let you know what I find when I send you your eggs.

 

[Blackhorsehill]

Josh,

I've already translated the German site. Not all the pages, just some of them. I just need to get the information posted. In the meantime, I can send you the information if you like. It is in a .jpg format, just like a picture. It is actually pretty simple. Google has a translation function you can use. It misses a few words, but gets most things. Then, I used a screengrabber to copy the information like a picture.

(Just love these smilies)

 

[josh44]

I know it skips some words so, Again I am going to have a friend translate.
I will let you know.

 

[Blackhorsehill]

That will be fantastic!! Look forward to it.

 

[FlightsofFancy]

OH how happy I am to find this thread!!!

I have been interested in the Crele Penedesencas for the last year. I had just about given up when I finally came across some eggs. Now, from what I understand these little buggers are tricky to hatch.....any suggestions? I read earlier that a higher humidity is good and somewhere I read that they can take longer to hatch. I won't have very many so I have to make each one count!!

 

[Laurieks]

I see 2 of one pattern and 1 of the other... does this mean 2 pullets?

Finally some pics! Of 10 PP eggs we have 2 chicks, 2 were clear with loose air cells, 1 cracked (but didn't show til day 2, I will now return to candling on arrival after a few months of hands off til 10 days), 1 10 day quitter, 1 mislabeled, 2 fully developed & dead with no apparent attempt to hatch. *whimper* they are so gorgeous, I try not to think about how nice 10 would have been.

 

[rarebreedeggs4u]

I'm not sure on those babies. They look awfully red, but that may very well just be the lighting. On the patterns though, the more striped ones would be the pullets.


Here are my PP babies from last weekend.

In theory, the more striped ones on the left "should" be pullets.

 

[star2525]

Just an observation, yet still a question, are the Partridge Penedesencas considered the Wild Type? In the pictures I notice the eye stripes, in Araucanas the Wild types can be sexed by the eye stripe, I know a woman in Canada that sexes her Araucanas by the eye stripe and she's 99 percent correct on her sexing, she was going to write an article for the Canadian Araucana Club on sexing by the eye stripe, and I think there are other breeds that can be sexed the same way, so just curious, anyone know? I see a difference in the eye stripes.

Victoria

 

[josh44]

they look like 2 pullets and 1 cockerel.