Calling all Penedesencas Owners/Breeders

[josh44]

HEY GUYS,

I just listed some Black Penedesnca
Hatching eggs on EBAY. it is a 1 day auction.
So I can probably have them sent tomorrow.

 

[rarebreedeggs4u]

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How did you get it to set to one day? I tried earlier and couldn't figure it out...

 

[josh44]

I picked the 1 day on the amount of time offered.
I saw your penedesenca eggs posted,

It is beacause of your pics.
That I am now considering the other colors.

YOUR PENEDESNCAS ARE AGAIN, VERY NICE .

Where did you get your Penedesencas ???

 

[Blackhorsehill]

Laura,

It looks like you might not be too far from my stepdaughter, who lives in Lowell. Is that right? If we get down to visit, maybe I could stop by sometime. I would be interested in the research you have done. I'm trying to consolidate Penedesenca information in a sort of informal way, since there is no breed club, and it is so hard to understand the translations google gives me of the foreign sites.

With Josh's help, I think I will have blacks coming from a variety of sources. I am new to breeding chickens, so it will take me time to get up to speed. But, I just really love the blacks I have now, and am looking forward to learning more.

 

[josh44]

I have contacted several of the countrys top poultry judges,
on the penedesencas progress here in the U.S.

There seems to be little to no proression in the breed.

Come on people ! Lets get our Penedesencas In some Shows !

I am showing some Blacks with in the next few weeks.

 

[rarebreedeggs4u]

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LOL, I hope I can figure it out. My Blue Polish are laying like CRAZY!

Thanks so much Josh. I'm thrilled with my kids. I can't wait for one or two of my Partridge cockerels (4 months old) to grow up so they can replace their Daddy!

 

[rarebreedeggs4u]

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I want to, I'm just VERY hesitant about taking my breeders out when I have so few of them. I might consider taking a youngster or two out though

 

[josh44]

I know with so few numbers it is hard to show,
I have canceld most of the egg orders. I am planning to start showing these Penedesencas. So I will be offering few to no hatching eggs,with in the month. If anything I will only be offering 1-2 doz of my eggs.
So I can get Penedesencas some recognition at some of the up coming shows here in TX .

 

[star2525]

It will be hard getting them recognized by the APA, they are trying to do the Large Fowl Marans now, quite the process to getting it done, and it takes a couple of years with them being shown, for the Marans it was something like 5 breeders for each color and they had to have raised them for 5 years, then they have to show 2 of each at certain shows, meaning 2 Roosters, 2 Hens, 2 Cockrels and 2 Pullets, in order for them to qualify, then after there are so many shows meeting those qualifications and I think they have to be recorded for each show, then they have to do a show with 50 birds present and that is for each color variety, with Large Fowl Marans they did Black Coppers first and are still having issues with getting them accepted, in the meantime they are still continuing with the other colors, for each color it takes 2 years, its more of a combined effort with all Club Members trying to follow the Colors being worked on and shown so that the numbers are there for each feather color, and that is what it will take to do the Penedesencas too, so this may be something we get into down the road for the Penedesencas, right now I don't think anyone has been breeding them that long, if so very few people. I'm sure Barry of Feathersite would be one and LuAnn may be another, Jerry Poole, possibly a few others that have been breeding them for some length of time, pretty sure there has to be 5 breeders and for 5 years per each feather color, I'll get mine going once I get a Rooster to work with for the Blacks, as far as showing, until there would be the numbers to make a concerted effort I'll raise them to get numbers of them up. We'll have to make a combined effort to get them APA approved, so someone will have to make a list of who has what feather color variety and how long they have been breeding them to even begin to see where the numbers are and of which feather color variety, maybe there are more Partridge or Wheatens in circulation for a longer period of time, you'll have to figure out what is already in numbers and whose been breeding them for how long to see first if there are 5 breeders of a certain feather color for 5 years and then go from there with planning on the showing of the other colors, hope I am making sense on what I'm trying to get accross, its possible, it will just take a combined effort, just one person showing isn't going to be enough to get anything accomplished. The Marans group had members list what color varietys of them they had and how long they had been breeding those color varietys to start with.

 

[josh44]

Tell me about it, It does take lots of work,
I am probably going to show a pair of blacks, and sadly thats still isn't enough to show .

I was also asked to display some eggs, We will see how it goes. I am picking up another Black Penedesenca Pullet Tomorrow.