Campine Chicken thread?

[lawatt]

FYI, at nearly three weeks old, the one chick that has shorter (or slower to develop) wing feathers and less of a tail is also developing a much more prominent comb -- is looking like a boy! i will keep an eye on these three as they mature to see if the pattern holds, also will watch the four little ones (4 days old now) to see if there's a similar pattern. hoping to hatch five more on tuesday, if my hatching luck holds!

 

[ejb3810]

Does anyone know of a source for Rose Comb Campines in either Gold or Silver large fowl ? I would very much like to find some if they exist in the U.S.

 

[Drieslag]

Does anyone know of a source for Rose Comb Campines in either Gold or Silver large fowl ? I would very much like to find some if they exist in the U.S.

I've read about them in old/ancient catalogues, but didn't think they'd still exist.
They definitely did exist once, as did any type of Campine (non-henfeathered, short legged, orange eyes, white roos, ... you name it).

You could try recreate them using a henfeathered pencilled Hamburg (see below) or a Westphalian Deathlayer.
They both have rose combs, which is a dominant genetic trait, as is henfeathering.
However the red-eyed, light pencilled Hamburgs have 1/2 black and 1/2 gold/silver pencilling.
And the heavier Westphalians are not clearly pencilled at all.
So you'd end with rose combs and a whole lot more ...



But! If you do find any strains, please let us know!

 

[debs_flock]

Don't give up on yours. If you bring them just a few really tempting treats, just enough for one to get if it is the first one to you, at the same time of the day, you will be surprised how fast they learn to run to you. Don't try to touch them, just talk to them and toss the treat close to you, with the goal of having them take the treats from your hand..

Canned corn.......................chicken crack!

Hi everyone, just trying to catch up with my threads. I've been off travelling for the last five months and have now settled back home. I need to clean out the brooders and grow out pens and get some eggs cooking!

DH (my chicken tender in my absence) actually missed hatching chicks and hatched eggs all by himself while I was gone (emailed him instructions). So there are month old LF cochins living in the house and one chick that he "thinks" came from my chamois project pen.

 

[Wisher1000]

DEB!!! I am so glad you are back! I've missed you so much! I have thought about you many, many times over the last couple of months, and have been eagerly awaiting your return! I am happy that you are back safely. I'm happy you are back, period!

(For everyone else, I am not a debs_flock stalker, nor is she a close, personal, IRL friend. I will neither confirm or deny that she has hatching eggs that I am chomping at the bit to get....)

 

[debs_flock]

I will neither confirm or deny that she has hatching eggs that I am chomping at the bit to get....)

I have a good sized group of SC. Unfortunately DH has reported that the SC, the WCB polish to the right and the Icelandic to the left have been pen hopping at will. He has now located the pen weakness (inside the adjoining coops). As soon as those spots have been repaired and the requisite waiting periods have passed, we'll be "back in business"!

The GC live in an altogether different area of the chicken yard. And now maybe I can hatch some eggs from my project pen that I'm sure of the source.

It's good to be back.................I've nearly got my taxes ready to file and if it stops raining I won't have to wade through the mud to work with the birds.

Deb

 

[Wisher1000]

well........ dang................back to wait mode.

 

[lawatt]

my cockerel hatched from Deb's flock's eggs, and i'd be happy to send eggs -- except i only have the one pullet laying, so i can't amass very many eggs at any one time. but of the ones i've set in the incubator, they've ALL hatched, except for one clear -- i think that means i have 12 SC chicks running around right now.

 

[Drieslag]

Does anyone know of a source for Rose Comb Campines in either Gold or Silver large fowl ? I would very much like to find some if they exist in the U.S.

Just found this one, a rosecombed Silver Campine in a 1927 Australian newspaper.
I guess that's the closest you'll get...

 

[lawatt]

FYI, i've been keeping fairly careful track of my SC chicks, with help of colored elastic legbands, and it seems to be holding true that the boys get the wing feathers & then body feathers much more slowly than the girls -- the first group of three, who are nearly five weeks old, are (by way of comb size & color) unquestionably one boy and two girls, and the second group of four (almost three weeks old) are two and two -- there remain five little ones who are only 10 days old, but are already *appearing* (by feathers only) to be one boy and four girls -- i will be watching to see if the feather-predictions are all accurate, but they are doing well so far!