Campine Chicken thread?

[Wisher1000]

Here are some of the oddly white ones



These are more typical...



Well, green is not typical!

These last two were marked with green food coloring so I could identify them as the only two pure ones. With a bit of tissue on the end of a stick, and a drop of food coloring, I can mark them without opening the hatcher (through a vent hole.) Just as they open the egg, I dab them so I can tell them apart from the others. Once they are all dry and are moved to the brooder, I will toe punch everyone, but these two will have their own identifying punches.

 

[Drieslag]

hm, these are still much darker than the chick i have running around right now, will add some pics later this weekend.

something else, on this link http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGA/Camp/Campine Presentation Notes FCAQ.pdf
you can find a document from our colleagues down-under, Australian campinists!

And anyone heard of this book before: "Campineology, the story of the living egg machines" by Fred Kennedy (1914)? I just found it on http://www.amazon.com/Campineology-...=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B0000EEMWQ

 

[Drieslag]

Hey Drieslag, remember those white Campine chicks you showed us? Well, I have gotten some in my batch as well!

Some pics of my two alleged Campine chicks. One is 4 weeks old, the other is 3. The younger is clearly much lighter and has greener legs.
Pure Campine????

 

[Wisher1000]

Ooooo.....I see......... those legs are a deal-breaker, an automatic DQ and I wouldn't use it even if the feathers were right. Sorry. On a brighter note, the other one looks like a pullet to me!

 

[lawatt]

they are so cute, regardless!

i've just hatched four more silver campines, and added them to the brooder with the three two-week-olds (plus three 2-week-old swedish crosses) -- haven't taken a picture of all the new babies yet, but here are a couple of snaps:


the two-week-olds, peeking out from under their ecoglow


one of the new babies (center) ventures out to explore with the big kids -- the others are all sleeping under the warmth.

with the three 2-week-olds, i've noticed that two have quite long/grown-in wing feathers already, while the third's feathers are much shorter/less developed -- any sense of which might be which gender?

 

[Drieslag]

this is what i found, but it's for sexing at one day old, not sure if it works with 2weekold chicks


by the way, I got mentioned in a belgian ecological/agricultural magazine because they got wind i am trying to bring back the campine to the campine region
i'll spare you the article since it's all in dutch, but funny thing is they still refuse to see the old or new style campine as a breed but keep referring to it as a type of Braekel
it's amazing how this rivalry keeps on going after more than a century
to me they're all sisters of the same family, with just slight differences here and there

ow, and there's a kids farm 5 minutes from my house with an amazing flock of braekels, i'll get some pictures of them
and perhaps i can persuade the farmer to switch to campines

 

[Wisher1000]

Laura - I'm not sure any of the indicators of gender at a young age are 100%, but I have found that at a couple of weeks, the tail feathers of the pullets are coming in and the cockerals take longer.........but not always! Cute chicks, BTW!

Drieslag - Congrats on the shoutout in the magazine! That's awesome! I'm sure you will convince them that the Campines are a completely separate breed (or at least give it your best shot!) That farm can be the place where the differences are demonstrated! Set him up with Campines to do a side-by-side comparison!

 

[lawatt]

Laura - I'm not sure any of the indicators of gender at a young age are 100%, but I have found that at a couple of weeks, the tail feathers of the pullets are coming in and the cockerals take longer.........but not always! Cute chicks, BTW!

Drieslag - Congrats on the shoutout in the magazine! That's awesome! I'm sure you will convince them that the Campines are a completely separate breed (or at least give it your best shot!) That farm can be the place where the differences are demonstrated! Set him up with Campines to do a side-by-side comparison!

I will just keep an eye on these kids & see how they turn out -- so far I'm impressed by how easily the day-old chicks are holding their own with the two-week-olds! and with luck there should be five more hatching next week.

feeling a bit grumbly, though, that my campine cockerel got aggressive for the first time with me this afternoon -- hoping he does not make it a trend...

 

[Drieslag]

I will just keep an eye on these kids & see how they turn out -- so far I'm impressed by how easily the day-old chicks are holding their own with the two-week-olds! and with luck there should be five more hatching next week.

So these are all staggered hatches in the same brooder??

 

[lawatt]

So these are all staggered hatches in the same brooder??

yes! so far just the two-week-olds and the new ones -- who are getting along just great so far -- although i have less confidence that next week the then-three-week-olds will work as well day-olds. but will have to see, as i only have one heat source for them.