Campine Chicken thread?

[Wisher1000]

Okay, so likely from Ideal hatchery. They are wonderful birds, you will enjoy them muchly!

 

[swamperkk]

yes i do,collecting one egg a day might start hatching very soon,not wanting to wait for march,lol

 

[lawatt]

new babies hatching today:

 

[Wisher1000]

YAY!!  Such cuties!

Here are some of mine, although the pics are terrible!

There are a few day olds in with those EEs.

These are the older pullets I have hatched so far this year.

 

[Drieslag]

Congrats to both of you!

And some other weirder Campine news. On of our new members of the Belgian Campine team has found some old stuffed Campines in the private Rotschildmuseum in Tring, England. About a 100 years old.

Silver Campines, one golden, one chamois and one white. (http://www.nhm.ac.uk/tring/)

 

[lawatt]

wow, such fascinating photos! i ended up hatching all five campine eggs i'd set (along with seven other chicks) -- they seem incredibly vigorous and healthy after a week! here's another picture from right after they hatched:

 

[Drieslag]

Question. One of our roosters has some white feathers after molting. Does anyone know how this can happen? And does it go away again? How bad is this?

 

[Wisher1000]

I have never seen that in full blooded Campines. I had some "Parti-colored" cockerels once from a 50% hen. How old is he? Did he suffer any major stress or trauma? His barring looks great, wish (there I go again) mine was as good here. I wouldn't use him and would watch his siblings for more of it.

Post more pics of your birds, Dries, I can't get enough! PLEASSSSSSSSSSE?

I had a tragedy here. The pullets pictured above were all killed by a dog. Totally my fault, I got careless. I'm starting over. Again.

 

[Drieslag]

Awch that's too bad. Hope this can give you something to dream about..
These used to be mine, but there now living somewhereelse. But I did put some eggs of them in the brooder yesterday.

 

[Wisher1000]

What standard do you plan to use? I am impressed with the barring on those, but the type is a bit off (not bad, better than mine, even) for the US standard. I am not up on the particulars of the standards in other countries, but I know there are likely differences. I only ask because, like you said, I was dreaming about what I would do with those if I had them. My thought was that they needed more rounded breast, carried well forward and a slightly more horizontal stance. Those birds are five years or more ahead of my program

I found that I have four juvenile pullet survivors - two golden, two silver. The cockerels, of course, are thriving. There are about 16 of those. I also have two batches (10-15) of Campine chicks that are just revealing their gender, and three trays of eggs in the incubator. I will have a decent start to this years generation, but will fall short of my goal of hatching 150 this spring, and will not likely have any at point of lay this summer. I will have to wait for eggs till next year. *Sigh*