Chantecler Thread!

[Jake Levi]

Hiya Chickie Lady !!

Good to see you here ! We are doing very well, enjoying a moderate winter compared to other parts of the country.

I am in process of building Nella Brooders/pens with runs now for the soon to be Chanteclers and my other Homesteader breeds.

Also looking forward to seeing others birds at a couple of MI shows this year.

Roadrunner thanks for posting that, I will be getting the standard, its on the must list although a couple of my breeds arnt on it and the Icelandics I hope wont be. .

Good to see the posts here, its been kind of a drought winter in the posts.

Happy hatching everyone !

 

[Blackhorsehill]

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Good to see the posts here, its been kind of a drought winter in the posts.

Happy hatching everyone !

With the awful winter we've been having, EVERYTHING is way behind schedule here.

Hope some of you are having a warmer winter than we have had. We made our plans based (stupidly) on the milder winters we had been experiencing. Our building projects have been on hold for a couple months, when we thought maybe 2 or 3 weeks. Gonna fire up the new Sportsman with some mutts to just see if it still works.

Come on Spring!!

 

[Chickielady]

I was reading back pages, trying to catch up...................I DO agree with quite a few here that the Partridge is indeed a very different bird in type, and was not developed by the Oka monks who developed the White Chantecler...........
so much so that I have given it thought to list my Partridge "Chanteclers" as "Partridge Albertans " instead.
They are fantastic birds.beautiful and they have laid every single day all through our winter here.




A nice pullet.......I do not have alot of them.
I am using them for furthering the Crele project and sadly have little room to raise a flock of these "Albertans"
One other thing I really like about these birds is~ they do not show the mud...we have the worst clay mud
here and it is rarely dry !!!!!!

 

[Chickielady]

With the awful winter we've been having, EVERYTHING is way behind schedule here.

Hope some of you are having a warmer winter than we have had. We made our plans based (stupidly) on the milder winters we had been experiencing. Our building projects have been on hold for a couple months, when we thought maybe 2 or 3 weeks. Gonna fire up the new Sportsman with some mutts to just see if it still works.

Come on Spring!!

You in the middle of this recent horrible blizzard ?
man, the mid west is getting hit hard !
I agree:
Come on spring !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Blackhorsehill]

You in the middle of this recent horrible blizzard ?
man, the mid west is getting hit hard !
I agree:
Come on spring !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, as I sit here pouting, it is blowing about 20 miles per hour. We are just waiting for yet another snowstorm to come through. Usually we get a break, but not this year! By this time last year, my geese were laying. Not even nesting activity yet. I have lots of people wanting White Chantecler eggs, and my husband has not been able to get the breeding pen project done. Things will fall like a house of cards if it ever warms up.

Maybe I wont' be so crabby then.

 

[Blackhorsehill]

BTW. where did you get your Albertans??

I have some, and do really like them. Completely different bird than the Whites. I am using them mostly to work on a small = no combed bird that lays dark eggs. Using my Penedesencas to cross with. I figure this is a many years project, but I'm tired of frostbite in my Penes.

 

[kimberly35042]

Hiya Black Horse HIlls and everyone! It's cold here too today, all of 46. But we get rain (14+ inches so far this year).....better than snow, I guess. But that just means our mud isn't frozen.

 

[Chickielady]

BTW. where did you get your Albertans??

I have some, and do really like them. Completely different bird than the Whites. I am using them mostly to work on a small = no combed bird that lays dark eggs. Using my Penedesencas to cross with. I figure this is a many years project, but I'm tired of frostbite in my Penes.

I hear ya ! You have every right to pout and be unhappy....maybe try baking some cookies or some nice pie ??????
Sometimes cheers me up to just give up and stay inside...I quilt, paint, bake ?
I got the 3 "Albertans" as chicks, from Partridge hens bred to a sport Crele....................this crele was culled for being an absolute man hater, but at least I got the 3 chicks.
One of the 3 chicks was another crele, who is in my avatar...and the other 2 full brother & sister, are Partridge.
And that is my project, getting the Crele to breed true.
In the process, the 1 crele also has a pea comb...............

....................and that is why I am raising R/C LBLs to breed to this crele cockerel...and hopefully from there we get cushion-combed true breeding crele "Albertans"........all looks so nice in theory...hopefully it all works out !
Check out his lovely comb !!!!!!!!!!!



So, you have seen the Pullet shown in an above post, she is his full sister, and this is the 3rd 'chick' hatched, a full brother:




So, all 3 were hatched from Partridge hens under a Crele sport cock.
I gave the Partridge cockerel to a neighbor, and have the pullet in keeping the crele cockerel happy until the R/C LBLs get old enough to mate to him.
Then we move on to getting rid of any white earlobes that may or may not pop up....takes time just as you said.
I also 'gave' the crele cockerel a black copper marans hen, and for fun hatched a few eggs, and now they have grown up enough to say, I have a crele marans..............kinda sorta, and another crele Albertan out of that mating................both cockerels of course

Edited to add: If you look at both, you can see how the upper one (crele) is just a barred version of the lower one (Partridge) cool, huh ?

 

[bruceha2000]

They are fantastic birds.beautiful and they have laid every single day all through our winter here.




A nice pullet.......I do not have alot of them.
I am using them for furthering the Crele project and sadly have little room to raise a flock of these "Albertans"

Your PC feather pattern and color is SO different from the ones I got from Ideal. The neck feathers look more like those on my Easter Eggers.


Mine aren't laying every day but one has laid, on average, just over 4 a week in 90 days, the other started later and has laid over 4.5/week over 50 days.

Bruce

 

[Chickielady]

Your PC feather pattern and color is SO different from the ones I got from Ideal. The neck feathers look more like those on my Easter Eggers.


Mine aren't laying every day but one has laid, on average, just over 4 a week in 90 days, the other started later and has laid over 4.5/week over 50 days.

Bruce

Yours is much more orange also....I am not using these for breeding...they are off shoots from the Crele, and it is the Crele I am working on.
The "stripes" you see in my pullet are such as what you find in Crele hens, or Brown leghorn hens.
These birds I have, carry the Crele genes.
From time to time I use other breeds in any given breeding project, not necessary SOP.
I also was told that there is alot of different "patterns" and colorations of the partridge chantecler aka "Albertan"