Chicken Breed Focus - Bielefelder

[AnneInTheBurbs]

Oh OK maybe it is a thing with them. I still wonder if having a single spur is a defect of sorts. Do any of your have a single spur?

I have one female with spurs, I will try to post a picture later of her. She is a probably at least 3 years old.

 

[AnneInTheBurbs]

Not that I know of, here are the spurs on my girl. This hen is probably 3-4 years old.

 

[RNPAULIE69]

I am looking to add some new blood lines to my flock. Does anyone have fertile eggs or hens in the Northeast?

Check craigslist for an ad under chickens for sale..east derry NH she has lovely Bielefelders

 

[AnneInTheBurbs]

Check craigslist for an ad under chickens for sale..east derry NH she has lovely Bielefelders

Thanks! I will keep her in mind. I was able to buy some eggs off of ebay, and they are all hatching out right now. Looks like I have 7 out 11 that have hatched, 8 made it into lockdown. Yay peeps!

 

[adtillma1]

Our newest bielefelder chick is here and we have another that has pipped in the incubator. So exciting!

 

[AnneInTheBurbs]

How exciting! Please post pics when they all hatch.

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[jeffsmith13]

 

[jeffsmith13]

This 6 week old chick is all I have from my Bielefelder flock . The hen is a cross of my Bielefelder rooster to my Houdans, she was then bred by my gold laced Polish rooster and hatched this little (guy) one ?. I won’t get Bielefelder again , way too much food for those extra large eggs . My Houdans outperform them in egg production and no mean roosters , the Rhode Island Red ancestry showed up

 

[adtillma1]

These are the "billy-Roos" that we incubates and hatched. Their coloring keeps getting prettier and prettier!

 

[Jasper D]

I have a Bielefelder that I am trying to introduce to my established flock. She is taller than the other chickens and seems to be a target. I have been putting her in the coop at night and on a couple of occasion have left her in the run. She is getting pecked and picked on by the other birds. Yesterday I left her in the run and came home to find they had plucked the feathers on her back. Any help on how to get them to accept her and to integrate her would be awesome!