Chicken Breed Focus - Chantecler

[duluthralphie]

I have just added lights to mine a couple weeks ago. I want eggs for hatching to set around the first of March.

I weighed 2 eggs last night, These are the first eggs from the birds after their "rest period". They were 1.60 and 1.65 ounces. So the eggs are not huge, but the breed seems to have enough other plusses to make them a great addition to my flock.

I am not in the egg business, I have a few egg customers, but I give away as many as I sell. I only get 3 bucks a dozen when I sell them. I mix colors and sizes. They are straight run eggs!

I have blue, green, and all shades of brown in my cartons, the people that buy my eggs know my chickens are free range, drug and medication free. They see the birds running all over the yard. They stand and watch the chickens. To them those things are more important than a 1/5 of an ounce more liquid.

 

[chickenshiha]

very good birds I have 3 now 1 year old and 2 of them went broody in summer but they don't do well in hot climates good winter hardy laying birds I used to think they were game birds till 7 months ago still not sure how the get broody I guess that's from the cochin breed but leghorns and rir don't and fat birds but flightly (at least mine are) could be from the leghorns and RIR great birds though just wondering im still new to this breed and doing research on them

 

[bruceha2000]

Unfortunately this breed was a huge disappointment for us. My husband wanted to start a flock of them. We have other breeds and mixed breeds. Winter hardy they were. Heat tolerant they weren't. I would label them meat birds more than layers. They were heavy birds. They laid at best medium sized mostly round eggs. They weren't the best layers and as for winter laying, even their first winter they skipped long periods. Only my marans were poorer layers. As youngsters they were somewhat aggressive to the other young birds they were raised with. When combining young ones. they were more aggressive than the other breeds. Thankfully this was curtailed when I quickly added them to the adult birds and they settled down. We lost them for all kinds of reasons, while the other birds/breeds had no problems.
For us this breed was a bust, but every now and then I'm tempted to add one or two to a hatchery order to see if hatchery chanteclers are more successful.

Where did you get your PCs? My Ideal Hatchery PCs were not big birds and I wouldn't have considered them "dual breed".

I have just added lights to mine a couple weeks ago. I want eggs for hatching to set around the first of March.

I weighed 2 eggs last night, These are the first eggs from the birds after their "rest period". They were 1.60 and 1.65 ounces. So the eggs are not huge, but the breed seems to have enough other plusses to make them a great addition to my flock.

I am not in the egg business, I have a few egg customers, but I give away as many as I sell. I only get 3 bucks a dozen when I sell them. I mix colors and sizes. They are straight run eggs!

I have blue, green, and all shades of brown in my cartons, the people that buy my eggs know my chickens are free range, drug and medication free. They see the birds running all over the yard. They stand and watch the chickens. To them those things are more important than a 1/5 of an ounce more liquid.

How old are your PCs and how long have they been laying? If they are pullets, the eggs will likely get somewhat larger. I measure in grams as does the USDA. 1.65 oz is only about halfway into the USDA Small range (44 g to 50 g). Small eggs do have their uses though, like when you want to make a half recipe of something that needs 1 Large egg

 

[spoikey]

I have 5 PC'c and they are great birds. They will be 2 late this spring snd go broody quite often. One of their chicks grew into a big beautiful rooster that looks like a PC rooster. He is very attentive to the hens even though he's not even close to being a year old yet. I don't light my coop but get plenty of eggs every day though I have other chickens too. Very seldom do I go into the coop and at least one is busy laying an egg.

 

[uncertainty]

I am having difficulty identifying a nearby source for the day olds I want for spring 2016. I am in the Edmonton, Alberta region. Suggestions gratefully received. Thanks.

 

[chant]

We live in N. FL. and currently have 3 Partridge chantecler hens, and they seem to adapt. We've had them for 2 yrs so far. The stagnant, humid summers here are like the waiting room for hell so I put shallow bowls out in the shade for extra water and they like to wade in it and it seems to help. We haven't lost any due to heat. So I ordered some more that'll be in here the middle of Feb.

 

[Banaynaychicken]

Does this cute baby look liek one? I just got her today, and I was told she is an Amueracauna , but I know better. Having a hard time finding her breed though.. Shes not a gold laced or orphington. so what could she be? Possibly one of these cute Chanteclers?

 

[3riverschick]

The creator of the Chantecler breed only used white. The brown Albertan was created later by another person from different stock. Only problem was, when the Albertan was submitted to th APA for approval, the APA decided they were Partridge Chanteclers. Any breed purist will tell you the only true Chantecler is White. The Partridges are Albertans by science and specific breeding. Any other color than those 2 is a mongrel bird. If you want a true Chantecler, then you must get the White bird. Only the stroke of a pen, not heritage or breeding, made the Albertan a Partridge Chantecler.
Best Regards,
Karen

 

[3riverschick]

Does this cute baby look liek one? I just got her today, and I was told she is an Amueracauna , but I know better. Having a hard time finding her breed though.. Shes not a gold laced or orphington. so what could she be? Possibly one of these cute Chanteclers?





Hi,
No,not Chantecler ( they are White..., nor an Albertan ( partridge). This bird does not have cushion comb which is essential for those breeds.
Best,
Karen

 

[duluthralphie]

The creator of the Chantecler breed only used white. The brown Albertan was created later by another person from different stock. Only problem was, when the Albertan was submitted to th APA for approval, the APA decided they were Partridge Chanteclers. Any breed purist will tell you the only true Chantecler is White. The Partridges are Albertans by science and specific breeding. Any other color than those 2 is a mongrel bird. If you want a true Chantecler, then you must get the White bird. Only the stroke of a pen, not heritage or breeding, made the Albertan a Partridge Chantecler.
Best Regards,
Karen

While I completely agree they are not the same breed, developed by different people. I do disagree they are not both Chanticlers. One is partridge chanticleer the other is simply White chanticleer or simply chanticler.

It is just semantics and however the name partridge chanticler came about (yes, I know the story) They are now Partridge chantilcers, the OP did not differentiate. So neither did we. I have no other chanticler to compare the Partridge chanticlers too, but I sure consider them to be Partridge chanticlers.

Had the APA decided to call one or both the breeds Poodles I would be calling them poodles today. It is impossible to say one is a chanticler and the other is not IMHO, Respectfully submitted.


The white chanticler is made up of Dark Cornishes, White Leghorns, Rhode Island Reds, White Plymouth Rocks and White Wyandottes, That kind of makes it a mongrel too then.


BTW I do not get to hung up on names, I have nicknames for most the breeds I own.