EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[BantyChooks]

These are photographs of the buff stock that I have, as of a few days ago.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I have had the partridge variety since 2017, I believe, though I have since stopped breeding them and moved to bantam buff chanteclers a year and a half ago for multiple reasons. The bantams are currently very much a work in progress; they need significant work on type, colour, production, and hardiness. I would not class them as good layers.

I found the partridge LF to be quite satisfactory. The chart sounds correct; while not stellar layers, they are reliable, don't burn out after one season, and keep laying through cold weather better than the high production seasonal layers do. (Note that the truly elite layers, such as Leghorns, still pass them up in winter laying.)

Overall, I would say that I have found "my" breed in them. I enjoy looking at them; I enjoy their type, their personalities, and they seem fairly economical, though in general the available stock isn't bred as close to standard as some of the more common breeds due to their limited breeding population and how few breeders are actually working on them.

Thanks for the good rundown. A friend of min in Washington (formerly from Wisconsin) has been breeding White Chanteclers for years.
After 30 breeds I've found "my" breed?variety. The Black Penedesenca.

 

[BantyChooks]

I have had the partridge variety since 2017, I believe, though I have since stopped breeding them and moved to bantam buff chanteclers a year and a half ago for multiple reasons. The bantams are currently very much a work in progress; they need significant work on type, colour, production, and hardiness. I would not class them as good layers.

I found the partridge LF to be quite satisfactory. The chart sounds correct; while not stellar layers, they are reliable, don't burn out after one season, and keep laying through cold weather better than the high production seasonal layers do. (Note that the truly elite layers, such as Leghorns, still pass them up in winter laying.)

Overall, I would say that I have found "my" breed in them. I enjoy looking at them; I enjoy their type, their personalities, and they seem fairly economical, though in general the available stock isn't bred as close to standard as some of the more common breeds such as Plymouth rocks due to their limited breeding population and how few breeders are actually working on them.

I will say, though, that the white variety, which is one I do not have, seems to be a lot closer to standard, at least type-wise. Jim Fegan from the midwest has some absolutely stellar specimens, as do several other breeders scattered over that region.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Pita Pinta

Nice! Have you had them before?

 

[BantyChooks]

Thanks for the good rundown. A friend of min in Washington (formerly from Wisconsin) has been breeding White Chanteclers for years.
After 30 breeds I've found "my" breed?variety. The Black Penedesenca.

It took me about that many breeds as well. I was rather glad to finally have somewhere to settle my efforts.

 

[BantyChooks]

This is one of Fegan's birds. While I am not an experienced breeder, I would say that tail shape and set is probably the best I have ever seen on a chantecler, in my humble opinion.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

It took me about that many breeds as well. I was rather glad to finally have somewhere to settle my efforts.

So true. I realized I only have the time and space to do justice to one breed.
I'm always amused when people talk about breeding about 10 different breeds with a single rooster and 2 or 3 hens of each breed and expect to be able to do something.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

This is one of Fegan's birds. While I am not an experienced breeder, I would say that tail shape and set is probably the best I have ever seen on a chantecler, in my humble opinion.
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they are a handsome breed.

 

[BantyChooks]

So true. I realized I only have the time and space to do justice to one breed.
I'm always amused when people talk about breeding about 10 different breeds with a single rooster and 2 or 3 hens of each breed and expect to be able to do something.

Wholeheartedly agreed. I would quite like to eliminate my laying flock entirely to focus only on bantams, but I still need to gather enough eggs to at least subsidize the feed bill, so, the hatchery birds remain.

 

[Akrnaf2]

Money or wisdom.

Wisdom.
With wisdom you can make money but with money you can't buy wisdom.