Need assistance from Barnevelder experts, PLEASE!!

[oregonkat]

Thank you!

 

[KikiLeigh02]

I may have been looking for some Blue Laced eggs... I can't help it, my silver laced chicks are so stinking cute and the adults are gorgeous. They hatched out of a lighter color egg too? I saw this website when I was looking (Hopefully it's not the one you already tried): https://www.diamonddustfarm.com/product-page/blue-double-laced-barnevelder-hatching-eggs-dozen#

 

[oregonkat]

I may have been looking for some Blue Laced eggs... I can't help it, my silver laced chicks are so stinking cute and the adults are gorgeous. They hatched out of a lighter color egg too? I saw this website when I was looking (Hopefully it's not the one you already tried): https://www.diamonddustfarm.com/product-page/blue-double-laced-barnevelder-hatching-eggs-dozen#

Thank you! I did talk to Diamond Dust Farm about their birds and she told me that her fertility was down due to aging birds but that she would have pullets ready to lay by spring. I just couldn't be patient that long and went with someone on Ebay. This is another rule of mine that I broke, never to buy from ebay EVER AGAIN! Also, in looking at DDF birds, I didn't really love the colors of the plumage, but I am absolutely brand new to this breed and I had seen photos of some of the most beautiful hens on the planet, so I just dove right in without doing my research properly. I have to say that I am totally in love with the chicks that I have now so I am not complaining, at all! Except to say that I wish I had more of the blue, and I wish they had the yellow legs that they are supposed to have! Hopefully my blue chick is a pullet!

 

[KikiLeigh02]

I really hope it is a pullet! I know how much you were wanting some blue laced birds. I think I found the ones I want to try and get, that breeder is in North Carolina. I really like the look of her hens though. http://www.blue-house-farm.com/chickens.html

 

[oregonkat]

I will keep them in mind for the Spring. Thank you for the link.
Here is the pic. that pushed me over the edge for this breed! I WANT THIS!!!

 

[KikiLeigh02]

So pretty. I couldn't find it with 100% certainty, but I think that was originally a Greenfire Farms photo. They provided the examples on here: http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGA/Barnev/BRKBarnev.html

 

[drumstick diva]

beautiful birds

 

[oregonkat]

So pretty. I couldn't find it with 100% certainty, but I think that was originally a Greenfire Farms photo. They provided the examples on here: http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGA/Barnev/BRKBarnev.html

Yes!!! Those are the hens! Thank you so much for the link. In looking at Greenfire Farms site, they are only offering the silver laced at the moment as far as I can tell. I sent them an email and see if they plan on offering the blue laced anytime soon. I understand the complications with the genetics and the fact that a blue is by no means guaranteed so I will wait to see what GFF says. I'll post back their response!

 

[oregonkat]

@KikiLeigh02 I got a response from GFF and they said they do not breed the blue laced barnevelder only the silver. They thought that the photo may have been mistakenly credited to them! I do like the look of the birds from Blue House Farm though. Ahhh, the thoughts turn to next spring, and new hatchlings!! This is a sickness, you know!

 

[KikiLeigh02]

So sad. It really is a disorder. My little blue chicks should be here around the beginning of October! She's on vacation until 9/7, but she she'll set a batch for me when she gets back. I prefer hatching eggs, but I really want blue so chicks are really the best way to make sure I get them. You know how shipped eggs can be.

@KikiLeigh02 I got a response from GFF and they said they do not breed the blue laced barnevelder only the silver. They thought that the photo may have been mistakenly credited to them! I do like the look of the birds from Blue House Farm though. Ahhh, the thoughts turn to next spring, and new hatchlings!! This is a sickness, you know!