Peeps in Europe!

[BDutch]

I don't want to do that as those pictures were shared privately and not over the internet.

It is is allowed to share pictures with a link to the original url location.
Its NOT allowed to download and upload pictures not your own or free to use (like pixabay or pexels).

 

[abpatchy]

I did not get them off the internet. They were sent to me thru what's app from someone who is in a Barnevelder what's app group. So they really are not mine to share.
But I can promise you they are stunning! Imagine a silverlaced Barnevelder. But instead of black it is pearl gray with the silver lacing.

 

[BDutch]

I don't want to do that as those pictures were shared privately and not over the internet.

This page is going to the Barnevelder double silver laced chicken:
https://barnevelderkriel.jouwweb.nl/zilver-dubbelgezoomd

 

[BDutch]

Anyone (lurkers?) in the Netherlands or near the border in Deutschland who wants a small cockerel, heritage breed? You are welcome to pick one up for free.

 

[abpatchy]

try not to offer him for free. It might not attract the right people.

 

[abpatchy]

View attachment 3564583Anyone (lurkers?) in the Netherlands or near the border in Deutschland who wants a small cockerel, heritage breed? You are welcome to pick one up for free.

Have you been able to rehome him?

 

[BDutch]

Have you been able to rehome him?

No unfortunately no serious people replied to the advertisements. Not for a free cockerel and neither offering a cockerel with a pullet for 10€.

The Vorwerk cockerel already starts to crow.

How is your breeding project doing this year Abpatchy?

 

[abpatchy]

I didn't hatch as many chicks as usually. Only 59... and I started culling really early. I was lucky that my feed guy wanted all my culled roosters for a breeding project. He got 17 first and last week another 3. I didn't have to butcher much this year. The culled hens I sold. They all got so much room and it works out even better this way. They have more room and less dirt, less work, less feed!
This morning though I had to cull my old rooster, the babysitter for the young roosters. I noticed him not being himself in the last two days. This morning he was just laying in the coop and he didn't get up. I took him outside and watched him just laying there. There was a bad stench about him that I never smelled before. I just couldn't figure it out. Well, eventually I did. He had fly strike and was full of maggots underneath his feathers. I culled him immediately. First I thought rinse him off... a friend later told me it would have been no good. The maggots are eating their way inside and you can't clean them off properly.
So my boys are without a babysitter now. Hopefully they don't fight too much. I got 8 left... 2 I will cull tomorrow.

 

[abpatchy]

I'm sorry, you were not able to rehome your rooster. Maybe you'll find him a home still.

 

[BDutch]

. A fly strike sounds awful. But culling so many young chickens doesn’t appeal to me either.

I have 4 covkerels that I want to rehome before they start to wake up the neighbourhood early in the morning.
They are all bantams : 1 Vorwerk (previous photo) , 2 Dutch with different colours and 1 Sussex red porcelain.

The 2 black mamas with the Silver partridge Dutch cockerel:

Sussex male in front.

Yellow partridge Dutch

Pics taken a few weeks ago. They are all a bit older now.