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[Texasmja]

What is the Barnebar project?

 

[ChixAddict]

Hi,

We currently have some Bantam Black Cochin biddies - 1-5 days old. The pullets will be added to our breeders - got a lonesome unrelated roo just dying for some girls! The boys will have to be sold off/rehomed. Our Faverolles are going broody again...after a first-time hatch of 4 biddies out of a "community nest" back in October! We're planning to keep and breed WFBS, Blue Andalusians, Faverolles, EE's, a few other varieties of bantam cochins - SL, partridge, red (1 pr each right now), some LF cochins - blue, white, partridge, red (maybe GL if I can find some pullets and buffs if I can get a replacement roo!). I had hoped to breed RS Yokos and Black Sumatras, but the cockerels I ordered ended up being pullets too! (How often does THAT happen....In every other breed, we have a rooster overage!...One crows and it goes on for an hour to get around the pen so every roo gets heard!! LOL!)

We've been trying to thin down the flock (victim of husband's over-zealous re-introduction to chickens!!...some seriously rampant chicken math!). So a lot depends on what we can manage to sell by breeding season.

Oh...not showing any time soon.

 

[RachaelS]

What is the Barnebar project?

It is an Autosexed breed, for those that are not familiar with that, a sex-linked can be sexed the day it is born, but if you breed the sex-linked again you don't get the same result, only on the first breeding. For Autosexed, it breeds true, so on going each chick can be sexed at hatched. They have the "look" of a Barnevelder but the Roosters are barred. It is a breed over in England, but does not exist here. I am just doing it for fun, I will never have a "real" breed, like the Crested Cream Legbar, just a mutt, but one that I want LOL!!!!

 

[knightie]

I'm so glad it's finally winter and winter temps!! We had no fall here... I wish summer would never come again, lol

 

[Texas Wolf]

Same here! I am in Utah instead of Texas right now! I miss my girlfriend from there

 

[jockeyeba]

What is the Barnebar project?

It is an Autosexed breed, for those that are not familiar with that, a sex-linked can be sexed the day it is born, but if you breed the sex-linked again you don't get the same result, only on the first breeding. For Autosexed, it breeds true, so on going each chick can be sexed at hatched. They have the "look" of a Barnevelder but the Roosters are barred. It is a breed over in England, but does not exist here. I am just doing it for fun, I will never have a "real" breed, like the Crested Cream Legbar, just a mutt, but one that I want LOL!!!!

Rachael are you participating in the Austin Funky Chicken Coop Tour?

 

[RachaelS]

Nope, LOL! My dogs don't like "strangers" on their turf

 

[Little Wing]

What are you all going to hatch in 2013? Ordering new chicks? Anyone showing? Trying a new breed?

We are hatching black and lavender Ameraucanas, Olive Eggers and EasterEggers.
We have some black and lavender chicks coming from Paul Smith in February. I've never had live chicks mailed to me before...am super worried about getting them in February!
Haven't shown anything yet, it's on the back burner.
Would love to branch out with new breeds but until I do like you did and move to the country, I'm full up on breeding space.

 

[jockeyeba]

Nope, LOL!  My dogs don't like "strangers" on their turf

Personally "I" don't like strangers on my turf Are you going to check it out?

 

[RachaelS]

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Nope, I think it is a good thing, just not "my" thing! Yep, I use my dogs as the excuse, but a dangerous one at that

I am a South Austin person, not central or north, to me they are a different breed of Austinite. Nothing wrong per say, just different from country folk. I like the laid back feel down here, not the quick pace of Central and North.