Barnevelder breeders lets work together and improve the breed

[dfdesigns]

Here's some of my Barnie chicks from TLS Ranch; now almost a week old. I love these babies!

 

[Chickenman76]

I finally have Barnies and BCM's in the bator, so excited

And I have a couple experimental eggs

 

[r4eboxer]

Hello! Can anyone tell me what color these chicks are, there are 12 huddled together that are all the same color, the one to the left is yellow with grey

wing feathers starting to come in.
I know the lighting isn't great I will try to get another later today but wanted to see if anyone recognized the color right off. I know there are only a certain number of Barnies.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Hello! Can anyone tell me what color these chicks are, there are 12 huddled together that are all the same color, the one to the left is yellow with grey

wing feathers starting to come in.
I know the lighting isn't great I will try to get another later today but wanted to see if anyone recognized the color right off. I know there are only a certain number of Barnies.

It could be a splash. Where did you get them?

 

[Happy Chooks]

I finally have Barnies and BCM's in the bator, so excited

And I have a couple experimental eggs

Congrats! And good luck with your hatch!

 

[Happy Chooks]

Here's some of my Barnie chicks from TLS Ranch; now almost a week old. I love these babies!

Nice! Congrats!

 

[sherpagirl]

Hi Al, those look great! I am working on the silver as well, but don't have anything like that yet! Andy is trying to help me, but i am pretty confused at every step.

Hi Al, Do you have any pictures of your roosters you would share and some of some chicks about 6 weeks old? Thanks, Donna

 

[sherpagirl]

Here's some of my Barnie chicks from TLS Ranch; now almost a week old. I love these babies!

Aww, so cute, I never get tired of chicks!

 

[BantamCastle]

Hi Al, Do you have any pictures of your roosters you would share and some of some chicks about 6 weeks old? Thanks, Donna

Hello Donna,

First of all welcome and what beautiful Barnies you have!

When it comes to Silvers we are all still learning and I find myself confused more often than I'd like to admit. For me, my biggest focus has been primarily on getting the red genes out while also keeping an eye out for type and pattern. I have read a lot of books and talked to a lot of folks about how simple Silvers 'should' be to create. Apparently my birds haven't read the same books, because in practice there seems to be more alleged 'autosominal red' genes than simple logic would allow (at least in my flock). That said, every year with proper selection, my birds get whiter and whiter and I am very excited about what I'm already seeing this year. I've hatched 200+ and am only keeping the ones which are white as snow, hoping that fixes it once and for all. Here are some pictures of this years' crew at about 7 weeks. I will dig up some picture of my breeder rooster very soon.






BTW: Your website looks terrific, did you do it yourself?

~Al

 

[mountainvieworchards]

Hi Al your silvers are looking good from this year. Are you going to be around this weekend, I would like to come see them

Andy