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| | We specialize in dark egg breeds and
extremely rare breeds in need of responsible conservation.
In 2005, we are offering day-old chicks of
the following breeds:
Pictures of our eggs and our birds are
available on the photos page.
 | Penedesenca One
of the three ancient breeds from the Catalan region of Spain, the
Penedesenca comes in Black (the most common in the US), Partridge, Crele,
and Wheaten. Ours are Partridge and Crele. If you're curious,
here's a little information about the Catalan breeds.
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| Empordanesa One
of the three ancient breeds from the Catalan region of Spain, the
Empordanesa comes in White, Red, Dark Buff, and Light Buff. We have
Whites and Reds. If you're curious, here's a little information about
the Catalan breeds.
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| Bleu Marans
The Bleu Marans appear to be a natural sport in the breed. The
blue recognized in France has the hackles of a Copper Black. Mine have
cuckoo hackles. When crossed with a normal cuckoo hen, my Bleu rooster
produces 25% each of the following: normal cuckoo with white legs;
splash like himself, with white legs; solid blue with slate legs; and black
with black legs, and sometimes dark combs.
The odd color patterns mean they cannot be sexed at
hatching like cuckoos. You can't even predict the adult colors of
cuckoo or black chicks, because some smudgy looking cuckoo chicks turn
splash, and some blacks turn blue. A little more
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| Welsummers My
Welsummers are a legacy from Lowell Barber. In fact, except for a few I
sold, I still have all the original hens he passed along to me, and they are
still good producers of nice large dark eggs.
I have never understood why other dark egg breeds
are so much more popular, when so far, my Welsummers have outdone all the
other dark egg breeds for depth of egg color, and consistency of egg color
within the flock. As long as I have had them, I have been working on
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| Blue Laced Red Wyandottes
My birds are from Lowell Barber, descendants of his imports,
and from an importation from England to Canada several years ago. A little history
on Lowell's BLRs.
Hand raised, these birds are the gentlest lap
chickens I have ever seen. They are also the ultimate eye candy in any
chicken yard.
These BLRs have not been crossed with Gold Laced or
Silver Laced, which each have genes that can spoil the deep rich red the
breed is named for. The unfortunate part of crossing to Gold Laced or
Silver Laced is that the undesirable genes are recessive and therefore hard
to breed out, they keep popping up long after you thought you had them
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| Blue Salmon and Salmon Faverolles
My original Salmons came from Pam Marshall, who was winning
very nicely with her line at the time. When they eventually went home
with my friend Will, he acquired a Blue Salmon rooster. After Will won
Best Continental at the 2004 NC State Fair with the offspring of one of my
birds, he brought me some Salmon hens and Blue Salmon roosters. You
can tell which ones are Salmon and which ones are Blue Salmon by a few weeks
of age. Blue Salmons are not yet in the Standard of Perfection (SOP),
and need motivated people to show and breed them who will work together to
get them entered into the SOP. They are incredible broody
mamas (as good as the best silkies) and great eye candy.
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