Unsecure chicken perches

[HH HENS]

I bought two friesian fowl hens from the Wernlas collection last May and absolutely love them and would like to buy some more hens. Could anyone recommend a good breeder ? Thanks

[Griffin]

Where abouts are you? I know somebody in Greater Manchester who breeds them.

[HH HENS]

Hi I am in Reading. I seem to remember that somebody on this forum bought quite a few friesian fowl from the Wernlas collection when he retired.I was wondering if they were then going on to breed them?

[Patricia W]

It might be worth contacting Wyle Valley Chickens. Fleur there often has rare breeds. it's near Stonehenge and I can really recommend it for strong healthy chickens

[HH HENS]

Thank you both for replying. I will look on the web at Wyle Valley.

[Redwing]

I bought a lot of chickens from Wernlas, the Friesians I ended up with were a mistake (they were chicks and sold as something else) I passed those on to someone who wanted to breed them but the birds were young so unlikely to produce chicks any time soon

 

It's worth contacting Stuart who is the secretary of the Rare Poultry Society, he will probably have a list if which members breed Friesians, a bit of Googling should find his number

[HH HENS]

Thanks Redwing, yes it was you I was thinking of, as I remember reading your posts after you went to the sale. I have found an article in a back print of practical Poultry and they did a special focus on the Friesian fowl and Stuarts number is at the end of the article. So thanks for your help.

[craftyhunnypie]

There were some on preloved a short while ago. I'm not sure where abouts they were though, but worth a look on there!

Emma.x

[HH HENS]

Thanks Emma I will have a look on there

[Lewis]

HH Hens - I found LF Friesians at Chartley Chucks nr Derby, emailed but only 2 boys for sale atm, hopefully some hatching soon though.

 

 

Looking for Friesian Fowl bantams for a friend if anyone knows of any

[HH HENS]

Thanks very much I looked at the website I will contact them. I was very pleased to see pictures of two friesian fowl on their home page. I know that area as we used to live in Derby and then Burton and we often go back up that way to visit friends. So thanks again !

[Lewis]

Hope you manage to get some

[The Dogmother]

Friesian bantams are really tiny from what I understand, much the same size as the Dutch bantam I once had. I'm told that they're not very hardy either... but that's just what I've heard.

[Lewis]

The LF are about pheasant sized but think the bantams are much smaller, closer to serama

[Epona]

For anyone looking for a breeding group, I have just spotted this ad in Farming ads:

 

Chamonis pencilled Friesian Fowl pullets £100, Quartet (3 hens, 1 Rooster) of Chamonis pencilled Friesian Fowl pullets (vey rare) from 'Wernlas Collection' bloodline. Hatched August 2011; should begin laying extremely soon. Warlingham, Surrey. £100 for Set., , Warlingham, 01883 623149 .

[Epona]

As I'm wife hunting for my bachelor group I'm constantly keeping an eye out for stock coming available. Unfortunately for me most stock seems to be like the ad listed today, at other ends of the country to me. Here in the Midlands there seems to be a deficit of certain breeds in general.....we're like the Bermuda Triangle for chickens! Actually thinkin of arranging to get some sent in from Holland as curious about some of the other colours that strangely have not made it to this country.

Meantime if I trip over any other ads I'll give you heads up on them in case they are anywhere in your neck of the woods.

[Epona]

Ok ...for those curious about what delightful little chooks of this breed actually wander about in Holland ....

 

http://friesehoenderclub.nl/cms/?page_id=15>Friesian Chicken Colours

 

in English the list identifies: 12 colours but only 11 occurring in the small breed

 

Gold, Silver, Citron/yellow, Red, Roan, Yellowish(equates to the Pencil Chamois we have here), Blue, Black, Black&White, White, Cuckoo, Yellow Sand (in a large breed only)

[Egluntyne]

More info about the breed here

[Snowy]

They are very pretty birds - I used to have a Gold Campine that looked very similar to the Friesian. She was one of my favourites. I would love to replace her, but am unable to find any breeders locally.

[HH HENS]

I am trying to contact Epona regarding the Friesian fowl if you see this message could you please PM me. Thanks

[Lewis]

Have you tried PMing or emailing under their username?

[HH HENS]

Hi Yes I have. Thanks

[Epona]

Friesian egglets arrived fresh from Holland this weekend after a lot of emails back and forth to a very helpful Dutch friesian club.

 

13 egglets of the true Bantam (Official breed size: rooster bantam: 700 - 800 gram, hen bantam: 600 - 700 gram) in the Geelwitpel ie Chamois pencilled.

 

16 egglets of the standard/LF (Oficial breed size: Rooster large: 1400 - 1600 gram, hen large: 1200 - 1400 gram) in the Roodpel ... similar colour to the Derby Redcap....so a new colour for this country.

 

10 egglets of standard size Friesians of unknown colour but suspect are the Geelwitpel (awaiting confirmation from my contact!

 

Chartley Chucks kindly helping me incubate them. Our aim is to introduce new blood to existing stock as my research strongly suggests that all or existing flocks are to some extent related and trace back to the original Wenlass strains so desperately in need of new lines. The plan is that now I have an open line with Holland to steadily bring more egglets with some of the other gorgeous colours to establish breeding lines here.

 

To improve breeding strains and protect colours the Dutch actually operate breed improvement by putting the Bantam strains to the Lf. You potentially get 50% egglets hatch as bantam and 50% LF in first generation then brred the large offspring to other large (dito with with the bantams) and next generation from the large birds you will get just 25% are bantam stock (again same ration for the bantam brreding you get 25% LF)...and so on steadily down the line breeding truer to whichever size it is. So our new bantam chamois chooks can be used here to expand and strengthen our LF stock as well.

 

So o anyone now asking if there are any Bantam Friesians in the UK the answer with fingers crossed is that by end of August there will be bantam chicklets running about and more next year, and hopefully a few more colours to enjoy in the future.

[Chortle Chook]

Hi I am in Reading. I seem to remember that somebody on this forum bought quite a few friesian fowl from the Wernlas collection when he retired.I was wondering if they were then going on to breed them?

The lady who runs the Omlet courses based at Wargrave near Reading is breeding some. Her's are just beautiful. PM me if you need more information.

Edited August 2, 2012 by Guest

[daxigirl]

There are some 14 week old ones for sale on Preloved.