Many poultry farmers are attracted to Bielefelder chickens, which have good productive data, especially in terms of egg production, as well as a beautiful appearance and good, good health. These birds are fast growing. But their main feature is that when breeding offspring, the owner, the poultry breeder can immediately determine who hatched from the egg a cockerel or a hen and who will be more in the feathered herd: males or laying hens.
The birthplace of Bielefelder chickens is the German town of Bieldefeld. To breed them, poultry scientist Gerber Roth crossed the Welzummer, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Amrox chickens. The breed was bred in the second half of the 20th century.
Laying hens can lay up to 230 eggs per year, the weight of which can reach 70 grams. The shell color is light brown. Chickens are able to gain weight up to three kilograms nine hundred grams, and roosters grow up to four and a half kilograms.
Bielefelder is a breed of chickens that attracts the attention of poultry farmers with its high egg production rates, good meat qualities: tenderness, juiciness, pleasant taste, fast growth and early maturity, good health and, of course, autosex, that is, the ability to immediately determine their gender by chicks.
Bielefelder birds are beautiful and peaceful chickens. They have a very calm nature. They do not like to fight and conflict with their coop neighbors. These feathered pets are completely unpretentious in food, quickly adapt to any conditions of detention and various weather conditions. They are not afraid of either the exhausting heat in the summer, or the severe frost in winter. Although, of course, in the cold season for Bielefelder chickens, it is best to insulate the house and even heat it from time to time.
In the warm season, this breed of chickens needs regular walking on green grass and in the fresh air, where the birds can get the necessary vitamins and mineral elements contained in the pasture.
Bielefelder is a breed of chickens, reviews of which from poultry farmers from different regions of the country always come equally good and positive. Feathered pets do not cease to please their owners, giving them pleasure not only with their egg production and delicious meat, but also decorating the yard with their bright, unusual, beautiful appearance.
Chickens Bielefelder description
These birds have a very unusual plumage color. It comes in three colors: black, gold and striped. The plumage color of hens and roosters is somewhat different. Laying hens have light brown spots on the belly and sides, and the head and neck are red, the back is white-black and brown stripes. Roosters have ocher-colored plumage on the back, head and neck, feathers are “strewn” with white spots and black stripes. Bielefelder are large birds with a beautiful and rather unusual plumage color.
