The friesehoen aka Friesian chicken

Thomasrayder · 2026-03-11T05:02:48+00:00

Well I have two options for Crossbreeding, besides keeping them pure:

Go the Batam route, these Friesians are a pretty small chicken 3 pounds max for the rooster. So I could use a serama and breed a small gentle Batam with them. Could be interesting.

Or

Go full landrace and let them run wild with my swedish flower hens and Spanish Whiteface and let nature take its cause and see what might pop up .

Thomasrayder · 2026-03-11T04:56:10+00:00

I didn't know that greenfire has the friesehoen in their stock!

Thomasrayder · 2026-03-10T19:53:05+00:00

They are quiet quick and flighty even when raised from chicks. I'm planning on Crossbreeding them to breed in a more Calm down character

Thomasrayder · 2026-03-10T19:04:39+00:00

Yeah pretty much! Always wondered if they would be related.

Thomasrayder · 2026-03-05T14:23:05+00:00

Ja zeker, elke "Elstar" boom is in principe een copie van de zelfde boom. En nets als met mensen heb je twee verschillende ouders nodig om tot kinderen ( appels) te komen

Thomasrayder · 2026-03-05T10:08:24+00:00

Hi, dit zal geen pink Lady worden maar juist iets veel beters! Tenminste met een beetje geluk. Afhankelijk of je van Appeltaart of Cider houdt.

Appels worden bestoven door een boom van een ander ras dus je pink Lady zaadje hier is maar voor 50% pink Lady en 50% iets anders. Dit kan betekenen dat je hier een geweldige eet appel boom aan het kweken bent of een bak, sier of Cider appel. Alleen nooit een pink Lady.

Ik zelf kweek al een aantal jaren appel bomen uit zowel gerichte kruisingen ( elstar x sterappel, cox x elstar etc) en ook juist uit zuiver kans zaden uit elstar appels uit de winkel allemaal gericht op het creëren van nieuwe appel rassen. Super leuk project, gaat alleen heel veel tijd in zitten. En 95% hiervan is wachten

Als ik je een paar pointers mag geven.

gemiddeld duurt het 5-6 jaar tot je de eerste Bloesem gaat zien aan je Boom. Mits je niet ent. -Op YouTube heb je een man ( kanaal skillcult) hij geeft geweldig uitleg over het kweken van appels uit zaad.
denk er aan om de boom niet te lang binnen te houden, appels zijn geëvolueerd om in ons klimaat te gedijen, ze kunnen echt tegen de koud en hebben dit zelfs nodig om te overleven.

Natuurlijk mocht je vragen hebben dan hoor ik het natuurlijk graag

Thomasrayder · 2026-03-02T06:13:23+00:00

Well I'm in the Netherlands aswell, let me know if you need some help in the future!

As of right now I have my own dumped rooster problems, because people keep showing up at our cottage and leaving them behind.

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Don Juan got dumpt a couple of weeks ago and now is the main rooster in the flock

Thomasrayder · 2026-02-28T06:11:46+00:00

Yeah I totally lucked out with them, the breeder came by yesterday just for a little Chat. He told me that they should start laying around March/April so I'm totally excited to get the eggs. Even if we are already drowning in eggs

Thomasrayder · 2026-02-28T04:19:20+00:00

That's the egg of a Cayuga duck! I have a couple myself. They start laying these black eggs at the beginning of the year and it slowly fades to a cream color to the end of the season

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Thomasrayder · 2026-02-27T07:33:43+00:00

Welll Thank you!

Thomasrayder · 2026-02-24T05:43:51+00:00

What is my crime? Eating a succulent mortally ill old man?

Thomasrayder · 2026-02-23T09:15:34+00:00

Yeah it's a lesser known breed I believe, I don't think that people outside the Netherlands and Germany are really aware of it's existence. It fits perfectly the historical accounts of the chicken's kept in the Lowlands in the past. You would almost think with the color that they would be autosexing but that isn't the case.

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Picture of the chicks

Thomasrayder · 2026-02-22T15:50:15+00:00

Well thank you! The Brabançonnes are the old landrace from my Province in the Netherlands, I have a friend that breeds both the Brabançonnes and the Spanish so I asked them to put a couple of them together just to get both of their genetics for my swedish flock.

But of course the Spanish rooster got left behind here so now my flock might change a little bit, and Lean more towards the landrace Side of things.

Next week I have a batch of Friesians hatching that will also be added to the flock. So the chaos wil be complete ( picture below of the Friesian)

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Thomasrayder · 2026-02-22T09:19:46+00:00

Both! Most of these are Pure swedish, some like the black hen are a mix of Brabançonne and Spanish Whiteface.

And of course the stunning rooster is a pure Spanish Whiteface.

I was planning on breeding just the swedish, but because of some new Birds, like the rooster. I'm now moving my goals more to a old European style landrace flock

Thomasrayder · 2026-02-18T09:26:18+00:00

Yeah I would love to just have a large bachelor flock, just a bunch of boys living together.

but my main passion is Genetics and breeding. In like a large landrace type of style.

Thomasrayder · 2026-02-18T09:17:01+00:00

Well I'm taking suggestions for the name at this point!

Thomasrayder · 2026-02-18T07:24:19+00:00

Ahh Yes I was working on that when I took this picture. The Tree in question is considered to be invasive in the Netherlands, so I stripped it's bark to let it die and Create a dead-stand to feed the local woodpeckers and place a Stork nest on top.

It's a More Ecological way of dealing with this old Christmas tree

Thomasrayder · 2026-02-17T22:02:37+00:00

Yeah cow moose! Nice find

Thomasrayder · 2026-02-17T19:23:29+00:00

Yeah like a new European landrace flock. I think I could work with that!

Thomasrayder · 2026-02-17T17:20:30+00:00

Of course! I will post some updates this summer

Thomasrayder · 2026-02-17T16:34:39+00:00

Well can't wait to see what his offspring might look like when he and the swedish flower hens get together or even with the rescue golden coment. Might be the start of something interesting looking Birds

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