Blue Barnevelder
A variety of the Barnevelder
Chicken · Dark brown eggs · Laying
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About the Blue Barnevelder
A self (solid) blue Barnevelder, evenly slate-blue throughout rather than laced, produced by the same single blue dilution gene that softens black to blue — so it does not breed true and yields blue, black and splash offspring. Recognised in large fowl on the Continent by the Entente Européenne but not part of the lacing-focused British standard, where a laced breast is required for show. Still a hardy, dual-purpose, dark-egg layer.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- Dark brown
- Eggs per year
- About 200
- Purpose
- Laying, Meat
- Sizes
- Large fowl, Bantam
- Incubation
- 21 days
- Broodiness
- Low
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Purity
- Pure
- Origin
- Netherlands
- Scientific name
- Gallus gallus domesticus