Silver Double Laced Barnevelder

A variety of the Barnevelder

Chicken · Dark brown eggs · Laying

At a glance

Origin
Netherlands
Scientific name
Gallus gallus domesticus
Eggs per year
~200
Egg colour
Dark brown
Incubation
21 days
Broodiness
Low
Cold hardiness
Hardy
Sizes
Large fowl, Bantam
Purpose
Laying, Meat
Purity
Pure

About the Silver Double Laced Barnevelder

Replaces the chestnut ground of the standard bird with silver-white, so the double black lacing reads as sharp black-on-silver instead of black-on-brown. Developed largely by Dutch breeders (drawing on silver-pencilled Wyandotte blood) and recognised relatively recently — bantams around 2009, large fowl by 2013 — it is one of the harder colours to breed cleanly and good examples remain scarce. Carries the same hardy, brown-egg-laying Barnevelder constitution.

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