The Barbu D'Watermaal Project

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Eggs will not be made available to people that do not plan to breed. This breed is endangered, so any birds that are fit to use in a breeding program must be used in a breeding program whether it is ours or somebody else's.

It is possible that culls (ones that don't have a use as breeders) will be available to pet homes.

If anybody is looking to become a breeder please contact me and I would be more than happy to send you some resources! 😊

As of the Fall of 2021, we do not ship birds. We hope that we will not ever have to ship birds, but if we can't find any interest in this breed locally, we may have to learn to ship. 😁

Our Barbu D'Watermaels came from Heidi Grable (Green Grables Farm) in North Carolina. It is said they were developed from an old line of silkies with a rose comb and the trifid. We purchased our trio of Watermaals in early August, 2021 and hope to start hatching eggs by Spring of 2022. We will most likely not have any eggs available to ship from these birds as we want to hatch every egg we can. All of the birds in our trio are split to mottled and are split to recessive white. It has been found that the trifid and crest are both simple dominant. All of our current breeders are heterozygous for the trifid and crest, meaning it is possible to get chicks without a crest, without the trifid, etc. It will be a long time before we feel confident enough to ship eggs. We hope by the Fall of 2022 we will have our own breeding pens goings of pure recessive white and mottled, and can start hatching eggs for ourselves in the Spring of 2023. The soonest I anticipate having eggs available is in the Fall of 2023.

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Notice the three spikes on the back of this Watermaal cockerel's rose comb. This is called a trifid and is said to be a dominant trait.

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Notice the crest on this Watermaal pullet

History/Breed Information

Coming Soon! Will add more info as time allows.

Please read this article (In Dutch) for more information on this breed.

Watermaalse Baardkriel

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Our current Watermaal Breeding pen consists of one Watermaal cockerel and two Watermaal pullets. We are also using a D'Anver pullet to increase genetic diversity. Our D'Anver pullet is split to mottled and lavender. We plan to start working on introducing lavender and lavender mottled into our line right away, however, we need to make sure that we keep the recessive white genes out of our lavender line. This will require a lot of test breeding, and is one of the main reasons why we will not have eggs available.