Silver Campines and Golden Campines are the two Campine varieties we carry. Campines are a bit flighty, rather like a Leghorn in character. The name is pronounced Kam-peen. Campine Chickens are a fairly small bodied breed .Silver Campines and Golden Campines will lay a fair number of white-shelled eggs. Campines are extremely rare and very seldom seen at shows.
APA Classification: Continental Chicken Class
ALBC Conservation Status: Critcial
Campines lay white eggs, and have white skin.
Color Silver Campines have a solid white hackle with iridescent black-green barred bodies. Golden Campines have golden hackles and iridescent black-green barred bodies. Campine hens and Campine roosters are nearly identical in feather coloration; Campines are considered hen feathered. The barring pattern in Campines differs substantially to Rocks etc. as the bars have black lines three times the width of the white lines. Birds are to be barred in a transverse (V) section with gold or silver ends and well defined edge markings.
History The Campine is a breed of chicken originating in Belgium's Campine region. The Campine has the same basic ancestry as the Braekel, coming as it did originally from the sandy plains of Belgium in the Antwerp district. As part of the experiments at Cambridge by genetic workers, Gold Campine were crossed with Barred Rock to produce the Cambar as early as 1929. Day old Cambar chicks showed sex distinction by having different colours in the down for the male and female.
