Recent content by gilariversun

Quote: Check out Bark River or North Woods.

Quote: I can only give you my experience from growing up on a farm in Oklahoma. My uncles all raised chickens, and would tend to lean towards one of three varieties for whatever reason - Dominickers, Barred Rocks, and Rhode Island Red - depending on the uncle in question. These were raised...

Quote: If your winters are really cold stick with peacombed breeds. Buckeyes, Wayandottes, Dominiques, also Canada originated Chanteclers are your top choices then. Forget silkies (unless you do not mind eating black meat) Also forget bantams, poor and erratic egg...

Quote: Oh my GOOD LORD but that Roo is beautiful. Were you able to establish color and type with him?

It gets a bit toasty here from time to time.... Cornish x Rock cross seem to struggle in the summer, which I would attribute more to their fast growth genetics than their underlying breeds, since both Rocks and Cornish individually seem to do fine. I would say that the most problems come...

Buckeyes and Delawares seem to have aroused quite a bit of interest this year and seem to be all the rage, which is a very good thing for these endangered breeds. There is a lot of new appreciation for the Light and Coronation Sussex, seemingly due to an influx of new bloodlines...

Quote: Do you know the specific breeds??

If you cross a pea comb chicken with a single comb - what type comb will the chicks have? How about rose comb with single comb - or - pea comb and rose comb? What comb is dominant?

If you cross a Buckeye Rooster to a Barred Rock Hen - would you end up with a sexed link chick the same way as if you had used a Rhode Island Red or New Hampshire?

I have a question...... I realize a Cornish Cross is a meat bird, and most live only a few weeks before they are slaughtered for meat. I also realize that it is very difficult for these birds to live to 6 months unless they are free ranged or fed extremely little. However - it is possible...

Quote: Thinking back to my days on a ranch and cattle breeds - I have a couple of questions about your 2nd and 3rd generations. 1) I see you have terminal 8 week weights ranging from 3.25 to 5.75 # each - compared to 3.5 to 5# each - measured at 8 weeks. This is quite good actually -...

Quote: Can you provide a link to the Delaware site you speak of please?

Quote: I did ask the seller. The only information I got was that they had bought their start from a lady in Iowa with about 250 of them, that they are "Delaware Giants just in large size", "that they are nice, and that a bunch of 4 month old hatchlings attacked a rattlesnake and killed it, 3...

I saw an ad on eBay for hatching eggs from a breed called - Delaware Giant. Does anyone here have any experience with these? Is this a strain of Delaware that gets unusually large? Is this a Delaware x Jersey Giant or some such? Or is this a regular Delaware suddenly endowed with a...

I would suggest a barred rock also - or - if you want something a bit different - a light sussex.