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No. They are not supposed to; and it's not a tendency the breed is fighting, either. I have never seen a Creve with a leg feather, or even a stub... and I have seen and raised a number of different hatchery and breeder lines of Crevecoeur. If you have a black, crested chicken with feathered...

Hi therr, do you have chick or adult pictures? I've talked to the people at Cackle a couple times as I would like to get them started with Urch stock. I gathered that they may have tried offering Creves at some point but something hadn't worked out and they weren't at the present time. I have...

Switching around my Urch Creve breeding pens (8-7-21) and will have eggs on offer until things stabilize. I posted a notice in the hatching egg buy/sell/trade thread!

I am switching around breeding pens and have Crevecoeur hatching eggs from pure Urch lines available right now. Not Greenfire at all, these are pure exhibition Crevecoeur dating back to the 1970s when Mr. Urch obtained them from Henry Miller, living poultry history. They are not large birds but...

Interesting about the aggression. Six or more years ago I got a "free rare breed" chick in an assortment of hatchery Silkies. He turned out to be an Andalusian and a total, unredeemable little bastard. I've never had a more mindlessly high-energy aggressive bird of any breed.

Sultans are a large bantam breed, similar in size to a Silkie. They have five toes (like a Silkie) and feathered legs (like a Silkie). They also have what is called "vulture hocks", stiff long feathers at their hock joint which project out and backward. True traditional Sultans are white...

Hi, if you will notice, I've been here since 2010... check out the very first post in this thread (page 1). Of the three Creve breeders listed, I'm the only one still going. I've posted various good pieces of info to this thread over the years, along with old illustrations, so you should check...

"Giving up" :-) ...After 13 years with this line, you would be hard pressed to find a breeder more entrenched. No one's giving up anything here :-)

longleafacres, did you ever find someone?

Hi, yes, they are still laying pretty well. 🙂 ...I messaged you back.

Hey wolfwalker I was thinking of doing something similar... trying out shipping methods and collecting feedback. Have you gotten some results yet? Anyone candled their eggs on arrival? What would you say looks like the best method so far, and which looks worse?

I started saving eggs from my hatchery Silkie pen in hopes there is someone out there looking for a utility Silkie. The pen has a selection of Meyer, Privett and McMurray parents; birds are true Silkie size, all with correct toe count, a good to acceptable comb, reasonably dark skin, many have...

Large fowl Golden Campines. Trying to breed to the Standard of Perfection; perky, agile birds, great fliers, lay a medium to med-large white egg. $20 for a dozen eggs, plus shipping ($15-$25 depending on your location, double boxed in new bubble wrap). Pay by PayPal. First come first served...

Since starting this thread, two people with Urch Golden Campines have come to my notice; one has had them for many years, and one got them shortly before the end.

Article needs a correction for some misleading terminology. "In people, men are shown as X/Y, while women are X/X. In poultry, the hen is designated as X/- while the rooster would be X/X." Not so. In birds including poultry, the sex chromosomes are designated as ZZ for a male, and ZW for a...

Thanks, I Love Layers. I will

Early in 2018, the University of Arkansas ended its standard bred poultry program, and severed its relationship with Keith Bramwell, who had run the program. Due to university policy, all remaining flocks were destroyed. The program had spanned some 13 years and included a range of breeds...

In fall 2018, Duane Urch and the Urch family retired permanently from selling poultry, after maintaining a huge number of breeds and varieties for 50 some years. Who out there still has birds purchased from Urch Turnland poultry? This includes people who purchased "special breeder quality"...

Let's change this around a bit. I still have Houdans ordered from Duane Urch in 2013, along with a couple of other breeds. Who else is out there with Duane Urch stock? Let's make this a roll call. Starting a new thread. Roll call at: Duane Urch stock locator thread

Mr. Urch's? They were dispersed some time ago.