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OK......Where is everybody???!!!!!

GOOD DEAL.....glad he was able to help. I hate moving. We moved twice one year (into a rental while new house was being built, then into the new one)....what a pain, I don't envy you doing that I have a cockerel right now I named "Mr Fix It" that I am hoping will be my answer to the same problem

I seem to fight it every other generation....my first Col Rocks had stubs BADLY....then none Got 'em again on a few this year Neil....did you get any help/plans for fixing brassiness? Hope so

I don't think Fred will throw us out of class for getting off topic.... (go easy on us professor) If your Dels are showing brassiness in the hackles, shoulders, saddles then it is probably the same issue. Apparently, the are "inhibitors" that keep brassiness from expressing itself in silver...

Neil42141 I am fighting the same thing on my Columbian Rock males.....hackles, back/shoulders and saddles on mine are brassy There is a 3 or 4 part series in Exhibition Poultry from last Fall (Aug/Sept/Oct I think) that was written by Brian Reeder concerning this issue. For me, I was able...

about a dozen youngsters....in additional to their regular feed

At Vickie's suggestion I began feeding my Columbian Rocks Calf Manna at an early age (I mixed it with cooked grits/eggs.....any Yankees here might call it Polenta, LOL).....I have seen a HUGE difference in the size of my cockerels this season and I have to believe the Calf Manna and the protein...

Karen Be sure to look at July, Aug, Sept and Oct (I think)....as his article was part of 3 or 4 part series

WOW....such words of wisdom Vickie!! I am GUILTY of your description right down to the core. I'm turning over a new means of evaluating my birds from these statements. Better that the glass is "half full" than "half empty", makes all the sense in the world THANKS

We've had 8 1/2" here in N Ga since Thursday morning....I'm grateful for the lack of 90F+ days, BUT I'm beginning to get "moldy"

I am in the SE, NW Georgia to be exact, and I found the same to be true here. I now hatch in Dec/Jan. Let broodies hatch thru March, but after that I sell off any chicks as they do not get as large as the others. I suspect it's the heat, as the birds eat less in hot weather and therefore do...

The answer to that question depends entirely on the birds you have, their quality in comparison to the SOP and what your goals for them are. If you are able to obtain some show champions, your goals for type the following breeding season are going to be entirely different than the goals you'd...

I find the more I free range my birds on green material, the better the leg color is on my Rocks (I keep a food plot planted with (depending on season) grasses, wheat, rye, chickory, 3 types of clover, radishes, turnips, etc). They REALLY enjoy them most in the winter when greenery is hard to find

Not to be contrary....but according to the "genetics guys" yellow legs/yolks/etc are a result of a compound called xanthophyll . It can be found in feed, and a lot of green leafy plants/vegetables. Supposedly the birds cannot create this compound on their own, but rather it must be...

I am currently fighting the ABSENCE of Ap in my COl Rocks LF.....thus resulting in brassiness in the hackle/saddle areas. A poultry genetics expert (NOT ME!!) had me cross a CR male to a well typed BR female, keeping the solid black FEMALE offspring. I just crossed these female "solid blacks"...

I couldn't agree more. I made the mistake of keeping only 1 cockerel from the 2011 hatch and after I had set eggs for 2012 hatch he was taken by a coyote. As Bill stated, I've kept 3 ever since

From what I read, totally different "type"....Hollands are smaller overall, larger combs, shorter back, different tail set than Plymouth Rocks. Also, I would assume that "barred hollands" are cuckoo in color (V shaped barring) and Barred Rocks should be straight barring Hope that helps!!

Thanks for confirming my "choice"....I may lose one day to a "long-tailed Barred", but I'm not raising mine to look that way Thanks again!!!

Walt I'm glad to hear you say you've seen Barred Rock Males with exceptionally long tails....that seems to be a trend at shows, but NOT the SOP (Sorry that I'm interrupting in the Buckeye classroom). I had two nice Col Rock males that I kept over the winter and bred from both. However, one...

I believe if I read my history correctly that the "straight" barring in barred rocks of today is a result of a cross EB Thompson made many years ago to a line of White Leghorns. Had it not been for that cross (or one like it somewhere down the line) barred rocks would still be "cuckoo" in...