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Robert Blosl said:
Glad to see you got some eggs from Frank. I never in my wildest dreams would think that you folks would be getting eggs or chicks from them like this. It will be neat to see what other breeds look like when you hatch the chicks or get chicks from him. One thing he told me on the phone three years ago is he breeds the taste into these birds not the last month or so of secret feeding to put flesh on. So for taste these should be the top chickens in the USA to eat even over those famous feed store breeds we always buy that are suppose to be pure breeds. Glad you have them and they sure have nice color. Now a few of you have the real Barred Plymouth Rocks and not those make beleave one that thousands call barred Plymouth rocks.

This year the Rhode Island Reds are making a come back like the Barred Rocks have done in the last couple of years.
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Thanks Robert!

I have local access to birds that I believe originated in Frank's flocks: Chris Herzog has some that came from Jeremy Woeppel that I believe came from Frank. However, when I saw Frank was selling directly to the general public I couldn't resist. I may even order more of his eggs next month if I can manage to swing it and try a couple additional breeds, like his New Hampshires (I have some of the German strain, but his look pretty darned good).

I also have eggs coming from Jamie Duckworth from his line of Barred Rocks and have my fingers crossed that those hatch well too. I saw some photos of his BR and they are very handsome birds.

Chris has some great looking RIR and I may have to get a few of those if I can make the room. Plus, I am ordering some Red Dorking chicks from Dick Horstman (last batch of hatching eggs was a bust) and may get some of his RIR while I am at it as well.

I plan on keeping my hatchery Rocks in my table egg flock, since they lay pretty well. However, after seeing Chris Herzog's GSBR rooster last weekend, I will probably be selling off my current Barred Rock rooster and cockerals at our local monthly sale in the next couple of months. I can replace them with a cull from the new flock when the time comes.
 
Frank is supposed to ship my 3 doz eggs Monday
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Let hope for a safe journey and a good hatch. I just have the one GSBR from Matt1616 and I just LOVE him and want to have some pullets to breed him with. He has made a huge improvement in the barring in my Blue Barred Rocks and I am just loving it.

Do you have any pics of the NH chicks you got from him..... they were very tempting along with several other breeds, but I had to STOP Looking. Maybe later in the spring.
 
DMRippy said:
Frank is supposed to ship my 3 doz eggs Monday
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Let hope for a safe journey and a good hatch. I just have the one GSBR from Matt1616 and I just LOVE him and want to have some pullets to breed him with. He has made a huge improvement in the barring in my Blue Barred Rocks and I am just loving it.

Do you have any pics of the NH chicks you got from him..... they were very tempting along with several other breeds, but I had to STOP Looking. Maybe later in the spring.
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Safe journey to your hatching eggs and best of luck for a SUPER hatch! Your eggs aren't traveling as far as mine did, so maybe shipping will be kind to them!

I know what you mean about temptation. I have a much bigger want list than wallet or room to put them!

All the NH I have right now are the German strain. I am seriously thinking of getting some of Frank's NH egg though. He does have some photos of them on his website. From what I could see they look pretty good: The roosters have nice open tails, but I couldn't see the females very well. The big thing that was stopping me was having enough room in my coops: I am pretty much full and have run out of areas already under roof to close in.

However, last night a neighbor agreed to sell us their old 8' x 22' travel trailer for...get this....$35. That means I just scored my mobile coop and made room for another 40+ chickens! We are going to gut the interior, put down some cheap vinyl flooring, and slap some used tires on it so we can move it around with the tractor.
 
KathyinMO warned me not to be too quick in sexing these birds. I was pretty accurate at 5 weeks, better at 7 weeks and by 8 weeks, it was 100% accurate. These do take just a wee bit longer to sex than hatchery stock.

But then, EVERYTHING takes longer with these birds, so one just have to get used to that reality.
 
1MrsMagoo said:
Quote: Thanks for the good wishes. I have not heard from him yet, he may be waiting for this next round of storms to clear out.

That is a GREAT SCORE! Good luck with that! When we bought our farm there was a simi trailer on the farm we didn't want and we GAVE it WAY
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If I had only known then I would be the crazy chicken lady we could have made a nice coop out of it.... if we could have moved it. It was in the front of the farm, a real eye sore.
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Originally Posted by DMRippy


Frank is supposed to ship my 3 doz eggs Monday
celebrate.gif
Let hope for a safe journey and a good hatch. I just have the one GSBR from Matt1616 and I just LOVE him and want to have some pullets to breed him with. He has made a huge improvement in the barring in my Blue Barred Rocks and I am just loving it.

Do you have any pics of the NH chicks you got from him..... they were very tempting along with several other breeds, but I had to STOP Looking. Maybe later in the spring.


DMRippy----
I have attached pics of the eggs Jwhip sent me...they are a cross of his german NH rooster over Frank's NH hens. Jwhip hatched over 100 for himself thus far. Should be interesting to watch these grow out. I have 17 myself. HUGE vigorous chicks.








 
cbnovick said:
Originally Posted by DMRippy


Frank is supposed to ship my 3 doz eggs Monday
celebrate.gif
Let hope for a safe journey and a good hatch. I just have the one GSBR from Matt1616 and I just LOVE him and want to have some pullets to breed him with. He has made a huge improvement in the barring in my Blue Barred Rocks and I am just loving it.

Do you have any pics of the NH chicks you got from him..... they were very tempting along with several other breeds, but I had to STOP Looking. Maybe later in the spring.


DMRippy----
I have attached pics of the eggs Jwhip sent me...they are a cross of his german NH rooster over Frank's NH hens. Jwhip hatched over 100 for himself thus far. Should be interesting to watch these grow out. I have 17 myself. HUGE vigorous chicks.








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Thanks! Cute. I saw them on the GNH thread. Please post some updates as they grow.
 
Hey all,

I went back about 15 pages and read forward. Reading a few lines on cracked eggs from this source has me a bit anxious and thinking I should have ordered an extra dozen but I've got my order in so will give a go with what's coming for Easter hatch.

For those that ordered chicks from Good Shepherd what have been your hatch rates? My personal experience with shipped eggs has been abysmal. Chalked it up to the route taken as all three shipments came up the East coast to me so am giving one last go at it from the West.
 
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Egghead_Jr said:
Hey all,

I went back about 15 pages and read forward. Reading a few lines on cracked eggs from this source has me a bit anxious and thinking I should have ordered an extra dozen but I've got my order in so will give a go with what's coming for Easter hatch.

For those that ordered chicks from Good Shepherd what have been your hatch rates? My personal experience with shipped eggs has been abysmal. Chalked it up to the route taken as all three shipments came up the East coast to me so am giving one last go at it from the West.
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I ordered a dozen about a month ago. I received 12 and 1 was broken beyond repair. Packaging wasn't that great. 5 are in lockdown now (day 22.) I really hope I get at least 1 to hatch and it is a little roo to replace mine that died last December. I have one lose air cell and a couple of saddle shaped aircells so I am really keeping my fingers crossed.
 

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