Heritage Large Fowl Thread - Page 576

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Karen.......this is not the dog world........lol.

 You got that right, Walt. Poultry is much harder than the dog world. I find that out daily. I had thought the BOSS and silk were just part of regular show grooming like oil on the combs and legs and such. Guess I  need to re-think that too. Sometimes I wonder if I am ever going to land on a real answer instead of ones which keep needing re-examining because I am a newcomer.

Well, ok then, how does one breed gloss into feathers on white birds? I had thought "gloss" was part of "environment", at least on white birds.

Sigh.

 Karen

I get cool and sometimes damp weather even during summer mornings and evenings which helps with feather quality.

Hi Walt,

 Thank you. Hum, Maybe next summer I should put in a mist system to run in the mornings to imitate the morning mist. I lived in Norcal as a child and teenager. Most beautiful spot in the Nation. This is my 17th home and I still think so. We lived in Arden Park and in Cameron Park in the 50's and 60's.

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When do you get your birds?

 Really hoping to get Junior and his Junettes down here the 1st week of Sept. Hoping to get one or more of the trio to Southern OH in Oct. Time will tell on that.

Junior is looking just like his Dad at this point.

 Best Regards,

 Karen

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Walt

Boy I go to work and you guys have been burning up this thread that's good.

The answer to the question on the Master Buff Breeder if you would ask Tom Roebuck was his mentor Marcus Davidson. Heck If Ralph Brazelton was alive he would rate him as the best. He had every Buff color there was. Cochins, Leghorns, Rocks, Wyandotts , Minoricas, you name it he was Mr. Buff. I hope there is some others who studied under him when he was alive.

Tom Roebuck wrote a article on how to breed the Buff Rock and he hit the ball out of the park. It was a classic article and one that all buff folk's should have in their computer or note book.

If you want to put a finish on our birds and maybe even a white bird like my White Rocks give them five sunflower seeds for a bantam and ten for a large fowl and or give them some Alfalfa leaves to the birds two months be for the show. It gets into their gut then into their feather and the finish is something to behold. If you have a female that is dark like a Red let her go broody and after she molts back as a hen her finish will be even better. These are secrets from Ken Bowles told to me. But do not tell any one its a secret.

Point Chasers I love them. By a champion out of a shipping coop.. Cant breed them selves out of a wet paper bag.

Got to hung a duck and talk to Mr. Silkie. Got to run.

When a pigion goes broody she produces a milk hormone many feel that in a chicken that when she goes broody its her hormones that cause her to have a Oliy finish on her feathers after she molts as a hen. This is what Ken Bowles told me. I have two hens that are going through a molt and between the sun flower seeds they will get and that the broodiness will see latter.