Barred Rocks Good Shepard Poulty Ranch

[Mr MKK FARMS]

Your right about these birds not being friendly. My wife noticed it early on. I wouldn't call them flighty but not going to stand around in the open to be caught either. They prefer the brush and thicker places.

As for breeding I'm going to use all my hen's. I don't feel with seven to choose from I've got enough to pick and choose. I'll do that next year at butcher time when i do have a lot. Some hen's may be better than other's sure but I need them all producing egg's if I'm going to get enough on the ground early. I feel they are genetically close enough anyway that the worst(which are pretty good) could potentially produce the best. If I'm wrong there's always the freezer where most are headed anyway.. My priorities for now are strong leg's, shape, growth rate and color. Ideally I'll get a few that have it all under one yellow skin!

It's important to me for birds to finish by fall as, my number one goal is a dual purpose bird that can forage. I may have over a hundred birds in summer but less than twenty through winter. I guess in a way the chosen few will have more time to mature as they get to stay on through winter.

Posts are more interesting with pics so I'll throw one in.
My flock and yes that is a mostly production type hen in front of the barrel. She's keeping us in eggs. The light roo in the center needs butchered as he's a cull. The dark one on the right is number one pick and the left roo is plan B.

Beautiful birds you have!!

 

[dragonfly130]

Well Stan I would like to breed only from my best rooster as he seems to be leeps and bounds ahead of the other. My hen's aren't laying yet but as soon as they do I'll be firing up the bator. Probably will end up with chicks off both roosters as I've only got one coop. Probably building another in spring but for now I gotta make the best of what I've got.

I'm curious what others are feeding their birds. Mine are currently on 20% game bird 24/7, supplemented with scratch and scraps. Higher than 20% feeds seem to be hard to get here.

Thanks for the Praise MMK! Thanks to Jeremy I have birds of this quality.

 

[flaming007]

Good Shepherd Poultry Ranch Inc..
“THE OLDEST CONTINUOUS BREEDING FLOCK OF STANDARD BRED TURKEYS IN AMERICA”
The Mission of Good Shepherd Ranch is preservation of Standard Bred poultry
Life time member of the American Poultry Association and Master breeder
The hatchery and breeding birds are certified by the National Poultry Improvement Program (N.P.I.P.) through USDA
2013 Poultry sale list of hatching eggs, chicks, poults, ducks and geese:
All poultry at Good Shepherd are standard bred birds raised to meet the Standards of the American Poultry Association. Frank Reese has been raising, breeding, hatching and showing poultry for of 50 years. All the poultry raised at Good Shepherd can be trace back to known old American flocks. We have no factory genetics on our farm. All the birds, chicks and egg being sold are for breeding stock and not for just egg and meat. The main reason for selling our birds is to help people get started breeding and raising their own birds. We work very hard to keep our standard bred poultry at the highest of level for standard bred poultry meat production and eggs production. Many people are now calling standard bred poultry heritage poultry today but their real name is standard bred.
1. Barred Plymouth Rock of the Ralph Sturgeon strain. Got my first Barred Rocks in 1956 from Ralph from Ohio. Barred Rocks were King of the farm and meat world for over 50 years.

• Hatching eggs are 24 dollars a dozen
• Day old chicks for breeding stock are 5 dollars each for fewer than 100 chicks and 4 dollar each over 100
• Grown breeding stock 25 dollars and up from there depending on quality.

2. White Jersey Giants are pure Golda Miller strain. Have had Giants since 1962

• Hatching eggs are 30 dollars a dozen
• Day old chicks for breeding stock are 6 dollars each for fewer than 100 chicks and 5 dollars each over 100
• Grown breeding stock 25 dollars and up from there depending on quality.

3. Dark and White Laced Indian Game Cornish are pure Tommy Reece strain. Got my start in Cornish in 1994 when Tommy Reece passed away.

• Hatching eggs are 30 dollars a dozen
• Day old chicks for breeding stock are 6 dollars each for fewer than 100 chicks and 5 dollars each over 100
• Grown breeding stock 30 dollars and up from there depending on quality.

4. New Hampshire got my first New Hampshire back in 1956 from a friend of the family. My strain of New Hampshire’s is the old meat strain.

• Hatching eggs are 24 dollars a dozen
• Day old chicks for breeding stock are 5 dollars each for fewer than 100 chicks and 4 dollars each over 100
• Grown breeding stock is 20 dollars each and up from there depending on quality.

5. Columbian Wyndotte I have been working for years to make and improve my own Columbian Wyndotte. With the help from the late Cecil Moore I feel I have come up with a very good Columbian Wyndotte.

• Hatching eggs are 24 dollars a dozen
• Day old chicks for breeding stock are 5 dollars each for fewer than 100 chicks and 4 dollars each over 100
• Grown breeding stock 25 dollars and up from there depending on quality.

6. Bronze turkeys from Norman Kardosh, Rolla Henry and Cecil Moore. I got my first turkeys back in 1958 from Norman Kardosh and kept them ever since. The standard Bronze is the King of turkeys and cannot be beat for a fine heritage turkey.

• Hatching eggs are 5 dollars each for less than 4 dozen eggs and 4 dollars each egg above 4 dozen
• Day old poults are 10 each for less than 100. Their 9 dollars each for 100 to 300 and 8 dollars each above 300
• Grown breeding stock starts at 100 dollars each and up from there depending on quality.

7. Narragansett turkeys from Norman Kardosh, they were Norman’s favorite turkeys. Got my first Narragansett in 1966

• Hatching eggs are 5 dollars each for less than 4 dozen eggs and 4 dollars each egg above 4 dozen.
• Day old poults are 10 dollars each for less than 100. Their 9 dollars each for 100 to 300 and 8 dollars each above 300
• Grown breeding stock starts at 100 dollars each and up from there depending on quality.

8. White Holland is a sport of my Bronze as they were first made 150 years ago. Large self –breeding white turkeys with brown eyes. I worked with Norman Kardosh over a number of years to make a good White Holland.

• Hatching eggs are 5 dollars each for less than 4 dozen eggs and 4 dollars each egg above 4 dozen
• Day old poults are 10 dollars each for less than 100. Their 9 dollars each for 100 to 300 and 8 dollars each above 300
• Mature breeding stock is 100 dollars each and up depending on quality.

9. The Blacks were kept at Danny Williamson’s farm for a number of years and Danny did a great job of keeping size up and a good black bird.

• Hatching eggs are 5 dollars each for less than 4 dozen eggs and 4 dollars each egg above 4 dozenl
• Day old poults are 10 dollars each for less than 100. There are 9 dollars each for 100 to 300 and 8 dollars each above 300.
• Mature breeding stock is 100 dollars each and up depending on quality.

10. We do have smaller amount of breeds we are working on at this time to help save and preserve.
Rose Comb White Leghorns, Blue Andalusian, Rose comb Ancona, Dark Brown Leghorn, Buff Leghorn, Rose Comb Minorca, White Faced Black Spanish, Silver Laced Wyandotte, White Cornish that are Lou Straits old line, Golda Miller’s pure line of Black Jersey Giants which I got from Golda the first time in 1960 and Sadie Lloyd’s line of Bourbon Red Turkeys If there is a breed you’re looking for please let us know and we might be able to help you find a good old line of that breed. It is always best to buy poultry from a known breeder who has work hard to preserve and maintain an old line of poultry.

11. We also have Roger Stanford’s line of Rouen ducks, Gerald Donnelly’s line of Aylesbury ducks, Rolla Henry’s line of Dewlap geese both gray and buff and Roger Stanford’s line of African geese. Please contact us for pricing.

It is always best to come to the farm to pick up your birds. Give us a chance to teach about the birds you are buying. If you wish us to ship live birds we will only ship by air. The flight must be a direct flight to a major airport with no flight changes. You will have to pay to have us drive them to the airport and the cost of shipping.

Contacts for information about birds

Frank R. Reese Jr.
730 Smoky Valley Road
Lindsborg, Kansas 67456
785 227 3972
[email protected] email
www.reeseturkeys.com website
www.heritagechef.com website

Devon Reese
620 664 1778 phone
[email protected] email

Ryon Carey
620 245 7469 phone
[email protected] email

 

[Robert Blosl]

Looks like every buddy and their brother can get barred rocks and all the other breeds from Frank now.

There are some other breeds that need to be gotten to see what they look like. Also, get your pictures ready for the Chicken University so get your pictures ready. I think the Rocks are close to getting up next. Had a good discus-sen on the Orange Chickens.

 

[kathyinmo]

Frank is only 4 hours from me. I'm gonna make a trip over to see him.
I want to try turkeys again.

 

[mountainvieworchards]

Hi Robert

What is Chicken University?

Andy

 

[NotAFarm]

Hi Robert

What is Chicken University?

Andy

See this thread..........

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/732985/csu-chicken-state-university-large-fowl-sop

 

[mountainvieworchards]

Thanks

 

[Brandi Leigh]

Beautiful birds!

 

[Amanda4414]

Your Barred Rocks are really nice and they have nice Barred Feathers.