Old and Rare Breeds

[saladin]

osu,
I don't think they'd be a bad place if you are not worried about color. I think you'll have a time separating out color varieties for a few years, but changes are you know more about breeding chickens than they do.

 

[OSUman]

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So thats a no... I have a black rooster from Moore Farms, havent really looked at him as far as the standard yet. I do know that he has bad eye color.

 

[josh44]

Here's a pic if one of my white face black Spanish hens , taken this morning.

 

[sfh11]

I was home sick from work today and read this entire thread. A very good read, I picked up a few good ideas to use. Thank you all for the info.

 

[saladin]

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josh,
She looks really good. Standard WFB Spanish are very difficult to come by these days. I'm guessing you know the claim to fame that these birds have?

This was the first chicken brought to America by the Spanish (other than Games which can also contend for first place).

I wish more folks would take up the breeding and conservation of this old breed.

If there is any breed that could go by the name of 'American' it would have to be this one: the earliest of them all.

 

[flitter]

It's spring.... time to revive this thread?
These are some of my 10 week old chicks from an old and rare breed.

 

[flitter]

This a different old and rare breed.

 

[flitter]

They say "three's the charm". Or something like that. So this is the last (third) old and rare breed. Not the Silkies... they are playing "Mom".

 

[welasharon]

What are the breeds?

 

[flitter]

826 are Redcaps
827 is an Appenzeller Spitzhauben
828 is a Dominique