Plymouth Rock thread!

[Penny Hen]

Can I paint her?

 

[aoxa]

Can you ship to the US?

I don't think so.. How did PEI Chickens get eggs to the US?

I have a 2.6 pound box (not flat rate) going out to Southern Alaska for $16.50 by USPS.

:| I can ship 3 hours away for the same

Can I paint her?

Sure, why not

 

[Fred's Hens]

Michigan, for example, has three "border towns". Sault Ste. Marie, the Pt. Huron/Sarnia area and the Detroit/Windsor area. Folks go back and forth to work and for shopping and entertainment every day. Sometimes they shop for groceries on the other side and among those groceries, sometimes they bring, oh, I don't know, a dozen or two or eggs back from the Sam's Club or Costco or other large food stores along with the bread, canned goods and other items.

It happens.

 

[BlackPanther]

I don't think so.. How did PEI Chickens get eggs to the US?

Maybe you could bring some "picnic" eggs over the border...

 

[normanack]

Not an expert, just doing some research:

from US APHIS:

Poultry hatching eggs imported from Canada
Poultry hatching eggs imported from Canada must be accompanied by a veterinary health certificate issued by a Canadian government veterinarian. However, no quarantine is required for hatching eggs of Canadian origin. Those hatching eggs imported through a U.S.-Canadian land border port do not require a USDA import permit, whereas eggs entering the United States from Canada via air do require a USDA import permit.
The import permit application (VS Form 17-129) can be downloaded from the Internet at:http://www.aphis.usda.gov/library/forms/index.shtml#vs or by contacting us at:
USDA, APHIS, VS
National Center for Import and Export
4700 River Road, Unit 39
Riverdale, MD 20737
(301) 851-3300 Telephone
(301) 734-6402 Fax

How to Contact Us

If you need additional materials about importing hatching eggs of poultry or other birds into the United States, please contact us at:
USDA, APHIS, VS
National Center for Import and Export
4700 River Road, Unit 39
Riverdale, MD 20737
(301) 851-3300 Telephone
(301) 734-6402 Fax

So it sounds like bringing back some picnic eggs would not be a health risk (of the serious infectious diseases) if you exercise the usual care in choosing your egg source. Whether or not you want to chance it from a legal perspective? Hmm. Dunno.

 

[Wynette]

The Silver Penciled Rock eggs that I purchased from PEI Chicken had a health certificate accompanying them. I'm pretty excited about them - 2014 should be a fun year!

 

[Silver Rock]

I got the weight on my Padgett line Silver Penciled Plymouth Rocks today. I will post the weigh of both Padgett & Horstman lines so that they can be compared.Below is the weights to my Padgett & Horstman lines at 11 weeks old.

11 week old chicks Padgett line "Weights got 12/3/2013"
K001- 2lb. 9oz
K002- 2lb. 8oz
K003- 3lb. 3oz
K004- 3lb. 0oz
P005- 2lb. 3oz
P006- 2lb. 5oz
P007- 2lb. 4oz
P008- 2lb. 4oz
P009- 2lb. 2oz
P010- 1lb. 15oz
P011- 2lb. 0oz has a few feather stubs down her shanks and will be culled this weekend.



11 week old chicks Horstman line "Weights got 7/4/2013"
K001- 3lb. 6oz
K002- 2lb. 8oz "has been culled"
K003- 2lb. 10oz "has been culled"
K004- 2lb. 6oz "has been culled"
K005- 2lb. 5oz "has been culled"
K006- 2lb. 4oz "has been culled"
K007- "was culled very early"
P008- 2lb. 2oz "has been culled"
P009- 2lb. 5oz
P010- 2lb. 5oz
P011- 2lb. 0oz "has been culled"
P012- 1lb. 13oz "has been culled"

I got the weights below on my Horstman line 11/28/2013 . They hit 7 months old on 11/16/2013.
K001- 8lb. 9oz
P009- 5lb. 8oz
P010- 5lb. 7oz

 

[codyschap]

Ill post pictures of my plymouth rocks when I get home!

 

[Silver Rock]

I am looking forward to attending the ABA National this weekend in Knoxville,TN. This year I will just be a spectator at the show but next year I plan to enter a few Silver Penciled Plymouth Rocks.

A picture of my SPPR cockerel enjoying a warm 72* December Tennessee day.

 

[Egghead_Jr]

That is one of the best looking penciled cockerels I've seen. The lines that are shown here have beautiful pullets but sad looking featherless boys. How is your female penciling? Just my novice thought but if your cockerel has good plumage perchance the hens are lacking in "paint" of that variety. But then that's why there are separate breeding pens- to keep the female and male lines apart for show. Looks like a male line to me. And a beaut at that.