The Dorking Breeders thread

[nanclapper]

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Hello! New to this sight & new to Dorkings! Love them!!! Looking for Dorking breeders, prefer Silver Grey, but open to all to get some chicks for next spring. We have a few from a hatchery & they aren't really exhibition quality. We are located in northern Indiana. Thanks!

There is a Dorking Club USA facebook group is open to everyone to join and you might find someone there who has Silver Grey chicks https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/224639315913/

Also, I recently ordered Red Dorking chicks from Jim Hall https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.815325935145419.1073741856.375513002460050&type=3 Jim posted on Dorking Club USA facebook that he is taking presale orders so I jumped on it and ordered. I’m very excited and look forward to having Red Dorkings as well as Silver Greys.

If you are looking for White Dorkings, contact Joseph @ http://yellowhousefarmnh.com/

Nancy

 

[misfit acres]

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There is a Dorking Club USA facebook group is open to everyone to join and you might find someone there who has Silver Grey chicks https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/224639315913/

Also, I recently ordered Red Dorking chicks from Jim Hall https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.815325935145419.1073741856.375513002460050&type=3 Jim posted on Dorking Club USA facebook that he is taking presale orders so I jumped on it and ordered. I’m very excited and look forward to having Red Dorkings as well as Silver Greys.

If you are looking for White Dorkings, contact Joseph @ http://yellowhousefarmnh.com/

Nancy

Thank you so much Nancy!!! Blessings!

Brette

 

[capayvalleychick]

@Yellow House Farm and anyone else who attended the Ohio Nationals, would you please give a report on the Dorkings that were exhibited?

 

[3riverschick]

And please,

if you happened to see the Sussex placings, could you
share that also? I heard there might be 3 exhibited.

Thanks!
Karen

 

[neopolitancrazy]

If my memory serves, there were 4 red Dorkings, one cockerel and 3 pullets, same for Silver Grays, as well as 3 or 4 white Dorking pullets. Mr. Smith also brought a Red trio that he housed at his booth. And I saw a Silver Gray pullet in traders' row that was not for sale, and had Mr. Horstman's name on the cage.

I think there were 4-6 light Sussex, and much nicer than the Dorkings, in my novice opinion. Also those Sussex were HUGE. And tempting.

Reminding myself of the limits on my time and resources,
Angela

 

[kimberly35042]

Thank you Angela!

 

[Sydney Acres]

Most of my sgd do not roost with the other chickens. They sleep on the floor or I find them outside the coop in the barn between round bales of hay. Is this a Dorking trai or a hatchery thing.

It may be your individual line, or there may be something about the coop that they don't like. My birds will do anything to roost in trees or the rafters of the barn. I free range them and have to bribe them into their overnight pen before dusk or I'm climbing a ladder to pull them out of their high perches (the ones that are in reach). In mine, it starts as soon as they can physically fly that high. I caught one of my pullets hopping up the ladder to the hay loft when she was 7 weeks old, then up on some stuff in the loft, then onto the rafters. She had never been up there before, and had never seen another bird up there. She was down on the ground, saw where she wanted to be and found a way to get there. In my group, up high is instinctual. But it may not be for other lines.

There are certain types of mites that live only in the house and on the perches, not on the bird, and the most common sign of that infestation is that the birds don't want to go into their house at night. These mites tend to be active mostly or only at night and keep the chickens from sleeping, so checking at night is the only way to find them.

Since you've got other chickens, it's possible that the other chickens won't let the Dorkings sleep in the same house with them. Dorkings in general are quite sweet birds, and can be easily bullied by many other breeds. Perhaps your other birds are being protective of the roosts and not allowing the Dorkings to sleep there.

You didn't say how old your Dorkings are. Being large birds, they don't roost as early as some of the smaller breeds. Are they still young chicks?

 

[3riverschick]

If my memory serves, there were 4 red Dorkings, one cockerel and 3 pullets, same for Silver Grays, as well as 3 or 4 white Dorking pullets. Mr. Smith also brought a Red trio that he housed at his booth. And I saw a Silver Gray pullet in traders' row that was not for sale, and had Mr. Horstman's name on the cage.

I think there were 4-6 light Sussex, and much nicer than the Dorkings, in my novice opinion. Also those Sussex were HUGE. And tempting.

Reminding myself of the limits on my time and resources,
Angela

Hi,
Do you remember if the Light Sussex were all from one exhibitor?
Thanks,
Karen

 

[neopolitancrazy]

I don't remember :-(

 

[3riverschick]

I don't remember :-(

Ok, Thanks.