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    B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

    I have to reduce my cockerals so I hope you all would be so kind to help me make a choice. I want to get down to two trios. I have the cockeral picked for the first trio but I need some help for the second trio. Cockeral #1 is the largest dorking I have. He is very large and has the least...
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    B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

    Quote: Here is a quote to ponder: http://books.google.com/books?id=qcNbAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA342&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U3o9xRQKGgpE3ovGyItwOUyyNsC2Q&ci=169%2C552%2C737%2C267&edge=0 from this book: http://books.google.com/books?id=qcNbAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA342#v=snippet&q=five%20toes&f=false If I am...
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    B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

    We have used the colored dental rubber bands for chicks. They were OK but we had a problem with them slipping off. For teeny tinys, a simple ink dot would be the easist and safest. Once the chicks get bigger we use zip ties or wire ties. You can order them in many different sizes and colors...
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    B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

    All white earlobes are not historically accurate, but mostly red ear lobes with traces of white is quite historically accurate at least for the past 140 years or more. I think the Standard reflects this with its " no more than 1/3 white" which if I'm not mistaken includes shades of pink. I...
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    Java Thread

    I got them from a small farm here in central Alabama. They got their stock from a older gentleman with a few old time breeds. I do not know if these are directly related to the Garfield or Urch stock. It could be possible these are from an old Southern strain but that is pure speculation on...
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    Java Thread

    I have just got my first Javas. Three white cockerals. I hope to order some pullets or hatching eggs very soon.
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    B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

    I have read that all red earlobes in a Dorking may show too much influence from the OEG. The purest strains should a have a small amount of white. This is paraphased from the 1890s. On a side note, the standard OEG was used historically to reinvigorate Dorking blood. Sometimes you hear...
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    True or False?????????????/

    False, Raccoons are predators and scavengers of the highest order. They would eat you if you laid still long enough.
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    B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

    Karen, I really hope I am wrong about this but there seems to be a pattern. I and others have had the same problems with Silver Grays. They develop to a certain point and stop. You have seen this in incubaton, I and others have seen this growing them out. Heck the same problems were talked...
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    B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

    Karen, Maybe I should not have used the term quitters. I received all of my birds as chicks. At first all were doing well but at various stages of development past chickhood, they quit. For instance the last one I lost, a pullet, had reached adult size. She was as large as rest but she...
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    B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

    I have raised up my first batch or foundation stock of Dorkings. Last week we recieved our first egg. Two days ago we lost what I think is the last of the quitters. Raising these birds up I began to wonder if the name should be Diekings instead of Dorkings. Out of 28 chicks 9 made it to...
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    B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

    The disqualification for Dorking earlobes is more than one third white. Most of my birds have earlobes that are redish pink. Are they more than a third white? I would say no. In a case like this I think sometimes it`s a matter of opinion. I quess I could mix up some red paint and add one...
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    White Javas + Black Giants

    I have a small flock of Black Giants. Last weekend I was given three 6 month old white Java cockerals. I plan to get some more Javas, but I wonder if I could cross the white Javas with the black JGs and eventually breed back to pure Java. The crosses, after producing each generation would go...
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    standards

    Some of the old APA Standard of Perfection books had photographs for some of the breeds. When I say old I mean 1920s. I was very suprised when my 2010 book arrived with very few photos and all of these were of board officers or in the information section. All breed depictions are paintings...
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    culling

    I take a preservation approach to culling. My goal is to have strong, vigorous and usefull birds, not shortlived weak birds with spectacular color. I would choose health and vigor first followed by body and lastly color. The old saying goes repair the barn before you paint it. You may be...
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