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  1. AllenWMiller

    Standard of Perfection

    Today, continuing on with our breeding discussions, I thought I would write about two important features to review for selecting and culling cockerels and pullets or cocks and hens as well. I hope that Walt will embellish this line with his experiences as a judge using the SOP. Two of the...
  2. AllenWMiller

    Lady Amherst - pure breed or mutant?

    There is a difference between "domestic" and "domesticated." The process of "domestication" (a population differs genetically from its wild ancestors, involving more than just single-gene color mutations) involves a longer period of time than does the process of becoming "domestic" (born in...
  3. AllenWMiller

    Lady Amherst - pure breed or mutant?

    AquaEyes I agree with much of what you have to say in your post. But with regard to Pheasants (and others like Parrots, canaries, etc.), generally, I do have to take exception to your post classifying them as "non domestic" Aves. Pheasants particularly are clearly domestic Aves even though...
  4. AllenWMiller

    Standard of Perfection

    BarnGoddess no honest question makes anyone look like a dope; rather it makes you look intelligent for asking honestly what you don't know. Now sexual maturity for chickens is a slightly ambiguous question. For biological purposes a pullet is sexually mature when she starts laying between 4 and...
  5. AllenWMiller

    Standard of Perfection

    Yes Karen I knew of Wetherell and Nathalia Card and I knew their son, Arthur. Wetherell was an avid Rhode Island Red man as well as the originator of White Laced Red Cornish . My grandfather and father had a line of RIR's and used Mr. Card's stock to out cross their lines around 1912. And...
  6. AllenWMiller

    Chick wire question.

    It's been our experience that our PVC coated fencing products have been safe and easy to maintain. We use PVC coated hardware cloth for our brooding coop floors now as it is easy to steam power wash the floors as a brood moves on. We've review the safety of this type of PVC coating and have...
  7. AllenWMiller

    Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

    We used to live in Southern New Jersey aka SJ.
  8. AllenWMiller

    Standard of Perfection

    Thank you Walt for your reply. I think I'm familiar with standard and bantam rocks and was pretty sure I knew when they were admitted to the standard. But when I read that particular list on the APA website, I thought I was sleeping and missed some radical new change in the 21st Century! After...
  9. AllenWMiller

    Standard of Perfection

    I have a question about Marans and egg colour. You mentioned that a 6 year old hen will be laying lighter eggs. Assuming that she is a good all-round bird (type meets SOP) and laid a very dark egg earlier in her life, is she likely to pass that initial darkness on to her off-spring even if it is...
  10. AllenWMiller

    jersey giants

    The two I pointed out look good from the pictures. Could you post the Cockerels you've raised individually? I'd like to see which is the best if I may observe them. Thanks. JA
  11. AllenWMiller

    Black Jersey Giant Eggs

    I am sorry OldChurch I completely missed your kind reply to my inquire on this thread. Yes I imagine you will be excited starting with a second generation line from such distinguished strains. I am familiar with all the lines you spoke of in the post. I will have my grandson contact the club...
  12. AllenWMiller

    jersey giants

    Oh OH I just realized these are the chicks you bought from IowaHeritage right? Now I see why I see the resemblances in the birds!
  13. AllenWMiller

    jersey giants

    Thanks Kathy. I particularly like the pullet in the front of the 3rd picture and what appears to be her mother (or a close relation) to the far left.
  14. AllenWMiller

    Standard of Perfection

    This is the link for the APA Breed List BarnGoddess: http://www.amerpoultryassn.com/APA_Recognized_Breeds_6_2010.pdf And as I said if it is the bantam list (and I know think it is) then it should read "APA Recognized ("Bantam") Breeds and Varieties" so an old man isn't so startled and...
  15. AllenWMiller

    Standard of Perfection

    Thank you for your kind response BarnGoddess. And no I have not missed your question I have a list of folks who have asked questions and I do my best to answer as quickly as I can. Robert asked me a complex question of terminology and breeding and it took me a bit to answer his question. And I'm...
  16. AllenWMiller

    Chick wire question.

    For me wire has always been a question of money and how much I thought I could afford at a given time. When I was a young man during the Depression (the Great One not the one we're in now) I built with an eye to conserving money since money was scarce so I used the cheapest wire I could find...
  17. AllenWMiller

    Standard of Perfection

    Walt, I have an SOP question for you regarding White Plymouth Rocks and all chickens generally as to when they were recognized and admitted into the Standard are these two dates different I wonder? First question is what years were all the Plymouth Rocks recognized by the APA? Second, what...
  18. AllenWMiller

    Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

    It is alright Jeff a lot of clean living and happy times with poultry got me this far and the mind is still open and willing but the body some days just is not! Well truth be told the mind is not willing some times either; case in point Robert's question. And I hope Robert that this time I...
  19. AllenWMiller

    Standard of Perfection

    ...similar standard bred hens of the same flock but where the cocks are unrelated to the females major improvement, through heterosis, results in the F* generation. Performance and type approaches that of the purebred in the succeeding generations. After the sixth generation, the graded flock...
  20. AllenWMiller

    Standard of Perfection

    When you open up for comments this is like brain storming and someone comes along and types in a key term. You type that into your search engine and you can learn even more. I think allot of Holstein Dairy Farmers are using this approach. They have to have high yields of pounds of milk per cow...
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