Hello!
I started the BYC Dorking club thread and am amazed at the interest! 2001 replies! Haha!
Anyway, I am going to be at the Southern Ohio Poultry Association spring show May 26th and 27th with some Red Dorkings with me for sale. Is anybody else coming? It's a great show!
This is Koko. At least was. I sold her, and so don't know her status, you might say.
This one probably either is Oops, or was Millie(her mother).
One of my Dorking males, Pete.
...Dorkings, two Japanese bantams,
and five Rhode Island Reds.I also have a goat named Keeli. She is a black and brown Nubian.
Red dorking female
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Red Dorking females
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The white one is Snowflake
A Rhode Island Red
Many thanks to I LOVE COCHINS
for PMing me on putting pics on my page...
I would choose #1...If it were me...I mean, the Dorking shape is really important. And I think that behavior with chickens is most of the time just what the chicken itself is like. I have a Dorking cockerel who was never aggressive at all, then came back from a show and jumps at me whenever I go...
We give them leftover soured goat milk, and it is actually really good for them. People have been doing this for years. I actually put a pot of rather normal milk out for them and they waited till it was curdled, *then* knocked it over and ate it up. They love it!
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The rooster passes on traits like comb, coloring, and refinement, then the hen passes on traits like body type, conformation and size. So for rooster, I would select the one with six good points on his comb, and comb shaped closest to the standard. also, if the rooster, as a young...