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  1. tbird9

    Bresse Chickens

    What I have heard (on good authority) is that shortly after GF released their first import they lost the entire flock to a predator attack. They have been able to import again, but those are the lines that people have reported the most problems with. Most people who have them now have the later...
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    Lamona or Bresse. Cold Hardy?

    This is one of my old men, he has been through three harsh mountain winters, we are zone 5a. So, yeah frostbite the first winter is an issue, but they recover and are not as susceptible in following years. This winter was not so bad for us and you can see the one in the background who was...
  3. tbird9

    Bresse Chickens

    I did a side by side with Bresse, pastured Cornish and supermarket chicken: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=915127698637632&id=669588303191574
  4. tbird9

    Bresse Chickens

    I would actually say there is a strong broody streak in them. This is my seventh year raising Bresse and I’ve had quite a few go broody. Currently 4 out of 25 of my hens are sitting on eggs, and another one that would like to be. I let them free range and have had multiple experiences of a hen...
  5. tbird9

    Bresse Chickens

    I just posted a side by side comparison of pastured Bresse vs pastured Cornish vs supermarket Cornish that might interest folks. https://www.facebook.com/Panhandle-Poultry-Producers-669588303191574/?hc_ref=ARTOthIxYDDQokgqzglvF5e0Cu7Y0vQGqqRlhSxw1x4F_BWe7OWPVW16hOd7oBWEazQ
  6. tbird9

    Bresse Chickens

    I haven’t seen that at all. I have been breeding from three GF pairs bought through Rare Breed Auctions 6 years ago with no new birds introduced and leg color is one of the major traits I’ve selected on. Some of mine have legs that light in color, but I only breed the much darker blue ones.
  7. tbird9

    Bresse Chickens

    I have not seen that. Do you have a picture?
  8. tbird9

    Bresse Chickens

    Half weren’t fertile! I would not be happy with that. Anyone selling eggs for hatching should at least be making sure they have enough roosters in the game and the birds enclosed well enough to ensure close to 100% fertility of the eggs. Half not hatching I can totally understand, especially...
  9. tbird9

    Bresse... are they worth the investment?

    I agree, they are fabulous, hardy dual purpose birds for a home flock. Eggs are huge and the meat is great. But if you are considering them for a ‘get rich quick’ scheme, yeah, no. People aren’t yet willing to pay a higher price for the ‘Bresse’ reputation and the hybrids that only take half...
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    Bresse... are they worth the investment?

    Did you try any this year? I have been breeding and raising Bresse for 6 years. I would say that the market is not currently out there. You would have to do a lot of work to educate people about what they are. While the “terroir” is important, there ARE genetic differences in the Bresse breed...
  11. tbird9

    Bresse Chickens

    They won’t blaze their own trails in deep snow, but a couple inches shouldn’t bother them. I suspect your guys just weren’t used to it. We have deep snow cover for 2-3 months of the year and they stick to the barns and areas that have been packed down. We throw straw on top and that gets them...
  12. tbird9

    Bresse Chickens

    You don’t have to. Below is the text from a marketing brochure I picked up on a trip to Bresse. “Young” males butchered at 4-5 months don’t need it. The capons, raised to 8 months are definitely a rarer specialty. Inside it has descriptions of the different ways they can be finished. I...
  13. tbird9

    Bresse Chickens

    We got several weeks of negative temperatures last winter. Here are pics of the two roosters I have left that went through it. They all started out with beautiful huge combs and suffered serious frostbite, but we didn’t lose any to that.
  14. tbird9

    Bresse Chickens

    Anyone in NE Oregon or SW Idaho? Here is a link to my Panhandle Poultry Producers Facebook page- https://www.facebook.com/Panhandle-Poultry-Producers-669588303191574/ This is the panhandle of Baker County, OREGON, not Texas or Florida or wherever. We bought some of the very first pairs/trios...
  15. tbird9

    Maiden Rock Bantams

    Nathan and Ryan- I just ran into a woman I sold a Madien Rock hen to a few years back. She still has her and said she's still laying. Please message me if you are interested in getting in touch with her.
  16. tbird9

    Bresse Chickens

    Batch of ~6 month old roosters that we processed yesterday. Second batch we have done this month. We intended to process them at 4 months, and did get a lot of roosters and some hens done back then, but then got caught with our pants down by some early heavy snow and ongoing subfreezing temps...
  17. tbird9

    Bresse Chickens

    If you are willing to drive to an I-84 bridge crossing anywhere between Pendleton and Portland I can hook you up with some Bresse eggs. We live in a pretty remote place in NE Oregon and I would not trust the postal service with shipped eggs from here, but two of my family members commute from...
  18. tbird9

    Bresse Chickens

    Where in Washington? I've never done shipped eggs, but my husband commutes every week along the I-84 corridor between Portland and Pendleton. We have been raising and breeding the bresse since Greenfire first released them in 2011,first in Portland, and now here, in the Wallowas.
  19. tbird9

    mustard family weed control with chickens?

    I am wondering about using my chickens to help control a mustard family weed (White Top, Lepidium draba) that is starting to invade a corner of our pasture which has only been used for cattle until now. The weed seems to have disappeared from the barnyard where they have been free ranging for a...
  20. tbird9

    Bresse Chickens

    According to Genetics of the Fowl, by F.B Hutt, the La Bresse (I assume he's only talking about the white variety) have the dominant white gene (I), which is an inhibitor of black pigment. In over my head here, but I just found it odd that people might be trying for "splash" by crossing the...
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