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  1. Schweiger

    Show Off Your Games!

    Quote: We used to buy 1x4 doug fur boards cut to 4 feet long, use 12 of these to make a box. Wrap them with chicken wire, sides and top. These will be fairly light weight and you can move them around quite easily. If it's ever cold or raining you can just top them with tarp, scrap wood or what...
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    B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

    Here is a picture of my old Silver grey Dorking I just hatched out 18 chicks 2 months ago, and just my luck I got 10 pullets and 8 cockerels . Oh well. dorkings are great birds. I am looking to get some red Dorkings and the colored dorkings as well.
  3. Schweiger

    Show Off Your Games!

    Thanks cubalaya.. I have seen some like that and I just found a guy on Craigslist that sells them for $100 for a 2x5 with nest boxes and a perch. I will get a couple and try them out. I like the idea of moving them round every few days. A guy i know who raises games said you need to move your...
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    Show Off Your Games!

    I have a question for some more experienced breeders about pens. What are some good pens for breeding pairs/ trios of games that are inexpensive to make? I also have a problem with housing indivdual stags "affordably". I have seen the round chicken wire pens with a piece of board on top but I...
  5. Schweiger

    Dutch Bantams Breed Thread

    Quote: I think thats a good idea. I am not a judge and dont claim to be, and I am pretty new to dutch as well. They look to be good dutch but wether they are show quality is beyond me. I am looking into showing my dutch since they are from show stock but.... well all I can say is if the price...
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    Dutch Bantams Breed Thread

    Spirit Dance...in my opinion the Self Blue dutch look good (except the roos tail) and they have blue legs which is key (I had someone try and sell me dutch with yellow legs). They both look good so if you are happy with the price I would say go for it. As for my CLB and LB dutch eggs I cant...
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    Guinea Breeding Ratio?

    Hi, I am new to guineas and I just bought a flock of year old guineas. I can tell the males from the females but what is the best breeding ratio? Do they breed in pairs only like swans or are they like chickens and I can have 1 male to 6-7 females. or can I have more than that? I mainly want to...
  8. Schweiger

    Dutch Bantams Breed Thread

    Do no get dutch from Ideal as they are Old English cross with dutch. Us nankin breeders have a problem with ideal as well because they have nankin- OEG mix birds and dont seem to care about the difference. they say they are true but are just not show quality....
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    Dutch Bantams Breed Thread

    Well I will be selling CLB and some LB eggs on Ebay in a little while. I am waiting for my old hens to kick back into production and I am also waiting for my pullets to get into production as well.
  10. Schweiger

    Dutch Bantams Breed Thread

    where are you planning on getting your birds from?
  11. Schweiger

    Dutch Bantams Breed Thread

    Hey boggy bottoM...do you ahve any dutch and what colors? What colors are your chicks spiritdance?
  12. Schweiger

    Dutch Bantams Breed Thread

    Quote: well i dont know if there is an exact age but I have some 5 month old pullets that just started yesterday. I hve been feeding them 18% laying crumbles for a while so I dont know if this made them start early or if it is the norm. i just started keeping records on hatch dates so This...
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    Old and Rare Breeds

    I see great progress in the discussion of a time line for the age of a breed but What about how rare a breed is. Do we all agree to the ALBC's definition? here it is by the way. Poultry breeds on the ALBC Conservation Priority List generally conform to certain genetic and numerical parameters...
  14. Schweiger

    Old and Rare Breeds

    Quote: I beleive you are right. If they are autosexable then they are similar to the Rhodebar except they substituted the Dominique instead of the barred Rock. It wouldnt be that hard to reproduce either.
  15. Schweiger

    Definition of Heritage Breeds

    Every Breed of chicken is "heritage" then, that isnt a commercial breed. Every last bantam and every breed of Large Fowl. I am parts German, Czech, english and Irish so breeds orginating from these countries are my personal heritage. Those of you that are part French, Marans might be part of...
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    Definition of Heritage Breeds

    My meaning is yes you have an old breed of bird, so do I , my dutch date bach to medievel times in Holland. My point is in olden times ( in america or anywhere else) chickens were not bred to a standard of looks but the standard of the fittest. If you had taken 100 barred rocks out west the...
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    Definition of Heritage Breeds

    As some here have already mentioned, the chickens of yesteryear were borderline "wild" chickens. Out west on the farmstead there were no fences designed to keep a chicken in or a poultry predator out. They hunted food for themselves, found their own shelter and laid eggs where they hopped no one...
  18. Schweiger

    Show Off Your Games!

    I am new to games and I have seen a bunch of pictures of games on tie cords. Where do you buy them ( or how do you make them) and how do you set one up and put it on the rooster?
  19. Schweiger

    Dutch Bantams Breed Thread

    your roo looks pretty good. so does your hen for that matter from what I can see. I am no judge though.
  20. Schweiger

    Dutch Bantams Breed Thread

    What color pair do you have Tanichca?
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