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I am a K-selected primate, meaning I will have many productive periods in my (show) life...those who are r-selected have their success and quit. We see both in the fancy..I've been here since '98 and am going nowhere..maybe not so many shows until I get tenure, but I'll be around.
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I'm glad you got some good birds..out of the same batch I have and they are decent, I hope to get my older hens breeding soon as they are good quality, just have to eliminate 2 of them out of the breeding pen as they are too dark or uneven.
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I am a K-selected primate, meaning I will have many productive periods in my (show) life...those who are r-selected have their success and quit. We see both in the fancy..I've been here since '98 and am going nowhere..maybe not so many shows until I get tenure, but I'll be around.
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Always fed my birds layena crumbles. Added Black oil sunflower seeds when they were molting and cracked corn during the winter time.
Henry
My birds get a mix of a high quality scratch (several grains), crumbles, pellets, and sunflower. They get sunflower year round..and table scraps...
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The ones I will part with will be good breeding stock but they, themselves will not do well in shows (some smuttiness in feathers)...that is easily remedied by the right males. PM me for details and we can set up some sort of meeting spot or mailing. I don't usually cull for color...
I raise geese and Barred Rocks by the standard but will never show them...I just want the best of what can be made by the standards the long -passed breeders set forth for us...very rewarding to know your scrambled eggs are from fine-looking hens!
Speaking of better things now ...
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This is the famed Rose I? The woman whos address i have had by computer for over a year? WOW! Between Leisha - Peter - Kassandra and you this is a star studded thread ! Look forward to learning all i can here! Ok that probably sounded a bit "rear end" kissing but seriously not many...
I want to tell you some of Faverolles history...I got my first bird when I went to the Lucasville swap meet and saw a rooster..I bought him as a lark because my husband has a full beard, but this fellow had personality and just had something special..I had been working only on Barred Rocks at...
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Oh, I exist...just too many jobs and little time for everything. I have only been showing turkeys (easy to prep) and my birds think they are jungle fowl living the lives of a wild chicken in the woods. Peter is the Obi-Wan of Faverolles..he taught me everything I know..made for a...
I do not know who judged...I barely got there in time to throw them into their coops w/feed and water ...then had to drive back home to work on Friday...I was too tired to come back on Friday, so I only arrived after noon on Saturday.
One thing I've noticed at the last few shows I've attended, in the bantams...vulture hocks, heavy feathering on the feet, and diminishing of the beards on the females. Not just one or two birds..it has been in every show I've seen.
I visited the table at the Crossroads of America show in Indy...I'm glad to find you! I raise Salmon Faverolles (bantam and LF), Bronze Turkeys, and have some Marans, Barred Rocks (LF), and Bourbon Red turkeys, though not breeding them yet.