WANTED: Quality Delaware and Light Brahma breeding stock. Prefer over 20 weeks old. Will consider buying younger though. Prefer Sandhill stock but as long as they are LARGE true to breed birds would consider any bloodline. ABSOLUTELY NO HATCHERY STOCK.
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11 Swedish ducks. 3 blue non-crested. 4 black crested. 4 blue crested. All currently laying. High fertility.
Text for more info or pics. Cell number 2one7-3one3-one3one5.
Pickup in Morrison, Illinois only.
Must be a quality dual purpose strain. Must be good layers. Need to be healthy, under 2 years old and laying now. White Pekins hens only please.
Located near Clinton, Iowa
I have hatched out two batches myself this year and my brother hatched out one large batch of Iowa Blue eggs.
My first batch had a humidity problem and only 6 out of 24ish fertile eggs survived and hatched. There was only one chipmunk colored chick in that group. That batch hatched a day early...
Jake,
I am located near Clinton, IA but on the Illinois side. I'm about 45 minutes from the Quad Cities and about 2 1/2 hours from Chicago.
If anyone else has pics of their Iowa Blues please send them to the [email protected] email address. I am going to try and create an album with as...
I'm the guy in Illinois that has started raising some Iowa Blues. Here is what I have found with my birds. Most of my birds are from Ideal with a few from Sandhill. Although I have heard Ideal outcrossed their Iowa Blues to get new blood they seem to be very similar to Sandhill's.
MOST...
$0.90 each straight run from Schlecht Hatchery in Miles, IA. Best Cornish Rocks you will ever raise. NO leg problems and do excellent on either free range or confined. Out of the 15+ hatcheries I have tried in the past years no one comes close to Schlecht.
30 Iowa Blue Hatching Eggs.
Ideal and Sandhill bloodlines.
What I breed for:
Males: Silver or white lacing on head, hackle, and saddle. Pencilling on breast. Dark brown eyes.
Culling against light eyes, yellow color to head, hackle, and saddle.
Females: Glossy black hens with silver/white...
My computer is down but I should have it back later this week. It has my pics and standard (in detail) that I am breeding towards. The birds originated from Ideal and Sandhill.
The Iowa Blue is a breed of Chicken that originated near Decorah, Iowa in the early 20th century. In to the 1960s, several hatcheries around Iowa sold the breed, but after these hatcheries either closed or stopped selling them, the Iowa Blue nearly disappeared. Dedicated breed enthusiasts have...
I have been following this post and really enjoyed everyone's input on what they know about the breed and the birchen genes.
I have 25 pullets and 19 stags that were hatched at Ideal last September. I'm looking to cull hard and eventually get some Sandhill stock to cross into my flock...
A lot of people had been asking about eggs laid by "Freedom Ranger" pullets. My pullets started laying at 18 1/2 weeks of age. They started with a few pullet eggs and torpedo shaped eggs. One week into laying over 50% of the pullets are laying. Eggs are now mostly medium with a few large eggs...
I will have fertile Ranger x Ranger eggs in about a month or so. will be hatching F2s as well.
I selected back my top gainers from this spring to start my own breeding project....we will see how it goes
This is the top of the line incubator from GQF with an onboard computer. It contains three automatically turned trays, plus has a hatching tray in the bottom of the incubator. Settings are rotated among the three turning trays so that the hatching tray can accept the eggs from one of the setting...
I see on some sites it says the Iowa Blue can be used in producing sex linked chicks when crossed with a White Rock or New Hampshire Red....does anyone have any more info on this?