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to LilyD: I am sorry you did not get a better hatch rate. I find it quite odd how many hatch issues seem to be happening with the shipped eggs given how well they hatch when not shipped. I am getting a batch of dorking eggs in the mail this week so it will be interesting to see how they do in my...

to Aeropennchick : i have had frostbite problems on some of my cockerels and cocks that have larger combs, but never with the hens or pullets. Otherwise they are a very hardy bird and dont seem to mind temperatures down into the single digits. I even run a bunch of old dorking hens with my free...

top picture looks like a pullet, second picture the one in the bottom looks like a pullet and the one in the middle could be either, top one is definitely a cockerel. bottom one not sure. i find that the darkness and length of the eye bar is more accurate than the top of head color. just my...

You sound like me, i keep putting the eggs int he incubator late at night and then wondering when the buggers are going to hatch. I have got tons of little dorkings in brooders in my basement and hopefully more coming. Several power outages and an incubator malfunction took their toll (it has...

Hi everyone, I just wanted to quickly alert everyone about an individual who i met at a show this weekend. The person in question is trying to buy a pair or an adult cock or hen dorking that is of good type and excellent feather condition. Please be aware that the said individual will be killing...

Totally agree with you Dave. one of the biggest problems I have when trying to help people who have never had chickens before (or never shown before) who want to get into showing is that they treat the judge as if they were god and think that if you enter your entire flock then at the end of the...

Hi Ron, No disrespect taken. I think almost everyone who breeds dorkings in the us nowadays needs to know how to take criticism, because lets face it compared to other breeds such as modern games, call ducks etc that the poultry shows are overrun with the dorking needs a lot of work. for example...

yikes, crowing that early. mine dont start until they are several months old usually. I have some cockerels hatched last july that didn't start crowing until february. guess my dorkings are slow to mature.

Above are a couple of pictures of my birds. They are some old pictures I took a while ago as it has been terribly rainy here. if we ever get some dry weather i am going to haul some of the dorkings out into the sun and try to take some decent photos of them. Of course the best ones type wise are...

Haha, welcome to the forums and to interpreting the standard :). To some extent the breast color on females is a matter of personal preference and what you think the standard is saying (some judges prefer the darker breasted females while others seem to prefer the lighter ones). also when using...

Great Ron, i would have hoped for a better fertility rate than that but since you mentioned that the post office did their best to scramble the air sacs before delivering them I guess that is probably a good fertility rate. Best of luck and I hope they all hatch for you.

I am also interested in this 13 wk point. I dont think dorkings were ever used for production in the modern sense that we think of now a days as YHF mentions, by commercial or production I meant small farm. I know some older folks that I have met who remember small mixed farms ranging dorkings...

to 007medic: Dorkings in general are a slow developing breed and in general from what I have heard most dorkings are on the low side of the standard weights nowadays. Also according to most old poultry books white dorkings were always lighter than silver-grays or reds. I dont expect my silver...

Thanks Dave for posting the link to Rudy's website, I had not seen a pictures of any Roger Tice birds before, although I had heard they were big and wide.

I'll second that. On overall type Yellow House Farm has the best birds that I have sen in pictures or in person.

thanks for the update about horstman. strombergs just drop ships dorkings from breeders last i heard so they often dont have them and the quality varies a lot. I will have silver-gray for sale this spring but i have not gotten npip certification yet (too expensive) so i cant ship. for those who...

to jgervis, int eh top picture the bird on the left appears to have good color. the hackle looks clear and the breast does not show and white in it. I would check the primaries, secondaries and tailfeathers on all your birds for and white that is misplaced. What variety is the rooster in the...

Hi all, Just waned to chime in on the hatchery dorkings from mcmurry. Unfortunately they are not purebred. They show evidence of crossing with araucanas and something else. Also their quality has declined rapidly over the last couple of years. Their birds have extremely low fertility and very...