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  1. greathorse

    Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

    Too lazy I guess to get a bunch of birds caught up and pull or trimm, Perhaps I will take the best of the best and trim a few, I will see how motivated I am this weekend
  2. greathorse

    Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

    My fetiltiy in the Silver laced wyandottes has been very poor so far this year. Last year was actually pretty good. I have been setting every egg and so far it appear the fertility is about 25%. I too know that I have some issues with chilled eggs as I only collect once and day and we have...
  3. greathorse

    Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

    If you google trapnest you will find any number of them. They are mostly based on a hen tripping a door on the way into the nest and being confined there until you release her. I am not around enough to avoid keeping them in there for most of a day if they should happen to lay early in t he...
  4. greathorse

    Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

    I too became enamored with too many breeds, but pretty quickly decided that I did not have the time nor the funds to do much with all of them. I am not sure it was such a bad idea to have several for a year or so to decide which ones I really like. I ultimately settled on just two. I have...
  5. greathorse

    Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

    I suggest we keep this thread as a great discussion thread for the Bred to standard birds it was designed to honor. I am not sure this is the correct forum for a discussion regarding who gets the most attention. Just sayin
  6. greathorse

    Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

    I have never judged of course, but I have a lot of respect for those that can go to a row and pick a winner from solid colored birds that look like peas in a pod to me. I recently went to a row and asked the owner what he felt the judge was seeing as they all looked the same to me. He was very...
  7. greathorse

    Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

    Bob did not know you were a cigar aficianado, you should start a thread sorry for the digression
  8. greathorse

    Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

    A simple search on this board will get a person all the hatching information they can stand. In my mind one of the real strengths of this board has been the attention to hatching shipped eggs. I think many beleive that the Hobator 1588 I beleive is one of the better incubators for a couple...
  9. greathorse

    Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

    What is your perception of the Stringmen, are they good for the industry, do you welcome them at the shows or do you feel like it is unfair competition when someone brings that many birds to a show"??
  10. greathorse

    Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

    Quote: There was so much money in it that people did it for a living. Try to find the "Stringman" book. It is unbelievable to see how many birds they moved around during the fair season. They bought and sold birds as they went along to further their income. Birds were shipped Railway Express...
  11. greathorse

    Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

    Was there enough prize money at these shows to make this a profitable venture? If they were not breeders it seems they would not be motivated by promoting their strain. Did they then market the birds to breeders? It seems there would be significant expense hauling hundreds of birds around...
  12. greathorse

    Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

    Quote: I dont know enough to help you very much, but I can tell you I have read enough from the experts to know you will get in a lot more trouble with out crossing than you will if you stay to close genetics. Read and ask the wise one's and don't assume that close breeding is going to hurt...
  13. greathorse

    Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

    Quote: They are your birds, I think you can do whatever you like with them. They should make good black sex links. Walt I intend to use my RIR and Slw to make some sex links in the spring. I know that some have referred to these as "SIL GO's". I am not sure if I will get single combs or...
  14. greathorse

    Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

    I am not wanting to be rude at all, but I think it in the best interest of this great thread to keep duck discussions on a duck thread. In my opinion the thread has a lot of good info and it would be a shame to get it so off track that no one will want to reference it. Sorry if I offend
  15. greathorse

    Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

    For the record there is a good breeder and a very good honest person who has put together a site for heritage birds. Buddy Henry of Backwoods poultry Farm has a few heritage breeds on his site and is looking for more breeders. He is quite selective about who he will put on the site. If you...
  16. greathorse

    Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

    The most difficult conversation I have with folks regarding poultry is the one trying to describe the difference between so called heritage breeds and true heritage breeds. I often just cant make the point.
  17. greathorse

    Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

    sorry to hijack but where can I get information on the Shawnee show? thanks
  18. greathorse

    Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

    This is a bit long, but may be helpful to some folks looking for heritage fowl from veteran breeders. I wrote this for the Rhode Island Red Chronical. Not sure if it was used in the recent publication or not. I am not a writer and apologize in advance for bad sentence structure, bad syntax...
  19. greathorse

    Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

    Yeah I was a bit disappointed as well. I think given the dual purpose the size was designed for meat and they may have sacrificed egg size. I am not sure all strains lay the smaller eggs. I also have a few from Foley and when they start to lay I will be interested to see if they lay a smaller...
  20. greathorse

    Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

    Quote: I can answer one of your questions from one line's perspective. I have some pretty nice SLW from Backwoods poultry farm, they do not lay a very large egg. They lay very consistently but when I have some numbers and get things sorted out a bit I hope to work on eggs size as well...
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