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I liked to have my females alone until breeding season my females where always relaxed layed heavy and where content. The males where in 4x4 foot conditioning pens happy as can be and I would rotate them into pens on the ground in grass every two or three days to get grass for change of pace...

Got a private message from a guy who is wanting a Old Time Breed to convert from his present stock he got at Tractor Supply. He was going to have a trio of White Plymouth Rock Large Fowl shipped in for $300. or ten started chicks in March of White Rocks for $170 . He finally found a breeder...

if you where going to get a breed to be a homesteader what breed of Heritage type birds would you purchase. This would be my number one choice Barred Rocks from Jamie Duckworth in North Carolina.

Greetings! Using Standard-bred heritage poultry as a basis for traditional food production is a passion of ours. With heritage fowl, there is an entire cycle of food production that fills the calendar with seasonality and surprise, which differs in outstanding fashion from the current...

I guess I am just old fashion I breed by the APA standard of perfection not a definition of some organization. People can choose which direction they want to go. That's why one old timers gave me the best advice I ever got. Go Slow, Go Small and go down the middle of the road. I want feather...

Lets say we go with Mr. Duckworth's strain which has three different strains crossed in over a ten year period and he has breed them to the standard for six years to improve the type but most of all look at the tails on these males. Most strains of Barred Rocks males tails blow up and looks...

These are Jamie Duckworth's Barred Rocks and he has good luck laying and never heard him talk about broodiness. Some strains you get do have this. If that happens they are not worth keeping and need to locate a better blood line. Not many good barred rock large fowl lines out there. Have had a...

I got a personnel message a few days ago that made me think a little about what many on this web site would like to do with rare breeds. First of all a majority of these people have very little Poultry Husbandry skills to begin with. Some never used a incubator before but have purchased baby...

http://www.etsy.com/listing/69042700/1899-melchener-coucou-de-malines-chicken looks like a fades barred rock with feathers on his legs or a skinny bared cochin. Never heard of this breed. But I bet if I started breeding them I would sell hundreds and the old breeds needing help you could...

Last night I was talking with a partner of mine with my little Mohawk Reds. He is going to ship me a male in three weeks that I can mate to two of my females. He has had my line for four years. This will give me two things. He has been working on head points or combs and a good looking head...

The toe punch is always the females pen. You just rotate the male to the right and each chick is toe punched from the house with the number on it or in the way I wrote it the Red house had number one on it the white house had number two on it and blue house had number three on it and if you had...

Have you been to the other web site there is a Chanateler club message board on there.?? In Langshangs have you tried Urch? He has many old breeds that you might be able to get. Many of the good breeders do not fool with chicks or eggs and that is one reason many do not return emails or...

When it comes to Wyandottes Matt 1616 has a few of the nicest Silver Laced Birds I ever seen. I hope and pray he can get some fertility out of them this year. There are a few good Whites out there a friend Steve from Georgia got two that come from the top strain in the USA. There is a judge I...

After reading the last few messages I thought what has been one of the top Dual Purpose breeds still going strong today? What line of this breed is still pure for the breed and never out crossed for over 100 years. Ans er the Mohawk Rhode Island Reds. They are still going strong after they where...

Here is my take on how to make money with the H chicken or The Standard Breed Poultry Breed. Choose a breed that may be in demand where people would like to order chicks at $8 each from you and eggs at what price you want to charge say $24. a dozen. They pay for There own shipping. You may have...

There are plenty of breeds that would make good eating and smoking for family use. I am considering getting me some white Cornish bantams. I have Rhode Island Reds and White Plymouth Rock large fowl. The white rocks are big birds they grow med to slow because they are not hatchery chickens...

The question I ask beginners is what is your needs or goal. Most of them are addicted to high egg yields of Commerical Poultry chicks and think that Standard Breed Chicks should lay the same. Then they get torn up inside why not. Some never can adjust to what a Standard Breed old time chicken...

I think the spirt of this article is chicks purchased for $1.50 each or something like this we are talking hatchery chickens. Pure breed Production is simply the cherry eggers that will lay about 275 eggs a pullet year. The normal average flock of Rhode Island Reds or Standard Breed dark dark...