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Quote: I agree with your educated guess. If one ignores the slate bar in the under-color of the back of the Buckeye, color will deteriorate & a half white feather will appear here or there in time, and I see other things going wrong as to color. However, by the same token, allowing slate...

I do not know the answer about Sandhill's stock but I would guess you are correct (about both Crevecoeurs & La Fleche. I was thinking if the La Fleche are Urch, then perhaps they will be enough generations removed to be of help to my La Fleche breeding project.

I have just started breeding La Fleche and like they are supposed to have, my La Fleche mostly have white ear lobes but with some, I have an opposite problem: some of the earlobes have touches of red. I have been told that earlobe color is difficult to correct so I want to make sure I select...

Matt Ulrich is a great breeder of HRIR who lives in South Alabama & a young man. Matt selects his breeder birds carefully and does not flock breed. Duane URCH is an long time breeder / master exhibitor from Minnesota who has kept and maintained many breeds for many years (since the 1950s or...

Originally Posted by MagicChicken "Type/size from the female" makes sense to me because many of the cellular characteristics - the mitochondria and other organelles - are inherited through the maternal line. They have their own DNA and they are passed along through the egg itself. The...

She won't kill them or anything but instead steadily over the next week, she will peck them more and more and gradually start chasing them away from her. That is when I know it is time to pull the mother hen out. Most Buckeye hens wean at about 6 weeks while I will have Game hens that will stay...

Some hens do wean as early as about 6 weeks old (and chicks are fine to be on their own and they will continue as a cohesive unit staying together and all) & if she is pecking at them, she is ready to move on-- so you need to separate them and give the clutch their own space. A hen laying again...

Speaking of collies and german shepherds, I have a mutt dog something of a mix (I think -- at least she looks like) between the two breeds. I free range my birds and my "mutt" is wonderful about keeping my birds safe; she seems to be naturally inclined to protecting the farm. I found her as a...

Great show going on in Newnan, GA, other than the bitter cold wind -- (2,800+ birds with a large contingent of LF as only about 300 OEG Bantams). The show is only about an hour and half from my home so easy for me to get to and from. I took a Buckeye cock and 6 cockerels -- however, anytime Matt...

I am not debating business principles. Quote: This is simply not true. Brooding 10 or processing 10 cannot be equated with brooding 100 or processing 100 or 500. More is both more work and more effort. Of course, with more work and more effort, you will have more product (not arguing this...

Processing chickens isn't like painting a house (and I'd argue all houses are not equal in painting them). There is the changing out of the scalding water, the clean-up of the feathers from the plucker (with more, of course, there is more to clean-up), more buckets of blood, more chicken parts...

Quote: I would respectfully beg to differ with both of these statements. We process our own, and I can tell you there is a big difference between processing 10 or 100 or 500. Ask anyone who butchers their own. I have also brooded small number of chicks and large number of chicks. There is...

I planned on putting it liberally in their nest boxes and sprinkling it liberally in their dusting holes (as one who believed in & would sevin dust or DE). Pennyroyal is a mint, isn't it?

Quote: I'll gladly take them if you don't want the bag & will send you $$ for the postage (I don't have any tobacco farmers anywhere near me.) I even tried growing some tobacco for this purpose. Yes, both tobacco and pennyroyal leaf stems added to the henhouse nesting material is excellent...

Yes, I have seen this coming for awhile. Mostly, I will use broody hens so I will not need the bulbs. When I have chicks in the winter (as now), I too have been using the Brincea Eco-glo -- I have one 20 and one 50. One thing about them, the chicks jump on top of them and poop all over them &...

I toe punch, wing band & leg band, all three. They will lose leg & wing bands sometimes. An APA judge told me not to use wing bands because judges did not like them because they could get cut on them. However, you would have to go looking for the wing band on a LF bird and when placed there when...

Quote: "The New Incubation Book," by Dr. A.F. Anderson Brown & G.E.S. Robbins (Hancock House publisher) just about covers every aspect of hatching any kind of egg from chickens, geese, falcons, ducks to even penguin eggs. Quote: Brincea has a wide selection of very good incubators for...

Yes, X2 Matt.

Quote: Narragansett: Absolutely. The American education system, and I use the term loosely, is creating a generation who expects that their failures, problems, issues and inabilities will be catered to by others. There is no personal accountability anymore, no sense of working hard to overcome...

I have recently acquired some La Fleche and have eggs in the incubator due New Years Day. I am looking forward to working with the breed. There does not seem to be much interest in them but I like looking at the ones I am starting with -- even though they are undersized, the hens and pullets lay...