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Why would you want to 'provide them with 16 hours of light?' The whole point (for many of us) in keeping chickens is to get away from the 'factory' farm method. Yet that is exactly what you are doing. Besides even commercial chicken houses cut the lights off more than that! It is nice to...

Yes, there is a 'cardinal rule.' Here it is: THERE IS NO REAL SUBSTITUE FOR GREEN GRASS AND SUNSHINE.

This is what we all do that are serious about raising birds to the Standard.

Except that there are not as many fowl listed you will find very little difference in the Standard description of the fowl. Yes, there are minor color changes in some fowl, but type has stayed very static through the years: which is as it should be. The older SOP's do generally give more...

Some strains do seem to lay very few eggs, but mine are generally excellent winter layers.

Did you ever see the New Guinea Singing Dogs that Bris raises? He sends males to zoos all over the country for breeding. They are just fantastic. The last time I was down at his house he was also raising and trainning real Bloodhounds for the different police depts. Those dogs were simply...

Bris and I talked about this one day a couple of years back. No those chickens aren't from Savannah River. However, they are one of only a handful of actual feral chickens. Many consider chickens such as the Key West Chickens to be feral, but they really aren't by any proper definition of the...

By the way, Brisbin kept 'real' Jungle Fowl for over 40 years. He'll be the first to tell you that the modern chicken has more in it's ancestry than just Red Jungle Fowl. The study by the Japanese that is often sited is according to Brisbin flawed because those birds were contaminated with...

The chickens known as 'Red Jungle Fowl' kept by fanciers are not pure 'Jungle Fowl.' A very good friend of mine, retire Univ. of Ga. research professor Dr I Lehr Brisbin, had the most genetically pure strain of Jungle Fowl in North America at the Savannah River Site. What you see people...

If you'll notice he is holding the bird away from his body which makes it appear bigger. Plus, the bird itself is stretched out to a great length than it would normally stand. The bird is either of Shamo origin or Kulang type Asil.

I use red flood lights. They work great. Less than $9 each.

For those of us in the deep South we seldom have temps in the day below 35F; at night it might go down to 20F, but the chickens lay during the day and not at night.

As long as they are room temp (say 65F) then you are fine. I've taken them straight from the 35F outdoors to the incubator for the past 40 plus years with no problems whatsoever. Some things you hear are way over-rated.

Why not just use basic poultry show language? Best of Breed, Resrv., 3, 4, etc. Best of Variety, Resrv., 3, 4, etc. With the judges comments (like normal), including which bird(s) they'd take home as breeders (which seldom are the winners).

Ideal I understand, average I understand, poor I know (lol), but what in the world is 'Best Natural?'

This is quite possibly the truth. Americans have a love affair with things that are currently in vogue. Trouble is, when the current vogue changes which it surely will then Americans will change too. They are chaff driven by the wind.

I think Christine did that one.

I think you are right. The ALBC continues to hold membership in the SPPA. Both are focused on preservation they just have different ways of reaching those goals. They both have their place.

Don't worry about it at all. The Point System is not used in America any longer at Poultry Shows regardless of what the Standard states. Birds are judged by comparison today and not by points.

Some of us are arguementative by nature while the rest of you have to work at it.