B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

[tgrlily]

Here are some pics of my Dorkings.

Actually, they're Noah's, but he lets me play with them...lol.

Rex:

Rex & Petra:

Petra:

Pandora:

Akasha -- she's "light grey" and is Noah's favorite!

Rex again so you can see all his beautiful colors!

 

[Urbanfarmerkc]

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Hi Dave,

I got his email address from the BST archives. I did a search for Dorking in the archive. [email protected]
You might want to look at his post to see what else he has.

Thanks, I sent him an e-mail!

Dave

 

[rtroxel]

Actually, you are really close to a guy in OK that has excellent Reds: Roger Tice. He lives in Sapulpa. Really nice birds and he keeps about 60 breeder birds for every year. That's probably less than 5 hours for you and he has really nice ones at very reasonable prices. If you're interested, I can get you his number.

 

[Yellow House Farm]

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This is actually one of those things that can vary froms train to strain. Are you providing free-choice oyster shell? Ours have good, firm shells.

Joseph

 

[Yellow House Farm]

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Hey Hatch Bud -

I believe RC to be the dominant gene, based on the reading I've done... so I would assume that RC would always show up then

- we will have to wait for the Great Dorking Council to speak on this one, as I am only a newbie and learning myself...

Well, I'm certainly not a member of the Dorking Council (maybe some day...) but RC is dominant. Unless the male you use happens to carry SC, you will get all RC chicks on the first generation (F1). Because these chicks will all carry SC, you will see some combs that look flat, bulgy, rough, etc. If you mate these back to the Male, you will again get all RC, only half of which will now carry SC. If you mate them back to the hens, you will get half single and half rose, all of which will carry SC. If you mate brothers and sisters from you F1 generation, you will get a 3 RC to 1 SC ratio.

You can do a Punnett with RC being completely dominant and SC being completely recessive.

Hope that helps.

Bravo!

 

[Yellow House Farm]

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Greetings! Get a subscription to Poultry Press. Pat Horstman, his wife (if I'm correct) is the secretary for the APA (american Poultry Association). Be sure to join the APA and the Dorking BReeders Club.

 

[Yellow House Farm]

I love this time of year. Every week we have a hatch. Hatch and cull. Hatch and cull. Toe punch and wing band. We have some four week chicks that are already beginning to show the hints of the broad breast that demarcates Dorkings.

This year we've added culling for egg size. Since most of our hens lay large to extra-large eggs, eliminating the few medium eggs before incubation is an easy step to breeding up to a strong production strain. Besides, it's fun to weigh all the ggs on our old-fashioned egg-scale.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Will you ever offer hatching eggs or shipped chicks? I need some more to add to my flock and I'm finding that most other "breeders" aren't really breeding for anything but just to reproduce chickens.

I am looking for something I can work with that won't take me 20 years to get to a usable state.

 

[heritagehabitatfarms]

so i would like to see some more informative posts on this thread... and i was thinking that maby a list of the color/verities might be nice for all of us Dorking nubbies lol... i know there are RC and SC Dorkings... but are they both in all of the colors??? and what is available here in the USA... and are there any people working on Dorking projects??? i would really like to learn lots more about them...

thanks Elias

 

[tgrlily]

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Will you ever offer hatching eggs or shipped chicks? I need some more to add to my flock and I'm finding that most other "breeders" aren't really breeding for anything but just to reproduce chickens.

I am looking for something I can work with that won't take me 20 years to get to a usable state.

I'm with you! I was lucky to find a breeder to ship me red Dorking eggs! I'm STILL looking for cuckoo & would love some white. I'm almost desperate enough to order from Sand Hill.

I do promise that when I have a Dorking flock that is to the close to the SOP & reproducing well I will do my part to preserve the breed by actually selling them! Heck... even if they're not "perfect" there seems to be many more people that want them than there are willing to sell them.