B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

[Jan336]

Anyone know of any Dorking Clubs online or on the East Coast by any chance? I am in North Carolina, and am looking to get my foot in the door with showing and breeding this breed. Thanks

 

[Yellow House Farm]

You can join the "Dorking Breeders Club" Just google it. It's the national club.

As for your boys being special friends, well, I did have a pair on cubalaya cock birds that were cupped up, but I doubt that's your case. I'm assuming that your boys grew up together, which is going to remover most of the tension between them. However, you can never separate them from each other for an extended period of time, if you wish them to continue on in bliss. Once you separate them to breeding pens, they will fight if you try to reunite them. Still, better to separate them out into breeding pens.

 

[Jan336]

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I found it, but nobody is ever active on there in the forum or online. Kind of disappointed. Are you a member there? And I plan on building a separate coop and splitting them up this Spring. It is just to icy and cold to do anything like that now that winter is in full effect.

 

[Yellow House Farm]

Well, I think that what you may be finding is that a lot of Dorking people are old school. One aspect of this is that chatting is often kept to a miminum. However, a club is much more than a chat. It's value lies in the newsletter and in the breeders directory. Anyone thinking of being seriously involved in Dorking preservation should be a member of the club. At $10.00 per annum it's not an oppressive membership.

A strong club with strong membership is really key in the supporting of a breed. Indeed, it's fair to say that the stronger the club, the stronger the breed. Although new times will bring out new qualities, like this sort of chat, but the old-school Dorking people are phone call people.

So, yes, I am a member, and am currently serving as president. Our secretary, Jim Parker, is dynamite. One need look no further than the Polish Breeders Club to see his resume as secretary. Remembering that the Dorking BReeders Club is relatively new, we can be confident in having much to look forward to.

JOIN THE CLUB!

 

[Mrs MIA]

I'm a member too, but only have a few birds to my flock right now. Not a lot of questions to ask when there's not a lot of breeding going on.

But I'm enjoying the chatter here, too, and will add my 2 cents that MMH's Dorkings are good for hatchery birds, but culling is key.

 

[Mrs MIA]

Check out FaceBook, too.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=224639315913

 

[Yellow House Farm]

Mrs. AK-Bird-Brain :

Check out FaceBook, too.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=224639315913

Very cool!​

 

[FlyingtheCoop]

I recently adopted my very first Dorking, a red pullet. However, she has five toes on one foot, but only four on the other. Please forgive my lack of knowledge, but would it be possible to breed this fault out over successive generations or should she never be used for breeding stock.

 

[cubalaya]

was thinking about adding some silver grey or red dorkings to our farm. how is their temperament? roosters mean? are they good layers? how much do the cockerels weigh at 20 weeks?

 

[Yellow House Farm]

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Well, in an ideal period in Dorking history, with stock readily available for you to play with, you'd cull her without a doubt. However, that's not at all the current Dorking situation.

Assuming you can get yourself a Red cock, you could hatch from her as much as possible, culling any chick that were not five-toed. Polydactyly (multi-toedness) is a bit capricious at times. You will on occasion have one pop out of the shell with the 4/5 combo you have. Sometimes, you'll get one with 6 toes--three on the back.

Red Dorkings are beautiful. Roger Tice could be a good source of more stock for you.

Cheers!

Joseph