Best All Around Breed

[Pathfinders]

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That's him!

 

[OSUman]

Is that who u got your buckeyes from?
or did you have them before?
im trying to start a very broad breeding program with different lines.

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

I'll throw in my two cents...

Light Brahmas - lay reasonably well, go broody, and they are BIG girls (the roos are big too, but you'll eventually also eat a hen or two.)

My light brahma girls I had (sold them) were solid and easily weighed a good 9 or 10 pounds each. Large breasts, too, from what I could feel (never butchered one).

also they are very outgoing personality type chickens, and forage well.

meri

 

[Pathfinders]

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I obtained my first Buckeyes in '06 from Matt John, who had gotten his birds from John Brown of OH (longtime breeder of Buckeyes.)

In '07 I got some more chicks from Matt, and in '08 some hatching eggs from the ALBC (via Don Schrider.) I would have gotten even more birds from Matt, but he suffered a terrible flood and lost more than 70% of his stock. That was when I decided to devote myself to breeding Buckeyes on my own (rather than buying them from Matt.)

So now my flock is about 1/2 and 1/2 Brown and ALBC lines. I am working to braid the two lines together, as each has its strengths. Next spring I am going to get some birds from Duane Urch, who has been breeding Buckeyes for many years (want both Large Fowl and Bantams.)

Someday I hope to have the Haggarty line.

 

[the 412 chicks]

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Them Leghorns are troopers. Every day i get 1 egg from each leghorn.

 

[Pathfinders]

We still keep a couple of production white leghorns, can't beat them! Huge eggs almost every day.