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Robert Blosl
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Some place I have a picture of a Pom that was taken at a show in the mid west by Neal Grassback I thought this goose was the best I ever saw. The color on your Poms are the shade my grand father had in the 1950s. I think if you show pictures of your breeders to Walt he can help you get the eye that you need to improve them from. Where did you get your start from originally?
You have to remember my friend sold his good poms to someone and I am sure they are still out there and they where standard size when he gave them up.
Fred I like your attitude about big er Rocks. I really think if you have a flock of White Rocks and or even Rhode Island Reds and they have true to life correct type and are about a pound to a half a pound over weight you will win 50% of the shows you go to. However, if the same judges judge the classes that like bigger birds you will most likely loose to the bigger birds. Its just a fact of life in showing. In R I Red bantams you could have a pullet that is flat as can be on her back, have true brick standard shape and great color and she will loose to a Red Bantam female that has a back like a New Hampshire or a Partridge Plymouth Rock. You ask your self when you hold the picture of the standard of perfection and ask the judge why he picked that female with the lift in her back. He most of the time will say she had such great color. Then when you ask but look at her type she looks like a Rock, he will say she just has great color. If you figure the faults for type this kind of Red Bantam would only score about 92 points. Then you will see these birds on Champion Row for Champion Single Comb Clean Leg ed over great Rock or Jap bantams and they are nothing but a out right cull. You can see sometimes why I dont like to show. It is heart breaking to loose to such culls but it happens all over the country today.
For you who have been following my incubator problems. I put a $8. child's Thermometer on top of my eggs yesterday and two times the temp stoped at 100 degrees. I think I will leave it alone and see how the next three hatches turn out.
I just wished I could find a thermometer I could trust. My meat Thermometer I trust but I can only leave it in the incubator for about 5 minutes then it turns it self off. I guess maybe if I had a remote meat thermometer I could see the levels inside and recorded onto the box outside on a shelf. Need one anyway for my big green egg. Cooking season is around the corner and will be cooking a big hunk of pig in there. Yesterday my wife and I went to Mobile Alabama to the National Barbecue Convention. About 500 Barbecue experts and owners of Barique joints where there. We got to sample food from 20 different vender's. It was a great experience and learned allot from these guys on how to cook in our barbecue pits. Got to go out and feed the snow birds they will be leaving soon to return to Ohio and other mid west states. Must have 200 of them on the ground eating me out of house and home.
Some place I have a picture of a Pom that was taken at a show in the mid west by Neal Grassback I thought this goose was the best I ever saw. The color on your Poms are the shade my grand father had in the 1950s. I think if you show pictures of your breeders to Walt he can help you get the eye that you need to improve them from. Where did you get your start from originally?
You have to remember my friend sold his good poms to someone and I am sure they are still out there and they where standard size when he gave them up.
Fred I like your attitude about big er Rocks. I really think if you have a flock of White Rocks and or even Rhode Island Reds and they have true to life correct type and are about a pound to a half a pound over weight you will win 50% of the shows you go to. However, if the same judges judge the classes that like bigger birds you will most likely loose to the bigger birds. Its just a fact of life in showing. In R I Red bantams you could have a pullet that is flat as can be on her back, have true brick standard shape and great color and she will loose to a Red Bantam female that has a back like a New Hampshire or a Partridge Plymouth Rock. You ask your self when you hold the picture of the standard of perfection and ask the judge why he picked that female with the lift in her back. He most of the time will say she had such great color. Then when you ask but look at her type she looks like a Rock, he will say she just has great color. If you figure the faults for type this kind of Red Bantam would only score about 92 points. Then you will see these birds on Champion Row for Champion Single Comb Clean Leg ed over great Rock or Jap bantams and they are nothing but a out right cull. You can see sometimes why I dont like to show. It is heart breaking to loose to such culls but it happens all over the country today.
For you who have been following my incubator problems. I put a $8. child's Thermometer on top of my eggs yesterday and two times the temp stoped at 100 degrees. I think I will leave it alone and see how the next three hatches turn out.
I just wished I could find a thermometer I could trust. My meat Thermometer I trust but I can only leave it in the incubator for about 5 minutes then it turns it self off. I guess maybe if I had a remote meat thermometer I could see the levels inside and recorded onto the box outside on a shelf. Need one anyway for my big green egg. Cooking season is around the corner and will be cooking a big hunk of pig in there. Yesterday my wife and I went to Mobile Alabama to the National Barbecue Convention. About 500 Barbecue experts and owners of Barique joints where there. We got to sample food from 20 different vender's. It was a great experience and learned allot from these guys on how to cook in our barbecue pits. Got to go out and feed the snow birds they will be leaving soon to return to Ohio and other mid west states. Must have 200 of them on the ground eating me out of house and home.
