Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

[Yard full o' rocks]

I have some corn mash from my pluming fixture in the back woods. My birds love this stuff. If you can get FRM Game Bird Pellets 20% from Flint River Mills Georgia its got everything you need.
The finish is fantastic on the birds feathers as well for showing

. Wonder if I will get some probation for this post? bob

Bob....feed the birds the "mash" but save me a mason jar or two!!

We have a Budweiser plant here in the town I live in and I'm trying to get some "spent grains" from them myself to feed to the flock

Hard to find Flint River Mills feeds up my way, but as much as I travel there should be a feed store somewhere that I pass

Gotta go to Canada Thurs-Sun but I need to get some new pix of my Col Rocks to post. I have 3 HUGE cockerels growing out (they are probably 1/3 larger than the rest) and 4-5 pullets I have my eyes on. I've been feeding them "Vickies secret recipe" and free ranging them a lot on clover, chickory, winter wheat and rye.

Its Year 3 for me and I am seeing those "huge" improvements you told me about Bob!! WOW....type has made a huge step forward this year. Bob, I think you met my youngest son at Newnan this year.....I think he is planning to show a pair of Col Rocks at Newnan (and maybe Dalton) next year...no hopes of winning, but just exposure to the variety will be fun

 

[NanaKat]

Vintage Wyandotte lit to read online or download at archive.org.
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Annual catalogue of the National Columbian Wyandotte Club (1909)
Author: National Columbian Wyandotte Club
Volume: 1909-13 ( the 1st 5 years in one volume)
http://archive.org/details/annualcatalogueo0913nati
http://agwired.com/category/poultry-expo/page/3/
They call this a catalogue but it reads like a yearbook. Lots of neat info. Esp. on breeding and mating CW.
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The Feather's Wyandotte book (1905)
Author: McGrew, T. F. (Thomas Fletcher), 1850-1930
http://archive.org/details/cu31924003109216
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Wyandotte culture; how to score, how to select, and how to rear them (1886)
Author: Pierce, B. N. [from old catalog]
http://archive.org/details/wyandotteculture00pier
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The Wyandotte fowl; its general characteristics and advice on rearing, mating and breeding with a chapter on judging of exhibition birds (1884)
Publisher: Albany, Ferris Pub. Co.
http://archive.org/details/wyandottefowlits00alba
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The Wyandotte standard and breed book; a complete description of all varieties of Wyandottes, with the text in full from the latest (1915) rev. ed. of the American standard of perfection, as it relates to all varieties of Wyandottes. Also, with treatises on breeding, rearing, feeding, housing, conditioning for exhibitions, exhibiting-etc. (1919)
Author: Nourse, Harold Alvah, 1875- ed
Publisher: [Buffalo] The American poultry association
http://archive.org/details/cu31924003096413
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Wyandottes in colors and how to judge them .. (1908)
Author: Hewes, Theodore, 1859-
Publisher: Indianapolis, Ind., Inland poultry journal co.
http://archive.org/details/cu31924003091703
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Wyandottes: silver, golden, black and white. Their origin, history, characteristics and standard points; how to mate, judge and rear them for exhibition and commercial purposes; with a chapter on their diseases and treatment (1891)
Author: Wallace, Joseph
Publisher: Albany, N.Y., Ferris Publishing Company
http://archive.org/details/wyandottessilver00wallrich
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Standard-bred Wyandottes, silver, golden, white, buff partridge, black, silver, penciled, and Columbian, their practical qualities; the standard requirements; how to judge them, how to make and breed for best results, with a chapter on new standard varieties (1910)
Author: Drevenstedt, John Henry, 1857-
Publisher: Quincy, Ill. reliable poultry journal pub. co. Buffalo N. Y. American poultry publishing co
http://archive.org/details/cu31924003077538
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Best Regards,
Karen
(hum.. the Columbian Dotte must be an eb (brown) based variety. Otherwise they would not be calling for bluish slate undercolor in
the female and allowing ticking in the saddle in the male. )

Wow Karen...again you come thru with great resources! I copied the links and will be spending hours reading and downloading! I'm selecting/culling Wyandotte chicks this week. Im color code banding already for type in each of the toe punch pens.

 

[Pozees]

I am having great hatches on the mottle Javas almost every egg is hatching. Will have more than I can raise. Might be able to send you some latter before it gets to hot to ship which is a average of 85 or more per day down here. Because I live 30 miles from the Gulf of Mexico it gets hotter here before others further north.

Bob you are so kind. I am passing the MJ from Mr. Urch on to a fellow Coloradan who has been wanting them, and I would guess she would be thrilled to have some of yours when you have some available. I was trying to get RC Leghorns, prefer Brown (Light or Dark, he only listed Light) but honestly right now I would be very happy to locate any color. I am watching my Albritton SS grow, a thrilling and satisfying time in my life to be sure, and if I am unable to locate Leghorns this year it will wait.

 

[Robert Blosl]

Quote: Isn't it something that you would think a rare breed like Rose Comb Brown Leghorns would be able to locate but its so hard for so many of these super rare breeds. What will happen after Mr. Urch Retires in a few years. They will be so many breeds so hard to locate and worse yet they will be run down as they will not stay at his level long. It takes years of skill to maintain a multi colored breed to even his levels.

There are some good brown leghorns in North Carolina. Maybe someone can get us a number or address to help you for the future. I know if you make arrangements with a good breeder latter in the year he may be able to bring you a breeding pen of birds to a show. This is what most of these super star breeders do. They do not fool with eggs or chicks. They pick the best ten birds out of say 75 for them selves and then share the top 30 if they meet their standards for sale birds to others who want them. That's just how its been for year with the real top breeders. The ones that sell eggs or chicks may have got birds from such a great breeder but because they do this their birds are a notch or two below these flock averages. Many are happy with this method but when you show them and get beat by a better breed you think differently. That is the difference between a person who wants the best birds they can get and a person who just collects chickens and does not put any breeding pressure to maintain the level that they should have. It is more common to go back wards than to stay stead fast with a breed. There is a person in Oklahoma that has a fine strain of Dark Brown Leghorn large fowl.

I will try to send you a personnel message and his email address latter. I know he has good ones as I sent him a killer Dark Brown Male 6 years ago and he took two hours to study him. They came from the Don S. line out of North Carolina.

 

[el pollo rey]

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I have some corn mash from my pluming fixture in the back woods. My birds love this stuff. If you can get FRM Game Bird Pellets 20% from Flint River Mills Georgia its got everything you need.
The finish is fantastic on the birds feathers as well for showing

. Wonder if I will get some probation for this post? bob
[/quot hey bob can you add plans for the plumbing fixture to coop runs and plans ? Lol

 

[el pollo rey]

As far as the mash goes bob it holds true , when I was young and we had silage for the dairy stock the hens would seek it out and eat it up they loved the fermented spirits that dad gave to the holstiens ! My dad said happy cows give more milk ! I could never figure out why the cows were happy till I got a lil older lol

 

[colburg]

I have some corn mash from my pluming fixture in the back woods. My birds love this stuff. If you can get FRM Game Bird Pellets 20% from Flint River Mills Georgia its got everything you need.
The finish is fantastic on the birds feathers as well for showing

. Wonder if I will get some probation for this post? bob

I see great potential for a DIY thread for making "corn mash."

You're making feed for the birds...with a pleasing by-product.

 

[el pollo rey]

I see great potential for a DIY thread for making "corn mash."    You're making feed for the birds...with a pleasing by-product.

motion seconded and passed !

 

[Robert Blosl]

Quote: I wish I had a still but its a artesian well with the plumbing. To many helicopters flying over looking for funny plants with funny leaves or a still you would loose all your assets and retirement in a heartbeat. I think I will stick with my FRM 20% game bird pellets.

Thank God I can get some where I am. Its the last of the old fashion Meat type protein feed left in the south. I think if you get a game bird feed from Purina it will be good protein. You can not put a good feather on a quail or a pheasant for shooting with soy bean meal. Fellow have compared raising quail on both feeds and the cheap soy chicken feed the birds was so poor in feather they could not fly.

 

[3riverschick]

Hi,
Day One and 6 of 7 eggs pipping. These are Junior over May. March's trio heads out this weekend to her 4-H junior member. After they leave, am putting Junior with March to see if I can get more Junior/March chicks. I have 20 Junior/ May chicks and May isn't laying right, now but March is.
So that's the plan.
Best.
Karen