Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

[fowlman01]

Unfortunately there are always those who want the best of everything for free. I personally don't mind paying for quality and really appreciate those who are willing to share their stock, whether it be chicks or eggs, with me. A big thank you to everyone who posts in this thread. I've learned so much from all of you.

I just received my copy of the 2010 SOP and am having trouble putting it down. Worth the weight in gold, in my humble opinion. Thinking about purchasing a second copy so that I can write all over one of them..

Contact the APA secretary Pat Horstman. I believe that she will have some spiral bound Standards at a savings over the hard bound versions....and it will lay flat. This is something new and it will be a limited production.

Walt

 

[colburg]

Normally, if you flock mate 20 Females you have say two males. Some big time chicken guys may have 25 and three males.

However, folks that are breeding to be preservationist don't do this. We have maybe three females and I male. We may have two or three breeding pens. We rotate our birds every year or what is called line breeding. You cant improve and maintain good traits by hatching a army of chickens. If you want a breed to hatch tons of chicks to make sales for people on this site or ebay that is all right as most of the customer base don't care about preservation or improving the breed.

I try to mate with pairs or even single male and female and take the males out every three days to rest the females.

What about keeping them until cull time? I've seen where some people will cull along the way, but may not pick their breeders till 1-2 years old. I sure don't want to keep 20 males for 2 years. I don't mind keeping 2 maybe 3 for a year, so long as they get along. But when they start sparring at 15 weeks and have blood on them till we eat some... We'll be picking our breeders much sooner.

Maybe by the time they're 15-20 weeks old, there's only 2-3 cockerels left. Then they get whittled down to one come breeding time?????

 

[Lacy Blues]

< snip> And where does the Serama fit into all this, you may wonder? Well, HE is the head cock bird. No kidding. That tiny little scrap of bird will chase that enormous, turkey-sized Barred Rock off every time.

We used to laugh so hard at this exact situation. We had a great big barred rock sex-link cross in our mixed flock and sometimes he would come down to where the bantams were kept.

My daughter would put her old english game bantam on the ground... Do any of you remember watching Yoda fight with Count Ducu (sp?) in Star Wars? That little bird would jump over him and bite him from behind, run under him and bite him in the front and run all around him and back and in every direction. By the time that big bird got turned around to face his attacker, he was behind him again!

 

[trochefarm]

Don't have much to say except I need to talk to Al Gore about this. I cant be leave this. They where talking about snow today or last night in Colorado. Its going to get up to about 80 here today.

Yeah. Here in the Denver area, we were in the 70's over the weekend. High of 33 today (low in the teens). Just about tired of old man winter!

 

[Dahlisgrams]

Quote: Fantastic! Thanks very much for the tip, Walt. I'll make the call tomorrow. I'm a note taker and list maker and this would be so much simpler for jotting things down than the beautiful hardcover book. I'm so impressed with the quality of the SOP book. It's really, really nice.

 

[el pollo rey]

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We used to laugh so hard at this exact situation.  We had a great big barred rock sex-link cross in our mixed flock and sometimes he would come down to where the bantams were kept.

My daughter would put her old english game bantam on the ground... Do any of you remember watching Yoda fight with Count Ducu (sp?) in Star Wars?  That little bird would jump over him and bite him from behind, run under him and bite him in the front and run all around him and back and in every direction.  By the time that big bird got turned around to face his attacker, he was behind him again! 
[/quote. Lol funny

 

[NanaKat]

Unfortunately there are always those who want the best of everything for free. I personally don't mind paying for quality and really appreciate those who are willing to share their stock, whether it be chicks or eggs, with me. A big thank you to everyone who posts in this thread. I've learned so much from all of you.

I just received my copy of the 2010 SOP and am having trouble putting it down. Worth the weight in gold, in my humble opinion. Thinking about purchasing a second copy so that I can write all over one of them..

Contact the APA secretary Pat Horstman. I believe that she will have some spiral bound Standards at a savings over the hard bound versions....and it will lay flat. This is something new and it will be a limited production.

Walt

Fantastic! Thanks very much for the tip, Walt. I'll make the call tomorrow. I'm a note taker and list maker and this would be so much simpler for jotting things down than the beautiful hardcover book. I'm so impressed with the quality of the SOP book. It's really, really nice.

Ooh ooh, me too! I was copying pages from my book and making notes, for a notebook...love the spiral idea!

Heard a lady at the pharmacy today complain that Mother Nature was bi-polar when it started raining sleet.

 

[galanie]

I too must share my joy from Kathy! Excellent stock from an generous and lovely heart, right to my doorstep! And she threw in some excellent little WRs x 2!!! e All are wild and woolly and growing like weeds at a wk old. now...this the day they arrived. If you see wet spots on their fur, it's due to the tears of joy.....

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[gjensen]

Those are big, healthy looking chicks.

 

[1MrsMagoo]

Those are big, healthy looking chicks.

x2: Very nice bunch of chicks!