Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

[cbnovick]

Send mer a PM when the time gets closer to your visit. I'm between Santa Rosa and Sebastopol. I commuted from here to Sutter and Montgomery St's in SF for 4 years. I started a business to eliminate the commute. The Pac Poultry Breeders Stockton lshow is the place to buy birds.......good birds. We had almost 4000 birds this Jan.

Walt

I will definitely PM you when we commit to getting airline tickets. lol. We are really hoping to go this summer or early Fall....otherwise, it may just be myself.
i read all about Stockton this year...sure wish i could have attended. AWESOME amount of birds

 

[cbnovick]

I will definitely PM you when we commit to getting airline tickets. lol. We are really hoping to go this summer or early Fall....otherwise, it may just be myself.
i read all about Stockton this year...sure wish i could have attended. AWESOME amount of birds

LOVE Sebastopol too...went to a real cool live wild (and exotic) cat show there. very exhilarating (or shall i say intimidating) to be in a small auditorium with large predator cats only feet away...gorgeous creatures!

 

[CountryFriedChicken]

I think this is a good suggestion. I would add to it that if the youth is able to locate a breeder, preferably local but doesn't need to be with the internet and digital cameras, who is willing to help evaluate growing stock and explain why one chick/juvenile is superior to another, the educational value may meet equal that of getting adult birds.

As a VERY not youth getting started in breeding Speckled Sussex, I will be receiving 25 chicks from Tony Albritton tomorrow or Thursday, which he has agreed to help me evaluate as they mature, reminding me early on that it may be a year before I can make final decisions on which to move forward with. When I asked about retaining those with fewer speckles and starting a second group endeavoring to create Red Sussex he was supportive and said it can most certainly be done. I am not in a hurry to win at shows, I am more interested in breeding and moving forward with SOP Sussex, so for me this is perfect. For a youth, just the first half would be extremely helpful, as an experienced breeder can see things in chicks and juveniles a novice cannot, and hopefully describe what it is they see so the novice can develop an eye for seeing what will grow up to be the superior bird.

I am late in responding, but who also has Red Sussex? My friend and I hatched several Red Sussex between us (two places in case something happens to one part of the flock). She lost her rooster to a predator attack, we now have her hens in an undercover pen where they are protected until we can locate another rooster and more Red Sussex stock. I am hoping we will have a cockerel in our groups. I will be taking my group back to her in a few weeks so she can keep them in the same group in the undercover pen. But she needs a rooster, and it must be a pearl legged one.

 

[cbnovick]

Yep ! Our green earth friendly Mr Al lives in a Interstate Motel size energy hogging house and wants us to ride bikes to work LOL

 

[Robert Blosl]

Walt thanks for the post of your ducks. Those are truly H type poultry.

Many people don't know how many eggs a day per year those runners lay.

Glad you have them. bob

 

[fowlman01]

Walt thanks for the post of your ducks. Those are truly H type poultry.

Many people don't know how many eggs a day per year those runners lay.

Glad you have them. bob

If a Mallard isn't an H bird, I don't know what is. lol. Last post on Mallards....to give you a good idea of what a good one looks like compared to an East indie and the kind of Mallard you see at shows. These are a lot smaller than the pond ducks most people show. Note the size of the Mallard to the right of this bird.....that's what you are used to seeing in shows.




Walt

 

[fowlman01]

I believe Runners hold the record for most eggs in a year. They are egg machines.

w.

 

[MagicChicken]

If a Mallard isn't an H bird, I don't know what is. lol. Last post on Mallards....to give you a good idea of what a good one looks like compared to an East indie and the kind of Mallard you see at shows. These are a lot smaller than the pond ducks most people show. Note the size of the Mallard to the right of this bird.....that's what you are used to seeing in shows.




Walt

 

[Robert Blosl]

Nice looking Drake there Walt. Maybe these would breed more true for color than Gray Calls do.

I got a few phone calls and emails in the past month from folks wanting to get rare H poultry breed.

Guess what the next Rare Breed is to locate. Who would ever think of it.

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

When I had them I could not give them away. Now hardly anyone has any worth a hoot to sell.

I have one fellow who has my line and I have advised him to keep six good pullets and two males for next year. I bet he will have orders for 200 chicks.

At least he can share the Original small White Plymouth Rock with tight feathers and good egg laying properties to the public.

The big fluffy ones that win at shows. Well this is a fad and they don't reproduce very well for them selves. Never heard of Plymouth Rock breeders who had to pluck the feathers of their large fowl each breeding season to get fertility. I guess the people who judge them don't understand that when you want a fluffy large fowl you are asking the Cochin genes to come to the surface in our breeds. I guess the breeders do not know the history of their breeds and what chickens the old timers used to develop the breeds in the 1800s. Cochins where used in many of them. Guess the folks that have these breeds ignore the Standard of Perfection on Feather Quality.


Cant find my Valium Bottle So like Walt gets I get a little Grumpy t by the way the Silkies are growing like Crazy Walt. So much for this I guess maybe if I huge a few more Pecan Trees per day it will warm up some.
Of my soap box. My message to you all is BIG IS NOT BETTER. If I feel Grumpy today next door in Pensacola Florida they broke a 1944 record for cold day. It was 48 degrees there today and I live about 30 miles from there. I am a little upset with my hero AL GORE. He told me we where in GLOBAL WARMING and If I moved to the south I would not be grumpy from the cold.

Now I am going to get my scale out and weigh one of my bantam hens on her second birth day( 2 Years of Age) and see how much she weighs . She produced for me today two little tiny Rhode island chicks.

They look like a Seroma in size. Kind of funny that 20 years ago they where once large fowl.

 

[cbnovick]

Nice looking Drake there Walt. Maybe these would breed more true for color than Gray Calls do.

I got a few phone calls and emails in the past month from folks wanting to get rare H poultry breed.

Guess what the next Rare Breed is to locate. Who would ever think of it.

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

When I had them I could not give them away. Now hardly anyone has any worth a hoot to sell.

I have one fellow who has my line and I have advised him to keep six good pullets and two males for next year. I bet he will have orders for 200 chicks.

At least he can share the Original small White Plymouth Rock with tight feathers and good egg laying properties to the public.

The big fluffy ones that win at shows. Well this is a fad and they don't reproduce very well for them selves. Never heard of Plymouth Rock breeders who had to pluck the feathers of their large fowl each breeding season to get fertility. I guess the people who judge them don't understand that when you want a fluffy large fowl you are asking the Cochin genes to come to the surface in our breeds. I guess the breeders do not know the history of their breeds and what chickens the old timers used to develop the breeds in the 1800s. Cochins where used in many of them. Guess the folks that have these breeds ignore the Standard of Perfection on Feather Quality.


Cant find my Valium Bottle So like Walt gets I get a little Grumpy t by the way the Silkies are growing like Crazy Walt. So much for this I guess maybe if I huge a few more Pecan Trees per day it will warm up some.
Of my soap box. My message to you all is BIG IS NOT BETTER. If I feel Grumpy today next door in Pensacola Florida they broke a 1944 record for cold day. It was 48 degrees there today and I live about 30 miles from there. I am a little upset with my hero AL GORE. He told me we where in GLOBAL WARMING and If I moved to the south I would not be grumpy from the cold.

Now I am going to get my scale out and weigh one of my bantam hens on her second birth day( 2 Years of Age) and see how much she weighs . She produced for me today two little tiny Rhode island chicks.

They look like a Seroma in size. Kind of funny that 20 years ago they where once large fowl.

Heck alot of those White Rocks could perhaps be mistaken for Wyandottes, if not for the comb...IMAO... I actually thought that's what I was looking at first glance in some photos of LF champs at a well known, big show....I've heard tale that the contemporary whites are broodier too...maybe that's that Cochin sneaking back in too??
of course again IMAO the 'Ringlets' Rule

!!!
Mr. Blosl ---when you are feeling better about the world, maybe you could tell us what inspired you about pen crafting??
Cindy in AZ (where it's already too dang hot---sorry Bob

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