Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

[Wynette]

I'm just an amateur but that bird is gorgeous.

I dunno if "ugly bird" is allowed on Walt's farm.

 

[thedragonlady]

I dunno if "ugly bird" is allowed on Walt's farm.

I'm sure that any ugly Cornish end up on Walt's table. Very tasty !

 

[thedragonlady]

How cool, that bird is beautiful! It looks like a duck! I wonder if they waddle, LOL.

Would love to see a snapshot of it! I'm already convinced they should and did have red earlobes at this point. The Dorking is suspected as being a major contributor to the Crevecoeur gene pool.

Let me see if I can get a photo. It is a very dark old painting with lots of impasto...heavy paint.

 

[Lacy Blues]

I'm just wondering something.

In your cockerel pens, when you get a youngster who thinks he's the greatest thing under the sun and thinks the other boys need to know it too, does it bother you?

I'm probably just soft hearted/headed but I get really upset when I have bullies in the pens. It's not only the boys, but sometimes the girls as well. It just really drives me crazy. But then I'm the same way when my kids argue or my husband gets on their cases as well.

Why can't they just all get along... you know... live and let live!

 

[cbnovick]

Let me see if I can get a photo. It is a very dark old painting with lots of impasto...heavy paint.

Vickie- it sounds so exotic and luxe...would love to see it!!

 

[fowlman01]

I'm just wondering something.

In your cockerel pens, when you get a youngster who thinks he's the greatest thing under the sun and thinks the other boys need to know it too, does it bother you?

I'm probably just soft hearted/headed but I get really upset when I have bullies in the pens. It's not only the boys, but sometimes the girls as well. It just really drives me crazy. But then I'm the same way when my kids argue or my husband gets on their cases as well.

Why can't they just all get along... you know... live and let live!

Sometimes the group of birds can be tricked into behaving. I many times use an old Asil or other dominant type of old male to keep peace. They don't like fighting....unless it is a another Asil or some other bird that will try to stand up to him. The Asils I have will just kick them across the pen if they want to fight...but will not run them down and kill them like some roosters would. It only takes a few minutes to straighten out a pen. It takes some practice to know how to deal with these pen fights and sometimes you just have to move birds.

Walt

 

[Fred's Hens]

In the same way, I keep an older hen around as a trainer. She keeps peace, never looks for a fight, but takes no nonsense from anyone, shows the young pullets where to lay and having her around a house full of sorority girls gone wild pullets brings a calm and peace that is priceless. I'll miss her one day when she's gone.

I've never had an old Asil as you use Walt, but I get the picture. That's great.

 

[fowlman01]

In the same way, I keep an older hen around as a trainer. She keeps peace, never looks for a fight, but takes no nonsense from anyone, shows the young pullets where to lay and having her around a house full of sorority girls gone wild pullets brings a calm and peace that is priceless. I'll miss her one day when she's gone.

I've never had an old Asil as you use Walt, but I get the picture. That's great.

It is the same idea Fred. It takes a while to learn to manage a pen and then sometimes nothing works and you just have to separate birds. I really doin't like doing that, but occasionally it is the only way.

Walt

 

[Wynette]

I've used that same strategy that Fred does; also, I've found that when rotating in young pullets into a breed pen, there are always those older hens that show them who is in charge and where to lay...seems I've continually got a stream of young ones going in, and removing some older ones at the same time, but still keeping the best of the best. Since I've worked my breed pens like that, I've never had an egg laid in the run or on the coop floor - always in the nest box.

 

[fowlman01]

I'm sure that any ugly Cornish end up on Walt's table. Very tasty !

Cornish game hens they become.

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