Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

[Robert Blosl]

Cyber Cat you did your home work and you did well. These Partridge Rocks look very nice. The male has a nice tail to go along with his color. The Partridge large fowl are so hard to find. My friend Anthony has some of Dick Horstmans birds and they are good. I like these as well. I saw their pictures on thier web site very rare to get birds like these. Maybe they are buying good birds from breeders and then going back every three to four years and adding a male or two to keep the color and type in line.

In regards to Wyandottes put them to the top of the class. Put the Silver Laced Wyandottes up ther right now to. They are some of the nices looking large Fowl I have seen in years. I saw some good ones this past weekend that a frined has and he got from the top breeders in Kentucky.

There are a few good whites left and I have seen very few Buffs in large fowl. There are more Wyandotte bantams today as no buddy wants to fool and feed large fowl.

The word Heritage bugs alot of people. What other word could you use. I wrote a article for Back Yard Poutlry Magazine about two years ago and I used another word for the Title. Was it Vintage? I looked it up even I forgot the catchy name Heriloom Breed

I think of Heritage as my past as a young boy in the 1950s and 1960s at the fairs and chicken shows . The old men that I interviewed and helped me who where raising old large fowl going back to the 1930s. Some even earlyer than that. Its part of our hobby and the American Poultry Assc.

If the old breeds are in say in the 1964 Standard of Perfection they are the old time breeds. Wyandottes are right there with my beloved R I Reds and Plymouth Rocks. So they belong there and if there are breeders out there that have them I want them on the old time list of breeders so we can help the newbees find them for next year.
Standard Cornish are rare as hens teeth. Very few have them and many wont share them unless they are full grown and you pick them up at a show or have them mailed to your house. I dont know if we will ever find anyone who can sell eggs or chicks to a beginer.
bob
http://www.backyardpoultrymag.com/issues/3-5.html

 

[7961]

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What breed/'s are raising?
If you are raising a breed that is to have Yellow legs and they are turning a White/ Pink color it could be do to Breeding, age or even a low fat diet.
Back about 2 or 3 months ago I was talking to Tim Bowls about feeds and feeding and he mentioned that if the fat content in the feed is low or not enough for the bird that it will start to looks some of the Yellow in there shanks..

Chris

I starting out with Rock Bantams after most of my years primarily specializing in raising various breeds of exhibition waterfowl and game birds. I usually hit up a few shows and a fair a year. I purchased 3 trios from a very reputable Rock breeder back in September. I am very pleased with this promising start. Primarily I feed Purina Flock Raiser which on the ingredient tag says that it has "tagete extract" in it. I have had satisfactory results with the waterfowl. Many meat chicken feeds has "tagete - marigold" as an ingredient for competitions to get help get/maintain that yellow leg color for competition. I just want to try and make sure I am doing what I can to give them the optimal feed and supplement (if needed).

 

[jenjscott]

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It doesn't matter what term you use, people are going to coin it for marketing as soon as it gets popular. Here on BYC a few days ago someone had heritage OEG Bantam eggs for sale.

 

[Robert Blosl]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=198682

I was looking at some old messages on this site and found a message from a fellow named Gary who posted a picture of Rhode Island Red Large Fowl and was selling eggs. His name is gary and lived in South Carolina. Does any one know who he is and where he got his Rhode Island Red Large fowl from?

I would like to contact him and see what he still has left. They look like my old strain I use to have years ago.

If you do not want to post who he is send me a personel message.

I sure would like to track down this person or any one who got eggs from this fellow. If you have these birds from Gary let me know as well.

Bob

 

[OSUman]

Bob he has his email address listed in his profile. Its [email protected] he may not still use it but it would be worth a try

 

[Yard full o' rocks]

Ok....need some advise. I have a small group of Columbian Rock LF that I was able to obtain through a breeder in Ohio a LOT OF HELP from Buzz Holcombe. I've had them since they were a few weeks old. They are now 26-28 weeks old. I have my best 2 cockerels in with 10 pullets. They have a large coop, 8ft x 8ft, attached to a 15x15 run. Let out daily to free range.

I've been watching the best of my two cockerels for a week or so as he has started "creeping up" behind me when I go outside. Today, I was taking a pot out oatmeal out to everyone and he snuck up behind me and "flogged" me a bit. I was watching him and expected it....no injury, no pain, BUT, I have an unwritten rule of not keeping problem roosters. His hatchmates will let you scratch them a bit, and are generally much friendlier.

Now for my dilemma...

This cockerel BY FAR has the best type and color, as well as size. Nice tail and tail spread. I still have 3 other cockerels, but none of them measure up to this guy (named Pablo BTW). I need some suggestions....

Do I keep the best cockerel and somehow wok with him on his demeanor? If so, I need suggestions. Perhaps keep him until I can get a few offspring from him?? Then get rid of him??

OR do I punt this one to the curb and work with one of the lesser cockerels, but one that has a better disposition? It took too long to get started with this variety so I want to be very careful about how and what to do.

Looking for some real help here folks.....

THANKS

Scott
(aka Yard full o' rocks)

 

[speckledhen]

Wow, that's a tough one, Scott--do you cull your best boy over temperament? You know what I'd do, of course. Others may disagree with it and it's up to what you want to put up with as well as what you are risking passing down to his sons and daughters, as temperament is, to a degree, heritable. I'll be interested to see what other folks do about this situation. Naturally, he's your best looking boy!

 

[Yard full o' rocks]

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Isnt that the truth!! If only Pepper were a Columbian Rock. He is still the best natured rooster we've had here....I still call him my dog with 2 feet and feathers, LOL

 

[halo]

If he is your best cockerel by far, I would match him with your best girls in temperment and type, hatch out a bunch of babies, then get rid of him. Temperment can be heredity, but I dont think it is 100%, and maybe matched with a good tempered girl, you could get his type with a more mellow temperment. Then keep the best roo of that batch, but be very diligent on temperment.

Thats what I would do, can't say its the right thing to do, but Id hate to throw the baby out with the bathwater if he's that nice.

 

[X2Farm]

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He still uses that email address, as I actually just contacted him via email about it this morning.