Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

[ChickenPotPie]

Well, the boys and I just rounded up all the RIRs and put them in the old, big coop. Wow, it's a lot easier to evaluate them when they're not roaming all over the place amongst lots of other birds. I found out we have 11 of them. I did not know that.

Anyway, horizontal wing carriage, and brick body. Okay, they kinda seem to have that. I'll take photos of them later.

This is a very interesting thread. I'm loving seeing so many beautiful birds.

 

[X2Farm]

Hubby and I have talked about getting into Heritage breeds. This thread has really opened my eyes, and helped me understand it more. Thanks to all yall who have been posting all the information and pictures. I'm lookin forward to reading many future posts!

Hopefully, someday, we can get some good Heritage lines and have a good Heritage bred flock

 

[greathorse]

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Its like the Master teaching the student... All we need now is Ahhh grasshopper you Ive tought you well... LOL
Or is it a early "Trick or Treat".

Chris

I thought I recognized that Cock from a photo he had posted on the RIR forum. LOL.He must be carefully watched LOL

 

[Robert Blosl]

That picture was his sire. Black Spurs one this is the third male from this cock bird to produce black spurs on a bantam. A trait from the large fowl twenty years ago.

 

[kathyinmo]

So, Bob, what are you raising or working on now? What all breeds do you have?

 

[greathorse]

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Is it possible or likely that I will get some black spurs on the Mohawk Large fowl that I have?

 

[Robert Blosl]

Black spurs was very common on the E W Reese large fowl. You had very dark beak color , leg color was horn colored, the quill color was super blood red in color so I would get black or horn colored spurs in my males. You should see dark horn spurs in your males and cock birds. In the Red Bantams the black spurs showed up two years ago on one super typey male his father did not have them. He produced three cockerels last year that had them. I mated him back to his daughters this year and all the males have black spurs. This is the trait from the large fowl that I have not seen on any strain of Red Bantam. These are large fowl that where shrunk down to bantams for 22 years the only strain ever done by a breeder. I also have White Leghorn Bantams the old Lenord Smith line from Oregon, Buff Brhamas Bill Bowman line, White Rock Bantams Daivd Christie Line and the Gray Calls Art Lundgren Line. The large fowl White Rocks are farmed out in Flordia. bob

 

[Resolution]

I think perhaps the Black Java is one of the most important breeds and it's heritage marks a crossroads in culture when European and Indonesian genetic stocks were composited to produce ideal dual purpose birds suited for the oppressive heat of Indonesia. Then American poultiers turned this into the precursor of the conrish cross industry.

 

[kathyinmo]

What is the Mohawk large fowl? I know it is a RIR .... but, is it "different," or is it a "line" of the Heritage RIRs? Is Mohawk someone's name, or is it something else?

 

[punky rooster]

gosh you guys stay up late! there was 2 extra pages on this thread when i got up.