Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

[Chickielady]

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Well, off subject but thinking of you today when I opened the mail box and the new issue of Game&Fish fell out,,with a nice bucksteelie on the cover.
Says their getting record numbers on the Clack and all the way to Northweat WA.
The weather here has calmed down, with a few gusty winds, and annoying sprinkles, but warmed up to 55-and up to 60 degrees on some rivers in OR.
We are thinking of putting in here on the Willapa as the hatchery is upstream as you know...something to do on a drizzly day, and enjoy this beautiful wild place.
Articles can be seen online at WA-OR Game & Fish magazine.
Can't get no better steelehead fishing weather than this right here right now, wish you were here !

Thanks for the web site. I went to it and saw the big streel head. I sure would love to be out there for a few days fishing the big Ox bow on the Willipa River. Also, was on the big Green Egg Site getting good ideas to cook the steaks for the big party. Maybe we can cook a few steel head slabs in the big Green Egg to. bob

Dang ! We need to fish !!

the steelies are running !
Maybe next year you come out and fish ! My host~

 

[Chickielady]

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Good luck with them!

Thanks ! Bringing a breed back is always a challenge...and these are my favorite..quickly followed by the RIW, awesome personable birds.

 

[Chickielady]

Walt might remember the old guy who raised these FRENCH feather shanked REAL Silver Cuckoo Marans..an old man and woman in Santa Rosa had so many baby chicks they offered them for sale~~they were actually upset that their hens were so broody and consumed with broodiness...so they took these 4 babies (there was 6 altogether) away from the parent stock, and I raised them in a gQf brooder.
They look like no other Silver Cuckoo marans...

 

[kathyinmo]

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What is the 1924 Ringlet catalog? Did E. B. Thompson publish a catalog to sell his chicks? Could you post a picture of the catalog? I would love to see it.

 

[OSUman]

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Sorry if i missed them but do you have any pics of them? Feather legged Cuckoo Marans are really hard to find from what I understand.

 

[Chickielady]

yes, just posted 1 above, and I have to go, so will log on again tomorrow, I had to get a clean legged male, bred to my aging feather legged girls, and got a few feather legged chicks..so like I said, bubba's days are numbered.
I think I may have 1 more photo on this web site..

the old hens from Santa Rosa, feather shanked, 2 are not very feathered and 2 are

Cock raised for breeding

another pic of the Cock...so, I have generation 2 ow, feather shanked chicks will be saved, and the rest culled.
Just wondered if you remembered the people that raised these wonderful birds in Santa Rosa.

These eggs were laid as first eggs, they never laid fart eggs, they started with big glossy brown eggs and some had spots.
I adore these birds.
Remember, out of 4 hens, 2 are feather shanked but they are sisters...so just bred with a clean shanked Cock..I had to raise him from eggs...so now I have alot of chciks and alot have feathers !!

 

[OSUman]

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LOL cool nice looking birds.

 

[kathyinmo]

Are Cuckoo Marans Heritage Large Fowl?

 

[OSUman]

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No they arent sorry for getting off topic.

 

[fowlman01]

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I live in
Santa Rosa and there are a lot of good chicken breeders here, but I didn't run across that co8uple.

Walt