Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

[kathyinmo]

• Here is the quote of the year. You get good lines and want to cross them and have super duper birds when in fact what you do is the opposite.

• Long live the old breeds and the strains will stay pure.

• Down with crossing strains and then going out of the chicken business as 99 % of the people do.

Thank you, Bob!

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

Here are some of our Heritage Large Fowl chicks. Mostly Buff and White Orpingtons. Also, six Ricky Bates line Heritage Rhode Island Reds.

These Reds were given as eggs to one of our 4H club members. He has had a delay in getting his brooder tote completed. Catherine is bringing all the parts home from school tonight and will be returning it, chicks included, to him at school in the morning.

 

[CharlieVoda]

Very nice birds there and good work on the part of the Hall family. Be proud.
Good luck with the birds
Charlie

 

[Run A Fowl Farm]

Thank you for all the feed back. I was looking at the standard today and reading where the White Wyandottes originated as sports of Silver Laced Wyandottes. I was wondering how often does a sport happen and are the Silver Laced in better quality to get sports from that then could be used to breed either to the Urch strain of RI Whites or perhaps try what I believe Bob suggested and breeding to nice White Rocks....

Someone in my area is looking for show/breeding quality Silver Laced Wyandottes & thought perhaps working with them and if sports happened often enough, I'd have someone to trade Wyandottes with to have a better gene pool within the same strain and in theory work on two birds with one stone. Please let me know of anyone with the Silver Laced Wyandottes of good quality so I can possibly connect with them and get birds for these people even if I don't go that route.

I am planning to be at the Stevenson Washington show next month & would love to be able to get the birds they want at that time.

My son is also looking for some nice Gray Japanese as that is the project he has chosen for 4H and isn't happy with the hatchery birds he got last year. He has a nice self blue cock but hasn't found any hens to put with him and has decided on the gray.

Thank you Charlie for the photos of the RI Whites.

 

[lucky123]

Matt, who post on this thread has some nice show quality silver laced wyandottes. I don't know if he is hatching out from his yet, but you can shoot him a message and see.

 

[Run A Fowl Farm]

Thank you - I will search the site - Is it Matt1616 ? They are wanting to get adult stock rather than chicks but as it is said, in some places they want Ice water...

I explained that typically any adult birds that were kept over winter are usually what breeders need for their production stock and that they may need to be patient.

 

[Stse586]

I got some RIW's from Sand Hill last year. They could use some work, but they are what I am starting with. Duane Urch had a problem where most of his RIW hens died, so he said he probably couldn't fill my order until next year. I am pretty much just breeding them and collecting all their eggs to hatch. I hope to hatch a lot to cull. I did get one SC in my order which I culled but the rest were RC. I kept 3 pullets and 2 cockerels. I showed 3 of them last year at an APA show, but they were a bit young at the time. I find them to have pretty good temperaments and are good layers. I really like them and wonder why they are so unpopular. I don't have more recent pictures. I want to say they are 6 or 7 months old or so in these pictures.







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[NYREDS]

Can't see the females too well but that first male is actually pretty nice. I'd breed from him & not the second one. Keep the second one though, if you don't the first one will probably die. That's what happens when you keep only one male.

I got some RIW's from Sand Hill last year. They could use some work, but they are what I am starting with. Duane Urch had a problem where most of his RIW hens died, so he said he probably couldn't fill my order until next year. I am pretty much just breeding them and collecting all their eggs to hatch. I hope to hatch a lot to cull. I did get one SC in my order which I culled but the rest were RC. I kept 3 pullets and 2 cockerels. I showed 3 of them last year at an APA show, but they were a bit young at the time. I find them to have pretty good temperaments and are good layers. I really like them and wonder why they are so unpopular. I don't have more recent pictures. I want to say they are 6 or 7 months old or so in these pictures.







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[Robert Blosl]

I agree with New York Reds the first male made me say a dirty word. I like him. This is not a bad start and if you hatch fourty and cull down to the best square typed birds need more extended keels you got something there. Congradulations on these they also have pretty good combs.

I will try to locate a picture for you and post it for the type.

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v11/katz0556/?action=view&current=redsyl.jpg

bob

 

[gjensen]

That first male is nice.