Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

[ronott1]

Quote: There are some countries that are listed as export countries to the US. Spain is one of them.

Ron

 

[Arielle]

Has anyone here actually brought in birds from Canada??

Heck I pay rediculous border fees when just hay is shipped from Canada to Mass. I am wonder how expensive it is to pay the fees to these vets for import . . . .

 

[fowlman01]

Has anyone here actually brought in birds from Canada??

Heck I pay rediculous border fees when just hay is shipped from Canada to Mass. I am wonder how expensive it is to pay the fees to these vets for import . . . .

The Canadians bring down several birds to show at our show here in Stockton CA (PPBA).......every year. They are checked by a vet coming in and going out of the US.

Walt

 

[fowlman01]

I am really enjoying this thread. I am a newbie at breeding and I am still in the process of deciding what breeds I want to work with. I plan on three breeds at the most. I plan on working with the Crevecoeurs. I raised one Crev rooster just as lawn art. I am very impressed on how hardy and what a nice rooster he was. I lost him to a coyote not long ago. I lucked out and was able to get the parent of my roo. I now have a trio that I believe is not to bad of a start. They are a few years old so I hope i will be able to breed the daughters and the best son back to their mothers and father. Not sure how many breeding seasons I will have left with them. I want to get more Crevs next year and I have a goal to find some good ones. Anyone know of some? It seems that it will be difficult one to find. I plan on working on this for as long as I am able. I know I have years before I will even start to see what I want.

So anyhow thank you all for this great information.

I love getting all these articles to read. I have hatched four little Barred Rocks from Kathyinmo. I am pretty excited to see what these birds are like. Here is a pic of my trio. I know they have a long way to go before I have a good dual purpose breed.

You want to get rid of the red in the hackles and Crevs need red earlobes with no hint of white.

Walt

 

[poularde]

Thank you for the comments Walt. I think the red will not be a problem since his son had no leakage at all.


The ear lobe color I have no idea about. Should white ear lobes never be used? So far all the Crevs I have seen have white or whitish lobes. Do you have someone to refer me to who has good stock?

 

[fowlman01]

Thank you for the comments Walt. I think the red will not be a problem since his son had no leakage at all.


The ear lobe color I have no idea about. Should white ear lobes never be used? So far all the Crevs I have seen have white or whitish lobes. Do you have someone to refer me to who has good stock?

This guy looks good. The problem has been that everyone assumes that the ear lobes should be white cuz all the other crested birds are. they should be red. I would use whatever you have a select for the birds with the least amount of white. It seems to be easier to get red than white even when you are going for white lobes, so I think it is doable. It doesn't look enamel white to me. Maybe Duane Urch has some of these, but the picture of this last guy looks pretty good to me.certainly a very good start.

Walt.

 

[Robert Blosl]

Good morning all....its been a while since I posted here (BUSY BUSY with work, praise glory!!)

At any rate, Bob Blosl helped me obtain a trio of LF Columbian Rocks back in the Fall of 2010. I sent him some pictures over the weekend of a small group of cockerels I have growing out (6-7 month olds) and he asked if I might post them over here. Still trying to get a decent chest on these guys, but color is coming along nicely.

http://s811.photobucket.com/albums/zz39/ScottBrazinski/2012 cockerels/

Any thoughts, critiques, advise? Thanks

Pullets are developing much better than the cockerels and I will try to get a few pictures of them in the next day or so.

Stay cool.....

Scott

Scott thanks for showing us your Plymouth Rocks. The males are tighter in feather quality and looks nice in color. I have seen some of your pullets and the hen from last year that had the big extended keels. Need to locate that old hen last years pullet and maybe some of her daughters and mate them to the best colored male you have this year. Should have good color next year and the fronts on the males will improve in time. The good females should help you.

Also, in regards to birds coming out of Canada the Original Trio that Scott got was a trio a good breed brought to the Ohio National Poultry Show in November. A friend of Scott's paid for the birds then brought them down south and then Scott drove to her house and picked them up. I had to choose between Scott and another fellow. I am glad I choose Scott. He is a true Preservationist and has all ready shared some of these birds to others which was my goal. They are home made birds made from a cross of White Rocks and Light Bahamas a few years ago. They had a little problem with loose feathers from the Brahma blood but in time with good selection we will see a Rock bird with good type and the light Brahma color pattern.

If you want a great all around Heritage Large Fowl, easy to raise, easy to hatch, easy to brood and lays eggs very well plus the beauty of the color contact Scott this spring. We need help getting this strain into the hands of people who want to do their part to help large fowl from going extinct.

Hope you will post pictures of your females latter. Job well done.

 

[Arielle]

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Walt-- Is the inspection free as in paid by US government?

 

[NYREDS]

It may be common and it may be perfectly acceptable in most yards. I know they are similar but there are also some pretty big differences that I don't want to see in my Andalusians. Were you the neighbor of John Hayes who now has some of his birds? If so, I talked to John a couple years back and he told me that he tried crossing in some Minorcas several years ago to try and increase the size of his birds. He told me that as a result of that mistake, he lost fertility in his birds and it took him years to get it back.

That wouldn't be my only concern. They look quite different. No thank you.

I think youi may have misunderstood what John said. There's no reason crossing in Minorcas would negatively affect fertility. Just doesn't make sense. It did affect the lacing on the birds that resulted from the cross but it only took a couple of generations to get that back. It also had the result he was looking for, increased size. John & I have swapped birds back & forth for years & I saw the results of that cross. You don't need to cross anything in if you choose not to, it's your flock, but if you're having problems with size you'll have a hard time increasing it w/o bringing in size from somewhere.

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

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