Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

[Robert Blosl]

A shine on a New Hampshire is also a good sign of good health. It comes from within. On my Rhode Island Red bantams I give them ten small sun flower seeds each day two months before a show. This put a sine on their feathers as if you sprayed them with a grooming spray. This however, this is the natural way just like putting a yellow on the legs of a Plymouth rock or leghorn with corn or Alpha leaves. Again it comes from the inside and comes out to the feathers of the skin or feathers. If he is pretty and you have room for him keep him around. The secret of the sun flower seeds is a secret taught two me in one of the one hour visits with Ken Bowlers 22 years ago. He taught me allot what a great chicken man he was. I would loved have studied under him if I was learning to be a judge. He was taught by all the old time greats including Arthur Schilling?

Ever heard of him?

I will keep my eyes open on the Delaware’s. I hate to tell you they are as scarce as New Hampshire’s. Once you get some and you are serious in breeding them up you got to clue in with Jamie Duckworth and learn how he breed up his Barred Plymouth Rocks. The Buckeye folks where in the same boat years ago as the Delaware breed. It is the only way you will ever get them respectable in type and color it’s a long hard road and you got to rasie lots of birds to get them each year to this level. Otherwise you are just going to have a black and white chicken that is trying to be a Delaware. bob

 

[tnchickenut]

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Shilling is the one who did the 1952 drawing of the Delaware....

Yes, I think I will keep him. I'm not too sure he is special, but he isn't hatchery, and his feathers look like they have donut glaze over them... like a pearl on red. Jamie Duckworth... I'll make a note of that. I'm in the process of "cleaning house" and selling alot of birds. Getting down to the grit and making room for serious breeding. I'm so excited! I'm working on reaching some people about their Dels. Going to be seriously focused on the Dels.

 

[jenjscott]

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If the genetics are there. Some times you reach a maximum size, color etc. It is as this point that master breeders carefully introduce another breed to bring in the desired trait, then spend another 7 years breeding out all the traits they don't want. You just have to be careful you don't get so focused on the trait you are looking for that you loose the rest of your bird. This has been in a problem with marans, breeding so intensively for the dark eggs that they totally forgot about type and size.

 

[Robert Blosl]

I was researching some of the breeds on the list I posted last night and I wonder if any of you who read this thread have these breeds or know someone who has these rare old breeds. They have to be very rare with maybe only 100 left in the USA. They are for example:

Buttercups, Campines, Anconas, Polish, Sussex, Black Sumatras, Cubalyas, LaFleches, Frizzles in say Large Fowl, Lamonas named after Harry Lamon of New York,
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Many of these breeds are super rare I know Duane Urch who has sold eggs and chicks from Minnesota has a lot of rare birds and will try to get a list of breeds from him.

Have any one of you purchased stock from Duane or have his breed list?

I also, know his quality is very good and is also a APA judge for many years.

So let me know if you have any of these old style rare breeds that go back to the early part of out history of poultry. They may not fit your needs for eggs or meat but for the 5% who want to do their part to keep a a rare breed from going extinct. This would be intereing to hear about. bob

 

[kathyinmo]

Bob,
I have the Urch pricelist. I will email it to you.

 

[X2Farm]

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Bob, I do have two non hatchery Speckled Sussex chicks. They're about 9wks old, pullets I'm hoping
I'm not sure about what lines they come from, but the guy I got em from had no hatchery stock

I had planned to contact Mr Urch in the next few weeks. I've got so much going on right now, I can't hardly think straight enough to hold somewhat of halfway intelligent conversation

The only polish I have are hatchery stock

 

[hcammack]

Hey everyone,
Just wanted to stop in a say hey! I love heritage chickens and plan on having a duel purpose flock of Salmon Faverolles when I get my own place. For now I am stuck with bantams. Just wanted to say how glad I am people are still breeding birds for both meat and eggs. I may be biased as the current VP of the Faverolles Fanciers but I think they are very good duel purpose birds. We have several members that breed for show as well as process and eat their extra cockerels. The hens are also stellar winter layers because of all their extra fluff and beards. Hope some of you guys will investigate this breed a bit more they are extremely rare in this country. Its especially hard to find true to type birds in standard size! If anyone want to get started in Faverolles please email me and let me know I will try and put you in touch with some good breeders although it is hard to find birds or eggs this time of year. Here is the new Faverolles Fanciers website check out the pictures and you can see why Faverolles are such good duel purpose birds they are very deep birds with a lot of meat on them http://faverollesfanciers.webs.com/ . Hope everyone breeding ventures are going well.

Here is my old Standard Faverolles hen

Deleware, Faverolles, Marans hens

Henry

 

[fowlman01]

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You will be a good resource Henry. I know that Peter Merlin has some good ones, but I don't know if he ever sells any.

Walt

 

[hcammack]

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You will be a good resource Henry. I know that Peter Merlin has some good ones, but I don't know if he ever sells any.

Walt

Hey Walt,
Peter is on this site! He usually posts on the faverolles thread. For the time being I think his flock is closed.
Henry

 

[X2Farm]

Henry, those are sure some beautiful birds!!! Love the face fluff on the first one!!!