Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

[Yard full o' rocks]

Bob

I just couldn't resist....someone on BYC has a line of chickens just for your fishing fetish...might be more profitable than Cherry Eggers

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/703745/rare-6-genetic-hackle-fertilized-eggs-limited-offer-npip

In all seriousness, Walt, Bob, NYRED....we thank you all for the "free advise and mentoring" you give us all. Each of you have helped me greatly in my endeavors with these Columbian Rocks and I certainly wouldn't have them AT ALL without Bob's help and confidence in me. Hope everyone has a great evening....gotta plant food plots this weekend for deer season, but next week I will get some updated pictures of my cockerels and pullets as I think I've made a little progress this year

 

[fowlman01]

I don't know if I want to spend $50 when I can pick them up off the ground here. At one time I sold BR capes to fly tyers
I also genetically mutated them...(you always need a catchy phrase) by crossing them with Asil for a harder feather. It didn't take me long to find out dealing with these fly tyers like going to the dentist. People are making money on this stuff, but not the guy with the birds....except for the guy selling the $50 eggs.

Walt

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

Hehe...it wasn't plastic. I don't know if he intended it to be plastic, but it was fiberglass and spackle. The base was concrete. I went out there about 2 weeks after his passing and it was still there.

All like I remembered it. All that was left of a legend in my eyes.


Sorry, it still gets to me. To all of a sudden understand that you will never get to speak to the person who took the time to share the love of his fancy with a young kid. And to help mold that kid and her birds into something that, one day, may amount to something.

He was mighty proud of his Quarter Horses. God forbid you have any stockings or white on that horse unless it was a stripe down the face! Gorgeous horses as well. Too short in stature for my taste, but gorgeous nonetheless. Always very stocky and built to go for miles. He tried to teach me how to pull the tail exactly for showing. I remember walking into one of his barns, sitting down with my dad and being in awe of all the trophies. He treated them like the dust catchers they were, but to me it was the coolest thing I had ever seen. Ah...to be 7 again!

Tell me about it. I couldn't give away my Langshan birds this last year. Point of lay pullets for $5. I finally found a lady that gave some a home and another one that wanted BIG chickens. She saw one of my cull males and wanted him immediately. I gave him to her. Poor thing...she doesn't know the addiction she has just succumbed to. This next year, I won't make the same mistake. Anything I don't like is culled immediately. I'm not wasting the feed if I'm not even going to get a good laying hen price on my pullets. I was able to help out another breeder with some birds and am glad of that. I know he'll share some of them back some day when I make it back to Oklahoma!

I don't know if I'm the Langshan Lady you are talking about, but if I am, I'll wear that title with honor!

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

Just so I know, did this convo come about because of the Poultry Press?

I wasn't able to get this last issue. If anyone has an extra copy and it includes Forrest's obituary, please, I would gladly pay to have that issue.

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

Maybe if we crossed a Lavender to the Le Fleche then more folks would want it? Lavender Le Fleche? Or maybe a Lavender Cuckoo Le Fleche?

*bangs head on table* Really sad that this is the truth!

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

I believe Terry Britt had them as well.

Walt

I've heard conflicting stories on this. (Stories in the poultry world? Never.)

I've heard that Terry was moving up North here and only taking 10 birds of each breed, and then I've heard that he got completely out of poultry?

 

[meimalley]

I am starting my backyard flock this spring and am interested in raising Delaware chickens. I've seen them advertised by the large hatcheries, but I want to make sure that I am getting quality birds that are of heritage lines. I'm located in IL, so a hatchery or breeder within driving distance would be ideal. Any leads?

 

[cubalaya]

sandhill preservation

 

[heritagehabitatfarms]

check the Delaware threads here on BYC...

I am starting my backyard flock this spring and am interested in raising Delaware chickens. I've seen them advertised by the large hatcheries, but I want to make sure that I am getting quality birds that are of heritage lines. I'm located in IL, so a hatchery or breeder within driving distance would be ideal. Any leads?

 

[fowlman01]

I've heard conflicting stories on this. (Stories in the poultry world? Never.)

I've heard that Terry was moving up North here and only taking 10 birds of each breed, and then I've heard that he got completely out of poultry?

I don't know if he has them now, but I judged some of his and Steve Jones in Dallas a few years back.

Walt