Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

[Robert Blosl]

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

Purple, blue or as my wife says the color of their house that's what so many want. They drove her nuts wanting these off the wall colors when I was Sec of the Rock Club. None of them are interested in preservation they just want a chicken with these colors. That's what turns off Master Breeders are these crazy chicken people wanting these almost imposable breeds to start out with. We know they will not stick with them another here today gone tomorrow chicken collector. Still in a Funk. Put a pen in my doll Steve or Matt.

I did get a nice phone call last night from a fellow who has my old line of Rh ode Island Reds and he is serious and wants to do it right. We talked for a hour.

These are the kind of phone calls or emails I get that fires me up. He is going to send me the $1,000. for my secrets. Not bad for a hours work.

Well got to clean chicken pens and feed Mr. Silkier. And pet my banty females chick a dee and Lucile

Would you believe we are still getting squalls from this Hurricane that is heading for Little Rock?

You all have a nice day. After I get done I will tell you a story of a Heritage Breed that did big at a show in Ohio this June. I was amassed at the win.

bob

 

[ashandvine]

The woman here who was supposed to sell me Dorkings, Coro Sussex and what not has disappeared. Now I am hearing her lines are good to poor depending on which breed is picked. I have Houdans and Favorelles coming from UA (thank you Elias for the help there.) I really do want to have a large breed here for meat and those two above mentioned were on my list to try out. If anyone knows a good Dorking breeder near enough send me a pm.

Bob, I might try your rocks after all. I didn't want to waste good birds on being such a new 'chicken breeder' but its an offer hard to pass up, especially since I have a coupon here for a free first three years of phone support. Their shape is different than the Delawares I have here, but not by too much. I didn't plan to like white birds. I am finding that the growth and hardiness of these Delawares is interesting after all. These pullets also eat up Japanese Beetles like my kids with candy. I tend to keep black birds or dark as I can since we do have quite a few song-bird eaters and Eagles and what not. No disrespect here, but would anyone recommend a dark breed I could try that isn't so difficult as the Favs but grows well? I was going to try the Dark Cornish from that woman. I can't find Brahmas in anything other than white. I do have Orloffs coming, but they are so pretty I'd hate to think of them as just meat birds. (go ahead, tell me to get Lavender birds next.)

 

[catdaddyfro]

The woman here who was supposed to sell me Dorkings, Coro Sussex and what not has disappeared. Now I am hearing her lines are good to poor depending on which breed is picked. I have Houdans and Favorelles coming from UA (thank you Elias for the help there.) I really do want to have a large breed here for meat and those two above mentioned were on my list to try out. If anyone knows a good Dorking breeder near enough send me a pm.

Bob, I might try your rocks after all. I didn't want to waste good birds on being such a new 'chicken breeder' but its an offer hard to pass up, especially since I have a coupon here for a free first three years of phone support. Their shape is different than the Delawares I have here, but not by too much. I didn't plan to like white birds. I am finding that the growth and hardiness of these Delawares is interesting after all. These pullets also eat up Japanese Beetles like my kids with candy. I tend to keep black birds or dark as I can since we do have quite a few song-bird eaters and Eagles and what not. No disrespect here, but would anyone recommend a dark breed I could try that isn't so difficult as the Favs but grows well? I was going to try the Dark Cornish from that woman. I can't find Brahmas in anything other than white. I do have Orloffs coming, but they are so pretty I'd hate to think of them as just meat birds. (go ahead, tell me to get Lavender birds next.)

Yellow House Farm here on this thread breeds a very meaty white Dorking give him a shout out he will surely fill your bill. He's up in your area NH or Mass. Not sure I shall go look and re post for sure.

Barrington, NH is where he is located.

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

I hope our hatches are battened down enough. In southeast Arkansas we are getting heavy rain. expecting 6 to 8 inches Thursday and Friday. Already wrecks on our road. Jacob went out with me this morning and we moved our youngest juveniles back inside the brooder house. These were mostly Black and Self Blue Orpingtons. Along with some White Orps and some Light/Coronation Sussex. Will keep an eye out the windows to see if any emergencies arise.

Bob, I was joking about that Lavender Le Fleche. Though someone may do it one day. Just not me.

Ashandvine, The Dorking club has a website at http://dorkingbreedersclub.webs.com/ Also, Yellow House Farm is in Barrington, NH. http://www.yellowhousefarmnh.com/

We have Black Orpingtons, but nothing available at present. We do have some Blue/Black/Splash Orpington hatching eggs available. They are listed on eBay. Hope this helps some.

We had several wanting Houdan and Favorelle eggs. Of 457 eggs we received, none were of either. There was a few Coronation/Split Sussex eggs. Seems they put all the Houdan and Favorelle eggs in Elias' carton. Oh, well. Our youth now have all their incubators full. We also shipped some eggs to others. Wished UA was closer. Its about 6 hours from us. I think about 3 or 4 from Elias. Maybe we can get some Razorback fan to bring us some eggs back after a football game. We some here that get season football tickets every year.

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

Purple, blue or as my wife says the color of their house that's what so many want. They drove her nuts wanting these off the wall colors when I was Sec of the Rock Club. None of them are interested in preservation they just want a chicken with these colors. That's what turns off Master Breeders are these crazy chicken people wanting these almost imposable breeds to start out with. We know they will not stick with them another here today gone tomorrow chicken collector. Still in a Funk. Put a pen in my doll Steve or Matt.

I did get a nice phone call last night from a fellow who has my old line of Rh ode Island Reds and he is serious and wants to do it right. We talked for a hour.

These are the kind of phone calls or emails I get that fires me up. He is going to send me the $1,000. for my secrets. Not bad for a hours work.

Well got to clean chicken pens and feed Mr. Silkier. And pet my banty females chick a dee and Lucile

Would you believe we are still getting squalls from this Hurricane that is heading for Little Rock?

You all have a nice day. After I get done I will tell you a story of a Heritage Breed that did big at a show in Ohio this June. I was amassed at the win.

bob

The woman here who was supposed to sell me Dorkings, Coro Sussex and what not has disappeared. Now I am hearing her lines are good to poor depending on which breed is picked. I have Houdans and Favorelles coming from UA (thank you Elias for the help there.) I really do want to have a large breed here for meat and those two above mentioned were on my list to try out. If anyone knows a good Dorking breeder near enough send me a pm.

Bob, I might try your rocks after all. I didn't want to waste good birds on being such a new 'chicken breeder' but its an offer hard to pass up, especially since I have a coupon here for a free first three years of phone support. Their shape is different than the Delawares I have here, but not by too much. I didn't plan to like white birds. I am finding that the growth and hardiness of these Delawares is interesting after all. These pullets also eat up Japanese Beetles like my kids with candy. I tend to keep black birds or dark as I can since we do have quite a few song-bird eaters and Eagles and what not. No disrespect here, but would anyone recommend a dark breed I could try that isn't so difficult as the Favs but grows well? I was going to try the Dark Cornish from that woman. I can't find Brahmas in anything other than white. I do have Orloffs coming, but they are so pretty I'd hate to think of them as just meat birds. (go ahead, tell me to get Lavender birds next.)

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

We both had the same thought about Yellow House!

How bad is it in Vernon parish? Guessing that is Louisanna? We are 2 hours north of Monroe, LA. Starting to get a little wet here. The rain is a welcome site!

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[catdaddyfro]

We both had the same thought about Yellow House!

How bad is it in Vernon parish? Guessing that is Louisanna? We are 2 hours north of Monroe, LA. Starting to get a little wet here. The rain is a welcome site!

We're good to go here, had a little much needed rain and no damage. a little stuff blown here and there but we are on the west side of Isaac and all the crappy stuff hit everything on the eastern side.. thanks for the concerns and glad Isaac can deliver ya'll some much need rain. I know how it is up there my bro lives up in the Ark. river valley and is parched up there too.

Jeff

 

[Robert Blosl]

The woman here who was supposed to sell me Dorkings, Coro Sussex and what not has disappeared. Now I am hearing her lines are good to poor depending on which breed is picked. I have Houdans and Favorelles coming from UA (thank you Elias for the help there.) I really do want to have a large breed here for meat and those two above mentioned were on my list to try out. If anyone knows a good Dorking breeder near enough send me a pm.

Bob, I might try your rocks after all. I didn't want to waste good birds on being such a new 'chicken breeder' but its an offer hard to pass up, especially since I have a coupon here for a free first three years of phone support. Their shape is different than the Delawares I have here, but not by too much. I didn't plan to like white birds. I am finding that the growth and hardiness of these Delawares is interesting after all. These pullets also eat up Japanese Beetles like my kids with candy. I tend to keep black birds or dark as I can since we do have quite a few song-bird eaters and Eagles and what not. No disrespect here, but would anyone recommend a dark breed I could try that isn't so difficult as the Favs but grows well? I was going to try the Dark Cornish from that woman. I can't find Brahmas in anything other than white. I do have Orloffs coming, but they are so pretty I'd hate to think of them as just meat birds. (go ahead, tell me to get Lavender birds next.)

I can put you down for some started chicks. Can not ship eggs as each egg must have a shot of hatching. I dont have enough hens left anymore to fool with eggs. Lets be honest its a waist of time to ship eggs of very very very rare breeds of chickens. Us breeders who are breeding to keep the breeds alive and breed to maintain the gene pool or try to improve the birds a half a point every year or two just dont have the time or want to waist such few eggs. It cost me 12 oz of feed to keep a large fowl per day. Now divide that buy fifty pounds at $18l per sack and you can see it is just not wise to have lots of birds to just have birds. If you want to sell eggs on here or ebay then have five teen females and three males in one pen and flock mate them and you can supply the egg people with all they want.

I am going to put five buff Brahma females in a pen with two ckls this spring and sell eggs. They are so rare the person who want them will be well satisfied. I may do the same with the white Leghorns.

In regards to a dark large fowl almost black why not a Rhode Island Red in Rose Comb or single comb. They are tough like Marines and they are in my view one of the top five Heritage Breeds for hobby farmers. A cave man can raise these things they take care of them selves. Cornish on the other hand even with my 25 plus years of experience I dont want to fool with them. To much trouble.

Find a breed that is not pirty or the color of your house and do your home work and find out what breeds are easy to raise for beginners. So many hundreds on this web site need to learn how to just raise chickens so they wont die and then after they get the skills then take on a Heritage Breed. Failure is almost certain as they dont know what they are doing yet. Most wont even stick with it. I had a friend that bought a fancy chicken house from a lady who paid $1,500 for it and had it ship ed to her house and he got it for about $600. She went out in two years and he even got her cheap pc of junk incubator that she bought for $40. for $10. going to gut it out and make a incubator out of Red Wood with my help a small 20x 20 x 12.inch model.

Well got to go out and hook up new lights in my conditioning house. Got all the males in their 4x4 pens and got to go and buy me some sun flower seeds?

Know Why????

Love those White Rocks they are so easy to raise and breed a Cave Man could do it.

 

[Pault76]

Hey Bob I hope you accept rubber checks. I appreciate you taking the time to talk to me yesterday.

 

[Jwhip]

The Nebraska open poultry show Best in Show bird.........XW Poultry Ranch

 

[fowlman01]

The Nebraska open poultry show Best in Show bird.........XW Poultry Ranch

Nice!

Walt