Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

[fowlman01]

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The first and third pullet look like a crele color pattern.

I wonder if the are Barred Hollands or if they could be Sand Hill's Norwegian Jaerhon.

Chris

They could be Jærhøns. They are closer to that than Hollands.

Walt

 

[Birdie004]

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The first and third pullet look like a crele color pattern.

The first and third are the same bird different angle. Same with the roo. These two are the most off color. I recieved from Sand Hill 15 barred Hollands and 5 Jersey gaints added in. I dont know how many breeding flocks they have.

One of the roos has nonsense skin and an estra toe on each foot. He acts more like the hens with roos color.

 

[Chris09]

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What do you mean "nonsense skin", And he has 5 toes?

Chris

 

[Birdie004]

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What do you mean "nonsense skin", And he has 5 toes?

Chris

My typing is horrible he has white skin and an extra toes

 

[Birdie004]

here are all the pics

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[Chris09]

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What do you mean "nonsense skin", And he has 5 toes?

Chris

My typing is horrible he has white skin and an extra toes

Well I only know of 5 breeds that have 5 toes -
Silkie
Houdans
Dorking
Faverolles
Sultans

They may have some Dorking crossed in them hard to say.

Chris

 

[punky rooster]

they could have cuckoo dorking in them.

 

[fowlman01]

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Dorkings have short legs and those don't seem to bear any resemblance to a Dorking, but it could be anything..You can't always tell by looking at a bird what it's makeup is, but usually you can see an indication. As an example: I produced a pair of super gray Call ducks by accident. I cross flying Mallards with White Calls for a falconer friend. The birds he uses to train young falcons need to be able to fly, but can't be as strong as a real mallard or they can beat up a young falcon and the falcon will never go after a duck again. I keep these birds separate and use white Calls just to insure that I can tell that they are mixed. I could have sold each one of the pair for $200.00+ each easily if I didn't care about what would happen when they bred them. That is how much they looked like great gray Calls. The male was res bantam duck in a class of over 250 the one time I showed them. I only showed them once to prove a point. I let them mate to see what they would produce and all of the offspring were junk and there were tons of color variations. None looked even remotely like a Call duck.

Walt

 

[Birdie004]

Thank you everyone. Maybe I should start with Buckeyes, I know I have good stock there. But I really would like Barred Hollands. I am ordering the stard of perfection book to see what they should be. Problem is the neighbors, noone has complained yet so I need to pick which to keep or trade and which to eat. Thanks again, goodnight and see you tomorrow.

Robbie

 

[HaikuHeritageFarm]

Chris, may I repost (with due credit given) all of that nutritional information on my website for easy reference? The more I read of it, the more I realize it's the kind of resource I would look at often.