Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

[Robert Blosl]

http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/view/22859613
http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/view/23515585

Got a email from a friend in Michigan Mike Wagner who took some nice pictures of Plymouth Rocks at the Indiana State Fair. They have a great chicken show around 1,500 birds or more.
Look at the Columbian Rock Bantam on this picture trail site. I like him and the last picture on the list is an old fashion Mohawk looking Heritage Vintage Single Comb Rhode Island Red. I have seen two of these mail about ten months apart and man o man he is a beauty. I got to find out who owns this bird. Looks like a dead ringer to one I think I posted on this thread from the Michigan State Fair last fall.

I need to be educated on Barred Holland’s. I never saw one or ever heard of them until I got on this site.
What historical contributions did they make in Poultry in the last 50 years? Who invented the breed and when where they put into the standard? I just never saw one growing up in the west coast or ever knew anyone who breeds them. Who was the top breeders of these birds in the 1950s and 60s?

Enjoying your contributions and on the nutrition. Boy the feed has changed a lot since the corn has been used to make fuel for cars and the mad cow diseases scare a few years ago. Thank god my old mill in Georgia FRM has stayed stead fast and not taken any short cuts. Also go to Mikes pictures of his barred rock large fowl. He has a nice flock of them he is raising.
BOB

 

[lildinkem]

I bought a pair of White Orpingtons at the Indiana State Fair from a Stringman Jeremy Powell. He didn't know the history behind them, he bought the parent stock of these two the previous year at our Fair.
Not too easy to find nice quality White Orpingtons. These are my only two to work with. Anyone who knows someone else with quality White Orpingtons please let me know.
Here are the breeding pair I bought at the Indiana State Fair this summer.
Seen Bob talking about our Indiana State Fair and thought I'd share my recent experience and birds bought. And Bob is right it is one of the bigger Poultry Shows put on by a State Fair.

 

[fowlman01]

Quote:
They look good to me. I really like the male.

Walt

 

[kathyinmo]

Ya know, I just can not get into bantams. I like big birds. I mean really, what the heck do ya do with all the bantam culls? Make chicken nuggets?

 

[Lotsapaints]

Quote:
no they're called bitty nuggets

I agree with you Kathy I had Polish before a lot of work for a little meat I'm sticking with my big birds now that's a meal

 

[DAFox]

Quote:
http://www.albc-usa.org/cpl/holland.html
http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGD/Holland/BRKHolland.html
http://www.helium.com/items/1794653-poultry-breed-facts-holland-chicken
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Sustainable-Farming/2005-02-01/Enjoy-Heritage-Chickens.aspx?page=5 Duane Urch is quoted on the next page.

My one Barred Holland from Sandhill is my favorite hen. Great temperment. She does forage very well. Her egg is a slightly off white color. I'd love to get more if I could find a breeder.
Dale-Ann

 

[joletabey]

Robbie,
Don't order the 2001 SOP if you want a picture, the Barred Holland isn't pictured in there- just the white - I looked when you were asking about them. Unless you are talking Bantams and I missed that.
And the written description color wise is short:
Disqualifications: Red or yellow in any part of plumage
Comb, face, wattles,ear-lobes: bright red
Plumage: Feathers in all sections, crossed by coarse and irregular light and dark bars that are short of positive black and white. Male may be one or two shades lighter than the female,
Undercolor of all sections: light gray

The body is the same as the White Holland, there are pics and a lengthy description there, but maybe you should see if the new 2010 standard coming out next month (right, Walt?) has them pictured if you want to own as SOP.

 

[punky rooster]

Quote:
Hinkjc has white orps

 

[lildinkem]

Quote:
They look good to me. I really like the male.

Walt

Walt,
Thanks !!
Their both really nice size. I have them next to my Buff Cochin's pen, and I see them two up against the fence and this White cockerel is bigger all the way around. Taller and broader. A friend (Harry) thinks they maybe the same line from a gentlemen in PA that rarely lets anything go. I finally got an egg laid this past week & it went strait to the incubator. Till I start getting more, I am not letting one chick go anywhere from here.

 

[punky rooster]

good luck hatching!