Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

[galanie]

I had never gotten the connection between the mini ice age and the dark ages before! You're right! **audible click from the old machinery**

Thank you for the accolades and yes, we must do what we can to keep them alive. I understand fighting cold and am sincerely glad I don't have to. People here just slay me though thinking their chickens can't be out in the rare one or two freezing days we might have in the winter. Oh sometimes we get an entire week of it or more but really, it's nothing here compared to up there.

Incidentally, during those "dark ages" the Ottoman Empire was thriving. Further south, it was.

 

[aveca]

i have tons of pics of australorps and orpingtons out running around in the snow in the laptop..LOL mrs softie the orp took off on one of her fuddy duddy flights last year, landed smack in a snow bank , i had to go get her out..it was soft enough she plowed right in..it was funny..i had some of those pics in my byc profile area..but when its frostbite warnings...in they go..it usually doesnt stick around for more than a few days here and there..

oh those ottomans, they dont let a liitle 50 degree below weather hold them back

 

[Robert Blosl]

In regards to ticking for buckeyes I dont even know the color requriements for the female. Do they call for ticking? If you have stripes instead I would breed to the stanard as stripes is a defect. The Buckeyes have red blood in them so maybe it would also apply. I have never seen a buckeye up close I would not know the difference from a N H Red. Sorry New Hampshire.

Going back to my old routes when my mom had those chickens when I was in diapers.

Here is a good story about Air Conditioining and raising chickens. Many years ago in Texas I was told there was a man who had a super strain of Cochin Bantams. When he died a guy bought his line and moved them to the north east area. He had cochins with combs almost twice the size of the normal bird he started with. Later he found out the master breeder in Texas raised and kept them in a Air Conditioning building. No wonder he would not sell his spare birds to beginnners. The air Conditioining made his combs perfect but when raised in normal out side conditions they were extra large. He was a killer breeder and I guess under the heat of Texas this is the way he could win. Winning to some is everything.

 

[vmdanielsen]

In regards to ticking for buckeyes I dont even know the color requriements for the female. Do they call for ticking? If you have stripes instead I would breed to the stanard as stripes is a defect. The Buckeyes have red blood in them so maybe it would also apply. I have never seen a buckeye up close I would not know the difference from a N H Red. Sorry New Hampshire.

Going back to my old routes when my mom had those chickens when I was in diapers.

Here is a good story about Air Conditioining and raising chickens. Many years ago in Texas I was told there was a man who had a super strain of Cochin Bantams. When he died a guy bought his line and moved them to the north east area. He had cochins with combs almost twice the size of the normal bird he started with. Later he found out the master breeder in Texas raised and kept them in a Air Conditioning building. No wonder he would not sell his spare birds to beginnners. The air Conditioining made his combs perfect but when raised in normal out side

The body of a buckeye is described as "General surface mahogany bay. The unexposed flight feathers and tail, may contain black." It does not call for ticking.

 

[OSUman]

In regards to ticking for buckeyes I dont even know the color requriements for the female. Do they call for ticking? If you have stripes instead I would breed to the stanard as stripes is a defect. The Buckeyes have red blood in them so maybe it would also apply. I have never seen a buckeye up close I would not know the difference from a N H Red. Sorry New Hampshire.

Buckeyes don't have any relation to RIR, they were developed at the same time as the RIR were being developed.

Going back to my old routes when my mom had those chickens when I was in diapers.

Here is a good story about Air Conditioining and raising chickens. Many years ago in Texas I was told there was a man who had a super strain of Cochin Bantams. When he died a guy bought his line and moved them to the north east area. He had cochins with combs almost twice the size of the normal bird he started with. Later he found out the master breeder in Texas raised and kept them in a Air Conditioning building. No wonder he would not sell his spare birds to beginnners. The air Conditioining made his combs perfect but when raised in normal out side conditions they were extra large. He was a killer breeder and I guess under the heat of Texas this is the way he could win. Winning to some is everything.

What else would you do with Cochin Bantams other then show? and if your going to put in the time to show you might as well win

 

[Chris09]

Buckeyes don't have any relation to RIR, they were developed at the same time as the RIR were being developed.

Back when the Red was being developed there were three comb types for the Reds two of which are in the Standard of Perfection. The Single and Rose Comb were excepted into the SoP but the Pea comb was not so most of the Pea comb Red were bred, shown and sold as the Buckeye breed. Over time the Red was bred into the "true" Buckeye breed because of this.

Chris

 

[vmdanielsen]

I know that buckeyes are unrelated to RIR. I was curious to know if when breeding them if the same would hold true(in regards to color) with the ticking in the neck.

 

[vmdanielsen]

Back when the Red was being developed there were three comb types for the Reds two of which are in the Standard of Perfection. The Single and Rose Comb were excepted into the SoP but the Pea comb was not so most of the Pea comb Red were bred, shown and sold as the Buckeye breed. Over time the Red was bred into the "true" Buckeye breed because of this.

Chris

Buckeyes are unrelated to RIRs. RIRs were NOT Part of the original breed.

 

[Chris09]

Buckeyes are unrelated to RIRs. RIRs were NOT Part of the original breed.

If you dig deeper in the breed history of both breeds I believe that you will find that Reds were bred into Buckeyes at one time.
I think you would be surprised just how many Pea Comb Red were Bred, Showed, and Sold as Buckeyes.

Chris

 

[vmdanielsen]

If you dig deeper in the breed history of both breeds I believe that you will find that Reds were bred into Buckeyes at one time.
I think you would be surprised just how many Pea Comb Red were Bred, Showed, and Sold as Buckeyes.

Chris

For a short time, Nettie Metcalf DID call her breed, pea combed RIRs but she quickly discarded the name because she felt that it hurt her breed. They did not come from RIRs any more that RI whites did.