Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

[kathyinmo]

Those white chickens are they White Rocks from Murry McMurry?

 

[fowlman01]

Hi,
Speaking of feeding. Do your show birds get raised on special secret diets like some dog breeders use for their dogs? Or can one raise a show bird on a commerical feed?Or perhaps ya'll use 1/2 and 1/2? Like commercial with some add-ins? I have been trying to figure this out for months and am just lost, drowning in ingredients and ratios. It us much more dificult to understand than dog nutrition. Do certain breeds have special needs? Or is" poultry is poultry is poultry"?
Thanks so much!
Karen in soggy western PA ( eye passed over us earlier this afternoon and it was quiet for a while, now getting the backside of Sandy now, snowing).

I feed off the shelf pellets. The only change is occasional hen scratch. I'm one of those who believes the shine is in the genes.....or not.

Walt

 

[3riverschick]

I feed off the shelf pellets. The only change is occasional hen scratch. I'm one of those who believes the shine is in the genes.....or not.

Walt

Hi Walt,
Do poultry pellets need to be picked with the same care as dog kibble? Closeley watching ratios and ingredients? Is there a list of Premier poultry pellets vs "grocery store" brands? Are there any ingredients which are "no-no's" and those "preferred"? Dog folk have databases online which compare grades and ingredients of brands of kibble. Is there anything like this for poultry?
Thanks so much for your help!
Karen

 

[NYREDS]

I feed off the shelf pellets. The only change is occasional hen scratch. I'm one of those who believes the shine is in the genes.....or not.

Walt

This is how I've always fed as well. However, since so many feed producers have gone to "all natural, vegetarian feeds" recently I do now occasionally supplement with some animal protein: ground beef, canned Mackerel, etc.

 

[galanie]

Heh. As if a vegetarian diet were "natural" for a chicken.

 

[Chris09]

Hi Walt,
Do poultry pellets need to be picked with the same care as dog kibble? Closeley watching ratios and ingredients? Is there a list of Premier poultry pellets vs "grocery store" brands? Are there any ingredients which are "no-no's" and those "preferred"? Dog folk have databases online which compare grades and ingredients of brands of kibble. Is there anything like this for poultry?
Thanks so much for your help!
Karen

Karen,
How complex of a answer do you want? LOL

Chris

 

[DMRippy]

I have found a 22% feed that uses PORK as the protein. LOVE the stuff. They have everything you can need for chickens and other livestock. I don't know that it is available up north but you could call them and find out. Tuckers is the name of the feed they have a website

http://tuckermilling.com/

I don't work for them

 

[capayvalleychick]

Give me a couple of these and I will make them famous............hahahahaha

Walt

I would love to see Walt get some of these.

 

[fowlman01]

I would love to see Walt get some of these.

I don't have room or time for a Del project, but if I had some good specimens I can prepare them to look their best in a show. I have now found that the NH's color can look very brown in the wrong kind of showroom lighting, so this can be a problem. I have posted pics of them in natural light on facebook so that at least some judges will know to look at them in natural light....if they can.

There is more to showing than sticking the bird into the cage.

Walt

 

[Robert Blosl]

Quote: I must of sniffed some bad stuff when I wrote this. Walt uses good feed. you cant beleive every thing I type on here I some time think I have Turetts Syndrom of the key board. Sometimes I get upset over things and get cranky. Saw a very nice New Hampshire Pullet last night correct color, great type. Saw a huge R I Red large fowl ckl pure Illinois strain. Biggest large fowl Red I ever handled. He must have been ten inches across in the back and his lenth from his hackle to his oil gland ten inches. I think he was about 27 inchs tall and that long in lenth. He looked like the old Mohawk V picture but just a bigger bird, more lenth of body a perfect tail. Just a dream chicken. Also, saw some good half and half reds. Would love to mait this male to two half and half orphen pullets that I got and see what happens. Lots of pretty yellow buff orpingtons also coming on.