Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

[catdaddyfro]

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

Yes and that makes absolutely perfect sense(to me, for all that matters,LOL) anyway the florescent light or most any artificial lighting will play a huge roll in color and shades. For example, go to the meat section of your grocery store; they purposely have different colored light bulbs in the show case for a reason, they claim it is to keep the meat color from bleaching under the lights, which (time) I would say has more to do with this action than the lighting, as red meat gets more brown as it ages even in a dark cooler(which is a good thing to a point) but also too those special light bulbs also make the red meat color more APPEALING to the buyer also ($$101 class) just take a roast out from under the show-case light and look at it in the white/bright light of the store.Doesn't look the same. Changes the color of the fat too

Yes too on the caged up bird thing a lot of folks try just this, huh?

Jeff

 

[winniem13]

Hi! I am new to this thread and I was hoping someone could help me out. We have a beautiful 7 month old White Faced Black Spanish cockerel. He is a great bird--pretty tame for a chicken, calm and very nosy! He doesn't fight with the other roosters or act aggressive to the females. I am interested in showing him but have never seen a true show quality rooster before in this breed. I think he's gorgeous, but I might have a case of "barn eyes". Does anyone have any thoughts about him as far as comparing him to the standard of perfection (which I have, but need some help understanding!). Thanks--I welcome positive and negative thoughts.........
I will post another picture in a second, for some reason it only let me post one!

 

[winniem13]

OK, so after 100 tries, for some reason my other, clearer, closer up picture of "Butch" (What a name, that's another story), won't upload. So we're working with a picture that I don't think is the best. Will try again one more time...

 

[Gallusfarm]

OK, so after 100 tries, for some reason my other, clearer, closer up picture of "Butch" (What a name, that's another story), won't upload. So we're working with a picture that I don't think is the best. Will try again one more time...

I've sent you a PM.

 

[Maggiesdad]

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

How could you go wrong with bacon in eggs - It's a win-win!

 

[3riverschick]

I'm not sure how complicated an answer I am seeking. Kinda trying to pull all this info together into some kind of working solution. Most Americans like a yellow-skinned bird and enjoy adding corn, marigolds and other feeds which turn the skin and egg yolk more yellow. However, my Light Sussex are white-skinned. Plus they are a Columbian breed which historical and antecdotal evidence says that feeding these "Yellow" causing ingredients can cause the white to get a yellow cast. Breed history says Sussex do very well on oats, barley and wheat. Ok, so I can use them. Would rather not use soy as an ingredient. In the winter, a lot of folk give their birds corn as it makes the birds blood run hot. (metabolism rises to enable digestion of corn). Is there a "white" ingredient which will do what corn does and help keep the birds warm in winter and not have any "yellowing" effects?
Karen
( Can't find a commerical feed without corn)

 

[thedragonlady]

I'm not sure how complicated an answer I am seeking. Kinda trying to pull all this info together into some kind of working solution. Most Americans like a yellow-skinned bitd and enjoy adding corn, marigolds and other feeds which turn the skin and egg yolk more yellow. However, my Light Sussex are white-skinned. Plus they are a Columbian breed which historical and antecdotal evidence says that feeding these "Yellow" causing ingredients can cause the white to get a yellow cast. Breed history says Sussex do very well on oats, barley and wheat. Ok, so I can use them. Would rather not use soy as an ingredient. In the winter, a lot of folk give their birds corn as it makes the birds blood run hot. (metabolism rises to enable digestion of corn). Is there a "white" ingredient which will do what corn does and help keep the birds warm in winter and not have any "yellowing" effects?
Karen

You want WHITE corn used to make meal and hominy.

 

[3riverschick]

You want WHITE corn used to make meal and hominy.

Can you buy that for poultry? I thought it was a premium corn, only for humans.
Karen

 

[Maggiesdad]

Can you buy that for poultry? I thought it was a premium corn, only for humans.
Karen

Hickory King - probably going to have to grow it and crack it yourself...

 

[DMRippy]

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