Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

[Robert Blosl]

Show people I have a question, if I raise a slow maturing breed, the chicks are hatched in Jan. & Feb. would they be mature enough to show the following Jan. in an APA show?

It depends what are the breeds you are raising?

 

[JerseyGiantfolk]

For those of you who have not seen side sprigs, or would like to take a look... here's a picture of them on my adult JG. (Base of comb)

 

[vebyrd36]

Thank you I have never seen that before. Very interesting info. Hay is their something in his eye?

For those of you who have not seen side sprigs, or would like to take a look... here's a picture of them on my adult JG. (Base of comb)

 

[RattlesnakeRidgeWV]

Thanks for that buckeye link post, very informative. That is what I am looking for with my BA's and SLW's.

 

[Texasmja]

It depends what are the breeds you are raising?

Wyandottes

 

[Lacy Blues]

I know I often throw out what is perceived as too much information and most people want to keep it all simple. I can and do adjust to adapting to whatever people can do with the equipment or time they have. I just hope that the intent and the information I throw out there can be taken and adapted in whatever means possible, if at all. For some, they might want know the reasons why we do things and why some things work and others don't.
As far as good ol mother hen? I am right there with you marveling at their success rate. I have put egg shaped thermometers that will take temperature readings at any interval you want under broody Silkies. I set them to record at 5 minutes intervals for the entire incubation period (I know, I need a life). Still amazes me, I can set my incubators to control temperature and humidity to the tenth of a degree and they will do it. If I mimic what she did, I still can't beat Mother Nature and mothers instincts. And yes, when I print out the data I can tell when she got off the nest, my birds got off much more frequently after 12-13 days of incubation, and there are reasons for this, but I will stop there.
So back into that puny nut shell, sometimes you just can't beat nature even with the very best equipment.

Don't stop there! I want to know ALL this stuff!

Bentley have you ever checked/recorded the humidity level under a broody hen? I seem to have a harder time figuring out the humidity levels then temps. I know what works for my guinea eggs but I read so many different things about chick eggs, some say low humidity, some say higher, some say dry hatch, etc. It would be nice to know what the humidity levels are under a chicken when she is hatching eggs.

Penny

I'd like to know this too.

Oh, that info you were talking about being boring... please send it to me. I will read it as many times as it takes to get it in my thick skull, as long as I can contact you with questions?

 

[Arielle]

For those of you who have not seen side sprigs, or would like to take a look... here's a picture of them on my adult JG. (Base of comb)

Is someone a photo shop guru that can circle or outline the sprigs?? s a newbie this was a difficult concept to understand until someone could circle the offending tissue.

 

[Lacy Blues]

I would but its a copyrighted image. Look toward the back of the comb (left side of the picture), close to his neck. You see that line coming from the base and going all the way to the edge of the blade of his comb? It ends with a point on it. This is a side sprig.

 

[capayvalleychick]

Enjoy your day hope to see some pictures of Dorkings all Dorking good and bad and so so. Even if they are one to two years old.

These are the cockerels that I chose to keep from last year. 7 months old here, so not mature. Not the best-they are a work in progress. I've had Dorkings for years but made every typical rookie mistake. Now I'm trying to do things right and breed using the SOP as a guide.


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[fowlman01]

That is an odd looking side sprig. Is it only on one side? It is a side sprig, but they don't usually look like that.

Walt