Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

[OSUman]

Dark Brahma

 

[OSUman]

Buttercup

 

[Chris09]

Bob, Walt, Chris, and Kathy, could y'all please refrain from using your 100+ years of combined real life experiences, unless you are prepared to back it up with hardcore written evidence.

LOL,
Now I feel old and I'm only 40 years old.

What did my kid's do with my walking stick?

Chris

 

[FOGELLY]

LOL,
Now I feel old and I'm only 40 years old.

What did my kid's do with my walking stick? 

Chris

Chris, I am 48 and I have more than 30 years of chicken time (not counting the eating part).
I would be willing to guess you have a pretty good amount too.

But seems as though Walt has a 100 by himself so I still may have under stated it.

Ron

 

[Robert Blosl]

Karen

First let me say thanks for a well written (and somewhat understandable, even for a genetics dunce like me) explanation of your take on animal breeding versus genetic biodiversity.

For fear of hurting anyones feelings(if I do, I apologize in advance as that is NOT my intention), I have a casual observation and a request if I might. I think recent conversations have come a bit far from the original party's spirit of conversation regarding Heritage breeds. Bob's initial post is below
Quote: Scott has anyone told you or asked to help you on how to improve your Colombian Plymouth Rocks other than what you have been doing.?

I got the code on my Rhode Island Reds but dont know what to do with it. Maybe you will be more lucky. They should have fun on the new thread and maybe they can reach perfection faster than us the old fashion way, There should be a contest one does it the old fashion way line breeding and the other group does it by genetic. Then see who gets there faster.

I would do it Gen tic wise but other that the formula for the Reds that is all I have. No instrutions on how to breed them. I dont know if its for color or type.

I think I will cross Mr. Silikie onto some of my Red bantam females for Genetic Diversity. But then I dont know what I am talking about in Genetic Diversity anyway.

I dont know what to do.

Think I would be money ahead getting me some Seromeas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_diversity

 

[Chris09]

Chris, I am 48 and I have more than 30 years of chicken time (not counting the eating part).
I would be willing to guess you have a pretty good amount too.
But seems as though Walt has a 100 by himself so I still may have under stated it.

Ron

I only had chickens since I was about 10.

Chris

 

[fowlman01]

Bob, Walt, Chris, and Kathy, could y'all please refrain from using your 100+ years of combined real life experiences, unless you are prepared to back it up with hardcore written evidence.

When I was young I didn't believe a lot of old people cuz I would be thinking "how could he have been in the foreign legion, knew Walter Annenberg, wrote for Rollings Stones, etc, etc". When I was young my concept of time was very limited and I thought in htis little bubble..had no real concept of time. Now I think: geez the civil war was only
a few years ago. when you are around after 74 years it is possible that you have done a lot of diverse things..I've got pictures...everything from my ordination papers, to auto racer, university administrator to judge with chicken groupies....almost anything you can think of. I have pictures of it all cuz I knew this day was coming.......ahahaha

Bob has some pictures of him holding a fish if that helps.

Walt

 

[Yard full o' rocks]

Ok y'all.....got a question regarding rearing young birds. While planting the "food plot" that keeps the deer outta my flowerbeds (aka "chicken greens") I accidentally overseeded my two grow out pens and they are LUSH and GREEN with clover, turnips,collards, rape, kale, chickory and radish. I typically move the birds from the brooder to these 2 pens at 4-6 weeks (once fully feathered)...there is a small 40W bulb for heat if need be.

At any rate, I got to looking at those pens tonight and wondered if it was ok to allow young birds to forage on that much green "stuff" at a young age. These are fall/winter greens so they will be fine for months (we plant the same mix at the hunting club for deer), but if the young birds can't eat it, then I need to make a weekend project and remove it

Any advise?

Thanks

 

[Spangled]

Karen

First let me say thanks for a well written (and somewhat understandable, even for a genetics dunce like me) explanation of your take on animal breeding versus genetic biodiversity.

For fear of hurting anyones feelings(if I do, I apologize in advance as that is NOT my intention), I have a casual observation and a request if I might. I think recent conversations have come a bit far from the original party's spirit of conversation regarding Heritage breeds. Bob's initial post is below
Quote:

Thank you Scott! I agree.

Yard full o' rocks,

What do you or kathyinmo think/know that Robert Blosl meant when he wrote this part of his original post (that you quoted above): "Do you think many want to preserve these old rare breeds?" What does it mean to preserve old rare breeds? I'm just trying to figure out what exactly I can ask questions about if I participate in this thread. It gets a little confusing plus a little tricky trying not to ask the wrong questions, trying not to write the wrong things, and trying not to spell things improperly. Maybe if I understand what this aspect of the topic of this thread, I'll be able to get a little more out of the thread and not tick off the people I'd like to learn from. If I can get on the same page as kathyinmo, Chris09, fowlman01, Yard full o' rocks, Robert Blosl, Fred's Chickens, NYREDS, FOGELLY, then maybe I could learn something so I'd also like to hear their view(s) of what Robert Blosl meant by preserving these old rare breeds.

 

[buffalogal]

Ok y'all.....got a question regarding rearing young birds. While planting the "food plot" that keeps the deer outta my flowerbeds (aka "chicken greens") I accidentally overseeded my two grow out pens and they are LUSH and GREEN with clover, turnips,collards, rape, kale, chickory and radish. I typically move the birds from the brooder to these 2 pens at 4-6 weeks (once fully feathered)...there is a small 40W bulb for heat if need be.

At any rate, I got to looking at those pens tonight and wondered if it was ok to allow young birds to forage on that much green "stuff" at a young age. These are fall/winter greens so they will be fine for months (we plant the same mix at the hunting club for deer), but if the young birds can't eat it, then I need to make a weekend project and remove it

Any advise?

Thanks

Remove it? Why would you want to do that? What a waste of good chicken forage that would be.