Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

[Robert Blosl]

Quote: This was the National Plymouth Rock Fanciers Club National Meet. They raised a lot of money over $1,000. by them selves for this meet.

Walt do you know who the person was who won with this bird?

 

[Robert Blosl]

I need help. I opended up a can of worms on Wyandottes and need help finding the top lines of these colors.

Buff Wyandottes

Partridge Wyandottes

Colombian Wyandottes

Silver Laced Wyandottes

Silver Pencil led Wyandottes

If any of you know or have non hatchery type birds in these colors post the people you think
have birds that we can contact. bob

 

[Texasmja]

I need help. I opended up a can of worms on Wyandottes and need help finding the top lines of these colors.

Buff Wyandottes

Partridge Wyandottes

Colombian Wyandottes

Silver Laced Wyandottes

Silver Pencil led Wyandottes

If any of you know or have non hatchery type birds in these colors post the people you think
have birds that we can contact. bob

Bob, there is a list on BYC that I will copy over:


2013 Wyandotte Breeders List / Directory

Listed are the ABA American Bantam Association and A.P.A American Poultry Association recognized varieties. There is also a section for unrecognized association colors under large fowl and bantam.

If you will have stock available, please feel free to join in! To be added to this list, add a post to the thread with the varieties you will have available, be sure to note if they are Bantam or Large Fowl and if you offer eggs, chicks or both. If you have a color not listed state your colors and they will be added to list.

NOTE: Please contact the BYC members directly for their eggs and/or stock availability, as well as their shipping & NPIP info.

Large Fowl

GOLDEN LACED

SILVER LACED

Chickenhill Chicks and juveniles to adults www.chickenhillpoultry.com

Countrypunk92 Chicks-local pick-up only. Ships Eggs

dracoe19 Chicks and Eggs

DMRippy Chicks-local pick-up only. Ships Eggs

RattlesnakeRidgeWV Chicks-local pick-up only. Ships Eggs

slick4591 Chicks and Eggs facebook website

flaming007 Chicks

WHITE

BLACK

BLUE

BUFF

COLUMBIAN

PARTRIDGE

Chickenhill Chicks and juveniles to adults

dracoe19 Chicks and Eggs

SILVER PENCILED

LARGE FOWL UNRECOGNIZED COLORS BY A.P.A

BLUE LACED RED

Chickenhill Chicks and juveniles to adults

Countrypunk92 Chicks-local pick-up only. Ships Eggs

DMRippy Chicks-local pick-up only. Ships Eggs

shanshan51 Chicks, Eggs, and juveniles to adults

ki4got Chicks and started birds local pick-up only. Ships Eggs

Riversilk Chicks and started birds local pick-up only. Ships Eggs

CHOCOLATE

Countrypunk92 Chicks-local pick-up only. Ships Eggs

BARRED

Gold Laced/SilverLaced Splits

SChunn Chicks-local pick-up only. Ships Eggs

Bantams

GOLEN LACED

SILVER LACED

WHITE

BLACK

Chickenhill Chicks and juveniles to adults

Braclin Ships eggs

tandersphoenix Eggs and Chicks

BLUE

Chickenhill Chicks and juveniles to adults

BUFF

COLUMBIAN

PARTRIDGE

Chickenhill Chicks and juveniles to adults

SILVER PENCILED

dracoe19 Chicks and Eggs

DMRippy Chicks-local pick-up only. Ships Eggs

Countrypunk92 Chicks-local pick-up only. Ships Eggs

BUFF COLUMBIAN

BANTAM UNRECOGNIZED COLORS BY ABA

BLUE LACED RED

Jen C Eggs and Adults

ki4got Chicks and started birds local pick-up only. Ships Eggs

CHOCOLATE

Chickenhill Chicks and juveniles to adults

 

[fowlman01]

I need help. I opended up a can of worms on Wyandottes and need help finding the top lines of these colors.

Buff Wyandottes

Partridge Wyandottes

Colombian Wyandottes

Silver Laced Wyandottes

Silver Pencil led Wyandottes

If any of you know or have non hatchery type birds in these colors post the people you think
have birds that we can contact. bob

Dave
Anderson past prez of the APA has buff Wynadottes of good quality, his contact info is in the PP or the APA yearbook. I don't know who had the white Rock, but there was a ton of good ones there. I didn't see a bad one.

Walt

 

[Texasmja]

I need help. I opended up a can of worms on Wyandottes and need help finding the top lines of these colors.

Buff Wyandottes - there is TxWyandotte who breeds these but not offering any to the public that I know of.

Partridge Wyandottes

Colombian Wyandottes

Silver Laced Wyandottes

Silver Pencil led Wyandottes

If any of you know or have non hatchery type birds in these colors post the people you think
have birds that we can contact. bob

There is Dick Horstman, Duane Urch, Frank Reese. Jerry Foley will sometimes have some for sale on Featherauction.com, his website http://foleyswaterfowl.com Jesse Paul is no longer breeding his website http://www.paulspoultry.com

 

[fowlman01]

Phillip Brown had the best of show white Rock I posted.

w.

 

[mschlumb]

I need help. I opended up a can of worms on Wyandottes and need help finding the top lines of these colors.

Buff Wyandottes

Partridge Wyandottes

Colombian Wyandottes

Silver Laced Wyandottes

Silver Pencil led Wyandottes

If any of you know or have non hatchery type birds in these colors post the people you think
have birds that we can contact. bob

Gary Overton and Rick Hare both have nice Silver Laced.

 

[The Old Yolks]

Does corn or Marigold extract cause white chickens to have a yellow hew to their feathers or quills? This has been a issue for many years that I have heard. I have had white rock large fowl off and on for 20 years and white rock bantams for ten years. My bantams have always stayed white until last year when I showed them in October. I noticed my five males I washed had a yellow hew to their feathers after feeding them a feed that I have used for years that had a Marigold extract in it for the purpose of making their legs more yellow. My leg color has always been yellow but what the heck why not try it. My large fowl did not turn yellow they are as snow white as they have ever been.

So for those who say no it cant I say have you raised or breed them?

I know one item that is maybe better than corn to help the leg color and that is Alfalfa leaves. Hard to get down here where I live but there is some magic stuff in general in that product. If you can get a bail of leaves type hay and give it to your birds it can put a heck of a finish on them for the show room. I know most of you on this board who read this thread or the lurkers dont show but a secret here or there by those who do is valuable.

Case and point. About 20 years ago I went to Southern Louisiana to visit a fellow named Russell Roy who was a dark Cornish bantam breeder and also had some fantastic large fowl. He had a fellow who worked at a near by Horse Race track and paid him so much for a plastic bag for the leaves that fell to the ground after the Race Horses at the Alfalfa Hay. He feed these to his Cornish. The results was simply fantastic.

He went to the Ohio National that year and there was something like 8 throphys for Cornish a huge National Meet and he came home I think with five of them. That year he won more points for wining with his Cornish bantams and large fowl than any person who won points for any breed club I ever read about. So having a good blood line and knowing how to condition was his secret. He had a large fowl Cockerel siting in a pen with a light bulb over his head in the day light. I asked him what was the light for. I am trying to stimulate his growth to get him to be as big as he can be for I show him at Columbus. He won Champion Cornish Large Fowl of the show. He was the best Large Fowl Cornish I ever saw. I even had a trio of his off spring for a short time but lost them to foxes.

So that's my two cents on color of a white chicken but who CARES? I thought we where going to try to find lost breeds of endangered Fowl. You know the H chickens.

Does any buddy have a rare breed of chicken or H fowl they are getting this year. I know there are some breeds out there that people want. I have seen orders for White Rock and Rhode Island Reds go through the roof this year.

Any other breeds? If there is a breed you want and its in the category of difficult to breed for color or it is on the bottom of the list for being close to standard that is no reason to not get them. Again don't get all bent out of shape about breeding and raising these chickens to the Standard of Perfection. This is a slow process any way. Heck after you get them you may not like them or their personality. Like Charlie. He tried four breeds I think and flipped over a new leaf and got rid of three that he thought he would like.

Enjoy your chickens, have fun with them and don't make it a JOB if you do you will not be happy and may do what others do.

KISS

I know this was posted a little while back but I always have a nice bale of alfalfa available to my birds, especially during the winter months when the only green they get is from the table, which IMO is not enough to keep their diet in balance. Good to know I am doing something right. Thank you for posting this Bob, as always you are wealth of information. Back to lurking and learning.

 

[Yellow House Farm]

Here's Rudy Troxel's website HERE. He's doing Partridge Wyandottes, Partridge Cochins, and Red Dorkings. All three elegible candidates for this forum.

Go BOB!!

 

[Robert Blosl]

Thanks for the site. Like the Partridge Cochins now thats a very rare H breed and nice type and color. There is a male dorking in the middle bottom picture. If he can get his comb cleaned up in a few years he has something there. Nice Dorking type. Glad he has the Wyandottes. That is a tough breed to improve but looks like he has the eye to do it. Glad we know about this strain.