Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

[Pathfinders]

The only thing I caution folks about when using conventional poultry carry crates is, consider stapling some plastic embroidery cloth (also called plastic canvas) over the holes. Nothing worse than having a bird stick its head out and getting it clipped off during travel by shifting crates. Didn't happen to me, but I heard about it from a friend, so I covered all the open slots in my crates. I also use it over the doors of dog carry crates for the smaller birds for the same reason, and it keeps tails from getting shredded too. I get mine at Wally World but it's likely available at Michaels or online at places like this: http://www.createforless.com/Darice-Plastic-Canvas-7-Supersoft-12x-18/pid16411.aspx

 

[Fentress]

Looks like a good crate for gathering up your birds prior to processing. You don't want them to have alot of room. I bought a plastic crate that is popular with the producers, what an ordeal, every part had to be banged together with a hammer and a block of wood to protect the plastic. I'm going to make my own from now on.

 

[Robert Blosl]

12x 26 24

I think the crates I made as a kid was 12 inches wide by 26 inches long by 24 inches tall. I had a sliding door on top then I drilled a hole in the end of the door and put a nail in it to keep it from opening.

I have a crate that Zealots Eshmeyer from Ohio who made for me 20 years ago its in the barn it is a double large fowl male coop to take two males to a show. We traded it for 20 started chicks and he was the whose who of making crates in those days. I will go out and measure the size of it. The bad thing is its big and its heavy with two big males in it. You almost have to carry it on a dolly to avoid hurting yourself or your back. That is why I did not like it. However, you can make a single crate same size in it and that is more practical I think for us to transport.


Glad you got your Standard. Remember to read the fist 70 pages to.


One of my new lurkers and new friend in H chickens got his Poultry Press yesterday. He is all ready circling the shows to go to in his region to look for Buff Brahma Large Fowl
Charlie do you know anyone in your zone from Minn to Iowa with good Buff Brahma large fowl? How about Urches. I bet he has a old line? bob

 

[fowlman01]

12x 26 24

I think the crates I made as a kid was 12 inches wide by 26 inches long by 24 inches tall. I had a sliding door on top then I drilled a hole in the end of the door and put a nail in it to keep it from opening.

I have a crate that Zealots Eshmeyer from Ohio who made for me 20 years ago its in the barn it is a double large fowl male coop to take two males to a show. We traded it for 20 started chicks and he was the whose who of making crates in those days. I will go out and measure the size of it. The bad thing is its big and its heavy with two big males in it. You almost have to carry it on a dolly to avoid hurting yourself or your back. That is why I did not like it. However, you can make a single crate same size in it and that is more practical I think for us to transport.


Glad you got your Standard. Remember to read the fist 70 pages to.


One of my new lurkers and new friend in H chickens got his Poultry Press yesterday. He is all ready circling the shows to go to in his region to look for Buff Brahma Large Fowl
Charlie do you know anyone in your zone from Minn to Iowa with good Buff Brahma large fowl? How about Urches. I bet he has a old line? bob

Zelotes made great carrying cases. One thing to remember is to have them as light as possible. I will take a picture of one of my LF carrying cases today. Al Feagly out here in CA has some awesome LF Brahma's and I think he ships birds. He has buff and lights.

Walt

 

[Zanna]

I was at a local show last year and people were using cardboard boxes with handles lined with wax so you could wipe them down and re-use. They got them from the vet, the ones designed to use for dogs and cats. Light and lots of ventilation holes with many size options.

 

[chirpingcricket]

Ha, ha that’s funny stuff there Jeff. Well at my age I’d be doing good to get to the foot in the door stage I guess lol. I suspect that the majority of folks on this site have very little knowledge about chickens, but that’s what the site is for I guess.  I have found it to be a good resource on topics like feed and breeds and especially strains of chickens. I might even learn a thing or two from the masters around here if I can get past the ‘too many Roosters in the hen house’ syndrome, but that’s hard to do when you’re a Rooster, hehe.

My wife asked me yesterday why I bother with this, but it’s simple, I like chickens. My experience may be considered by some to be nontraditional, but far from rare and more than likely common. I have spent most of my time actually raising and breeding chickens and relatively little time online. I’ve never been to a poultry show aside from the county fair as a teenager, but I was there for the girls, not chickens. I did not have the good fortune of being mentored by celebrity poultry men, but I have gleaned knowledge from some in my younger years to whom chickens were akin, oh maybe as air is to everybody else. Amazingly today you can pull up a line breeding chart in seconds, but I learned many years ago by talking to people. Some would find my accomplishment in breeding trivial, but they were good learning experiences for me and if I can help somebody out I will.

If anything, I think I’m pretty modest. I haven’t claimed to be anything other than a person who’s willing to share what they know. In fact I have pointed out my area of knowledge as well as the lack of in other areas. I know what I know and I’m happy to share, because I’m not able to share on topics such as the SOP because I am a green horn when it comes to that. I have tried to explain to a couple of these gentlemen that they don’t own the rights to breeding knowledge just because they have bred to the SOP whereas I have not, but It has become an exercise in tedium. They see everything from their SOP lenses and fail to grasp that admission of lack of (former) interests, such as breeding to the SOP, does not undermine my knowledge of something like the line breeding topic I commented on to begin with. Breeding to the SOP is not a prerequisite to breeding knowledge, especially in the context in which the advice was given. I can explain that to them, but I can’t understand it for them.

As I type I’m reading comments about how I’m not qualified, in their opinion, to give the advice that I gave and yet no one thus far has managed to produce any evidence that my advice was incorrect in any way. Making claims that I am not worthy to give advice while thus far being incapable of producing one single point to argue ( in the productive meaning) about the advice in question is neither deserving of respect nor worthy of reply.
No matter whom you are, or think you are, a humble and modest approach is to be respected as far as I’m concerned. And to the gentleman who continues to take issue only with me personally; could you please refrain from slandering me and make just one valid point about the advice I gave? As I see it if you can’t narrow your disdain to even one single point of contention then you are simply badgering me and I would like for it to stop. I have thick skin, but either you have a valid argument or you don’t.

Jeff I appreciate the encouragement as well as the entertainment. There a few of you guys I really enjoy reading your posts on various threads, but I don’t always comment and I don’t private message and all that. There is not much I need to say on here unless it’s posted on one of these threads about chickens, but I suppose the pecking order is our nature as well, hehe.  I am going to keep messing around with these Partridge Rocks and projects and others I have around here, but I spite of my experiences with some of these folks I am still thinking about supporting some of these organizations and purchasing the book and study it. I’m still looking into different breeds although I have a couple in mind.

MItch

 

[OSUman]

You can also get those from Randall Burkey http://www.randallburkey.com/Dozen-Porta-Case-Boxes/productinfo/14020/#.UhzEiZKkofU

I was at a local show last year and people were using cardboard boxes with handles lined with wax so you could wipe them down and re-use. They got them from the vet, the ones designed to use for dogs and cats. Light and lots of ventilation holes with many size options.

 

[fowlman01]

This box is 20DX21HX30W with three ten inch partitions that can be removed. I usually have all the partitions removed when I am transporting large fowl.




Here is a carrier for a small LF or large bantam.




Walt

 

[Pathfinders]

I actually have some wonderful multi-hole bantam crates that I got from Ric Ashcraft before he died, and they're still in the basement even though I no longer have bantams. I figure as soon as I sell them, I'll need them (Murphy's Law of Needed Things.)

 

[AletaG]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/818817/heritage-bantam-thread

Well I did it again. Opened up a new can of worms.
If you are interested in Bantams and want some of the old kind like we do with large fowl on this tread we have a message thread to work with. I will try to keep it alive we had one for bantam ducks and its still ticking along. See you on the tread. bob

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Karen, thank you. Do you mind re-posting that at Bob's new thread, so it's all in one place. I know lots of people will thank you!

Ha, ha that’s funny stuff there Jeff. I’m still looking into different breeds although I have a couple in mind.

MItch

It could also be the Huge Bold Font size your posts keep coming through it. Bob does it once in awhile too. To my eyes, and most online etiquette, feels like being "shouted" at. Maybe write in a font easy for you to see, but then select it all and make sure it's more like a 12pt. size.
Welcome!

Thanks for pics of transport crates. I never thought about them getting bits removed in transit. Ew. Wait! There is a USE for plastic-canvas?