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Robert Blosl
Rest in Peace 1947-2013
When it comes to helping people find the breed they want I do not have a problem helping people find the breeder they need to contact. I have tried to teach the breeder who does not want to sell eggs that their is another way to help the beginner and that is to ship them ten started chicks that are shiped in a small single nest box by horizion. These ten chicks are shiped overnigh mail by the post office in or around 20 hours. These young birds can make the trip very well with out feed and water for up to three days then a problem comes in to lack of water. Most chicks get to thier new homes in 20 hours but in my case the end up the second day at 8 A.M. at my post office.
Shipping eggs has been a mixed bag of success because of post office handling and reputred air cells which then the egg can not hatch. However there is a new area Iam working on with the post office called special handling. It cost about $8. more and may help the increase in the hatches. If we could only get the post office to place the hatching eggs in the compartment with live birds I think we could get better results in the hatching. But its hard to get them to change or add a few sentances in their regs to make sure the eggs are in a save loction on the Fed Ex plan.
http://www.fortune3.com/[email protected]_of_10_Single_Stalls_ready_to_go.html
So when you ask me for help I can find most breeds you want and most color varitys however some are so rare and do not look like the pretty pictures in the poutlry catalogs many people dump the breed after a few years. Many breeders are willing to help the beginner and many breeders do not want to fool with eggs and chicks as they do not have time to do this. Many people are tired of the complants of the hatches and the complansts of the customers which I can not blame them. Many people thing they are getting rare gentic line breed chickens and then when they raise the birds find out they are imposters and are just plane hatchery birds that the shipper has lead the customer to beleive they are Heritage or Vintage Poultry.
As Secetary of the Plymouth Rock Club I do not have money in the checking account to place ads in Mother Earth News however, I have written articles in a major Poultry Magazine with about a 50,000 buyers of the magzine by the rack or delevered to their homes. I will let you see the thread of the article. This article really got people in the old fashing barred rocks and you can see just in four years the improvement in this color pattern from pictures on this thead.
I will just plug away helping one person at a time just like Walt does. Some of the breeds you are talking about I have never seen or even heard of. I have read Poutlry Mazines from the 1980s to the 1950s and some of these breeds I have have never heard, seen or seen ads selling them. So when you ask for some of these breeds we may stirke out as we can not find anyone who has them. I think we need to teach people like yourselves to exchange these breeds in a started chick method much like people who share Heritage seeds with each other. It is easy to do all you have to do is hatch the chicks raise them up to about four to five weeks of age. Place ten chicks in the box above take them to your post office and ship them out overnight express to your friend who wants your rare breed. It is a win win expericene for every one and we can share our rare breed with some one who has a interest in the same breed you do. Lets just find a way to help each other and not worring about a Great old Live Stock Club that has served the Fancy so well for over 100 years. bob
http://www.backyardpoultrymag.com/issues/3/3-5/plymouth_rocks_the_heirloom_breed.html
Shipping eggs has been a mixed bag of success because of post office handling and reputred air cells which then the egg can not hatch. However there is a new area Iam working on with the post office called special handling. It cost about $8. more and may help the increase in the hatches. If we could only get the post office to place the hatching eggs in the compartment with live birds I think we could get better results in the hatching. But its hard to get them to change or add a few sentances in their regs to make sure the eggs are in a save loction on the Fed Ex plan.
http://www.fortune3.com/[email protected]_of_10_Single_Stalls_ready_to_go.html
So when you ask me for help I can find most breeds you want and most color varitys however some are so rare and do not look like the pretty pictures in the poutlry catalogs many people dump the breed after a few years. Many breeders are willing to help the beginner and many breeders do not want to fool with eggs and chicks as they do not have time to do this. Many people are tired of the complants of the hatches and the complansts of the customers which I can not blame them. Many people thing they are getting rare gentic line breed chickens and then when they raise the birds find out they are imposters and are just plane hatchery birds that the shipper has lead the customer to beleive they are Heritage or Vintage Poultry.
As Secetary of the Plymouth Rock Club I do not have money in the checking account to place ads in Mother Earth News however, I have written articles in a major Poultry Magazine with about a 50,000 buyers of the magzine by the rack or delevered to their homes. I will let you see the thread of the article. This article really got people in the old fashing barred rocks and you can see just in four years the improvement in this color pattern from pictures on this thead.
I will just plug away helping one person at a time just like Walt does. Some of the breeds you are talking about I have never seen or even heard of. I have read Poutlry Mazines from the 1980s to the 1950s and some of these breeds I have have never heard, seen or seen ads selling them. So when you ask for some of these breeds we may stirke out as we can not find anyone who has them. I think we need to teach people like yourselves to exchange these breeds in a started chick method much like people who share Heritage seeds with each other. It is easy to do all you have to do is hatch the chicks raise them up to about four to five weeks of age. Place ten chicks in the box above take them to your post office and ship them out overnight express to your friend who wants your rare breed. It is a win win expericene for every one and we can share our rare breed with some one who has a interest in the same breed you do. Lets just find a way to help each other and not worring about a Great old Live Stock Club that has served the Fancy so well for over 100 years. bob
http://www.backyardpoultrymag.com/issues/3/3-5/plymouth_rocks_the_heirloom_breed.html
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