Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

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Nice looking Reds Chris! I especially like the Rose Combs.

Ed

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

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Lets please play nice. The Wyandotte thread had a disagreement break out and the moderators locked the thread for days.

 

[saladin]

Lol Jim, I think you should have posted that after punky's comment instead of cubalayas... so be it.

I saw your Chocolate Muscovy on your website. Where did yours originally come from? My youngest son raises the Chocolates, Blues and Silvers. He won in 2009 at Lucasville. His strain came from my good friend Paul Witt (who was also his soccer coach).

Oh, I forgot to mention: my son keeps around 100 Muscovy.

Here he is at Lucasville 2009:

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

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That is one ugly duck! I asked Jim Crain why he would pick the ugliest bird in the showroom as Grand Champion Waterfowl. Jim said that "this ain't no beauty contest. We judge by the Standard of Perfection." He admitted my drake was UGLY, but he is a good representative of the breed. I found mine from a fellow in Oklahoma. I posted in early March that I wanted a pair before the new FWS regulatiosn went into affect. This fellow in SE Oklahoma responded. I was making a trip to Tulsa on business so I drove back his way. The guy allowed me to take my choice of his flock. I carefully picked Dan and Ann. Sure glad I did. It has been years since I gave my SOP to a 4H club. My new one will arrive soon (I hope, ordered it at Shawnee). So I chose what my memory thought were good.

I placed a 2nd on Chocolate Old Drake and a 1st on Chocolate Old Duck. Hope to hatch some better quality this season. We had some incubation issues last season and only saved a young drake. But he is very nice quality. The girls keep disappearing and I am hoping they are laying. The kids keep going easter egg hunting but have not found anything yet.

We also traded for to young ducks this summer/fall. They are a bit too much white, but hoping for a correction in their young. If not, we will sell them at a swap.

I have had Muscovy ducks off and on since 1977. Had whites and colored then.

Would love to have some eggs from your son. Does he ever sell any hatching eggs? Or maybe a trade?

 

[Yard full o' rocks]

For those of you looking for Delawares....contact Kathyinmo here on BYC. She has birds from the same breeding as mine, except that I have slowly been getting out of Dels to make room for more Rocks and what I have left, I don't think I would breed from

I'm pretty sure they are a mix of Sandhill and Braden lines. Next to Speckledhen's Issac, she probably has one of the nicest cockerels I've seen

Scott

 

[punky rooster]

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finally some new pics!!!!
very nice

 

[Yellow House Farm]

Just throwing this out there to all the readers. I know that there are lots of veterans here, but for those of you who are brand new, don't forget to subscribe to the POULTRY PRESS. It comes out monthly. I just received my latest edition yesterday and thought of this thread. The PP is the monthly rag for the shows and often has some great articles that give hints to good breeding methods.

 

[cherylcohen]

I must add that Poultry Press also has a coupon from purina every month for at least $5 off feed, so for those that use that feed can save $60 a year over the subscription price that I think is around $25?

 

[kathyinmo]

Yard full o' rocks :

For those of you looking for Delawares....contact Kathyinmo here on BYC. She has birds from the same breeding as mine, except that I have slowly been getting out of Dels to make room for more Rocks and what I have left, I don't think I would breed from

I'm pretty sure they are a mix of Sandhill and Braden lines. Next to Speckledhen's Issac, she probably has one of the nicest cockerels I've seen

Scott

Oh, thanks, Scott! My original stock came from speckledhen, and my next stock came from Claudia Gore at chapelfarms.net As I understand it, they both got their stock from Janet Hultman. I think I have something I can work with anyway.

 

[Chris09]

JimsFarmStand, saladin, and punky rooster

Thank You,

Chris