Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

[Chickielady]

Hello everyone !
Have news that my RIW cockeral is suddenly having an urge to jump on pullets !
The pullets do not seem to like it at all...they are 5 months old on the 27th of this month.
My Javas are doing great, and Robert knows about the big Java hatch that is coming in 3 weeks so I am very excited there !!

This man has been a mentor and a charm in my life.
That said, trying to get the garden going, get seeds together.
Wishing for spring ! Pleeeze !!
And only other news: Diagnosed with yet another Auto-Immune disorder today,possibly RA. Tendons are all locking up. But I will continue to breed, cull and keep the neatest coops.

 

[Chickielady]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=461&p=1696

Hey hey
look at this beautiful Cock...and our girl Illia has a perfectly natural explaination as to how this cock was ever made...read the whole page.
Just thought you all might want to read up on it.
Just saying......and what ever you do, stay out of the dark side

 

[Silver Spring Waterfowl]

Thank you, Kathy and Jim! Glad to be here! I have already found the goose forum and introduced myself, but I do appreciate you telling me about it! Jim, my original stock came from Murray McMurray. They weren't bad, but not really great, but for one gander. I was a day late and a dollar short to get any of David Holderread's before he sold them. I would like to get some from both Metzer Farms and Twisted Feather Farm. I need to get some outcrosses from at least 2 good bloodlines. Right now I'm linebreeding. Sounds funny for geese, maybe, but I only have a couple of monogamous pairs of geese. They rest are still young and really haven't made up their minds yet. Metzer's have tufted Buffs, too. I plan to talk to them before I purchase, just to make sure I don't get crosses. It's hard to find unrelated bloodlines. To revive this breed and work for improvement toward the Standard, it's going to take collaberation above competition, even among those of us who may be exhibiting in the same shows and regions. I'm new to the Poultry World, but I remember the dog, horse, and cattle worlds as being pretty cutthroat. Never could understand that! If the offspring from my lines and a competitor's show an improvement in available breeding stock, we've both won, even if neither of us actually owns the winning bird. Where are you? We may be able to help each other out.

 

[Illia]

People go ahead and correct me if I'm wrong though, my explanation is an educated guess.

 

[Chickielady]

you are wonderful girl !!!

 

[CharlieVoda]

Quote:
I will get you contact info for
Lance Ewert he bought out a lot of Brian Schulte's lines and I think he got Brian's Buffs.
Don Roscoe will know who has the best buffs in the country. I'll be talking to him on Sunday.

Good luck with the birds
Charlie

 

[fowlman01]

Quote:
I will get you contact info for
Lance Ewert he bought out a lot of Brian Schulte's lines and I think he got Brian's Buffs.
Don Roscoe will know who has the best buffs in the country. I'll be talking to him on Sunday.

Good luck with the birds
Charlie

Don knows were most of the good waterfowl is located. Say hi to him Sunday for me.

Walt

 

[Silver Spring Waterfowl]

Thanks! Met Lance at Shawnee and gave him one of our business cards. He had some Buffs there, I believe. There were a few in the open Geese division, the others came from Arkansas. I wished that we had been prepared to bring birds to that. Next year! We did take a broad selection of ours to the Bluebonnet Classic last weekend in College Station, TX. (13 birds -I think they'll remember us for that alone.) We did get Best Goose and Reserve. I get the feeling there aren't a whole lot of exhibitors of geese anymore. The broader the network, the better the gene pool! As soon as I get the My Page thing figured out, there will be pictures. There are pictures on my Facebook page. I just don't have the time to work on all this high-tech stuff that it takes to become good at it.

 

[mississippifarmboy]

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Please get pictures up on your page. I love buffs.

 

[Robert Blosl]

http://www.buffganzen.nl/html_uk/ganzenhouden.html

about 6 years ago I got a dozen buff geese eggs sent to me from Fred Zilick from Iowa for a freind. We hatched I think five little ones. They where pretty good looking geese. Fred had a old line from past. Also, I think Butch Gunderson under Butches Birds had or has this same strain.

Like Charlie said he will let you know Sunday who has the best and most likely they are in the mid west.

What you got to do if Holdereed had sold out some one out there has his blood lines. You just got to hunt and snoop for the people who have them.

Every month or so I find lost and endangered breeds that we did not know about.

Chalie when you visti Don ask him if he has some secrets on how to breed Rouen for color, or Gray Calls for color for me. Ask him if he has any old articles from the past on the mallard grey call rouen color pattern. I cant find a one.

Glad to find one more person who wants to help keep a old time breed going. I think this goose was in my old black and white standard in 1962so its a Heritage Goose.

Bob