Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

[Chickielady]

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Well, off subject but thinking of you today when I opened the mail box and the new issue of Game&Fish fell out,,with a nice bucksteelie on the cover.
Says their getting record numbers on the Clack and all the way to Northweat WA.
The weather here has calmed down, with a few gusty winds, and annoying sprinkles, but warmed up to 55-and up to 60 degrees on some rivers in OR.
We are thinking of putting in here on the Willapa as the hatchery is upstream as you know...something to do on a drizzly day, and enjoy this beautiful wild place.
Articles can be seen online at WA-OR Game & Fish magazine.
Can't get no better steelehead fishing weather than this right here right now, wish you were here !

 

[Chickielady]

Snowhunter...thanks for the nice photos !

 

[punky rooster]

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X2 nice!

 

[fowlman01]

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Looks like a Pastel Call, not a gray. There was a very nice buff leghorn pullet (LF) shown at Hollister last weekend.

Walt

 

[turbo]

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Bob,

I have never seen a gray Call female with mallard or Rouen coloring. I judged over 300 of them at Columbus a couple months ago. Maybe someone else has seen one, but I haven't.

Walt

I think the Grays were crossed on the whites and it really killed the color and penciling on them....arent Rouen's more mahogany red than mallards?

 

[turbo]

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Absence of penciling is pretty much everywhere in the gray Call female.

Walt

The penciling is a mess on a lot of the gray call ducks. We sold off all our stock and started over last year. I think some breeders are too caught up with the bodies and head and forget about the color and penciling. Will we be banned for talking about call ducks on this thread?

ETA: Guess I posted with the wrong user name.....sorry...didn't see Jerry already posted.

Rebecca (the wife)

 

[fowlman01]

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Absence of penciling is pretty much everywhere in the gray Call female.

Walt

The penciling is a mess on a lot of the gray call ducks. We sold off all our stock and started over last year. I think some breeders are too caught up with the bodies and head and forget about the color and penciling. Will we be banned for talking about call ducks on this thread?

ETA: Guess I posted with the wrong user name.....sorry...didn't see Jerry already posted.

Rebecca (the wife)

I think we are OK for a couple posts as long as the OP (Bob) is asking about it and that young kid doesn't get upset.

This is not going to turn into a duck thread.
This is not the best pic to show color, but wouldn't you guys love to have these markings on a gray Call female.

Walt

 

[Chickielady]

Beautiful bird !

 

[Yellow House Farm]

Well, an interesting way to tie it back in to our original question may be to address the question of grey calls having been crossed out to whites, for I have also spoken to folk at the shows who would assign the same effect to these Barred Rocks that are loosing the distinct barring and developing a V-barring, which ressemble cuckoo more than naught. It is thought that this breakdown in barring clarity is due to out-crossing to white roocks as a means to increase size. Could there be a relationship?

 

[X2Farm]

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Strangely enough, I'd had the pleasure of talking to a Delaware breeder on the phone the other day. He mentioned a friend of his, a very well known person in poultry, said that a way to tighten up barring on BR's was to outcross to a White Rock.

Just what I heard... I personally don't think outcrossing is the way to go, not that way. Within the breed/color pattern could help, at least if you have a good knowledge of what the new blood has in the line(good points, bad points). Thats me and how I feel, and how I intend to work with my birds. Now I am new to much of this... so I could be completely wrong in my thinking...