Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

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AWESOME

 

[Chris Herzog]

WOOHOO check out the Heritage Poultry Breeders Association page they just published on my Mille Fleur Leghorns!

I've got a long way to go on them becoming standard, but I'm happy so far!

http://hpbaa.com/Leghorn.html

Congradulations that's something to be proud of for sure!!!
Chris

 

[Robert Blosl]

Pretty chickens.bob

 

[cherylcohen]

Pretty chickens.bob

Thanks Bob! They sure are fun to work with! So curious and sweet for a leghorn

 

[catdaddyfro]

Thanks Bob! They sure are fun to work with! So curious and sweet for a leghorn

Congrats on your pics. there cherylcohen as Bob said they are pretty. That's good you have them so tame very unusual for leghorns. I have 4 Brn Leghorn pullets, 2 I had to handle a lot for injury/illness and they are hand pets, I can just about pick them up any time anywhere. The other 2 are as wild as March hares ,you couldn't touch with a 10 ft. pole. LOL all 4 are brood-mates.

Jeff

 

[lildinkem]

100 years ago the most popular variety of Orpington was the White. Sadly today there is less then 10 EXHIBITION White Orp breeders who raise show and share this wonderful variety of Orp. And only a couple of them are on BYC.
This coming weekend I expect to be hatching out the first White Orps from this wonderful White cockerel. He has some common blood with a couple of our BYC White Orp breeders.
This is my best hope to make a new and completely different White Orp bloodline using EXHIBITION quality. The best Orp type pullets I am using are Buff Sports from a wonderful lady right here in Indiana. Her lines are part Pontious and part Hoosier Hatchery. Her main Buff Orp cock won the Junior show at our INDIANA STATE FAIR 2 years ago. A massive cock and prolific breeder. My friend thought she knew who was the mother to my Buff Sports. But apparently she was mistaken. So I have 4 more young Buff Sports I picked up from her back in January for FREE. 3 of the 4 are looking like males. One is looking outstanding. I also have a Buff Sport cock who was hatched out by the best Orp breeder I know back in Dec of 2010. He too is a massive bird who is also going to be a daddy. I have a friend who is curious to see what will come out of him when taken to a Black hen. So I took that Buff Sport cock to a pair of Blacks to see. Some chicks from his pens just hatched out yesterday. They appear to be Blacks and will hopefully carry the White gene. White is recessive in the Orps. Even IF they don't the fantastic type that we see in the Buffs will be carried over to the Blacks as I plan on using them in the coming seasons. Today the Buffs are the most built up to EXHIBITION quality. And while there are many great quality Black Orps. Many still need some more work to be able to compete at the biggers shows with the very best Buff Orp breeders. I am hoping to narrow that gap between the two varieties. like everything it takes time and patience. And mostly lots of feed! hahahaha

Here is my pure showball true White Orp from a great friend of mine.



Hard to find any Whites with as nice a tail as this fella. I thank the individual who let me have this wonderful bird.



Nice width too!

 

[cherylcohen]

Congrats on your pics. there cherylcohen as Bob said they are pretty. That's good you have them so tame very unusual for leghorns. I have 4 Brn Leghorn pullets, 2 I had to handle a lot for injury/illness and they are hand pets, I can just about pick them up any time anywhere. The other 2 are as wild as March hares ,you couldn't touch with a 10 ft. pole. LOL all 4 are brood-mates.
Jeff

We believe that speckled sussex were used in making of these way back when and that personality is coming through, they squat all the time for me!

 

[draye]

Congrats, Cheryl.

 

[CharlieVoda]

lildinkem Great looking White Orpington. Glad you are working with them. Standard bred whites are rare. If you need help or advice I know a fellow in MN who spent 18 years developing White orps from buff sports that are pure to the Bob Coulter line of buffs. They breed true and are beautiful like yours. He won at the MN State Fair and Had Grand Champion large fowl at the Hutchinson show in 2011.
Good luck with the birds
Charlie

 

[lildinkem]

lildinkem Great looking White Orpington. Glad you are working with them. Standard bred whites are rare. If you need help or advice I know a fellow in MN who spent 18 years developing White orps from buff sports that are pure to the Bob Coulter line of buffs. They breed true and are beautiful like yours. He won at the MN State Fair and Had Grand Champion large fowl at the Hutchinson show in 2011.
Good luck with the birds
Charlie

Hi Charlie
Yes thanks to you I did talk to him several times. The son of the breeder of the Single comb White Wyandotte pullets I am using clerked at a Show in Iowa this past winter. Jonathan took these pics of Laverne's birds. Their outstanding. I am pretty much following the plan that Laverne did. Using Buff Sports and adding a smidge of White Wyandotte.
Look how nice his birds are. Pics were taken by Jonathan at the Iowa Show last fall