Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

[mississippifarmboy]

Quote: He's got me beat. Even counting chicks I've got a little less than 200 chickens right now on the farm. Along with around 50 ducks, a few guineas, turkeys, pigeons and geese. I used to keep at least 200 layers, but turning now more to better stock and our egg sales are not as good as in years past.

 

[fowlman01]

He's got me beat. Even counting chicks I've got a little less than 200 chickens right now on the farm. Along with around 50 ducks, a few guineas, turkeys, pigeons and geese. I used to keep at least 200 layers, but turning now more to better stock and our egg sales are not as good as in years past.

I have 50 indies here...lol..... 70 runners, 50 mallards and other breeds..... lots of geese........mostly brown Chinese, Egyptian, Embdens and Sebastopols.
It keeps me out of bars.

Walt

 

[Arielle]

Quote:

I stopped bar hopping LONG ago--too many animals depending on me, too.

Embdens--the first birds I ever dressed and roasted. Very comical. Didn't fit in the scalding pot--needed a super sized soup pot over a propane burner. I dressed 6 birds on a warm February day, making use of the huge snowbanks as a refrigerator for birds waiting their turn in the scalder. When kids gone home from school they helped with the plucking-- they lasted 2 birds, all four of us plucking at once over a wheelbarrow. Feathers everywhere. Cold birds don't give up their feather very well, even after a good scalding. THe last one still had too many feathers left on the wings. I quit. Last one went into the freezer 10 hours after I started. Tasted great though. I stick to chickens now.

 

[zach N houdan]

WOW i only have about 150 birds, 2 geese, 10 ducks, 20 guinea hens

 

[Robert Blosl]

I knew Walt would figure out who that picture was. I was trying to learn how to upload pictures for that Brahma and saw Vern there in my pictures he died a few years ago. That was taken when he was at the South West Washington Fair as he was the Poultry Superintendent for many years.

Many wonder where I got my start in learning at such a young age but if you sit in the pick up next to Vern going to the shows in the 1960s as a young teenager you can pump his brains out. That is my skill always pushing to get the data out of their brains. If you dont they will take their secrets to their graves.

We where called the Centralia Gang most of us still raise chickens at our old age.

I got a picture to up load tomorrow that will blow your minds. I will give you a hint. It has only been in America about 12 years. It was first introduced at a APA show in Lincoln Nebraska in 2000.

I was lucky to be the first chicken man to see these birds be for they where taken out of the box to show the people at the big show.

Reason I had a car to get to the post office to pick them up for the owner and his friend or mentor. I was offered a free pair for helping him but I turned him down.

My point in all of this is in less than ten years you can take a breed and breed them up with help of others and your breed can shine.

Going fishing tomorrow maybe I will show you a picture of me fighting a big fish. Great activity on this thread. Keep it up. bob

 

[catdaddyfro]

I have 50 indies here...lol..... 70 runners, 50 mallards and other breeds..... lots of geese........mostly brown Chinese, Egyptian, Embdens and Sebastopols.
It keeps me out of bars.

Walt

I guarontee ya it will, if anybody still has the urge to really need something to do(party all night long) after caring for the numbers of birds that Walt has (I know as I'm close in the vicinity of his numbers) daily, they would surely give one or the other up as sooner or later that candle burning at both ends is gonna meet in the middle. LOL

Jeff

 

[catdaddyfro]

It could be true......in that location with those birds. "It causes the pituitary glands to kickstart the breeding cycles" is true. like you I would like to see concrete data supporting this statement that would be true if done with any chicken in any location with the exact same lighting. I am not sayiing the statements are true or false, I am saying that one persons observations may be different than others.....happens all the time with chickens.

Walt

I lived in NW ark for 9 years (Tyson country) anyway almost in every shape form or fashion of friends or family i was related to somewhereway or another there were tyson employees. I had the fortunate opportunity to be friend with one of my X-'s kin that had a Breeder house for tyson it was actually 2 large houses combined end to end it held appx. 4 to 5000 breeder hens and a ratio of 10 to 1 Rooster(hugemoungous,Jersey giants cant compare with these boys) anyway back on tract here.

Before the pullets were delivered to the breeder houses they were housed in what was called black-out houses and were limited to only a certian amount of light daily (I don't know all the particulars here just the basics) anyway once they arrived at the breeder houses they were then put on a certain light amount regimin closer to real-time/ optimal light for stimulation of the pituitary to get them ALL on the same laying schedule so on and so forth and once this was established for some time(?) I'm sure for a few months to get eggs size up to a decent hatchable size then they trucked in the boys and placed them in with the pullets and everybody did their things and made mutiple millions of eggs/and baby cornishxrocks for all the world to consume.

Quite a great learning experience for me.

Jeff

 

[kathyinmo]

Quote: Oh, ya ol' whiny babies. I can work outside all day and party work all night.....

Just curious, anyone know who runs this website.... ? http://www.standardbreedpoultry.com/

 

[fowlman01]

Oh, ya ol' whiny babies. I can work outside all day and party work all night.....

Just curious, anyone know who runs this website.... ? http://www.standardbreedpoultry.com/

lets see what you can do when you are my age and are running on two less main arteries.

w.

 

[kathyinmo]

Quote:
Well, you live out there in paradise - you don't need as many arteries. Easy livin' there.....