Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

[fowlman01]

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

Yup it is paradise, but all these mid westerners come to live here and people in other states think we are kooks because of them. It is hard to find a person who was born in CA .....especially in Socal. Luther Burbank settled In Sonoma County here and called it "Gods chosen spot". So here I am with my own redwood trees and the birds. I'm missing some parts, but I can still carry to buckets of feed with 25# in each. Not sure if I could do it in the snow though.

Walt

 

[ashandvine]

I went to the pillow thinking about 500 birds and what that might be like. I got thinking about how much noise Mr. Walt's geese make. I don't know. Where do you put all that manure?? Its got to go somewhere useful. And all those eggs. That's just too big for me. I remember riding behind the trailer trucks full of penned white chickens going to slaughter in some of Maine's last chicken plants. We had one in the town next door so I saw them often. It was like being snowed on in summer but I felt bad for those chickens crammed in there like that. I am not saying any of you keep your birds that way, just that a sea of chickens is overwhelming to a gal who can't swim. I'm going to keep trying the puddle hopping.

Incidentally, about boredom during the winter: since I have so many fewer I plan to use an awl to make a hole in some foods and hang them from the ceiling so the birds get a little extra exercise those days and I get to laugh.

Next question:
Can you give too much protein to a growing chicken?

 

[ashandvine]

Me too. Then they called home and you got worse when you got home that night.


Might be why a lot of us like the kids of chickens we do.

Apparently there is a lot more than just chickens that hung on in Maine. I was raised this way and have a pretty good idea I am about half the age of some of you. (Please don't shun me.)

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

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/
Some of the SPPA fellows were working with that site. Can't recall just exactly which ones. Walt has a classified on the site. Placing a breeder listing is easy.

 

[Arielle]

Jeff,

If you know, what is the breeding on the cornish X, Is the rooster the cock, and the rocks the hens for maximum egg output?

 

[fowlman01]

I went to the pillow thinking about 500 birds and what that might be like. I got thinking about how much noise Mr. Walt's geese make. I don't know. Where do you put all that manure?? Its got to go somewhere useful. And all those eggs. That's just too big for me. I remember riding behind the trailer trucks full of penned white chickens going to slaughter in some of Maine's last chicken plants. We had one in the town next door so I saw them often. It was like being snowed on in summer but I felt bad for those chickens crammed in there like that. I am not saying any of you keep your birds that way, just that a sea of chickens is overwhelming to a gal who can't swim. I'm going to keep trying the puddle hopping.

Incidentally, about boredom during the winter: since I have so many fewer I plan to use an awl to make a hole in some foods and hang them from the ceiling so the birds get a little extra exercise those days and I get to laugh.

Next question:
Can you give too much protein to a growing chicken?

The noise became mute many years ago...I just don't hear it anymore and I don't have any neighbors to complain. I don't deal with manure. The way I have it set up, the manure ends up as dust on the TV. The birds scratch up everything so that there are no piles. In addition they are not in small enclosures. There is just is no manure sitting around.

Walt

 

[Chris09]

Next question:
Can you give too much protein to a growing chicken?

Depends on the breed and who you talk to, I my self like to keep growing birds on a feed from 15 to 18% protein but never over 18% protein.

Chris

 

[catdaddyfro]

Jeff,

If you know, what is the breeding on the cornish X, Is the rooster the cock, and the rocks the hens for maximum egg output?

No that is a highly guarded secret I do know that Cobb-Vantress supply the cockerels for Tyson the females I don't know I'm sure that neither are the "run of the mill" standard bred White Rocks nor "everday" White Cornish. I know one thing the males are about 3 times the size of the pullets I would hazard guess of (15#) maybe more for the male they are dubbed but it is evident with what is left for a comb they are single combed so that rules out them being predominantly Cornish(pea combed). The pullets look just exactly like the reg. ol' WRs you'd see in an everyday market/hatchery type. They are probly all a result of at least 4 way crosses to get the breed stock from.

I'll quit here as we are in the wrong thread and I'm sure someone will politely tell us to move over to Meat-bird section for any more lingering conversations on broilers LOL

Jeff

 

[bnjrob]

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

The domain name listing has the contact info for the site as a computer/website business in MN. With Duane Urch being up there, I had been thinking that perhaps he/partners might be involved in the site.

 

[capayvalleychick]

I don't deal with manure. The way I have it set up, the manure ends up as dust on the TV. The birds scratch up everything so that there are no piles. In addition they are not in small enclosures. There is just is no manure sitting around.

Walt

So you don't have to muck out anywhere? How do you do that? You don't have manure/deep litter that you have to clean up in breeding or conditioning pens, eventually?

Kim (who was born in San Diego)