Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

[Lacy Blues]

Thanks. The fact that you can't tell that she is a Dorking confirms that I have much work to do, improving the type in my flock.

The picture is kind of hard to tell. One of the outstanding characteristics of a Dorking is how short their legs are. The angle of the picture does not show her legs hardly at all. You can see her feet and just a little bit of the shank. Now, if you were to lay down on the ground and take a picture at her level, we might be able to tell what she is.

Or you could put her up on a table.

 

[catdaddyfro]

The picture is kind of hard to tell. One of the outstanding characteristics of a Dorking is how short their legs are. The angle of the picture does not show her legs hardly at all. You can see her feet and just a little bit of the shank. Now, if you were to lay down on the ground and take a picture at her level, we might be able to tell what she is.

Or you could put her up on a table.

Yeah a full screen image is hard enough to get a reading on good or bad qualities so I would't take too much to heart about what is said by the itty bity avatar. I do like her color though, she pops. LOL

Jeff

 

[3riverschick]

Thanks. The fact that you can't tell that she is a Dorking confirms that I have much work to do, improving the type in my flock.

She's a lovely Dorking. Yes, I see the type. I was just tired from last night's election viewing. Actually, I love the length of back. Hard to do. Plus the lovely full breast. If I can do that with my Sussex, I will be a very happy camper.
Karen

 

[3riverschick]

Yeah a full screen image is hard enough to get a reading on good or bad qualities so I would't take too much to heart about what is said by the itty bity avatar. I do like her color though, she pops. LOL

Jeff

Doesn't she tho, Jeff ! Lovely color, really a showstopper. I see so many Silver Salmon which have muddied or faded out coloring.
Karen

 

[3riverschick]

I found a website, pic of a rooster. Wish we could see more pics of the hens. That long back and full breast are hard to breed and great to see. I get so tired of seeing fowl of the Sussex /Dorking family which look like Langshans or Orpingtons. Frankly, these Starrose birds are a treat.
Karen

http://starroseranch.com/

 

[Maggiesdad]

I can't get chicken pics at the starrose linky...

404 error

 

[capayvalleychick]

Now I'm embarrassed to have generated so many posts. I wasn't all that upset and/or fishing for compliments, I was laughing about it. They do need work on type, though. Don't judge what a true Dorking should look like from my birds.
My website pages aren't working right now. If you want to see some photos of some of my Dorkings, look here:

http://dorkingbreedersclub.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=12043996

My favorite pullet and others from this past year haven't been photographed yet.

Here's an old postcard that will give you a better idea of what they should look like:



Thanks, guys!

 

[fowlman01]

Now I'm embarrassed to have generated so many posts. I wasn't all that upset and/or fishing for compliments, I was laughing about it. They do need work on type, though. Don't judge what a true Dorking should look like from my birds.
My website pages aren't working right now. If you want to see some photos of some of my Dorkings, look here:

http://dorkingbreedersclub.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=12043996

My favorite pullet and others from this past year haven't been photographed yet.

Here's an old postcard that will give you a better idea of what they should look like:



Thanks, guys!

Since I have seen your birds in person I can say that your Dorkings are a lot better than you think they are.

Walt

 

[NYREDS]

OMG, it's worse than I thought! Someone a few weeks ago thought one of my Dorks was a Leghorn. I'm going to go

This is what happens when you don't buy the SOP when starting a breeding program!

Before you go into panic mode she [avitar pic] looks like a Dorking to me & not a bad one at that. The person that thought that hen was a Leghorn clearly had no idea what either breed should look like.

 

[wsmith]

Just a plug for Heritage bred birds vs Hatchery stock. Please don't misconstrue this as bashing on hatchery birds, as they also taste good. Bill (NYREDS), the Old Dominion birds are out of your line.

Weight comparisons at processing between hatchery cockerels and Heritage Bred birds from Old Dominion Dominiques.
The two cockerels that remained from Old Dominion Dominiques were processed at 23 weeks, along with 4 cockerels we raised from Cackle Hatchery stock. The cockerels from Old-Dominion Dominiques were larger than the hatchery cockerels, and averaged 5.62 lbs. live weight. The hatchery cockerels averaged about 4 lbs. live weight. Both groups of cockerels lost about 20% of their weight during the butchering process, with the ODD birds dressing out at an average of 4.5 lbs. and the Cackle birds at 3.2 lbs. dressed weight.
Two weeks later at 25 weeks, the remaining hatchery cockerels (one weighed 5 ½ lbs.) averaged 4 ¾ lbs. These also lost about 20% during dressing, for an average dressed weight was 3.8 lbs. The difference in waiting two weeks was a weight gain of an average of ¼ lb. live weight, but with an increase of just over ½ lbs. dressed weight. The Cockerels we hatched from Old Dominion Dominiques were about 1 ¼ lbs. heavier than the Cackle hatchery birds of the same age. Even waiting two weeks longer for the last of the Cackle birds, though they gained weight appreciably, still weren’t as big on average as the other birds that were two weeks younger. As the overall weight gain in the hatchery birds was only ¼ lb, yet the dressed weight was over ½ lb, the gain was conclusively muscle mass gain. This was very noticeable in the size of the breasts.

Source

Age

Live weight average

Dressed weight average​

Old Dominion Dominiques

23 weeks

5.62 lbs.

4.50 lbs.​

Cackle Hatchery

23 weeks

4.50 lbs.

3.20 lbs.​

Cackle Hatchery

25 weeks

4.73 lbs.

3.74 lbs.​