Buckeye Breed Thread

[bobbi-j]

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With four breeds and a number of favorite mutts that I won't get rid of, what works for me is to run everything together until I want to hatch eggs. I have two dog kennels, complete with tarp covers, roosts, and large plastic dog houses to serve as a nest box. I pick out my best females and pen them together for two weeks. Then I choose a suitable male and leave them together for a month, saving all the eggs after the 1st 36 hours. At the end of that time, everyone gets turned out, and I either set up with a different male, or move on to the next breed. Because I band my breeders, it's easy to make sure no individual has to be in the breeding pen longer than 3 months total out of the year.

So I'm guessing you hatch them in an incubator? One more thing I'm lacking. I'm kind of hoping to get some broodies to do all the work for me.

 

[buffalogal]

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Some in an incubator, some under the hen, depends on how many broody hens I have at one time.

 

[WooingWyandotte]

I'm doing research on the Buckeye breed and have a quick question about the game cock Miss Metcalf added to the original line, was it red or black breasted? I hear differing views on it?

 

[cgmccary]

I'm doing research on the Buckeye breed and have a quick question about the game cock Miss Metcalf added to the original line, was it red or black breasted? I hear differing views on it?

Ms. Metcalf got what she "supposed were Black Breasted Game eggs" and hatched these. Some of the chicks came out with pea combs and yellow legs. ["I know now that they had been crossed with Cornish blood and that is where I got my pea comb and Game shape," Metcalf wrote in April, 1909 Pacific Fancier.​

 

[cgmccary]

This link lands you on the last page (p.11) of the piece written in 1909, Pacific Fancier, by Ms. Metcalf herself. Scroll up two pages to page 9 for the start of the article. You can see she has pictures of the birth place of the breed, some of her Buckeyes in an Ohio winter snow and her place in California where she moved.

http://books.google.com/books?id=_D...onepage&q=buckeye poultry and metcalf&f=false

 

[liv4fun]

does anyone know of the buckeyes around north alabama?

 

[bobbi-j]

Has anyone dealt with Dave Puthoff from Dayton, OH? I see that he breeds Buckeyes and have been in contact with him, but would like to know what kind of experiences people have had dealing with him. I'm also considering going with someone here in MN. Just trying to make the best choices financially.

 

[WooingWyandotte]

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Excellent. Thanks.

 

[Chickielady]

Assorted ages of Buck chicks~~~~~

Fertility test passed with flying colors!!
These babies are heavy, healthy..surprising heavy!!
Butterballs.

 

[birdnbeast]

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Yes Chickie dear, I do follow this too!!! I feel in love with your Bucks when up there. If I ever get my pens actually past the planning stage =:~) so I can see what is what and where -- I would have a few of these. I started showing livestock with Duroc (mahogany pigs) and loved our Irish setters (again mahogany) and the Barnevelders are just Mahogany in pin stripe.....

Thanks for giving me a pic fix. cyber hugs and more hugs.

k/

too little $$$, too little time, not enough chickens?