Buckeye Breed Thread

[DarkRedBird]

Interesting. I never read that in the rules. If anyone wants information on the breed, there are many places to go. I gave a few very good resources. And I forgot to mention it's all free. No yearly dues.

 

[cgmccary]

Ok, so how about those Buckeyes?

Who is hatching? Mine aren't laying at all yet (I don't have them under lights.) The only eggs I'm getting are from my trusty White Leghorn girls.

Other than 8 fine looking Buckeye chicks that will be 6 weeks old this week (hatched December 6, and they have went to the barn with two 60W bulbs), I have hatched and am hatching out some La Fleche. I do have one of my breeding pens set up and hope to be hatching Buckeyes in March and April. For me, they seem to do best that time of year & I will have more broody hens then. I have a really nice Buckeye Rooster that I am breeding to his F1 daughters and then to 3 Urch pullets. I have a couple more pens I plan to set up to hatch in April and perhaps as late as May.

I do have one broody Buckeye right now, and she is due to hatch a batch of La Fleche this coming weekend (she is nested on a shelf in the goose barn). She is a nice, big hen. I am debating whether I should let her raise them in a pen in the barn. I have never had a hen raise chicks in the middle of winter. Any of you tried that? I was thinking I should probably still give them a light bulb out there so that it isn't always cold unless they are under the hen. If not a good idea, I can take 'em away and bring them indoors. A couple of times, I have had hens that successfully reared chicks in March with 30-40F mornings, but it usually warmed a little more during the days than January-February days. I also had a hen to do well with a September hatch. Again, mornings were getting cooler but the days were warm enough.

I am getting plenty of eggs. I had a few hens (and pullets) that have laid right through November-December-January and are still laying . I didn't notice that they ever molted.

 

[buffalogal]

I've got two Buckeyes laying (out of 10), no artificial lighting, no artificial heating.

 

[Pathfinders]

I will say that I am SO EXCITED to see the offspring from the splendiferous Buckeye male that Chris was so kind to gift me on his way home from the Ohio National last November. That would be the BB bird, who I have taken to calling Maȟpíya Lúta, or Red Cloud, because Chris says he names all his males after Native Americans. For short I just call him Pretty Boy.

Thanks again Chris, he is such a lovely bird. I need to get some photos of him to post...

 

[vmdanielsen]

Jason Paige in MA is someone who has good Bantam Buckeyes.

I understand he also has large fowl, but how does one get in touch with him????

 

[cgmccary]

I understand he also has large fowl, but how does one get in touch with him????

I am PMing you contact info.

Chris

 

[cgmccary]

I will say that I am SO EXCITED to see the offspring from the splendiferous Buckeye male that Chris was so kind to gift me on his way home from the Ohio National last November. That would be the BB bird, who I have taken to calling Maȟpíya Lúta, or Red Cloud, because Chris says he names all his males after Native Americans. For short I just call him Pretty Boy.

Thanks again Chris, he is such a lovely bird. I need to get some photos of him to post...

And the 8 very nice chicks (hatched December 6) are from hatching eggs Laura gave me. Bob Gilbert, an APA judge and Buckeye breeder claims that the best results he has seen came from crossing my Buckeye cockerel over Laura's pullets -- I plan to try this cross out.

 

[AinaWGSD]

I have 10 buckeye eggs (and an oops australorp egg) from Bob Gilbert in lockdown right now (although one of them I'm pretty sure stopped a few days ago). They are due to hatch today, and usually my eggs hatch a day early although we set them late in the day so I'm not sure if we'll see anything any time in the next few hours. Right now they aren't doing anything but driving me crazy just sitting there doing nothing that I can see.

As for laying, I've only got two out of seven birds laying right now (up from one a week ago). One of my sussex and just this Sunday my barred rock/marans sex link pullet started laying. I was watching the birds with my husband that morning and mentioned that her face was so red I knew she had to be close to laying, that I could just taste it! And that afternoon we found an egg! It's nice to have eggs again, my girls haven't laid since October when the 5 hens went into molt, and the two pullets decided to put off starting with the shorter days.

 

[AinaWGSD]

I officially have my first Buckeye! The first pip was noticed this morning just after I posted. Now I have one hatched, two more pipped, and 7 more to go.

I have to say, he's a robust little guy. Not out of the shell more than an hour and one of the first things I've noticed is that he has such sturdy legs! And standing and moving around really well too.

 

[cgmccary]

I officially have my first Buckeye! The first pip was noticed this morning just after I posted. Now I have one hatched, two more pipped, and 7 more to go.

I have to say, he's a robust little guy. Not out of the shell more than an hour and one of the first things I've noticed is that he has such sturdy legs! And standing and moving around really well too.

Let me be the first to offer you, "Congratulations."