Buckeye Breed Thread

[sekinkead]

I just wanted to let everyone know that I have Buckeyes due to hatch Saturday!!!!

The roo I got from Chris and the hen I got from Jay at the Ohio National. I put 10 in and 7 made it to lockdown. Then just because she has been laying an egg almost everyday, I put 10 more in. They will be due March 21. I really need to get my Christmas babies out of the brooder to make room for these new ones.

 

[Chipper]

Good Luck with your hatch.I am setting 15 Buckeye eggs in about 2 hours.These eggs came from "rnau" so they are more of Chris McCary's line.
Sounds like lots of Buckeye babies are on the way !!

 

[Arrowhead07]

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If you go to their site you can learn more about Buckeyes and the work ALBC has done with them.Here is the link: www.albc-usa.org

I have been through that but does not answer my question. What is that strain? If you are a member do you get more information?

 

[Noncentzter]

pathfinders...i just sent you a pm...

 

[cgmccary]

ALBC had a three year recovery project of the Buckeye. They gave about 25 breeders 25 chicks each and said raise them & breed them the best you can. These chicks were a product of the same stock from a number of long-time & short-time Buckeye breeders, including, Bob Rhodes, Duane Urch, Dennis Pearce and John Brown. They took the best of these breeders and bred them together and got the chicks. ALBC's Don Schrider and Jeanette Beranger monitored each breeder's progress and they bred, raised & selected birds themselves as well. In one year alone (2007), Schrider hatched out more than 1000 Buckeye chicks by himself. The ALBC also took the top 10% of the birds raised by the 25 breeders & themselves based on the Standard's criteria. They made notes on how each flock was raised and what the flock was fed (what kind of feed, protein %, etc) and each breeder's set-up, weights of birds at 8 weeks and 16 weeks and 1 year old. After three years, they had dramatically improved the breed and the ALBC's Buckeye really was a whole different strain. They had fully recovered the average weight of the Buckeye improving it more than a full pound (it had fallen from the Standard's weights). Both Schrider & Beranger have absolutely the best eye for selecting Buckeyes and both are poultry experts. I hope this answers your question.

The ALBC strain represents a combination of the best of a bunch of strains, bred together and culled/selected to the top 10% over 3 years.

 

[jenjscott]

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If you go to their site you can learn more about Buckeyes and the work ALBC has done with them.Here is the link: www.albc-usa.org

I have been through that but does not answer my question. What is that strain? If you are a member do you get more information?

OK, as I understand it, when ALBC decided to make a recipe for saving heritage breeds, they used the Buckeyes to do it with. The worked with selected breeders to strengthen the breed through selective breeding and evaluation of the birds as described on their site. So the ALBC strain is the one that resulted from birds raised and selected to their specifications. I do not know where their original stock came from, I would lay my bets heavily on Urch, but not solely on him. ANYODY ELSE?

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

Well it is official, Buck is a daddy! I let him out of the Buckeye chick coop today and into their new run. He jumped down, grabbed a piece of grass, started clucking like an old settin hen and dropped it in front of the chicks. Almost everything he found today he shared with the young birds. However, he did not put his brood to bed tonight. Brenae and Jahdan had to go out and gather them all in. I can see him in the light of the brooder bulb. He is sitting there trying to sleep with a light on. Buck hs been a perfect gentleman with his little family.

 

[heritagebirds]

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[mrandmrschicken]

Thanks for posting that link Dave! That is a good idea. It's the Supervisor in me that causes me to say we can all do better, try harder to solve a problem w/o excuses, even the PO.

 

[har]

I know that a similiar picture has been on this thread before but I thought I would let everybody know about this. Go to Meat Birds & etc and go to Here is where we are going to talk about------go to page 23 #228 and you will see some dressed Buckeye's. They really look good.