Buckeye Breed Thread

[har]

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Hi Janet

I see you have your Braden Bucks. for sale. Sorry they didn't work out for you. Hope you get them sold. I see Misty contacted you hopefully she bought them.

Scott

 

[Jared77]

Quick question.....how well do these guys tolerate confinement? Looking to set up a large run for what would be my breeders, but anybody maturing will have to go in a tractor in the horse pasture. Our Morgans tolerate the tractored birds well but I can't free range them SERIOUS coyote problem out here. Have a neighbor with a heart of gold who refuses to see the reality of leaving out 20lbs of cat food a week at the back of the property for "whoever is hungry"....makes me crazy!!!!

Thats why I ask....thanks folks

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

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Purchase a livestock guardian dog (LGD). That will take care of the coyotes!

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

My wife just said, "Start looking for a girl friend for Buddy."

So if anyone has a LGD female who works with poultry and goats, please let me know. Must be intact. Papers not important.

 

[Jared77]

LGD is already in place. We've been raising our Great Pyrenees puppy for a while now (got him at 9 weeks he's currently 7 months old) so the plans in place but until then its still an issue. We occasionally see them but they've been less and less of a pressence and only on the one neighbors free buffet side. He's really embraced his role well as he's grown. You'd think when you can't find ____ cat and a week later you can't find ____ or _____ (cats) you'd start to realize there's a problem. She won't listen so we did what we had to do. I didnt think we'd need one till she moved in and the dinner bell was rung.

 

[Pathfinders]

Hi all,

Jeannette Beranger of the ALBC has done a masterful job of putting together a census of Buckeye numbers/owners in North America. As secretary of the ABPC I have offered to take on the rest of this task for her (if she had to do this with all the breeds she’d never have time for other work!) So if any of you have Buckeyes and don’t think you’re on the list, please send me an email with:

- Your name
- Location (City, State)
- Number of breeding birds (adults) in your flock.
- The Line(s) you're working with and from whom you got them.

I’d be very grateful! The ALBC is using this info to determine the status of the Buckeye in the US and Canada, so it’s especially useful to have accurate data on the numbers of birds out there.

Please send your info to lhaggarty AT blueone DOT net

Thanks!

Laura

 

[cgmccary]

JoAnn_WIWhile busy caging the broilers for their trip to the Amish butcher, the alpha male Buckeye cockerel from our JamesA Easter hatch came racing over to protect them. He did not attack my son or I, but he never left and really wanted to protect those crying broilers from whatever was upsetting them. He seemed a little confused that it was water-and-feed types making them cry.

Do I need to worry that this Buckeye boy will become human aggressive? He is very attractive and I'd like to keep him, but I do not need a human aggressive rooster. There is a backup roo, but I kind of like this guy.

I always think it is a good thing if a rooster comes to protect his hens, and I never punish one for attacking me (if that is the only time). I sometimes will pick up the rooster before I pick up the hens. Your fella wanted to protect them but did not attack you. I think you have a good rooster there. The ones that are aggressive later (EVEN WHEN YOU ARE NOT PICKING UP THE HENS) start out early when they are 12-16 weeks old attacking your hands.

Chris​

 

[jenjscott]

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My guys do fine in that type of confinement untill they hit adulthood, then I can separate boys and girls and they do ok for a while longer. Of course, it depends on the population of the tractor. As far as your coyote problem, etc. I am sure the cat food aggravates the problem, but the chickens themselves would have eventually attracted the predators. An advantage, though, is if you ever want to trap, they are accustomed to human scent and you know what to use as bait!

 

[OSUman]

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What are the "lines" of buckeyes right now?

 

[Pathfinders]

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Well, Jeannette is calling them strains, and here's what she had in the spreadsheet:

ALBC
ALBC/Brown
ALBC/Sandhill
ALBC/Brown/Urch
Brown
Brown/Rhodes
Brown/Rhodes/Urch
Fitch (Braden)
Pierce/Romig
Performance (Canadian) (not sure if this is a hatchery)
Simpson (Canadian)
Urch

And "mixed" which are a combination of some or all of the above.

Then there are the hatcheries: Ideal, Meyers, Sandhill, Whelp.

Note: Ideal is showing as the Sandhill bloodline.

And again I will postulate, I think the majority of "lines" or "strains" all go back to Urch at one point or another.