Cross Continental Friends!!!

[TarheelBirdy]

Hola para costa rica mucho gusto para todos , did this thread die ? Any how I am in the central mountains of costa rica two hours from the pacific two hours fro the Caribbean.. I just caught the thread and thought I would say hi I raise turkeys and chickens as well I breed red sex link pullets for sale to the local family's to try and help with daily dietary protein needs for impoverished rural folks as a high producing low feed layer sexable at hatch was not available to them here so two years ago I set out to bringing pure stock from the U.S to establish parent stock for this hybrid layer I wanted to develop. I started with new Hampshire silver laced Wyandot's and white leg horn hatching eggs bought in Ohio and hatched them under Silkie hens after establishing my breeding stock I set out to improve upon them and it is a work in progress to this' day any way just a hi and hope the thread is revived take care

Hola, it's very interesting what you do, must be very rewarding. Nice to meet you!

 

[el pollo rey]

the thread lives, i work for the state dept. U.S forign trade mission here in costa rica i have been here for about seven years. i live on five acers in the mountains around the small farming comunity of cervantis high in coffee country we raise and breed chickens and turkeys have three great danes a sitzu and two rescued local parrots( hit by cars) life is good

 

[SlowBill]

surfing the internet, I could see there are at least two standards for Madagascar, north american one, similar to the results I could obtain, and the european, much similar at the Sumatra's one

welcome pollo rey I see you've got also your personal brand avatar, looks like the pins you can find put on the skin of commercial birds at the market, it's funny

do you've got some knowledge about caribbean game fowls?, as I know, they are really common in latin america

if I don't think so much at the eggs could frozen during the airplane's travel, we can accord ourselves in a try

 

[thedollysmama]

Hola, Pollo, welcome!
Our family has been trying to get to Costa Rica for years. We were supposed to go two weeks ago but that plan was scrapped last October and we made our usual February trip to Mexico instead. Maybe next time!
Bill, I am going to have to look a Madagascar up, I've no idea what it even looks like.
Darn about the mastodon, that would have been a bit different. Ducks are easier to feed! I put a different water dish in with mine today and once they discovered they could get in it was a riot.
Here is a bird you can create with a silkie and a Turkmen. They are called showgirls and I think they are funny looking!

 

[thedollysmama]

I forgot to add that spring sprang (sprung?) and disappeared in a gale of wind and it is now varying between 85 to 95 (that's 30 to 35 for our metrically knowledgable friends). My tomatillos have tripled in height in the last week and my tomatoes have easily doubled. I am always amazed at such growth!

Karen
(I will be glad when the grass dries up and I can stop sneezing)

 

[TarheelBirdy]

I forgot to add that spring sprang (sprung?) and disappeared in a gale of wind and it is now varying between 85 to 95 (that's 30 to 35 for our metrically knowledgable friends). My tomatillos have tripled in height in the last week and my tomatoes have easily doubled. I am always amazed at such growth!

Karen
(I will be glad when the grass dries up and I can stop sneezing)

Wow! Spring sprang and has sprung there. Ours is still confused (which is unusual here). Still chilly at night. Don't know what's going on, but don't need to, I guess. Life is about adjusting, not trying to control that which cannot be controlled.

Pray for my poor garden....I started everything from seed, then only transplanted when the "frost date" passed.....only to have the frost date "changed."

 

[SlowBill]

Hola, Pollo, welcome! Our family has been trying to get to Costa Rica for years. We were supposed to go two weeks ago but that plan was scrapped last October and we made our usual February trip to Mexico instead. Maybe next time! Bill, I am going to have to look a Madagascar up, I've no idea what it even looks like. Darn about the mastodon, that would have been a bit different. Ducks are easier to feed! I put a different water dish in with mine today and once they discovered they could get in it was a riot. Here is a bird you can create with a silkie and a Turkmen. They are called showgirls and I think they are funny looking!

Buona giornata care, I know Showgirls as well, even if they're extremely rare, unlike USA, i like them too, but, I desire something bigger, without black skin, I've got enough of Pecorino and his brood maniac daughter I've found this picture of a couple of Madagascar in an Italian site, if this is the final result, I think I'm going in a right way!

I'm going for lunch, buon appetito!

 

[el pollo rey]

surfing the internet, I could see there are at least two standards for Madagascar, north american one, similar to the results I could obtain, and the european, much similar at the Sumatra's one

welcome pollo rey I see you've got also your personal brand avatar, looks like the pins you can find put on the skin of commercial birds at the market, it's funny

do you've got some knowledge about caribbean game fowls?, as I know, they are really common in latin america

if I don't think so much at the eggs could frozen during the airplane's travel, we can accord ourselves in a try

. Gracias Bill, and yes all the local fowl here are what I would call game fowl . Along the Caribbean coast the country remains very undeveloped and unchanged since colonial times. After exploration and settlement by Spain it was found that the country's interior was rugged thick with dense foliage and devoid of gold and silver which was all that Spain was looking to exploit in the new world. This left the colony in a unique position as costa rica was left to develop and evolve with little outside influence from Spain and europe Leading up to independence. The fowl brought from Europe and the other islands such as dominican rep. Haiti. Cuba where left to develop unchanged they took to the jungle and climate very well and soon were feral and breeding in the wild they are very hardy and colorful birds but poor producers of eggs and meat. Here as in all of Latin America they are used for fighting sad to say and have been selectively bread for that porpoise.

 

[el pollo rey]

surfing the internet, I could see there are at least two standards for Madagascar, north american one, similar to the results I could obtain, and the european, much similar at the Sumatra's one

welcome pollo rey I see you've got also your personal brand avatar, looks like the pins you can find put on the skin of commercial birds at the market, it's funny

do you've got some knowledge about caribbean game fowls?, as I know, they are really common in latin america

if I don't think so much at the eggs could frozen during the airplane's travel, we can accord ourselves in a try

. Gracias Bill, and yes all the local fowl here are what I would call game fowl . Along the Caribbean coast the country remains very undeveloped and unchanged since colonial times. After exploration and settlement by Spain it was found that the country's interior was rugged thick with dense foliage and devoid of gold and silver which was all that Spain was looking to exploit in the new world. This left the colony in a unique position as costa rica was left to develop and evolve with little outside influence from Spain and europe Leading up to independence. The fowl brought from Europe and the other islands such as dominican rep. Haiti. Cuba where left to develop unchanged they took to the jungle and climate very well and soon were feral and breeding in the wild they are very hardy and colorful birds but poor producers of eggs and meat. Here as in all of Latin America they are used for fighting sad to say and have been selectively bread for that porpoise.

 

[SlowBill]

many kind of games, like Madagascar or O-Shamo, are also good layer, specially first, and heavyweight

I've got an O-Shamo rooster who weight 4,7 kg (??pounds) from one of the rare fast growth selection (some are unbelievable slow), there's not so hard feathered like the others, but, for commercial use, can give big satisfactions

just if we nominate her, Pecorino's daughter show first sign of wanna be brood (what we call "disco-lento")

the other crazy brood, a white tailed blonde, seems to be more quiet now, also thanks to my father's procedure, if she resist another couple of days, I can think to swap her eggs

the other one takes the goose eggs first, then four turkey's eggs

they've got a terrible rooster, called Attila (il flagello di Dio), he can make them all crazy like himself, I also got a new one to swap, but I don't know what do I do of the crazy one, under 1 kg