Cross Continental Friends!!!

[SlowBill]

I'm going to have some dinner

see you later (hope not so much)

 

[TarheelBirdy]

I'm going to have some dinner

see you later (hope not so much)

Enjoy your dinner, see you later!

 

[SlowBill]

the crazy brood tried to kill me!

when I'm gonna move a little bit the cloth under her cage, just to allow to having more light, she starts to scream again and bite me several times

that's the first time I have a blond brood, even at my grampa's times, no blond ever brood at our house

at my godfather's farm, they use to disappear between the hay bales, sometimes they die during the bales movement, other times they gonna be eaten by the fox

it's scaring see just hatched chicks walk on the rafters at twelve metres high, even more scaring catch them to move in a cage

game hens don't use to crazy like that!

 

[thedollysmama]

I'll have to take a photo of my duck hen, Hugo, yes, a guys name, in her tidy blue nest. She is not like the other duck hen, a hissing snake, but acts like a statue. She chose to nest in the rabbit barn where the drakes can't bother her. Not a bad choice, really, it has the swamp cooler (water runs over wood fiber pads and the air blows across them) and a private place to eat and drink but no bathing facilities. I can hardly wait for babies!
Have to go look productive outside now!

Karen

 

[SlowBill]

in Italy, we use to say: -the hasty cat always having blind kittens!-

 

[el pollo rey]

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

. We have a few of the local birds we started with here a few years back and they were average their first laying cycle 4 to 5 eggs in a 7 day period average egg weight around 55 grams they produced ok for around 42 weeks before the first moult the feed per hen was around 450 grams per day layer pellet and what ever else they dug up on free range. now that being average for me. for the locals a little less because they tend to feed table scraps and rice with free range. This In my idea was poor ! and could be improved with a little work. The first hybird I bread here was a new Hampshire cock over a silver laced Wyandot hen the offspring hatched sex linked and I was able to get rid of the roosters two day after hatch and only spend my feed resources on the grow out of pullets at 19-20 weeks they started their first laying cycle with a 67 to 70 gram egg every day in 7 day period with daily feed at 300 grams pellet and free range per hen they have surpassed the local fowl as of know and are on their 46 th week and still producing 7 for 7 , I have the second brood with the introduction of a light Sussex hen and they just started laying at 16 weeks with eggs at 65 grams and pellet at 300 gm so I think I would call that a good start over the local fowl

 

[SlowBill]

I don't know what's the weight of this local hens, but, 450 grams for hen, each day, seems to very a very huge amount of food, and also with integration of free range

can you teel me more about this feed, what are the percentages?

the australian orpington, one the most hungry breeds, ate 250 grams each day, also without integration, Bionda Piemontese, a tipical italian double attitude race, needs 150 to 180 per hen, depends on the size, all of this of hen mix at 16,5% protein

cockerels are some different thing, with a mix at 23% protein, they need 230-250 grams the blondes, slaughtered at 90-100 days, 180-200 grams the australorps, slaughtered at 130-150 days

these two are the first double attitude pure breeds jumped on my mind

super utility crossbreeds are Cornish male to marans\American rocks females, Transilvanian male to Livorno\Andalusian females, the first one for meat only, the second with double attitude, hot weather resistant, fast molting, even better with induction

I don't know what are your possibilities and how many subjects you need each year, but, these are moronproof crosses, needs to be tried at least one time

If you choose the right colors, they're also color sexed at hatch

that's 3.20, buonanotte figliuole e giovanotti di tutto il mondo

 

[TarheelBirdy]

I don't know what's the weight of this local hens, but, 450 grams for hen, each day, seems to very a very huge amount of food, and also with integration of free range

can you teel me more about this feed, what are the percentages?

the australian orpington, one the most hungry breeds, ate 250 grams each day, also without integration, Bionda Piemontese, a tipical italian double attitude race, needs 150 to 180 per hen, depends on the size, all of this of hen mix at 16,5% protein

cockerels are some different thing, with a mix at 23% protein, they need 230-250 grams the blondes, slaughtered at 90-100 days, 180-200 grams the australorps, slaughtered at 130-150 days

these two are the first double attitude pure breeds jumped on my mind

super utility crossbreeds are Cornish male to marans\American rocks females, Transilvanian male to Livorno\Andalusian females, the first one for meat only, the second with double attitude, hot weather resistant, fast molting, even better with induction

I don't know what are your possibilities and how many subjects you need each year, but, these are moronproof crosses, needs to be tried at least one time

If you choose the right colors, they're also color sexed at hatch

that's 3.20, buonanotte figliuole e giovanotti di tutto il mondo

buonanotte Bill, sleep tight.

 

[el pollo rey]

the cornish and marans are not available to me here Bill nothing of any value but local fowl is available the parent stock i have. i have brought hatching eggs from the united states and hatched here on my farm in Costa Rica there are very few pure lines here available to the small poultry keeper. the feed is of poor quality locally grown and blended around 10 to 12 % protein according to the operator of the mill the protein source is fish meal i believe. i supplement with crack corn and sport mix dog food the local fowl we started with simply would not lay or gain mass without that amount of feed the initial was one half pound for ten pullets


that is about 300 grams and they just would not lay so i started to bring new Hampshire eggs down in 2011 and started to build my flock of American stock early 2012 we hatched silver laced wyandots and light Sussex, i have recently added Dominique's from Columbia the are very old line single comb they look close to the standard of 1900 before the double rose comb became standard in the U.S a very nice looking bird i was only able to get a pair but am trying to get two more pullets have a good night bill and to all on the thread ,,,, im off to america in the morning more eggs for the bator cant wait to set some new babys for buena vista farm

 

[el pollo rey]

Morning at Buena Vista Farm Costa Rica