Delawares from kathyinmo

[wekiva bird]

Wow, very nice! You are going to produce some nice Delawares this year.
Upper 60's here, too. I'm in short sleeves.

wish it was warmer here.

 

[shetoe]

This line or any breeder line -there is someone just below SC line has some but not Kathys line.
How many  ? I am in Va just across the line close to I 85. I have a few -Bmail if more info needed

do you ship and how much

 

[KittieChick]

Me. Fatty is a different bird ... he's the one you (finnfur) picked out for me! Then Zanna spotted him right away when she came here to help me sort cockerels. Mr. Fatty is the one that's currently in with the females. You can see in this photo of Mr. Fatty how round he can be. Like a Wyandotte with a bigger tail.


MR. FATTY

Mr. Fatty is quite impressive. You can send him east to me!

 

[KittieChick]

do you ship and how much

Julie at ChickCharney farm in Creedmoor, NC has Delawares also. I'll have Kathy birds next year, just starting this year. I think in a week we should have chicks from Finnfur's flock. Getting excited.

 

[KittieChick]

The two hens (moms) out on the free range pasture, and a few of the pullets I left in the breeding pen behind them.




Pullets from inside the breeding pen. I pretty much just left the ones that didn't have brown feathers anywhere or have black feathers in their capes/backs. You can see the one in front has that funny folded feathering in the breast area, but she is one we tagged early as showing potential.



I like this one, I think. Tail is not properly colored, but she is a pretty, sturdy pullet.



This one sure looks wide. You can still see a little peppering down her back, but that's about as good as it gets in my flock.






This is one we tagged a while back as showing promise. I like her shape, she has a nice big head, but she has one rogue black feather.



On the left is another one we tagged early.



In the breeding coop.


And here is Mr. Fatty from his right side, but he is a looooooong ways away, so I had to zoom and crop.

Yank that rogue feather! She'll never miss it!

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

Yank that rogue feather! She'll never miss it!

Snort!

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

Mr. Fatty is quite impressive. You can send him east to me!

I think a lot of it is attitude. He seems super happy to be in charge of some females. I think he puffs & perks up for them. It makes him fun to watch.

 

[rancher hicks]

check

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

I came across a very interesting photo from an the April 1927 issue of National Geographic the other day ... when looking for the source of the image to maybe post here I saw that it has already been posted to BYC, so rather than upload, I'll link back to a post where it has already appeared (from ages ago).

Frank Reese Jr posted this on Facebook this morning. Can you name the breeds without looking down and reading the answers? This was a test Frank was taught as a child by Hy Patton.

The first person to identify each breed in this photo correctly and posts on this thread will be emailed a copy of our backyard coop plans. No cheating folks!

Times have changed and type on some of these have changed some. After someone gets all 8 answers correct I will post the photo with the correct answers.

Hint: Ameraucana aka Easter Eggers did not exist when this chart was made.

Hint: These are all Heritage, Standard of Perfection breeds.

Oh, poultry judges are ineligible to participate!

Did I mention the correct answers will be posted in a few days? So not revealing if anyone is right or wrong yet!

Hint: Answers are in post #10 below!

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The image has been edited from it's original form. It had a longer caption which reads: "An interesting comparison of the body types of eight modern breeds of fowl. Left to right (upper) Leghorn, Favorolle, Cornish, Chantecler. (lower) Rhode Island White, Wyandotte, Plymouth Rock, Orpington. To the eye, these whites are all alike in color, but some of them are substantially different in characteristics."

That means for our Delaware males we want a body shape that falls between 6 (Wyandotte) and 7 (Plymouth Rock), right?

I think my Mr Fatty is closer to 6 ... I gather in the show world there is a tendency for some breeds to migrate toward larger & fluffier types. I saw an interesting writeup of the Dominique breed which is hoping to address this issue (for example). Here is a link to that PDF ... file:///Users/Leslie/Downloads/Interpreting%20the%20Dominique%20Standard%20in%202015.pdf

 

[caychris]

I came across a very interesting photo from an the April 1927 issue of National Geographic the other day ... when looking for the source of the image to maybe post here I saw that it has already been posted to BYC, so rather than upload, I'll link back to a post where it has already appeared (from ages ago).


The image has been edited from it's original form. It had a longer caption which reads: "An interesting comparison of the body types of eight modern breeds of fowl. Left to right (upper) Leghorn, Favorolle, Cornish, Chantecler. (lower) Rhode Island White, Wyandotte, Plymouth Rock, Orpington. To the eye, these whites are all alike in color, but some of them are substantially different in characteristics."

That means for our Delaware males we want a body shape that falls between 6 (Wyandotte) and 7 (Plymouth Rock), right?

I think my Mr Fatty is closer to 6 ... I gather in the show world there is a tendency for some breeds to migrate toward larger & fluffier types. I saw an interesting writeup of the Dominique breed which is hoping to address this issue (for example). Here is a link to that PDF ... file:///Users/Leslie/Downloads/Interpreting%20the%20Dominique%20Standard%20in%202015.pdf

Thank you this is quite helpful to a novice like me. I'm hoping to get pictures this weekend of the birds Ill be starting with. Ill post them as soon as I get them so you can all give me a citique. Dont be too harsh as I'm going to be bringing 3 groups of birds together. 2 Privet Hachery birds, 2 F5 Culls from Kims (Capayvalleychick) birds and a Cockerel I got from fortyfivefarm's birds which she says are not related to Kathyinmo's line and are her own project.