Euskal Oiloa ( Basque Thread)

[ChestnutRidge]

The Basque look great and I love the Pita Pintas.

Ron

Agreed! Looking good, and those Pintas are really neat looking!

I hope to have some photos of new basque and half basque babies next week. My girl is sitting on 7 eggs that are due on the 25th.

I can't wait to see!

I have to choose from about 80 pullets and hens this year. It can be daunting picking a few select birds! The rest get to be layers.

Hi, Susan!

Just curious - how many are you going to use for breeders this year? Do you keep multiple pens of breeding groups, or one main group?

I think 3RiversChick did a lot of research on the Llodiana or Rubio Alavesa which is the "Blonde" breed of Basque Chicken that was recently recovered in Spain. I have found her searching and discussing it in several forums so it looked like she really had a fire under her to breed that color. I think she abandoned the idea because she learned the Llodiana is NOT a variety of the Euskal Oiloa, but rather another breed of chickens that originated in the Basque region of Spain.

I am not clear on the history of the Rubio Alavesa, but think I saw mention of it being created from village flocks in coastal regions of the Alaba Provence.

I know Campos & Orozco worked with the EO's in the 70's to create the five EO varieties (which did NOT include Llodiana). Does anyone know what regions the EO's they worked with came from or what relation the EO's might have with the "lost" Rubio Alavesa?

It looks like the "recovered" Llodianas in Spain were selected largely from EO's. It is not clear to me if they used other breeds to recreate the Llodiana Breed (but am guessing they did). The two guys in Spain that have had so much press for recovering the Rubio Alavesa have only been working on the Llodiana breed for 2 years, have 30 birds in their flock, and say they don't know if they will breed true.

Fantastic information. Thank you for sharing!

 

[buckabucka]

Bucka...just Google them...they are there.  It sounds like they are REAL rare.....maybe just a few in Canada and even fewer in Hungry.  Maybe Susan will take this on and I bet those numbers can be changed.......I wish someone that has alot of EO's would take on the project of bringing back the Blonde Basque.  If they were once there....maybe they still are.  It will probably just take lots of hatching to find and refine it..........are the Fall mornings in Maine getting beautiful??

Mornings in Maine are always beautiful . Not much foliage yet, if that is what you mean. We had our third frost this morning, and I'm hoping to harvest much of the stuff we have enclosed in hoop houses this weekend. I have peanuts out there! Can't wait to see if I got any.

I agree tha black and white coloring on the Pita Pintas is quite striking!

 

[SusanC]

I can't promise pics any time soon. I am notoriously bad at getting them up. I almost exclusively post from my iPhone or iPad because I hate sitting at the computer! My HY are still young, only 4-5 months old so it would be best to google the HYs for adult pics. My birds come directly from Roy Crawford though, so they will be like peas in a pod I am sure lol. And yes, I will do my best to get eggs out to anyone in Canada who wants them. If I don't have enough, I can probably send Roy's as well.
NP, I haven 't picked out my breeding girls yet but will probably use ten or twelve. I will be using one roo over them at first, but may use the other four for individual or pair/ trio breedings. It depends how warm I can keep the barn this winter. Last year was very mild, but I doubt we will have a repeat.

 

[FROMWHITEDOGHILL]

Gary......hey thanks for the info. You would think that online somewhere you could find out more..........Mabe you can, but I can't read Spanish. But that's OK, my Spanish daughter-in-law can't either!!!! LOL..sometime when you get a chance....let me know where you are in Texas...I'm in the southwest/southcentral part of Oklahoma.....Thanks again.........Mike

 

[naturespace]

My girl hatched some EOs tonight. At east two EOs and an Orpington mix and Welsummer mix all part EOs!!!! More to come tomorrow. I can hardly sleep.

 

[GaryDean26]

Gary......hey thanks for the info. You would think that online somewhere you could find out more..........Mabe you can, but I can't read Spanish. But that's OK, my Spanish daughter-in-law can't either!!!! LOL..sometime when you get a chance....let me know where you are in Texas...I'm in the southwest/southcentral part of Oklahoma.....Thanks again.........Mike

Yes..I am very fluent is Spanish. I studied Spanish formally for 13 years and used it extensively as a Missionary.

My home town in Tulsa. I moved to Marble Falls from Oklahoma about two years ago. Marble Falls is 45 miles west of Austin, and 85 miles north of San Antonio. (I love it here by the way and don't regret leaving Oklahoma).

There are several articles on-line that talk about the "recovered" Llodian color (named for a city in the Alaba Provence). Before those press releases that come out in May of this year the Llodian appears to have been referred to as a lost breed. It was shown in several international poultry show when first standardized. An international poultry show in Madrid in 1933 and later two other international shows which were in France and Italy if I remember correctly.

Genetically I am not sure how to get the Blond color. The hens look like a red base with one dose of dominate white. They appear to have barring which one person said may have been selected to remind people of the red bricks in the area the breed was created. The Cockerels appear to be red with out barring, so I am not sure how things work. They are really pretty birds though.

 

[MonsterClucker]

My girl hatched some EOs tonight. At east two EOs and an Orpington mix and Welsummer mix all part EOs!!!! More to come tomorrow. I can hardly sleep.

Congrats!! Can't wait to see those pics!

 

[Maggiesdad]

@ FWDH - try copying and pasting the url of the spanish page you are interested in into a go ogle search window, then when you search for it you find the one match for that exact url - the click the blue 'translate this page' link.. sometimes that works for me.

 

[Maggiesdad]

Congrats!! Can't wait to see those pics!

NP's Sweet Annie!

 

[naturespace]

NP's  Sweet Annie! 

Thanks Glen. My iPad wouldn't let me do it and didn't want to fire up the laptop.
I'll try to get more photos today. The rest look to be EO mixes. 4 half Welsummer and one black Orpington.