Heritage Large Fowl - Phase II

[smarsh2]

I don't know the answer either but maybe part of it depends on your goals for your birds? It seems to me that at 9-12 months they should be about the listed weight for cockerels and pullets. Then by 12-18 months they should weigh the listed weight for hens & cocks? Or am I mistaken? should they be hitting cockerel & pullet weights more like 6-9 months and adult weight more like 9-12? Would love to have some feedback on this.

I would guess you are closer with the second set of ages but I am only guessing. maybe someone who actually knows will input

 

[fowlman01]

I don't know the answer either but maybe part of it depends on your goals for your birds? It seems to me that at 9-12 months they should be about the listed weight for cockerels and pullets. Then by 12-18 months they should weigh the listed weight for hens & cocks? Or am I mistaken? should they be hitting cockerel & pullet weights more like 6-9 months and adult weight more like 9-12? Would love to have some feedback on this.

your guess on age vs weight is valid. Each breed or strain is different. My New Hampshire weigh what they should for a cockeral by 8 months, but my Rocks would need all 12 month's to reach weight. My Shamo's keep adding weight until they are 3 years old. You folks get to hung up on details. It's like egg laying I feed the correct feed for laying then I just wait for the eggs to come. Most of these things depend on environment, management and breed/strain of the birds.

Walt

 

[hellbender]

"You folks get to hung up on details. It's like egg laying I feed the correct feed for laying then I just wait for the eggs to come. Most of these things depend on environment, management and breed/strain of the birds.

Walt"


Spoken like a true, died in the wool conformation judge... Just having some fun Walt.

Many of us think 'egg laying' is one of the primary purposes for keeping chickens, with having their tail-set at the perfect angle following at a distant position of importance.

 

[fowlman01]

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[COLOR=333333]Spoken like a true, died in the wool conformation judge...   Just having some fun Walt.  [/COLOR]   Many of us think 'egg laying' is one of the primary purposes for keeping chickens, with having their tail-set  at the perfect angle following at a distant position of importance.

what can you do besides turning on the lights which ultimately burns out the birds? I'm always willing to learn.

Walt

 

[hellbender]

what can you do besides turning on the lights which ultimately burns out the birds? I'm always willing to learn.

Walt

I don't use lights, except when I need to go into the houses after dark.

What I have done (as my family before me) is breed for performance, ie..with the primary purpose of having a strain or strains of chickens that lay very well, under almost any conditions.

Much the same way as my neighbor breeds his Holstein cattle to produce milk, I breed my Saanen dairy goats to do like wise...and on and on...

 

[hellbender]

Let me go one step farther...

Take for example, one of my neighbors Holstein heifers and compare it to one of my Angus heifers. Both are ungulates but Neither are 'show' quality animals but they are bred to get a very important job done. They both do very well.

 

[fowlman01]

I don't use lights, except when I need to go into the houses after dark.  

What I have done (as my family before me) is breed for performance, ie..with the primary purpose of having a strain or strains of chickens that lay very well, under almost any conditions.

Much the same way as my neighbor breeds his Holstein cattle to produce milk, I breed my Saanen dairy goats to do like wise...and on and on...

that is what most people consider "management and I covered that in my post. Even judges know that.

 

[hellbender]

that is what most people consider "management and I covered that in my post. Even judges know that.

 

[3riverschick]

You folks get to hung up on details. It's like egg laying I feed the correct feed for laying then I just wait for the eggs to come. Most of these things depend on environment, management and breed/strain of the birds.

Walt

Hi Walt,
I get hung up on details because I am ignorant and trying to learn. I hate being ignorant. Somewhere out there, there must be a scale of weights and ages for Sussex. Excluding the Aussie Light Sussex strain which is way out of Standard in height and weight, Light Sussex should pretty much be the same in the strains we have available here in the US , Canada, and UK because the Standard is so closely aligned with production virtues. . I don't know how to cull for quick maturing and proper development if I don't have info to use. Have been trying to join the British Sussex Poultry Club for a while but conversation is hard across the pond with postage, funds transfer, and time differences.
Confused,
Karen
( In 110 years, someone must have written this down somewhere.)

 

[fowlman01]

Unfortunately a lot of good poultry information was never written. You may have to create this information on your own and it would be accurate to your strain. It is probably not written because there are to many variables.