Heritage Large Fowl - Phase II

[3riverschick]

He does?

Last I checked his website was dead and he has not been on the Basque thread or forum in months and months.

Really ! I wonder what happened. Hum...
Thanks for the heads up!
Karen

 

[3riverschick]

Yeah, I will start over on them this coming spring. Karen, I do have a question for you. I have one Coronation Sussex but she is not as big as some of the others. Do the Lt Sussex get bigger? I want to breed the biggest.

I think it depends on the strain. How inbred they are or whether they
have been crossed with the huge Aussie strain. I have seen huge
Coronations which came for the Aussie stock. SOP says 9 lbs. for the
cock and 7 lbs. for the hen. The Aussie strain is so huge, they automatically
DQ at APA shows just from penalty points from being overweight.
12-14 lbs. for the cocks. Too much for me.
Best,
Karen

 

[3riverschick]

Hum...well, not so happy ending for the little chick I found in the coop.
I was wrong, he's a little cockerel. The lady doesn't want him now.
No one wants a baby chick this late in the season. I am just gonna put
him down. I have 25 started birds I need to move out of here before
the end of the month.
Sigh,
Karen

 

[Lacy Blues]

Won't the broody take care of him Karen? I know its probably too late now to give him back to her.

I've got some culling coming up too. I really hate killing birds because they are male or black.

 

[3riverschick]

No, the hens never cared for the chick. That's why it fell out of the raised coop. No one had its back, sigh.
Best,
Karen

 

[ronott1]

Really ! I wonder what happened. Hum...
Thanks for the heads up!
Karen

I tried to email James, leave a pm from here and send a message on the eskiolis forum.

Got nothing.

His website says:
Quote:
Rare & Heritage Breed Poultry

We are booked on all breeds (Fertile Eggs, Chicks, Started and Adults until late November 2014 to the beginning of 2015.
We are sorry for this inconvenience. We are taking everything back to the roots of the way it's supposed to be.
I do not know what this indicates other than perhaps he does not want to deal with the public anymore. He may have stuff available at his local farmers markets but there does not seem to be a way to contact him.

Even his egg packing video is gone.

 

[3riverschick]

About finding Basque hens

Hum, looks like they are reorienting themselves.
Going back to the "old" way of doing things. Looks
like you are probably right, Ron. Too bad about the
egg packing video. Help is always welcome with that topic.
http://www.skylinepoultry.com/

They got their stock straight from Skyline:
http://www.juststruttinfarm.com/breeds.html

old BYC ad for skyline Basques:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...extra-eggs-of-your-choice-please-read-details

This is the lady from whom Skyline got their birds. She is in Canada, it's easy to bring eggs
across the border by a land or bridge crossing. No import permit needed for those two avenues.
http://skeffling.squidoo.com/euskal-oiloas-or-basque-hens-my-favourite-chicken-breed

 

[ronott1]

About finding Basque hens

Hum, looks like they are reorienting themselves.
Going back to the "old" way of doing things. Looks
like you are probably right, Ron. Too bad about the
egg packing video. Help is always welcome with that topic.
http://www.skylinepoultry.com/

They got their stock straight from Skyline:
http://www.juststruttinfarm.com/breeds.html

old BYC ad for skyline Basques:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...extra-eggs-of-your-choice-please-read-details

This is the lady from whom Skyline got their birds. She is in Canada, it's easy to bring eggs
across the border by a land or bridge crossing. No import permit needed for those two avenues.
http://skeffling.squidoo.com/euskal-oiloas-or-basque-hens-my-favourite-chicken-breed

I would recommend getting them from Deann at juststruttinfarm. She is awesome and packs shipping eggs very well.

 

[3riverschick]

Maybe this sheds some light on the Skyline subject:
Here's their webpage history on the Wayback Machine.
https://web.archive.org/web/20131015000000*/http://www.skylinepoultry.com/
Seems they started a "Fresh Market" where folk could order things online. Then changed the ordering hours
to 5am.- 9 am. Then quit the online Fresh Market altogether and said they were revamping their website.
Then nothing. So guess they are still figuring out their next online setup?
This is the latest grab by Wayback on Jan. 4, 2014
https://web.archive.org/web/20140102141313/http://skylinepoultry.com/
Best,
Karen

 

[Big Orp]

Can some one help me with some thing. I've been looking to ad more varieties of American dual purpose birds to my flock. I'm looking for birds that lay decent amounts of eggs, meaty and broody, so they hatch their eggs them selves. But it seems most breeders are breading out broodiness. Making people rely on incubators if they want off spring. How are you to sustain any breed they don't have the ability to hatch naturally. In today's world of over population. The constant threat off war (EMP weapons) and the daily threat of solar flairs that could knock out power to countries or the entire planet. I know this is worse case possible but if it were to happen we would lose these breeds. Why do breeders put so much emphasis on egg laying when there are commercial breeds available? Especially when all you have to do is lock a broody outside for the day or two during day light hours and she snaps out of it.