Heritage Large Fowl - Phase II

[finnfur]

Dittos on all above -
food color pens on chicks at hatch [doesn't last long] - wing bands for permanent record keeping- large number bands for watched birds.
I had same jitters about banding in beginning but it doesn't seem to bother the chicks except that initial punch - I do soak bands in peroxide first.
I have found reading the colored bands with the progressive old eyes is easier than metal colored ones. Had thought about applying the bands with number on bottom of wing as seem to be less feather to block the view of number. Might try a few that way next time.
Never lost a wing tag except in the plucker .

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

@Finnfur How young can you put the wing bands on?

 

[finnfur]

@Finnfur How young can you put the wing bands on?

I think its OK at hatch but I usually wait one week but have done at three- I try to do it before they start any feathering. With Delawares that gives ya plenty of time

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

True! :/

 

[3riverschick]

Hi,

This is Hathi Trust Digital Library. One of my fav places to surf poultry lit. This page is hits on "Eggs and the Intensive World" magazine. Back in the early part of last century they specialized in helping large and small breeders breed egg layers. Oscar Smart was the most prominent English poultry biologist of that era. He was the English version of Raymond Pearl in stature. He writes a column called "Science Jottings" for "Eggs". Here is the url to hits in Hathi on that column. Always interesting to read, Mr. Smart touches on many areas of breeding and genetics including:
Blue plumage;
heredity in the domestic hen
purchasing of pedigree stock.
measuring variation in any specific characteristic, by statistical methods
genetic variation
" How to introduce new blood."
consideration of fecundity and inbreeding
what effect does an out-cross have on an otherwise " pure-line " ?
The inheritance of size within " pure lines "
views on heredity which are absolutely unsound
Spurious Allelomorphism
branches of stock breeding for table purposes,
Inheritance of Size of Bone.
and more....
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt/...=1;num=110;start=1;sz=10;page=search;orient=0
Best,
Karen

 

[3riverschick]

Hi,
And happy new year! I hope ya'll had a very Merry Christmas! Well last night was interesting. Big wind and rain storm came thru western PA. One of our neighbors 80 ft. tall pine trees ( on the lot line, his side) came down across the coops and run. Thankfully the coops are ok and the run to the small red coop is ok. But the run attached to the big red coop is demolished. Smashed. And the tree took out my 12 yr. old sapling which is a child of our 108 yr. old maple tree. Sigh. I have been caring for it so carefully and now it is just a bare trunk sticking out of the ground, sigh. I will miss that tree. It gave shade and shelter to the smashed yard.
Sigh,
Karen
all the chickens are ok.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Hi,
And happy new year! I hope ya'll had a very Merry Christmas! Well last night was interesting. Big wind and rain storm came thru western PA. One of our neighbors 80 ft. tall pine trees ( on the lot line, his side) came down across the coops and run. Thankfully the coop are ok and the run to the small red coop is ok. But the run attached to the big red coop is demolished. Smashed. And the tree took out my 12 yr. old sapling which is a child of our 108 yr. old maple tree. Sigh. I have been caring for it so carefully and now it is just a bare trunk sticking out of the ground, sigh. I will miss that tree. It gave shade and shelter to the smashed yard.
Sigh,
Karen
all the chickens are ok.

So glad you're ok and they chickens are ok! My coops are under a red oak for shade in our hot climate, but I admit to being very fearful of the risk of something like this taking them out... Good luck on your repairs.

Maybe give the sapling some time to come back - it might surprise you next spring.

- Ant Farm

 

[3riverschick]

So glad you're ok and they chickens are ok! My coops are under a red oak for shade in our hot climate, but I admit to being very fearful of the risk of something like this taking them out... Good luck on your repairs.

Maybe give the sapling some time to come back - it might surprise you next spring.

- Ant Farm

Hi,
Well it might come back but it's just the bare trunk shattered at the top. Not a leaf on it, sigh.
This pine tree that came down has enough wood in it to heat a house for the winter, sigh.
Too bad we don't have a wood burner.
Karen

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Hi,
Well it might come back but it's just the bare trunk shattered at the top. Not a leaf on it, sigh.
This pine tree that came down has enough wood in it to heat a house for the winter, sigh.
Too bad we don't have a wood burner.
Karen

Well, a lot of what a tree is depends on the established root ball. Maybe trim the splintered stuff and then wait. It might surprise you! I only say this from having any number of "dead plants" from small plants to large trees come back - sometimes it took a while, even a year or two. Always seemed like a miracle.

Maybe you can chip the pine for either mulch or bedding augmentation...

- Ant Farm

 

[3riverschick]

Well, a lot of what a tree is depends on the established root ball. Maybe trim the splintered stuff and then wait. It might surprise you! I only say this from having any number of "dead plants" from small plants to large trees come back - sometimes it took a while, even a year or two. Always seemed like a miracle.

Maybe you can chip the pine for either mulch or bedding augmentation...

- Ant Farm

Well I could do that. Worth a try. I don't think there are any chippers around here that can chip this tree, sigh,
Best,
Karen