Heritage Large Fowl - Phase II

[gjensen]

I've never worked with it specifically, but red in cocks is very commonly touted to bring out the sheen in females, which wouldn't be a bad thing because La Fleche females tend to be rather mat.

The black large fowl most praised historically for quality of green sheen was the Black Hamburg. I have read on occasion of Golden Spangled males being used to bring hard-core sheen into females.

That is interesting.

 

[fowlman01]

Mary, 

I got my tarps from a seller named buys4u on eBay. These are heavy reinforced green house material with grommets.I'd recommend getting the attachment cords too as they stretch. I used these tarps for a run cover before I put the steel roof on, as I kept getting delayed by a contractor.They let the sun in, which makes them much nicer than the blue, or silver ones.

I heated a 3200 sq. ft farm house with a Fisher Grandpa Bear for 20 years.I also had a second floor greenhouse that had a 8" pvc pipe in the ceiling,and a blower. When the heat got up to 90 degrees in the peak by about 10 AM, a blower kicked on, which pumped all that heat down stairs. Cut down on the wood consumption greatly.

your wood stove was made 10 miles from here. I have a Baby Bear in my garage. They were great stoves.

w

 

[thedragonlady]

your wood stove was made 10 miles from here. I have a Baby Bear in my garage. They were great stoves.

w

What a shame that the nitwits ran them out of business.I had 2 baby Bears here until I found out that my 100 year old chimney was leaking creosote. I put Natural gas cast iron stoves in instead, but I HATE paying a gas bill.The bootleggers in N. Ga. taught me to burn wild cherry. Burns hot with no smoke, or creosote.

 

[fowlman01]

I've never worked with it specifically, but red in cocks is very commonly touted to bring out the sheen in females, which wouldn't be a bad thing because La Fleche females tend to be rather mat.

The black large fowl most praised historically for quality of green sheen was the Black Hamburg. I have read on occasion of Golden Spangled males being used to bring hard-core sheen into females.

One of my Hamburgs back in the day.......

Walt

 

[Beekissed]

What a shame that the nitwits ran them out of business.I had 2 baby Bears here until I found out that my 100 year old chimney was leaking creosote. I put Natural gas cast iron stoves in instead, but I HATE paying a gas bill.The bootleggers in N. Ga. taught me to burn wild cherry. Burns hot with no smoke, or creosote.

That is true! We had a huge cherry come down in the yard this year and have been burning on it all this winter...hot fire, lasting burn, no creosote.

 

[Apdeb]

Does anyone on here know anthony ashley or jerry mccarty??? Looking for bantam dark cornish

 

[fowlman01]

Does anyone on here know anthony ashley or jerry mccarty??? Looking for bantam dark cornish

I know both. Contact them. They only sell mature birds.

Walt

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

I'm going to give a definitive "today was cold as crap." Those waterers were FROZEN.

Everyone was alive, so not worried there, but the only birds with lights on are my youngest Langshan chicks and the Cornish so that they can continuously eat to keep up their metabolism. When is winter over again?

 

[brahmabreeder]

Haha my waterers were more frozen than usual if that even makes sense. Usually with my waterers I can just pop them out like ice cubes but today and yesterday they were so expanded that wasn't happening without some elbow grease.

 

[Bluetick340]

Anybody got frostbit combs yet. I have a welli roo that has some for sure. Will it affect fertility? Seems like I read that somewhere.