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Yes, from a old school master breeder/judge.Are they show quality?
My challenge is that I do not mix egg from different mothers.I think it would be rather beneficial to let a broody set a clutch and at the same time add some eggs to your bator, allowing for a simultaneous hatch and slip the bator babies under her at night so she can brood and raise them all. A good sized hen can foster 20+ chicks successfully and take the pain out of maintaining temps in a brooder. I've had much success with broodies raising foster chicks.
It would double your pleasure, double your fun. You can have your bator babies already marked, slip out the broody babies for marking while you slip the bator babies in, then return your broody babies to the nest after marking. If done under the cover of darkness a good broody will tolerate the ol' bait and switch.
If I converted completely, it would happen over a couple years.Breeding with broodies, that's exciting, please share with us how it goes. I will be attempting the same thing. I have sketched out what I call a broody sleigh, that I will isloate the hen in on the same pasture as the rest of the flock. My thinking is that the roof will lift off so I can grab the hen and isolate her (in a bucket or cage or whatever) and then quickly mark the chicks and then return her to the nest. I am not reaching into the cage/nest and start grabbing chicks with her still there! IF you have multiple broods coming off at the same/similar time chicks can switch mothers on you. That would not be good for record keeping.
I would just keep them until the next show you will go to. Then you could try your luck showing them and then selling after the show or just flop them in the sale area and have someone buy them. Personally I think I would just show them and then sell them( that way people see they are show winners and will be more inclined to buy but if you don't think they'll win just sell them immediately ).Yes, from a old school master breeder/judge.
This has been on the drawing board for us for a very long time but accelerated when we decided to close the production flock through attrition, keeping only enough birds for brood and reliable laying capacity for our own uses and that of a few close friends and 2 cake bakers.If I converted completely, it would happen over a couple years.
Quote:Quote: No hellbender I don't believe that is the general consensus. I believe it is a matter of semantics which has greatly confused a lot of people. Yes it's true that a breed can be a "heritage breed", it cannot be assumed that as birds of that breed are heritage animals. Look at the RIR for example... The production birds called RIR don't even look like the lines of heritage RIR which have been maintained for generations. They are called the same thing still but they look and function differently. That is just one example.
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Thanks for your responses guys, very helpful and I feel more enlightened on the subject.
So a heritage line/ breed is say the vintage ( old version ) version of that breed. So as RedRidge said there are all these so called 'RIR' which are the commercial/ back yard quality and then there are the heritage lines of the "old" RIR breed, right?!
So my next question, using the RIR's as a example. Can you have a Heritage RIR and yet it not being Show Quality?
Does anyone have any pictures of a Heritage, show qual and commercial breed so that I can actually SEE and difference???
Quote: In line with my observations too.
But I would beg to differ on one point and that is " I"m lazy" more like too busy . . . .
Quote:Quote: No hellbender I don't believe that is the general consensus. I believe it is a matter of semantics which has greatly confused a lot of people. Yes it's true that a breed can be a "heritage breed", it cannot be assumed that as birds of that breed are heritage animals. Look at the RIR for example... The production birds called RIR don't even look like the lines of heritage RIR which have been maintained for generations. They are called the same thing still but they look and function differently. That is just one example.
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Thanks for your responses guys, very helpful and I feel more enlightened on the subject.
So a heritage line/ breed is say the vintage ( old version ) version of that breed. So as RedRidge said there are all these so called 'RIR' which are the commercial/ back yard quality and then there are the heritage lines of the "old" RIR breed, right?!
So my next question, using the RIR's as a example. Can you have a Heritage RIR and yet it not being Show Quality?
Does anyone have any pictures of a Heritage, show qual and commercial breed so that I can actually SEE and difference???
Even in a show quality flock, not every bird will be good enough; However some breeders have flocks that are very consistent.
I have some of those!Thanks for your responses guys, very helpful and I feel more enlightened on the subject.
So a heritage line/ breed is say the vintage ( old version ) version of that breed. So as RedRidge said there are all these so called 'RIR' which are the commercial/ back yard quality and then there are the heritage lines of the "old" RIR breed, right?!
So my next question, using the RIR's as a example. Can you have a Heritage RIR and yet it not being Show Quality?
Does anyone have any pictures of a Heritage, show qual and commercial breed so that I can actually SEE and difference???