Isbar thread

[gimmie birdies]

but it was a peanut!

 

[KYTinpusher]

Yes, that is the more common color. Especially with the old import. But to say a bird is probably mixed just because it has red ( which is recessive) is not fair ( or correct).

I didn't say it was probably mixed; I said it could be. Considering the reputation of the source of the bird, I prefer to err on the side of caution. GFF told me the following 2 cockerels were Orust.

Doesn't mean I should breed them as such.

 

[TheTropix]

There seems to be problems with GFF's new line of Isbars. Pea combs, tan eggs, red hackles, really strange body colors.... more than 1 or 2 people, on BYC, have expressed concerns regarding Greenfire Farms integrity. Their new line has looked 'different' to me ever since I saw the first pic of the new Isbar imports on GFFs website. I've talked privately about that with other BYC buds. I won't share my thoughts here regarding what I think has happened. (you're welcome. ha!)
Yes the first import had the tiny gene pool (maybe not as tiny as GFF claimed), but I think someone, somewhere has fiddled with 'enriching' that pool with something that was not Isbar with the new line. I'm not trying to offend anyone, but I believe that with all my heart. Anyone else notice that since the aforementioned issues have arisen, GFF has dropped their Isbar price from $99 to $29? ...and Isbars are now packing peanuts?!? Something's up IMO.
The suggestion that red hackles might be ok... WHAT?? No, Gimme Birds, you're right that red hackles are wrong.
I have 3 lines of Isbars that are as diverse as I could pull off, considering what we all had to work with from the original imports. At first I had some of the same hatching problems others had a couple of years ago. The diversity I've worked so hard to obtain has paid off with good, solid hatches. My birds are still a work in progress, but there has been good progress.

 

[gimmie birdies]

Mine was not from GFF. the lady I got my roo from got hers from Europe.

 

[KYTinpusher]

Mine was not from GFF. the lady I got my roo from got hers from Europe.

I wasn't aware that anyone besides GFF had imported Isbars.

 

[TheTropix]

OH Gimme, I'm sorry!!! I didn't know that part. No telling what's going on, then, huh? That'd sting. He's a pretty rooster, he just doesn't look like a 'full' Isbar.

 

[gimmie birdies]

her Isbars and below her SFH

I can ask her again but she did do a
lot of traveling for eggs.

 

[KYTinpusher]

this is my idea of blue.

Is this your boy?

 

[TheTropix]

Those are pretty hens, Gimme! Did she smuggle the eggs in??? It's not easy or cheap to import them... you can't just bring eggs back from other Continents like a souvenier... unless... roflm@o

 

[gimmie birdies]

Yes my friend hatched him and she gave him to me. He was taken this fall by something. as far as the eggs, I don't know. she has put much more time and money into it than I would have, I am just lucky to know her. even though she breeds pure chickens she is really chill.