Konza Prairie Rangers

[ChooksChick]

at Tommysgirl---HOw did the hatch go????What colors did you get??????

At Renee-- are you still planning to send more eggs??? I'm holding incubator space for them.

I am, but I've had a drop in egg production because a few of the laying hens have gone to a new home. I'm afraid it will be a bit longer before I have some to send.

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I'm glad you got those two! I'm hoping you got a pair!

I have several pairs of juvies ready to send for any takers, and a few trios of adults. They're out in several directions, now though, so there should be a bunch of sub-groups of folks working on them by this time next year. I really want a barred Mahogany to pop up again!!!

I have several Moby-alikes right now, and I'm hoping someone wants them so I don't have to take them to get processed. It's getting close to time! It's far enough away I don't want to make 2 trips, and I need to get rid of a ton of fellows from all of the breeding groups.

*sigh* I hate this part.

 

[oshun55555]

Anybody still working with these birds?

 

[Arielle]

A few of us have a few of them . . . .

 

[oshun55555]

I got 12 eggs from her just before she folded the whole thing up, do you have any grown birds? What do you think of them? Only 2 hatched for me. I am working on a similar project myself and plan on using these chicks in the breeding program.

 

[Arielle]

I got 12 eggs from her just before she folded the whole thing up, do you have any grown birds? What do you think of them? Only 2 hatched for me. I am working on a similar project myself and plan on using these chicks in the breeding program.

Using them in your own breeding program is about all you can do. I have a couple Konzas, a sulmtaler, a few bresse and the buckeyes. Oh and three halfbred cornish rocks.

My Konzas are young yet-- not laying yet.

 

[oshun55555]

I will certainly use them in my breeding program, I have about 20 Buff Cornish, around 30 Dark Cornish, somewhere in the area of 15 Buff Cantecler and Partridge Cantecler that I am using for my breeding a nice meaty bird, eggs are not a big issue, with all these birds I have eggs coming out of my ears. What is your opinion of the Buckeyes, I had been thinking about adding them to the program? I bred breeder and show quality Brahmas for years, worried all the time about keeping them to the Standard of Perfection, I want to have my own breed to MY standard. Now that I am retired breeding a bird pretty to my eye on the hoof and on the dinner plate.

 

[Arielle]

THe buckeyes are my serious go at breeding to the SOP; however this line was kept as food production, too, so they will have good meat and egg qaulities. IMO breeding just to the SOP breeds out egg production and meat qualities-- the key phrase is breeding only to the SOP. I worry that I will not breed these as well as the originators of this line.

I only recently discovered the buff cornish. My heart went pitter patter-- I LOVE the gold of my BO but they lack the substance to be more than a layer, so I am letting that line die out.My roosters are a delight to look at but totally lack meat. I passed on a show line as they were not good layers.

3-4 years into chickens and I still feel like a noobie.

 

[oshun55555]

Those Buff Cornish and the Buff Chanteclers are my new favorite and they will be secondary on the egg thing, I had looked at the buckeyes and they are almost what I am looking for but the color puts me off. I feel like a newbie and I have been raising chickens since i got my first flock of bantams when i was 14 and i am a retired gentleman now so its been along time, and you never ever stop learning about your poultry, so we are all newbies every new day.

 

[Arielle]

I started with the typical 25 pullet chicks in a box and have progresses from there. First to learn that the hatchery birdswere exactly what I thought they would be-- decent layers.THen as raising birds progresses I had to learn to cull and butcher . . so my focus changed. ANd a few folks on BYC introduced the SOP breeding which I was totally facinated with and see the fun of it . . but ultimately I wanted food for the table. Mostly I went with the buckeyes because of the comb to deal with the winter here and I had met enough good breeders of BUckeyes to get help to do this right. I try to put practical first. . . .


And yes, always something more to learn. . .I was starting to feel like a complete idot . . but realized that is the way it is with chickens.

 

[oshun55555]

When I was young my grandmother would order every year or two .. 200 White Leghorns, those she kept penned ... they were her little egg money that she used to use to make the house pretty and buy fabric kind of thing. The Buff Orpingtons free ranged and lived in barn with all the other livestock, those we ate for meat as well as the old Leghorns. One year the family all went to my grandmothers ancestral home in the hill country of Kentucky and I was really taken by the bantams running around, all colors, all combos of colors, some with top knots and some without. All the Kentucky family had these bantams along with their meat and egg birds, no one knew what kind they were or when the family acquired them which was long before any of the old people could remember, I took a trio of them home and raised them for years, I went off in my mid twenties to be wild in the big city and those bantams were still on the land when i finally came to my senses in my 30s, so I have had a long love affair with chickens, I love me geese, ducks, and turkeys, but chickens are my favorite.