Minorca thread!

[buttrampoultry]

Love the white. I agree with Dan, take a RC black female and cross it onto the largest and best typed SC White male. I am very impressed with the stature of your males. Do you have any pics of the cuckoo male? I wish i had room for whites and buffs, I would raise all minorca varities if I had room for them. Make sure you give them plenty of room to develop and grow. Keep up the work and keep us posted on your development.

 

[Outlier]

I came across this on the Heritage Large Fowl Thread. Looks like Frank Reese has been breeding and is now selling RC Minorcas (Paragraph 10). It doesn't say what color, but he does have an excellent reputation with his other breeds.


Good Shepherd Poultry Ranch Inc..
“THE OLDEST CONTINUOUS BREEDING FLOCK OF STANDARD BRED TURKEYS IN AMERICA”
The Mission of Good Shepherd Ranch is preservation of Standard Bred poultry
Life time member of the American Poultry Association and Master breeder
The hatchery and breeding birds are certified by the National Poultry Improvement Program (N.P.I.P.) through USDA
2013 Poultry sale list of hatching eggs, chicks, poults, ducks and geese:
All poultry at Good Shepherd are standard bred birds raised to meet the Standards of the American Poultry Association. Frank Reese has been raising, breeding, hatching and showing poultry for of 50 years. All the poultry raised at Good Shepherd can be trace back to known old American flocks. We have no factory genetics on our farm. All the birds, chicks and egg being sold are for breeding stock and not for just egg and meat. The main reason for selling our birds is to help people get started breeding and raising their own birds. We work very hard to keep our standard bred poultry at the highest of level for standard bred poultry meat production and eggs production. Many people are now calling standard bred poultry heritage poultry today but their real name is standard bred.
1. Barred Plymouth Rock of the Ralph Sturgeon strain. Got my first Barred Rocks in 1956 from Ralph from Ohio. Barred Rocks were King of the farm and meat world for over 50 years.
· Hatching eggs are 24 dollars a dozen
· Day old chicks for breeding stock are 5 dollars each for fewer than 100 chicks and 4 dollar each over 100
· Grown breeding stock 25 dollars and up from there depending on quality.

2. White Jersey Giants are pure Golda Miller strain. Have had Giants since 1962
· Hatching eggs are 30 dollars a dozen
· Day old chicks for breeding stock are 6 dollars each for fewer than 100 chicks and 5 dollars each over 100
· Grown breeding stock 25 dollars and up from there depending on quality.

3. Dark and White Laced Indian Game Cornish are pure Tommy Reece strain. Got my start in Cornish in 1994 when Tommy Reece passed away.
· Hatching eggs are 30 dollars a dozen
· Day old chicks for breeding stock are 6 dollars each for fewer than 100 chicks and 5 dollars each over 100
· Grown breeding stock 30 dollars and up from there depending on quality.

4. New Hampshire got my first New Hampshire back in 1956 from a friend of the family. My strain of New Hampshire’s is the old meat strain.
· Hatching eggs are 24 dollars a dozen
· Day old chicks for breeding stock are 5 dollars each for fewer than 100 chicks and 4 dollars each over 100
· Grown breeding stock is 20 dollars each and up from there depending on quality.

5. Columbian Wyndotte I have been working for years to make and improve my own Columbian Wyndotte. With the help from the late Cecil Moore I feel I have come up with a very good Columbian Wyndotte.
· Hatching eggs are 24 dollars a dozen
· Day old chicks for breeding stock are 5 dollars each for fewer than 100 chicks and 4 dollars each over 100
· Grown breeding stock 25 dollars and up from there depending on quality.

6. Bronze turkeys from Norman Kardosh, Rolla Henry and Cecil Moore. I got my first turkeys back in 1958 from Norman Kardosh and kept them ever since. The standard Bronze is the King of turkeys and cannot be beat for a fine heritage turkey.
· Hatching eggs are 5 dollars each for less than 4 dozen eggs and 4 dollars each egg above 4 dozen
· Day old poults are 10 each for less than 100. Their 9 dollars each for 100 to 300 and 8 dollars each above 300
· Grown breeding stock starts at 100 dollars each and up from there depending on quality.

7. Narragansett turkeys from Norman Kardosh, they were Norman’s favorite turkeys. Got my first Narragansett in 1966
· Hatching eggs are 5 dollars each for less than 4 dozen eggs and 4 dollars each egg above 4 dozen.
· Day old poults are 10 dollars each for less than 100. Their 9 dollars each for 100 to 300 and 8 dollars each above 300
· Grown breeding stock starts at 100 dollars each and up from there depending on quality.

8. White Holland is a sport of my Bronze as they were first made 150 years ago. Large self –breeding white turkeys with brown eyes. I worked with Norman Kardosh over a number of years to make a good White Holland.
· Hatching eggs are 5 dollars each for less than 4 dozen eggs and 4 dollars each egg above 4 dozen
· Day old poults are 10 dollars each for less than 100. Their 9 dollars each for 100 to 300 and 8 dollars each above 300
· Mature breeding stock is 100 dollars each and up depending on quality.

9. The Blacks were kept at Danny Williamson’s farm for a number of years and Danny did a great job of keeping size up and a good black bird.
· Hatching eggs are 5 dollars each for less than 4 dozen eggs and 4 dollars each egg above 4 dozenl
· Day old poults are 10 dollars each for less than 100. There are 9 dollars each for 100 to 300 and 8 dollars each above 300.
· Mature breeding stock is 100 dollars each and up depending on quality.

10. We do have smaller amount of breeds we are working on at this time to help save and preserve.
Rose Comb White Leghorns, Blue Andalusian, Rose comb Ancona, Dark Brown Leghorn, Buff Leghorn, Rose Comb Minorca, White Faced Black Spanish, Silver Laced Wyandotte, White Cornish that are Lou Straits old line, Golda Miller’s pure line of Black Jersey Giants which I got from Golda the first time in 1960 and Sadie Lloyd’s line of Bourbon Red Turkeys If there is a breed you’re looking for please let us know and we might be able to help you find a good old line of that breed. It is always best to buy poultry from a known breeder who has work hard to preserve and maintain an old line of poultry.

11. We also have Roger Stanford’s line of Rouen ducks, Gerald Donnelly’s line of Aylesbury ducks, Rolla Henry’s line of Dewlap geese both gray and buff and Roger Stanford’s line of African geese. Please contact us for pricing.

It is always best to come to the farm to pick up your birds. Give us a chance to teach about the birds you are buying. If you wish us to ship live birds we will only ship by air. The flight must be a direct flight to a major airport with no flight changes. You will have to pay to have us drive them to the airport and the cost of shipping.

Contacts for information about birds

Frank R. Reese Jr.
730 Smoky Valley Road
Lindsborg, Kansas 67456
785 227 3972
[email protected] email
www.reeseturkeys.com website
www.heritagechef.com website

Devon Reese
620 664 1778 phone
[email protected] email

Ryon Carey
620 245 7469 phone
[email protected] email

 

[WyandotteTX]

Frank has RC Black Minorcas, I talked to him the other day. They are Frank Zillich line, I am not sure of the heritage of my birds as to what line they might be. Could be a very good resource for all of us to bring in new blood to the RC's.
John

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

Thought I might post a few pics of my SC whites. I had a rogue hen that was feather picking so please excuse the lack of tails in some of the males. I finally caught her in the act recently but the tails haven't filled in yet. Id appreciate any feedback anyone has to offer. It is very hard trying to improve these birds in a vacuum!

Click the photos below for a larger size:

Not bad, I haven't ever seen a white in person. Every time I drive through the gorge, I think of you and your orchard out there

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

Oh, and about the cuckoo coming from the whites- I know many white leghorns carry barring, it often surprises people when they mate their white bird and get black, barred, and sometimes even duckwings. Since your whites are dominant white, if you mate the cuckoo/black/splash chicks that you got back to a white, almost all offspring should be white but it'll pop up again down the line.

 

[morgan36]

I am starting my black minorca breeding program I have 1 hen and 1 rooster and I got them from a breeder I will post some pics of them later and another guy that lives close to me shows them so I am gonna get some pullets off of him this spring

 

[Clipclop]

Hello,


Could you tell me the best resource for SC Black Minorcas? I want to get a start in them.

 

[buttrampoultry]

In the United StatesFor SC Black Minorca I would contact one of the below:
Tenneson's, Dan Honour, Larry Dye, Adrian Rademacher, David Moore, Don Montgomery, or Nicki Riddel, and of course I raise Single Combs.
In Canada I would talk to Reade Baker or Frank Goodfellow.
Where do you live- we might find a breeder close to you.


I would recommend all minorca breeders to join the Facebook Group Page for Minorca Breeders. This is a great way to communicate and improve such a lovely breed. I would love to see breeders of all varieties to join- we need to promote breeding Whites, Buffs, and Rosecombs.

 

[Bo Garrett]

ClipClop,
I know of some excellent Minorcas, when you are ready I can set you up with some of them. I know of a flock of buffs on the east coast that are very nice and have had some intensive work done on them. The blacks are the most popular but the whites and buffs really need more people working on them to keep the genetic base diversified. Both the whites and the buff can be improved by breeding them to the blacks then outcrossing back to the white or buff. It takes a few generations but it works.
By the way, the orpingtons look pretty good, I think you made a good purchase. Don't worry about getting any blacks, this could infuse a brassy gene into your blues which is hard to get rid of in sucessive generations. Use that blue male to blue females, he'll produce some blacks and those will be less likely to carry the brassiness since he has good dark top color.

Blessings,

Bo

 

[aoccl]

I have Adrian Rademacher black sc minorcas and I love them. They are a great example of a breed whose comb disappears when they are not in lay.