Plymouth Rock thread!

[Silver Rock]

I hope your eggs hatch well for you, Silver Rock.

Thank you!

 

[Nava]

I'm looking got a buff rock cockerel or rooster, so here I am.
Does any one have extras?

Or know any one that do.

TY

 

[Robert Blosl]

so few buffs around hard to locate. The ones in Arizona was a Miracle to obtain and the good ones are at Tom Roebucks house.. bob

 

[aoxa]

There are Barred Rocks that go broody. Since the Cochin was used to create the Barred Rock 130 years ago, it still surfaces from time to time. But Barred Rocks have been so prized for their utility, ie, eggs and meat, that broodiness hasn't been a very desired trait. When a hen is broody, she isn't laying eggs.

With the advent of the super hatcheries of this modern period, broodiness is intentionally discouraged.

I have noticed my heritage rocks go broody once a year.

One just hatched out 9 live chicks. Another hen decided to go broody and killed 3 others she hatched, so in reality she would have hatched 13/14 I put under her.

 

[Robert Blosl]

don't know if this is a female from Canada or a pullet from that years
trio.


great pullet from original pair. Cant locate the sire from Canada in this computer and the original trio brought to Indiana show. However great pictures of the strain to study,
.
Found him.
The above male is the sire of Scotts male he got from Canada in the trio Dick N. \
brought to the Indiana show three years ago. He is in there pulling and helping Scott every breeding
season.

The male on the far right below has great width of body and skull.
All look very nice he may be older maybe not.

Here may be that male with the wide back again.

So far happy with the progress and encourage more of you to consider this rare and endangered color variety of Plymouth Rocks. They should have good vigor , lay well not like a hatchery chickens but if you want to join the army of us trying to save rare breeds of standard Breed Large Fowl I cant think of a better breed and color pattern then Scotts Strain.
I am going to look at some young Columbian Rocks from Scott in a week or two that we have down here from Pensacola Fla area from Eggs Scott gave me last Feb at Noonan Ga show.

I will take pictures of them to compare they should be these birds brothers and sisters. Thanks Scott for being a good Stewart of the breed and sharing them with others. bob




Not much to do today so I thought I would look over the Columbian Plymouth Rock Project from Canada and
look at the type of the third generation and feather quality. I am posting some pictures so I can look at the progress and see for myself how things are coming along..

 

[lynzee63]

this is a female.

 

[BlackPanther]

Shipping eggs, big end up, in rolled up bubble wrap tubes, all spaces filled with peanuts just about assures no broken eggs. We shipped and I have received countless boxes of eggs using this method with never a broken egg. Broken eggs isn't the issue and beyond the unnecessary expense of the foam package, it won't likely solve the real enemy of shipped eggs and that is the Post Office.

There is nothing one can do once you drop them off at the PO. They are tumbled on conveyor belts, likely dropped into bins, jostled about in hand carts, trucks, altitude and pressure changes in planes, plunged into freezing temperatures, left in boiling hot summer trucks, and so on ad nauseum. Sometimes it is detached air cells and similar damage but other times the insides are shear scrambled eggs as if someone shook the egg with all their might.

It is an acknowledged crap shoot that good packaging alone cannot solve.

Good to know.

 

[BlackPanther]

So far happy with the progress and encourage more of you to consider this rare and endangered color variety of Plymouth Rocks. They should have good vigor , lay well not like a hatchery chickens but if you want to join the army of us trying to save rare breeds of standard Breed Large Fowl I cant think of a better breed and color pattern then Scotts Strain.
I am going to look at some young Columbian Rocks from Scott in a week or two that we have down here from Pensacola Fla area from Eggs Scott gave me last Feb at Noonan Ga show.

I will take pictures of them to compare they should be these birds brothers and sisters. Thanks Scott for being a good Stewart of the breed and sharing them with others. bob

Gah. I love Columbian PRs and I'd love to help, but I have absolutely zero breeding experience.

I'm trying to work on my blue Plymouth Rocks here at the moment - they have serious color issues, so at this point I think my biggest concern is 'building the barn'.

Maybe in some years I'll know enough to actually consider obtaining some of the rarer kinds.... Here's hoping!

 

[Yard full o' rocks]

Gah. I love Columbian PRs and I'd love to help, but I have absolutely zero breeding experience.

I'm trying to work on my blue Plymouth Rocks here at the moment - they have serious color issues, so at this point I think my biggest concern is 'building the barn'.

Maybe in some years I'll know enough to actually consider obtaining some of the rarer kinds.... Here's hoping!

BlackPanther

You gotta be somewhere close by as your avatar says SE....just holler when your ready and we'll get you going. Its not too hard with a little guidance and Bob has guided me well the past 3 years (along with several others)

 

[Robert Blosl]

Quote: Black Panther when I got the chance to get a trio of these birds brought in from Canada I had two people to choose from. One with some large fowl experience but did not take the care of the birds as well as Scott. Sometimes your choice is how did they raise their feed store birds rather can they raise fancy Standard Breed H chickens. The proof was it worked and we worked togeather
and in three years look at the results. One day someone is going to show a nice female and get on Champion Row somewhere.

Now the next step is don't be afraid. We have been down this path and you just breed for shape or type the first few years as a beginner. Just say yes. You will not regret it That's why we are here to help you nubies. Where you a lurker once? Now you are a poster. No you need to be a foster parent for a rare H breed.