Plymouth Rock thread!

[BigIslandChicks]

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those chickies are so cute!!

i hope to get a few of those babies some day...
Congrats. they are adorable

 

[Robert Blosl]

Those are some nice Columbian Rock Chicks. They came a long way from Georgia to Alaska. They look very healty and should grow up to be nice birds. bob

 

[7961]

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I'm so glad there's pics of really nice Columbian Rocks here (awesome birds, Scott!). I'm just starting out with the bantam breed and was wondering if I could get some opinions on my cockerel and 3 pullets. They are from shipped eggs I hatched out from Dick Horstman.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/24456_columbian_rock_011_resize.jpg https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/24456_columbian_rock_036_resize.jpg https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/24456_columbian_rock_041_resize.jpg https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/24456_columbian_rock_044_resize.jpg https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/24456_columbian_rock_043_resize.jpg https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/24456_columbian_rock_sunnyside_up.jpg

those are great!

Those are some nice Columbians! I like them!

 

[Robert Blosl]

Here is a private message I got from a great guy who wants to start up a Poultry Club for Kids. Have any of you out there been a product of a club or 4 H club??

Wanted Barred Rock non Hatchery Standard Breed Birds:

My Response: Are you going to show them or just to enjoy them? bob

His Re: thanks for getting back to me so quick bob. I live in Kentucky and my main objective is to enjoy them myself but I do show at some smaller shows on occasion. i am also a 4H leader and we are trying to get a poultry club up and going in our county. I’d like to see some of the kids in the area have access to some better stock

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Ave you thought of spending some time with youths and help them get started in Poultry and helping them show their birds at county fairs or state fairs?
This is something that we should be thinking about. Only maybe 1% of us will do it but I have never know a kid who was evolved in raising livestock and meeting other kids at fairs go wrong. This is a request where any of our good strains of Standard Barred Plymouth Rocks will be helpful for this fellow. Most of the time when you have a group of kids a leader can order chicks from a hatchery type breeder like Urchs, Joel Gilman or Butches birds. Also what state do you live in? There are about five good strains out there to shoose from.

You can get a small shipments of chicks from a breeder if he has enough breeders birds but they are few and far between. I still think the best way is to put 15 eggs in a incubator and hatch 1- or 11 and ship these chicks to a new person at age five weeks of age overnight express. Would you not be happy to get 11 chicks hatch out of 15 eggs?

Eggs of course is a fear factor because of the way they are treated in shipment. We have many methods posted on another thread how experts do it. I will post this tread below. I talked to a friend in Michigan yesterday giving me the gossip of poultry in the Mid West and found some lost strains of Blue Andulisians and Anaconas in Ohio. The breeder does ship eggs. I got to make a list of these rare breeds maybe some day a guy will make a web site with Heritage Poultry and we can add these names to the list of the birds he list as rare. Wouldn’t that be a nice Christmas present for us old time chicken breed lovers who want standard breed birds. bob

 

[Jwhip]

Bob, Send them my way. I think I have something that will work for the 4-h leader.

 

[call ducks]

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I cut some of the post out. But yes, i am in 4-H and well, addicted. I have found SQ breeders (not with 4-H though

) but am building up my stock.

 

[Robert Blosl]

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Jermy your handle throws me off. You are the most popular person on my computer and every buddy wants your Barred Rocks. I am going to down load the pictures that Kathy and you have taken and make some prints out to show show two judges who visited Franks farm a few weeks ago what they missed. I dont think they saw the good birds that you have and kathy have so maybe they will not think I am crazy. You are going to make a lot of people happy this year with your chicks once they get the eggs from you. I am just so glad we still have Barred Rocks that look like this. You wont believe last year this time I was trying to get Barrred Rock eggs from Australia to Canada to try to get this gene pool. I had no idea that we had these birds in the USA. bob

Jermy look at the new method of shiping eggs. bob

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=5221959#p5221959

 

[QuailHollow]

Funny, I butchered off what was left of my Barred Rocks last week. Well almost all of them.. I have this rooster and 1 pullet left. I tried to sell them, but couldn't give them away if I wanted to. These are the best pics I have. Here was my foundation birds at the time. Haven't taken any of the birds for a while.. or if I have, I don't know where I put the image files.

ETA: I was told they were too 'white'.

 

[Happy Chooks]

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Well I think they are gorgeous!

 

[Robert Blosl]

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where did you get your barred rocks. bob