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[Johnn]

You must have a great camera Johnn.

I just use my phone

 

[Johnn]

Look how big Bella's mother is compared to the rest of the hens!:

 

[wekiva bird]

I just use my phone

What kind is it?

 

[Johnn]

What kind is it?

Blackberry Curve 9360

 

[wekiva bird]

Blackberry Curve 9360

Its takes great photos.

 

[Johnn]

Its takes great photos.

Thanks

 

[juststruttin]

Thought I'd share a few of pictures of my cuckoo and barred Orp roos

 

[lildinkem]

I have one of Fred's hens who is laying. Luckily for me she is the best of the two I got from Fred last winter. I had to pull my starting number one $20 Akers cock out since he is at that age where the urgency to reproduce has slowed down. So, as I mentioned I put in his son who has this hen laying fertile eggs. She was roosting on the wire fence, now she is roosting in one of these tree containers I have in the pen with them. Every nite now I have to pull her out and put her in the coop And she is a solid 10 lbs hen. When shipped to me 14 months ago she was at 9.5 lbs. She is at least a 1/2 lbs bigger. Or more like 2 lbs bigger. Fred's girls did not give me many eggs last year. Don she has laid at least 30 eggs so far this season. Hope she lays at least another 20 more. The back on the boy is not as long as his daddy. but he is barely 10 months old if that.



This is the other Fred hen in with them. She is not laying yet. Which is fine. I rather know I am breeding my best hen. And soon the ole cock will be going back in with these 2 hens.


For now I have my extra hens and my Akers Buff pullet in my #2 Buff breeding pen with another son of the ole cock.





I do have 13 Buff cockerels in addition to the one Akers cock. These are 3 of the Akers cockereks I hatched out in early June of last year. There not from Doug's best breeders but are definitely nice and good boys to use. I have 4 of my Buff pullets that I plan to use them with this season. One boy on the right will be in a large pen with the rest of the cockerels. Most likely he will not be used and will be culled.



My bigger cuckoo cockerel is not my best quality of the 2 Cuckoo boys I have. But he is already over 11 lbs and is around 10 months old




I will be most likely showing my older Black hens I got from our UOC Secretary 4 years ago. She was the reason I joined BYC. This is the younger of the three I got. This is the type and tails I am wanting more of in my flock.



Feran has the longer back that I like. A bit loosely feathered. With girls like the hen above I can get some with both of the better traits.




Yosemitee is is giving me fertile eggs too from the #2 Black pen. Alan told me he liked the potential in this pen over Feran's pen. The cockerels I have out this early with the colder weather we have had is a good thing. The frozen combs will prevent me ever from showing them. So their just for utility and breeding and not for looking at.

 

[thedragonlady]

I have one of Fred's hens who is laying. Luckily for me she is the best of the two I got from Fred last winter. I had to pull my starting number one $20 Akers cock out since he is at that age where the urgency to reproduce has slowed down. So, as I mentioned I put in his son who has this hen laying fertile eggs. She was roosting on the wire fence, now she is roosting in one of these tree containers I have in the pen with them. Every nite now I have to pull her out and put her in the coop And she is a solid 10 lbs hen. When shipped to me 14 months ago she was at 9.5 lbs. She is at least a 1/2 lbs bigger. Or more like 2 lbs bigger. Fred's girls did not give me many eggs last year. Don she has laid at least 30 eggs so far this season. Hope she lays at least another 20 more. The back on the boy is not as long as his daddy. but he is barely 10 months old if that.



This is the other Fred hen in with them. She is not laying yet. Which is fine. I rather know I am breeding my best hen. And soon the ole cock will be going back in with these 2 hens.


For now I have my extra hens and my Akers Buff pullet in my #2 Buff breeding pen with another son of the ole cock.





I do have 13 Buff cockerels in addition to the one Akers cock. These are 3 of the Akers cockereks I hatched out in early June of last year. There not from Doug's best breeders but are definitely nice and good boys to use. I have 4 of my Buff pullets that I plan to use them with this season. One boy on the right will be in a large pen with the rest of the cockerels. Most likely he will not be used and will be culled.



My bigger cuckoo cockerel is not my best quality of the 2 Cuckoo boys I have. But he is already over 11 lbs and is around 10 months old




I will be most likely showing my older Black hens I got from our UOC Secretary 4 years ago. She was the reason I joined BYC. This is the younger of the three I got. This is the type and tails I am wanting more of in my flock.



Feran has the longer back that I like. A bit loosely feathered. With girls like the hen above I can get some with both of the better traits.




Yosemitee is is giving me fertile eggs too from the #2 Black pen. Alan told me he liked the potential in this pen over Feran's pen. The cockerels I have out this early with the colder weather we have had is a good thing. The frozen combs will prevent me ever from showing them. So their just for utility and breeding and not for looking at.

With this extensive breeding program, you should have a bunch of birds ready for Knoxville ! Hope to see you there !

 

[lildinkem]

With this extensive breeding program, you should have a bunch of birds ready for Knoxville ! Hope to see you there !

I should go to Knoxville, my parents live about 45 mins away. I usually go to my close to home shows. Ohio Natls is the farthest I will travel. Even Lucasville is too much driving for me. These multiple day shows require me to drive there then drive home at the end of the day then come back the next day. I will have too many young birds to take care for. 23 out door pens of adults and a dozen or more indoor cages for the little ones. See I hatch ALL my eggs from my best birds. That is why my feed bill will go from the usual one 50 lbs bag a day up to two bags a day by the time of that show. I do not sell chicks or juvie birds to make a buck. When I do sell it is after I have decided they need to be culled. Then I am very fair to the local Indiana folks. I just sold 10 pullets from last year yesterday for $120, mostly Blacks and Blues. A few Australorps too.
BUT, Doug will go. I can bribe him to take a bird or two and enter them for me. Never asked him to do that, but he is a good man. I am sure he would do it as a favor.
I go to the Greensville OH show, the Indiana State Fair Poultry Show, Connorsville Show, Doug's Boone County 4-H Show, and depending when they have it the Columbus IN Show. I am good for 4 to 5 shows a year.
How many shows do you go and enter Orps in?