Poultry Breeds of Spanish Ancestry

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Welcome PDPercherons! Glad you found us. Those Andalusians are addicting. They're loaded with personality and flair!
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ronott1 said:
Good points as always!

I am not worried about the white shanks because I have not had them this year. I only kept two pullets and one Cockerel from the first hatching and they all have nice yellow legs. The pullets shanks are fading but are still yellow. I will not need to breed from any with white shanks because I am on target, as far as I can tell, for body shape.

I hope we can continue improving them and getting a good Spanish Standard would be a nice way to start.
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Yes, I think it is hard to go anywhere without any definition. Otherwise everyone heads into different directions, and the breed changes into something else. Have you ever seen the red and whites?
 
PetRock said:
While we are on the subject of Pita Pintas, I have hatched over 100 PP chicks this year. I have shared the wealth with 4 other people who plan on breeding them. That makes 7 of us with breeding flocks that I know of.

With so many chicks to observe, I have seen a few things pop up that are not wanted. All of my original flock (Zorro and his 7 ladies) have yellow legs and all of the chicks in the first few hatches developed yellow legs. But now I have some chicks that are keeping the pinkish white legs and beaks that they had at hatch. I know not to breed this white legged ones but how do I determine which of my flock is passing this on? Should I "retire" Zorro after this year and replace him with one of his sons?

I've also had a few other defects that have cropped up. I had one cockerel born with no tail. I also noticed that there is one pullet who has blueish grey eyes instead of the orangeish color that they are supposed to be. Ron, have you had any hatch with any issues like this?
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That already makes 3 more breeders than my poor Empordanesa have here
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gjensen said:
It appears that they are saying that their birds averaged 140 eggs per year, and 15 1/2 per month. Laying for 9 months. Then that they have good longevity. If you hatch and raise enough birds, and a couple do better than the average, you could get the numbers up with good effort. That would help broaden their popular appeal. I do not know what you guys are getting, but 160-180 might be a good long term goal.

Ron, I appreciate seeing the description. It would be nice to be able to get a well translated description of all of the Spanish breeds that this group keeps. For those that have a standard here, I think we should use that standard, but it is still an interesting reference.

How is Jason doing with his birds?
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Good. I am mostly starting over with youngsters. I kept a trio of crele and black and started from scratch on the Empordanesa . I did not keep as good of notes as I needed too so I have a lot of young Empordanesa , 2 young flocks of black . Rons too over my 2 black hens I had. a bunch of there babies. also some from Dirty Ankle Acres. I have a trio of Partridge and also besides my older crele trio ( plus 2 silver am hens for the olive eggers in there )
I have 6 crele olive egger hens , 6 young crele penedesenca hens ( 25 young roosters. from 2 lines )
so I have to decide what too keep and go from there.
I am deciding i need to just focus on 2 though and trying to decide which ones. as I only have 4 big runs.
I will probably free range some with my goats to keep some extra roosters and hens just in case

gjensen said:
Yes, I think it is hard to go anywhere without any definition. Otherwise everyone heads into different directions, and the breed changes into something else. Have you ever seen the red and whites?
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agree.
 
Hangtown Farms said:
That already makes 3 more breeders than my poor Empordanesa have here
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Good. I am mostly starting over with youngsters. I kept a trio of crele and black and started from scratch on the Empordanesa . I did not keep as good of notes as I needed too so I have a lot of young Empordanesa , 2 young flocks of black . Rons too over my 2 black hens I had. a bunch of there babies. also some from Dirty Ankle Acres. I have a trio of Partridge and also besides my older crele trio ( plus 2 silver am hens for the olive eggers in there )
I have 6 crele olive egger hens , 6 young crele penedesenca hens ( 25 young roosters. from 2 lines )
so I have to decide what too keep and go from there.
I am deciding i need to just focus on 2 though and trying to decide which ones. as I only have 4 big runs.
I will probably free range some with my goats to keep some extra roosters and hens just in case

agree.
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Maybe I should sell my RIRs and add Empordanesa to my breeds!
 
PetRock said:
This article has a translated version of the 2004 Spanish standard for Pita Pinta Asturiana. The author states that the annual egg production is 245.

http://www.aviculture-europe.nl/nummers/07E04A04.pdf

This is a link for the Spanish Pita Pinta association. It has a page with the breed standard on it.

http://www.lapitapintaasturiana.com/en
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I was just checking out that second link and I have decided that I really like the pinta roxa variety. There probably aren't any of those in the US though are there? Very pretty!
 
PetRock said:
This article has a translated version of the 2004 Spanish standard for Pita Pinta Asturiana. The author states that the annual egg production is 245.

http://www.aviculture-europe.nl/nummers/07E04A04.pdf

This is a link for the Spanish Pita Pinta association. It has a page with the breed standard on it.

http://www.lapitapintaasturiana.com/en
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Thanks for posting this! I will save them in my notes.

245 eggs for the first year seems about right. They lay very close to my two Golden comets did their first year.

Lacy Blues said:
I was just checking out that second link and I have decided that I really like the pinta roxa variety. There probably aren't any of those in the US though are there? Very pretty!
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Lacy, these are the only ones in the US that we can find period.

It sounds like we can get red from what we have though. Pepe has a bit of red in his hackle feathers. We need to hatch a white sport and then figure out where to go from there!
 

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