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My little Judy Blume has been giving me quite the scare. I noticed last Saturday night that her crop wasn't full at bedtime. I tried offering dried black soldier fly larvae and she ate some so I was hoping that she just had an off day. Sunday morning I checked on her and her crop didn't empty overnight and I noticed her wings drooping so I brought her inside. She ended up laying an egg that broke on the way out and bounced right back to her normal self. She had a nice week until Friday morning I noticed her crop was full again. I was chaperoning a field trip my daughter was attending so I decided to give her Calcium and start antibiotics (in case of EYP)before I left. She was doing much better whenever I got home yesterday afternoon and has had a nice day so far today. She still had a tiny bit in her crop this morning, so I'm continuing treatment with her. I really hate it when my little ones aren't feeling well. Hopefully all will be well with my sweet girl. She's always been a healthy. I still need to get pics. She does look more like @MeanCheek adorable little hen. Do y'all know how much your hens weigh? I don't weigh my birds on a normal basis unless they need meds, dewormer, etc so I weighed her to figure med dosage. I've always thought Judy Blume was a solid little hen. She weighs 24ozs
@LisaMP you're making me want to place an order with Privet hatchery! That's where Judy Blume is from and I seriously adore her. Absolutely gorgeous birds!!!
 
There's a guy, Rusty Hart, who has been breeding them for a couple decades'ish, so I'm pretty sure he has some old blood. He basically said that he was tired of sending birds/eggs to people who professed to be interested in the breed, who ultimately gave up on them, sold them, cross-bred them, etc., so he's not sharing out anymore. Problem is, when He retires, I guess that's the end of the only known original line(s).

Originally, I figured that getting His culls would be better than starting with hatchery birds. But . . .

I found old threads on BYC about Pyncheons, and there was a member called "Dove Maiden" that had a LOT of great information, and advice on the breed, great photos, she'd put a lot of work into her birds but then she seems to have just 'stopped'. That was 2013, I Think. Never found anything posted by her again after that. I took page shots of all of her posts and photos and have them stored on my iPad for reference.

A few months ago I also heard from a woman who years ago knew an older woman who had old-timey Pyncheons. When that older woman retired she sold her flock to a hatchery in New Mexico.
Well, the hatchery in New Mexico that carries Pyncheons is Privett. So, if she had one of the only known remaining purebred flocks, and she sold them to Them, then, that's the lot. I have a feeling that they may have cross-bred out to Old English Game to try to gain some genetic diversity. And/or, they selected/retained birds for breeding that colored up immediately, which really isn't correct for the breed. Which is why they grey out by their second or third year. So they very well may be as pure as can be expected, but they have issues.

The chicks had a failure to thrive issue that's seen in too much inbreeding. Out of my 15 Privett chicks, I lost 4 to sudden death issues in the first couple of weeks. Of the 11 remaining birds, only 3 were pullets. I lost a couple of the cockerels to sudden death when they were a few weeks old. Now that I'm whittled down to my best 2, and they've been together for 30 days, I'm starting to collect eggs this week to put a clutch in the incubator and see what I get. I'm hoping that between the 2, good genetics will mesh together and produce something as good as, or better than the parents. Maybe the Willow legs will pop back in. From all of my research THAT seems to be the hardest thing to correct.
 

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