Rarest breed of chicken in the US?

[DTchickens]

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Regarding the heating issue, they're not cold hardy at all from what I hear.. But from my experience, I wrapped my Shamos pen in visqueen to just keep the breeze off of him, it got down into the low teens which with our humidity would put it around maybe 6-10 degrees.. Snow and all, he did fine. Same thing for another person I've spoken with, but a lot of people do use the heaters.

-Daniel

 

[ga_goat]

3 years ago a man in a nearby town who raised RIR for years gave me a doz eggs and when 10 hatched I had 2 female and 8 male when I culled down the males I took all but 1 to an auction sale because it was the only one that did not have a rose comb , got $2.00 each for them @ 6 month old . Then I found this site this year ,oh well . one of them was 60% white . The old man I got them from has sense passed and I can't go back to the source for more, and I have already moved the stock I had .
I guess that old saying " too soon old , too late smart " applies here .

 

[Chickielady]

Oh bummer !
Yup, things like that happen...and now you know.
I had 6 pullets 3 years ago that I had to get rid of to move here to WA state...they were a partrigey coloration...but still fluffy and so I gave them away, now I know they were indeed Barnesvelders

 

[Redcatcher]

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Murry McMurray sells them . I ordered some chicks from them many years ago and they were pretty decent.


http://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/red_caps.html

 

[Illia]

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Murry McMurray sells them . I ordered some chicks from them many years ago and they were pretty decent.


http://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/red_caps.html

I'm talking about breeders, sorry. Murray McMurray has a lot of "rare breeds" that are so far from the standard it isn't funny. They're not a breeder - They're one of the biggest hatcheries who "breed" for profit, not for conservation.

 

[Robert Blosl]

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Murry McMurray sells them . I ordered some chicks from them many years ago and they were pretty decent.


http://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/red_caps.html

I'm talking afbout breeders, sorry. Murray McMurray has a lot of "rare breeds" that are so far from the standard it isn't funny. They're not a breeder - They're one of the biggest hatcheries who "breed" for profit, not for conservation.

Wow what a statement Illia. I like that not for conseration.

I had a stain of White Rock Large Fowl that I line breed for twenty years and decided to get rid of them. I left my pen door open one night and for got to close the gate. Foxes went in and killed all three of my males. Then a few days latter I get a email from a fellow who wants white rocks. I got the females to him and a spare male I farmed out was so poor in health he died. I had no males. I had given a guy in Penn a male and had to send a box to him pay the shipping to get the male back to breed with these old hens.

It was worth it as we got 45 chicks from these old birds and now have three males and the old cock bird and plenty of females.

You just never know. My mom use to say you never miss the water till the well goes dry. More studid stores but this will do.
bob

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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I'm talking afbout breeders, sorry. Murray McMurray has a lot of "rare breeds" that are so far from the standard it isn't funny. They're not a breeder - They're one of the biggest hatcheries who "breed" for profit, not for conservation.

Wow what a statement Illia. I like that not for conseration.

I had a stain of White Rock Large Fowl that I line breed for twenty years and decided to get rid of them. I left my pen door open one night and for got to close the gate. Foxes went in and killed all three of my males. Then a few days latter I get a email from a fellow who wants white rocks. I got the females to him and a spare male I farmed out was so poor in health he died. I had no males. I had given a guy in Penn a male and had to send a box to him pay the shipping to get the male back to breed with these old hens.

It was worth it as we got 45 chicks from these old birds and now have three males and the old cock bird and plenty of females.

You just never know. My mom use to say you never miss the water till the well goes dry. More studid stores but this will do.
bob

Do you have any rosecomb RIR's? My great-grandfather bred SC RIR (in Burien) and had them for years & years (like he lived to be 106 years old and he moved to his place at the age of 11 from England), grew up there, inherited it when his parents passed and lived there for a long, long time. When he came to live with my grandmother, he sold all of his RIR that he'd had for 85+ years...I wish I knew what happened to those birds. My grandma says that they were HUGE, dark and mean! LOL I'm in Okanogan, Washington so I would want rosecomb just because we get so darn cold here...and my single comb birds suffer because of it...

 

[D'Angelo N Va.]

The 2 breeds I am adding next year is Crevecoeurs and White faced Black Spanish..and some Langshans also...

 

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Scots Dumpy
Owl Beard
North Holland Blue
Norfolk Grey
Naine du Tournaisis
Marsh Daisy
La Flèche
Muffed Japanese Bantams
1xworth
Friesian
Derbyshire Redcap
Crève-Coeur
Croad Langshan
Catalana

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