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[catdaddyfro]

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He does look very short in the leg, which I have seen on quite a few pictures in this thread. I like an American or OEG that has a good medium to high station and long shanks, it makes them look athletic and fast. I also prefer the look of a dubbed stag or cock so all mine get dubbed. I was reading about moon phase and it's relationship to dubbing, where actual dates are recommended to dub on to reduce blood loss. Something about the blood being held lower in the birds body?? Sounds like some old school theory. Well, one of those dates was supposedly last Saturday, so I dubbed one of my stags and he bled like crazy. To the point I started to get concerned, so I am not sold on that theory. Luckly I was able to stop it up with some flour and he is just fine. I will definetly have some blood stop powder for the next go around.

yea that same theory on using the signs of the Zodiac is (was) used by the old timers, when cutting (casterating) a pig or hog (I'm sure horses and bulls also fall into the same catagory). It is said it is they are best cut when the signs are in the feet(Pisces), prolly the same when to dubb a cock.

catdaddy

 

[DTchickens]

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He does look very short in the leg, which I have seen on quite a few pictures in this thread. I like an American or OEG that has a good medium to high station and long shanks, it makes them look athletic and fast. I also prefer the look of a dubbed stag or cock so all mine get dubbed. I was reading about moon phase and it's relationship to dubbing, where actual dates are recommended to dub on to reduce blood loss. Something about the blood being held lower in the birds body?? Sounds like some old school theory. Well, one of those dates was supposedly last Saturday, so I dubbed one of my stags and he bled like crazy. To the point I started to get concerned, so I am not sold on that theory. Luckly I was able to stop it up with some flour and he is just fine. I will definetly have some blood stop powder for the next go around.

yea that same theory on using the signs of the Zodiac is (was) used by the old timers, when cutting (casterating) a pig or hog (I'm sure horses and bulls also fall into the same catagory). It is said it is they are best cut when the signs are in the feet(Pisces), prolly the same when to dubb a cock.

catdaddy

Yeah, I've heard it.. But I don't really believe in it, the moon theory someone told me before does make sense - something along the lines of the moon being magnetic, and during a full moon plants grow faster or something like that.. Talked about how the metals in the blood (Iron, etc) will cause them to bleed more during a full moon.. But not sure.

As for the comment on the rooster, I do like him besides his short leg appearance and his comb. But even if he does have a medium station, I prefer a high station cock that is somewhere between 5lb 8oz to low 6's. I've heard of 7 pound hatch cocks, and we had a brown red before (he was a Wingate, had a little touch of McRae black) that was somewhere between 6lb 4oz-7lb 14oz.. It was so long ago, I can't recall it perfectly.. He was a large rooster though, especially for an American game, since most people want them between 4-5 and a half pounds it seems in most places.

-Daniel

 

[gallo4319]

I already posted pictures of this hen
now pictures of mom and son together.

 

[Illia]

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Nice birds, what is the second last one?

 

[gallo4319]

they are mom and son his dad was a game rooster.
mom is a shamo

 

[josh44]

My first shamo bantam chicks

They are Not Ko's,

7 are wheaton, except for 1 one, he is a cockerel, he is out of a barred mother with wheaton father, so hoping for creole

 

[Illia]

He will indeed be colored like a Crele, but he will not actually be a Crele. Crele is a barred Duckwing. Yours will be more like a barred Brown-Red color.

 

[gallo4319]

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congratulations for your new chicks.
did they hatch in a incubator or by the hen?

 

[Redcatcher]

The best thing for preventing blood loss is to give the birds vitamin K before dubbing. It is a powerful anticoagulant.

 

[josh44]

Used the incubator to hatch my chicks, so hens could keep laying.
have about another dozen more in the bator ready to hatch next week.