Sumatra Thread!

[NWSumatras]

Wow great job with your artwork Raph! I draw pet portraits all the time and never thought about trying to do one of a chicken. Good job!

 

[raph]

Thanks I'm pleased with my art and woodwork at the moment.

 

[NWSumatras]

Thanks for sharing with us.

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

Went to a small show today, got reserve AOSB with this hen. The judge really liked her but she wasn't in the best condition because she was in the breeding pen. Also saw some of BGMatts birds t

here at the auction.

 

[NWSumatras]

Congrats! Very nice bird indeed!

 

[NYREDS]

Would you be able to tell us a bit about line breeding and what you would need to do it?
I live in Ireland where Sumatras are hard to come by and if you see one for sale over here it is usually very poor, I have one cockerel two related hens and two more unrelated hens, how much birds would you need to start line breeding?

If you read my post #4155 you'll see that I started a successful strain of Rhode Island Red Bantams with 4 birds: 2male & 2 female. I bred these for 25 years w/o any "new blood".

 

[NYREDS]

Sometimes in order to get what you need in a bird you have to cross lines. For example my hamburg males have short backs, the breeder himself has worked over 40 years trying to breed out the short backs in his males. but my female lines have good long backs the female lines come from a different breeder... I have three different lines in my sumatras. They seem to be laying better and they seem to be more resistance to disease than the first line I started out with. I truly don't believe in inbreeding. I am all for line breeding if it is done responsibly and the breedings of each chicken is recorded.

Between Walt & I there are better than 100 years of breeding experience but as usual you know better. It really gets tedious.

 

[ramirezframing]

Went to a small show today, got reserve AOSB with this hen. The judge really liked her but she wasn't in the best condition because she was in the breeding pen. Also saw some of BGMatts birds there at the auction.

Congrats and thanks for sharing your picture. She is a beautiful bird.

 

[fowlman01]

Between Walt & I there are better than 10 years f breeding experience but as usual you know better. It really gets tedious.

I believe you meant 100 years combined experience. Doesn't matter we still don't know anything. That's one of the reasons I don't post much now. You can't help people that know it all.

Walt

 

[fortyfivefarm]

I believe you meant 100 years combined experience. Doesn't matter we still don't know anything. That's one of the reasons I don't post much now. You can't help people that know it all.

Walt

I hope the two of you know that there are many of us on here that DO value your experience and look forward to your sharing with us. I'm usually a lurker on here. I'm trying to improve my birds and learn all I can about the breed and how they should be. I've read this thread from the beginning and it didn't take long at all to figure out who to listen to and who to mute - every time they open their mouth.

Please don't think you aren't valued.