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LOL i keep seeing these roosters and thinking "WOW! they're narrow birds..." then realizing that many might consider my dorkings 'tanks' in comparisson...

thus is the difference between an egg breed and a true 'dual purpose' breed that can make an entire meal. LOL

*sorry, no SFH pics... YET*





 
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ki4got said:
LOL i keep seeing these roosters and thinking "WOW! they're narrow birds..." then realizing that many might consider my dorkings 'tanks' in comparisson...

thus is the difference between an egg breed and a true 'dual purpose' breed that can make an entire meal. LOL

*sorry, no SFH pics... YET*
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ki4got - Your birds are so pretty! And yeah - they look like tanks.

Yes - the SFHs are very "athletic" birds! Where ever they go, they are always running. If they're not running, you should check them for illness. They're awesome foragers, but if anything interesting catches their eye, they're off at a run again to inspect it! My cochins and orpingtons have given up trying to keep up with the SFHs. If you track my flock's free ranging pattern during the day, the aerial track view would look like a giant daisy. The cochins and orps in the middle and the SFHs running out and back as they check on various things of interest.
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KYTinpusher said:
So sorry to hear about your loss.
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I thought a couple of my young ones had it last year, but after treating them and reading this thread and some of the Marek's threads, I decided it was probably a vitamin deficiency. Both of them were from the same hatch and back then I used the medicated feed. One was about 4 weeks old when it came down with it, the other was about 17 or 18 weeks. I lost the younger one before I learned about the vitamins, but the other pulled through and is doing fine. I now use only non-medicated organic feed from hatch on and have not had any more problems.

How old were yours? Did you start them on medicated feed and were you giving them vitamins?
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we have not had any vitamin deficiencies, we have one hen that has a leg that has issues kinda like lame she can walk but it slides out to the side sometimes(I guess she misses the breeding pen)
 
Bulldogma said:
Quote: ROFL... you haven't watched the tanks go off down the yard 'en masse' after something somebody thought they saw... these guys are awesome foragers too. then again back when the breed originally became noted, they didn't have feed mills to head off to for chick feed and layer pellets. LOL the dorking can trace it's roots back nearly 2000 (or more!) years, to the Roman Empire (who later introduced them into britain). so they had to get good at finding food, or they didn't last long I think.
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