Tatanka Breeders Club: Meat Quail project with history, discussion, pictures and videos

[MobyQuail]

 

[MobyQuail]

 

[MobyQuail]

did this for 2 weeks to pick my best egg layers

 

[MobyQuail]

and only setting the best of the best eggs

 

[heritagehabitatfarms]

 

[yinepu]

NICE eggs Moby!

 

[mochicken]

You keep amazing records Moby, great job

 

[MobyQuail]

some of my better layers avg egg weights in bold, I separated ~27 hens and did this for 2 weeks to see who laid what, how often and how big.
I am only setting eggs from my biggest birds which lay the bigger better looking eggs...

 

[SiTran]

Hey Doc.!

Just finished your thread. A good read. Just wondering if you know how many generations it took buttercup or prof. fat daddy to get the Tatanka. I got the impression they were the ones who gave you some eggs.

Would love to see more videos of your setup! Does the wood pullets you put in their poop tray really keep the smells down? Maybe I should ask why you put the pullets in there?

SiTran

 

[MobyQuail]

Well. lets see. The way I understand it The real wheels of this operation are Fatdaddy and Mille.

Buttercup in Texas ordered jumbo brown eggs from 5 different breeders from all over the place.

She hatched them, brooded them and kept the largest.

From this 1st generation, her "buttercup browns", she sparked the pay it forward and sent eggs to several stewards. She also sent goldens and whites to people.

Fatdaddy, opted for the jumbo browns. he hatched the second generation and brooded them up,

chose the largest and put them in a pen.

He sent started sending eggs to stewards from this 2nd generation of "co-op" birds.

Mille, Tonya and I got birds from this brood. Bill hatched and brooded a total of 5 generations and sent out over 200 dozen eggs from all those birds back across the nation.

Mille, Tonya and I hatched our 3rd generation of what we now started calling "Tatankas" as a funny tag to how they looked like little buffalos in the brooder compared to anything else, also coming from the plains of kansas, and since Bill spent so much time and money, it was time to give him naming credit and it worked...

Mille, kept the browns pure and big, and started pumping them out, I would say he may be at 7-8 generations now, and he has sent out the bulk of the tatanka eggs over the past couple months.

Tonya started developing the egg laying ability of the 'tanks to its fullest and has to be 7-8 gennies deep right now. She also got a couple more influxes of stock from me, mille and fatdaddy across our generations over the past year.

I took those 3rd generation birds and crossed them to my 2nd generation of whites and that outcross- created the buttercup>tatanka>white buffalo "line" and a move to add a color to the "tatanka" brown line.

Those 4th generation "splits"- I chose the largest, fastest growing 1 male and 1 female and crossed them, hatched out 30 eggs over a month in 5 different settings and grew up that 5th generation of "co-op" birds.

I sent eggs to dt, stoney, digger, tonya, shicken, and other byc members, those eggs were from f3, and f4 birds- mine are all "splits" capable of carrying a recessive white gene and spitting out a white "buffalo" chick at any time down the road.

I crossed my 5th generation "tatankas" back to grandparent cockbird for a 6th generation, crosse them to robbies James Marie whites for a 6th generation of birds with plans to backcross those birds to a previous generation of my "splits" for a 7th generation of "co-op" or tatanka birds.

So, with DT hatching like mad, and with mille's bators humming...

and looking ahead to a fall "tatanka" egg swap, I am thinking somebody, somewhere, may be hatching their 10th generation of lil brown co-op birds, we call "Tatanka"...