The Wyandotte Thread

[delisha]

Greetings! Can anyone give the skivvy on what's up with Paul's Wyandotte website? Are they no longer breeding?

They have stuff posted for sale..I do not see anything different than normal on the site. Perhaps you are seeing something I am not.

 

[delisha]

Quote: Your Dorking looks beautiful

 

[WyandotteTX]

Greetings! Can anyone give the skivvy on what's up with Paul's Wyandotte website? Are they no longer breeding?

Paul's has been out of business for several years now. He sold out of all of his birds and no longer in the chicken business the last I had heard. For some reason he still has his website up though. There is a whole lot more to the story but I will not expand on that here.

 

[WyandotteTX]

Yes Rr cocks have better fertility than HZ RR combed males. There are tons and tons of studies done on the rose comb and some even are on Wyandottes.

This is true but it does not apply to all Rose Combed breeds though as the Mediterranean RC breeds do not lack fertility whether it be Minorcas, Leghorns or Anconas.
The key for Wyandottes is almost never use a male for breeding who is over a year and half old. They will not gain fertility until May or June most of the time if they are older than that.

 

[dracoe19]

This is true but it does not apply to all Rose Combed breeds though as the Mediterranean RC breeds do not lack fertility whether it be Minorcas, Leghorns or Anconas.
The key for Wyandottes is almost never use a male for breeding who is over a year and half old. They will not gain fertility until May or June most of the time if they are older than that.

Do they just stop producing sperm or their sperm levels drop? The two males I am getting nothing out at the moment are over the 1.5 year mark. One of them gave me a fertile egg the other day though after I plucked his butt fluff. I am hoping to get sperm samples from all three of my roosters and look at them under the microscope to take a look.

 

[ki4got]

Quote: if you're talking about http://www.paulspoultry.com it still says 'updated for 2011' at the header... so just slightly out of date possibly.

 

[ki4got]

Quote: Your Dorking looks beautiful
thanks... type and color are excellent, now we just need to work on building up the size. they're still a bit smaller than the standard calls for. the standard says 9 lb for roos, 7 for hens, and i'm lucky to get 6-7 pounds on a roo and maybe 5-6 on a hen... at least in the silver greys. my reds are larger, but still not up to the standard...

that's where they differ from the 'dottes... most varieties of the Wyandottes seem to have it more 'together' as a whole... then again they're also more popular and not in danger of being lost, while the dorking is still considered 'critical' last time I looked at the albc

 

[OohLaLa]

My Silver laced thinks she is an acrobat, this is her favorite run perch. If she wants a drink she just dips under for it...can we say spoiled or what.

 

[PeakyBeaky]

Yeh-it's been the same for 2 years-even the sales stuff.

if you're talking about http://www.paulspoultry.com it still says 'updated for 2011' at the header... so just slightly out of date possibly.

 

[Scott H]

My Silver laced thinks she is an acrobat, this is her favorite run perch. If she wants a drink she just dips under for it...can we say spoiled or what.