Tolbunt Polish

[racuda]

She looks nice.

 

[MarshallPrime]

So i just bought my 1st tolbunt polish at the county fair and had a couple questions: (It is a hen)

1. How good of layers are they and what should I expect? They said she has been laying for a month or so.
2. What size eggs do they lay?
3. What would have been a good price for a laying hen just over a year old?
4. Are they sitters or do they go broody often?

any other info would be great. I have other breeds (Isas, BC Marans, BLRWyandottes) but this is my 1st polish ever.

thanks

I will post a pic when I get a chance over the weekend. I just LOVE her colors.

 

[debs_flock]

So i just bought my 1st tolbunt polish at the county fair and had a couple questions: (It is a hen)

1. How good of layers are they and what should I expect? They said she has been laying for a month or so.
2. What size eggs do they lay?
3. What would have been a good price for a laying hen just over a year old?
4. Are they sitters or do they go broody often?

any other info would be great. I have other breeds (Isas, BC Marans, BLRWyandottes) but this is my 1st polish ever.

thanks

I will post a pic when I get a chance over the weekend. I just LOVE her colors.

All my polish have always been very good layers, basically an egg a day per hen for most of the year. They lay a large, bright white egg. I sell a hen for $60+ depending on the quality of the hen and I give breaks to kids and people I like that I know will give a good home. I've never had one of my polish (Tolbunt, WCB & bantam SL) ever go broody (probably just jinxed myself).

 

[racuda]

1. How good of layers are they and what should I expect? They said she has been laying for a month or so.
2. What size eggs do they lay?
3. What would have been a good price for a laying hen just over a year old?
4. Are they sitters or do they go broody often?

1. My best layers lay about 5 eggs per week and my worst lays 1 or 2 eggs a week.
2. Size varies from medium to large.
3. Price varies greatly with quality, depending on major defects or minor faults such as crooked toes, wry tail, crossbeak, bad tail set, poor crest, etc. I've given away birds with faults and sold nice ones for $100.
4. I've only had one go broody and she does it every two or three months.

 

[fowlman01]

1. My best layers lay about 5 eggs per week and my worst lays 1 or 2 eggs a week.
2. Size varies from medium to large.
3. Price varies greatly with quality, depending on major defects or minor faults such as crooked toes, wry tail, crossbeak, bad tail set, poor crest, etc. I've given away birds with faults and sold nice ones for $100.
4. I've only had one go broody and she does it every two or three months.

 

[fowlman01]

crooked toes crossed beak and wry tails are not minor faults.

Walt

 

[racuda]

crooked toes crossed beak and wry tails are not minor faults.

Walt

Correct, they are major defects, as I wrote in my post. I indicated a gamut of problems, from major to minor.

"major defects or minor faults such as crooked toes, wry tail, crossbeak, bad tail set, poor crest"

 

[fowlman01]

Just trying to clarify as it does not indicate which faults are minor and which ones are major. To me all the faults listed are major faults. The ones I mentioned in my post are the most serious but all you listed are serious.

Walt

 

[racuda]

Just trying to clarify as it does not indicate which faults are minor and which ones are major. To me all the faults listed are major faults. The ones I mentioned in my post are the most serious but all you listed are serious.

Walt

I see what you're saying. The way that I read the 2010 edition of the SOP is that wry tail, and deformed beak are "disqualifications" A smallish crest or tail that is not 40 degrees on a hen or 45 degrees on a cock (unless it is a squirrel tail) would be a point deduction, and so is a pinched tail. Crooked toes are also a point deduction, although I personally cull for that.

I would recommend that everyone get a copy of the "American Standard of Perfection"

 

[fowlman01]

I see what you're saying. The way that I read the 2010 edition of the SOP is that wry tail, and deformed beak are "disqualifications"  A smallish crest or tail that is not 40 degrees on a hen or 45 degrees on a cock (unless it is a squirrel tail) would be a point deduction, and so is a pinched tail. Crooked toes are also a point deduction, although I personally cull for that.

I would recommend that everyone get a copy of the "American Standard of Perfection"

I would recommend everyone get the 2010 also. I am the chairman of the APA Standard Committee.

Walt