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04/25/09, 05:57 PM
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I have Barred Rock. Are they old fashioned?
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04/25/09, 07:14 PM
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I love boobies
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we raise Spangled Hamburgs.
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04/25/09, 07:53 PM
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I raise delaware and barred rock
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04/25/09, 07:57 PM
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I have Dominicks, Barred Rock, RIR, and a White Leghorn for fullsized breeds.
Anyone need some Dom Roos?
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04/25/09, 09:39 PM
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I like to mix it up - Barred Rocks, Delawares, Blue Laced-red Wyandottes, Isa Browns. Who knows what I will try next. I am not one to try to keeping a breed going just because it exists. The breed has to have something to offer. Eggs, meat, cute, something!
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04/25/09, 09:53 PM
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White Leghorns, RIR, Cochins, Aracana.
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04/25/09, 10:12 PM
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Americauna, Barred Rock, Silver & Gold Laced Wyandotte, RIR, Buff Orpington, Black Jersey Giant, Brahma. I like the RIR and Buff Orp the best.
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04/25/09, 10:23 PM
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I have several breeds, but the ones I hope to start raising (not counting my chickens before they start laying!) are Buff and Buff-laced Wyandottes.
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04/26/09, 12:29 AM
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We have some Black Orphants and Rhode Island reds. They really are "old school birds" but they were hatched in incubators under strict government regulations instead of the old fashoned way with their mother hens teaching them how to live properly. They wont scratch through the grass for bugs, they want me to bring them everything directly to their pen. Food must be presented in proper containers on schedule or their union boss just has fits. One egg per hen per day seems to be their "quota", theres no more of that having "a chicken and a half laying an egg and a half in a day and a half" business. The roosters are now pretty much henpecked, cant get them to even look at a deck of cards much less drink a beer on a saturday afternoon. Instead of crowing in the morning for a wake up call, I get more of a whine and whimper about its time for me to feed them. Oh, How I long for the good ol days when a hen knew her place in the order of things and a rooster knew his job and didnt have to ask the governments permission to do it! 
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04/26/09, 06:33 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Yvonne's hubby
We have some Black Orphants and Rhode Island reds. They really are "old school birds" but they were hatched in incubators under strict government regulations instead of the old fashoned way with their mother hens teaching them how to live properly. They wont scratch through the grass for bugs, they want me to bring them everything directly to their pen. Food must be presented in proper containers on schedule or their union boss just has fits. One egg per hen per day seems to be their "quota", theres no more of that having "a chicken and a half laying an egg and a half in a day and a half" business. The roosters are now pretty much henpecked, cant get them to even look at a deck of cards much less drink a beer on a saturday afternoon. Instead of crowing in the morning for a wake up call, I get more of a whine and whimper about its time for me to feed them. Oh, How I long for the good ol days when a hen knew her place in the order of things and a rooster knew his job and didnt have to ask the governments permission to do it! |
You think yours are bad? I have a pair of roosters, a barred rock and a RI that are a couple. The barred rock lays in his nest everyday and makes all sorts of clucking noises like he's laying an egg. I'm thinking of checking our insurance since I heard some are covering gender surgery now. It's quite amusing to watch them though....
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04/26/09, 06:48 AM
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Hilarious dixie 
Even on the old time breeds the hatcheries have about ruined them. Skinny things with a pitiful carcass who lay a disproportionate number of eggs compared to the old days.
You can still get older genetics from breeders though if you look around. There were some real Buff Orpingtons at our local fair who I swear were almost knee high...
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04/26/09, 09:56 AM
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Over the years we have kept hens, no roosters at our house in the burbs. Roosters make too much noise for the neighbors. If one of the hens gets broody, we buy day old chicks and slip them under the hen while she sleeps, and steal the unfertilized eggs she is sitting on. We have had chicks raised beautifully by a New Hampshire red, black austrolorpe and americana. It was wonderful, no heat lamps!
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04/26/09, 10:26 AM
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We have barred rocks and RIR. I want some old-fashioned dominickers, but can't find any around here. I am told they are white with black dots instead of the black lines on the barred rocks.
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04/26/09, 11:45 AM
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04/26/09, 12:11 PM
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Firegirl, no, Dominiques have always been barred. They and Barred Rocks were all the same breed at one time, but people started separating them around a hundred years ago or so (just like all the Collie breeds were one breed at one time, until people started selectively breeding certain strains). Originally the only difference was that the Dominiques had rose combs, while the Barred Rocks had single combs. There's now a size difference, and BR's lay a bit better, and go broody less often. You may be thinking of Anconas -- they are white with black spots/splotches. I've never had any but think they are pretty, and they are supposed to lay about as well as Leghorns (they are closely related to Leghorns).
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04/26/09, 12:23 PM
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well i have none...i've been investigating raising chickens but have worried about my cats eating them ..they'll take down a full size rabbit..
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04/26/09, 04:22 PM
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What's an old fashioned chicken? 
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04/26/09, 05:01 PM
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Quote:
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If they do the disco...they are old fashioned!
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04/26/09, 05:49 PM
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I have marans, in copper black, (a splash in the brooder) and Blue/Black/Splash, I am growing out some Mottled Javas, some Orpingtons, and have some silkies and cochins for broodies, plus a handful of misc. others, a turken, oh, and some olive eggers, those are not old fashioned. I have midget white and bourbon reds in the incubator, as well as more mottled javas, marans, silkies and cochins. Silkies are about as old fashioned as you can get, but they are not endangered.
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