4-Hgirl --- Me and my animals

[4-Hgirl]

Do you get the Poultry Press??? Newpaper....You might be able to find some of what you are looking for... maybe if someone is coming to a show near you... often here in the east, we will have someone going to a show and ask them to pick up birds from someone else that was able to carry some to the show...
I do not know anyone way out your way...

I much better understand what you are doing... and why getting the males for breeding... did not realize you had that many other females available for breeding at home......

I hate getting eggs shipped in, but getting chicks is more expensive but much more likely for them to live and grow then taking a chance on shipped eggs and them getting shook up too much.

I don't get the poultry press.

I breed the roos that do the best in the show to my hens that do the best.

I only get my standard hens from Runnings so they are just the hatchery production kind so maybe if I can't find any purebreds I could find eggs somewhere. I don't have an incubator but the 4-H office lady has one that she leaves at the 4-H office and said I could use it so maybe....

 

[4-Hgirl]

here are some pics of my Barred Plymouth Rock cockerel

 

[4-Hgirl]

here is a pic of one of my BPR hens she is a hatchery production kind

you can see on like her chest and back her pattern get muddled and smokey and her beak has quite a bit of black on it. all my hens coloring is like that...then look at this pic my new purebred cockerel

he has clear barring which is not muddled or smokey anywhere and his beak is yellow. he is also much bigger then the hens and he will still get bigger.

 

[fuzzi]

Handsome boy!

I like how you're informed about the standards for the breeds.

 

[4-Hgirl]

Handsome boy!

I like how you're informed about the standards for the breeds.

thanks......I didn't even know that purebreds and production were a thing until last year when I was showing some of my birds at county fair and the judge said that she was just a production bird.

 

[farmerjan]

Good for you to learn and realize that there is a difference between a production bird and a true purebred that is bred to conform to a color pattern and type.... Yes, the production barred rocks are plymouth rocks, and they have the basics, but are not bred for type and color like a good show line... They are very GOOD at what they are bred for... PRODUCTION.... and they have the basic color pattern... But like you have learned from that judge... there are subtleties in the color, the barring and beak and leg color that make a bird a good representative of the breed.
Barred patterns are the hardest for me... hence, I do not have anything with a barred pattern... Bless your heart for wanting to breed what is a very hard color pattern to breed. You are a better person than me for that !!!!!
He looks pretty nice for a young cockerel....