YES! So excited about this video, always love your updates, and seeing the birds. Everything looks great. Cold here in PA, but first batch of 2022 chicks is a week old, and second is in the incubator.
It's good to hear from you, hope you're feeling better these days. You've contributed alot of teaching for us poultry keepers, and I hope you'll decide to continue!
enjoyed the update, would love to see more on the Polands and Andalusians especially, and the breeding genetics. Take care of yourself and enjoy your birds whether you continue with the videos or not.
It's all right with crossing different birds if that is what you want to do. I did that as a kid. I showed some pure birds for a time. But I wanted to experiment. If I sold some birds, I would be upfront about what they were, either pure or crossed. Today, all my birds are pure, but I am working with different lines (with care). I have a fairly rare breed, Partridge Chantecler, and if you go back a ways, so many of them in Ontario are somewhat related. I just started with the breed last year, this is my first year of breeding. So I got 3 different lines that have about a 5 year separation. I got one really good show line, I got a production line (really good layers and meat), and another line that the owner has been working on for 5 years for show, but never got to showing because of bird flue.
Hello. Enjoy your videos especially the ones you telling why you are picking them for your breeding program. Can you do one on your blue Andalusian. Can you explain the color blue in chicken's.
Thank you. Here's a video on blue: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--FCplQsAt4E.html I did not breed the Andalusians pure this past year, but did film a video today explaining an outcross I made and what I hope to accomplish with it that will get uploaded sometime soon.
Great Video! What breed of pigeons are those you are working with now? I don't breed many pigeons, mostly just my ringneck doves, but still have one older pair of Saxon Fairy Swallows, and my brother got's his pair of red and white homers, they are on squabs now.
combination of things. for the pigeons we use those blue plug in dog waterers. for the rest of the birds it depends on the daytime temps. combo of access to snow, liquid water on the days where it doesn't freeze almost immediately, and soaking oats in water and mixing the the oats into the feed daily help with moisture intake
