tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16557936348611469382024-03-24T23:10:08.272-07:00The Official PoultryBookstore.com BlogChristine Heinrichshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02338202887056577215noreply@blogger.comBlogger774125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1655793634861146938.post-56248402559465036192017-03-21T13:54:00.001-07:002017-03-21T13:54:23.414-07:00Brahmas<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Brahmas are tall, stately chickens stepping gracefully
across the pasture. Their brows overshadow their eyes a bit, giving them a
serious look. Feathers extend down their legs and cover their feet. They are
unmistakable.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi5J-jhq6c0" target="_blank">This video posted from Kosovo</a> shows an imposing male. </div>
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Their advocates call them The Majestic Ones. They arrived in
New England ports on sailing ships from China in the mid-19<sup>th</sup>
century along with Cochins, followed by Langshans slightly later. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This light Brahma rooster shows his mild temperament, getting along with his Naked Neck cousin.</td></tr>
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Look for Light and Dark varieties. Light ones are most often
seen, with their white bodies topped at neck (hackle) with black feathers laced
with white edges and ending with a glossy black tail. The color blends from the
white head down over the shoulders. This color pattern is known as Columbian in
other breeds. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Susan Nicolas' Dark Brahma rooster.</td></tr>
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Should you spot the regal step of a bird with the black
markings on golden feathers, you have found a Buff Brahma. The Buff variety is
a later development, created after the buff color became so popular in the late
19<sup>th</sup> century, from Buff Cochins.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Susan's Dark Brahma hen</td></tr>
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The less frequently encountered Dark Brahma roosters and
hens are quite different from each other. The rooster is black from the breast
down to the toes, topped with a silvery white back and head, tapering off to
black feathers laced with white edges.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
lustrous black tail follows him. The hen has her own beauty, each feather
triple-lined with penciled markings, black on steel gray to silvery white.</div>
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</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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The Dark color pattern is the same as Silver Penciled in
Plymouth Rocks and Wyandottes. They are always dressed for the show ring.
Keeping the feathery white feet and legs of Light Brahmas clean takes special
efforts. Barnyard dust is less noticeable on Dark Brahmas’ black leg and foot
feathers.</div>
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Light and Dark Brahmas were included in the first Standard
in 1874. The Buff variety was added in 1924. </div>
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Brahmas have a calm disposition and a stately carriage. They
do not ruffle their feathers without sufficient cause. They are broody and will
raise their own chicks. They don’t mind living indoors if necessary. Breeders
allow them time to achieve their full magnificence, They grow for <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>nine months to a year to reach their full size
and mature plumage. That slow growth may have made them less desirable to
commercial operations looking for a quick return. Poultry lovers who appreciate
their beauty enjoy the time they spend growing those lush feathers and
impressive size.</div>
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Although their large size, 12 lbs. for the mature rooster
and 9 ½ lbs. for the mature hen, has made them attractive to flock owners as
meat birds, they are also good layers of brown eggs. They were originally a
dual purpose breed. Such grand birds are kept for exhibition as well.</div>
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The bantam varieties were developed alongside the large fowl
in the late 19th century. Brahma bantams are large enough to be useful
production birds. At 38 ounces for mature males and 34 ounces for mature
females, they are substantial and make a nice meat bird. </div>
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They are also popular show birds.Bantam Brahmas are among the top 20 breeds shown. </div>
Christine Heinrichshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02338202887056577215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1655793634861146938.post-21266226793484848422017-03-09T21:41:00.000-08:002017-03-16T11:03:10.771-07:00Orloffs<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
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<span class="s2" style="font-size: small; line-height: 14.4px;">Chickens wearing </span><span class="s2" style="font-size: small; line-height: 14.4px;">feathery scarves around their necks stand tall in their yard. A small comb sits on top of the head, above feathery eyebrows. Their ear lobes and wattles are completely covered by feathers. They look fierce, but aren’t alarmed by a visitor. They are Russian </span><span class="s2" style="font-size: small; line-height: 14.4px;">Orloffs</span><span class="s2" style="font-size: small; line-height: 14.4px;">.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Michelle Conrad's rooster shows off his walnut comb</td></tr>
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<span class="s2" style="font-size: small; line-height: 14.4px;">Their </span><span class="s2" style="font-size: small; line-height: 14.4px;">walnut combs</span><span class="s2" style="font-size: small; line-height: 14.4px;">, which may have a few hair-like feathers springing from them,</span><span class="s2" style="font-size: small; line-height: 14.4px;"> don’</span><span class="s2" style="font-size: small; line-height: 14.4px;">t freeze in cold weather. T</span><span class="s2" style="font-size: small; line-height: 14.4px;">heir wattles and ear lobes are small and wouldn’t be affected, even if they weren’t insulated under those feathers. As befits a bird adapted to the Russian climate, these birds are hardy.</span><span class="s2" style="font-size: small; line-height: 14.4px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="font-size: small; line-height: 14.4px;">Their expression is often described as “gloomy” and “vindictive.” </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-size: small; line-height: 14.4px;">They originated in northern Iran’s </span><span class="s2" style="font-size: small; line-height: 14.4px;">Gilan</span><span class="s2" style="font-size: small; line-height: 14.4px;"> province</span><span class="s2" style="font-size: small; line-height: 14.4px;">.</span><span class="s2" style="font-size: small; line-height: 14.4px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="font-size: small; line-height: 14.4px;">They share that Asian game appearance, with their long, strong Malay legs of the local chickens of Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-size: small; line-height: 14.4px;">In Iran, the breed</span><span class="s2" style="font-size: small; line-height: 14.4px;"> was called the </span><span class="s2" style="font-size: small; line-height: 14.4px;">Chilianskaia</span><span class="s2" style="font-size: small; line-height: 14.4px;">. In the late 19</span><span class="s3" style="font-size: small; line-height: 8.4px; vertical-align: super;">th</span><span class="s2" style="font-size: small; line-height: 14.4px;"> century, Russian nobleman Count </span><span class="s2" style="font-size: small; line-height: 14.4px;">Orloff</span><span class="s2" style="font-size: small; line-height: 14.4px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="font-size: small; line-height: 14.4px;">Techesmensky</span><span class="s2" style="font-size: small; line-height: 14.4px;"> brought some to Moscow, where they became known by his name.</span><span class="s2" style="font-size: small; line-height: 14.4px;"> In the 1920s,</span><span class="s2" style="font-size: small; line-height: 14.4px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="font-size: small; line-height: 14.4px;">another </span><span class="s2" style="font-size: small; line-height: 14.4px;">Prince </span><span class="s2" style="font-size: small; line-height: 14.4px;">Orloff</span><span class="s2" style="font-size: small; line-height: 14.4px;">, living </span><span class="s2" style="font-size: small; line-height: 14.4px;">in exile from the Revolution in England</span><span class="s2" style="font-size: small; line-height: 14.4px;">, acquired some </span><span class="s2" style="font-size: small; line-height: 14.4px;">Orloff</span><span class="s2" style="font-size: small; line-height: 14.4px;"> chickens and won some poultry show prizes with them, keeping up the family name and tradition.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">He's king of all he surveys. Or, perhaps, tsar.</td></tr>
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<span class="s2" style="font-size: small; line-height: 14.4px;">They were included in the APA Standard from 1876 through 1888, but were dropped from later Standards. </span><span class="s2" style="font-size: small; line-height: 14.4px;">Bantams are still included in the ABA Standard, but they are not often seen.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-size: small; line-height: 14.4px;">The Spangled variety is most likely to be seen in the U.S., but breeders in Germany and England raise other colors, which American backyarders might keep: white, Mahogany, Black Breasted Red and others. The feathery face </span><span class="s2" style="font-size: small; line-height: 14.4px;">and short, hooked beak</span><span class="s2" style="font-size: small; line-height: 14.4px;"> distinguish this breed’s appearance from any other.</span><br />
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Christine Heinrichshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02338202887056577215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1655793634861146938.post-2929905389801622812017-02-22T10:02:00.001-08:002017-02-22T10:02:10.740-08:00Poultry census<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
The Livestock Conservancy conducted a poultry Census for North America last year. </div>
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Phil Sponenberg, DVM, PhD, advises <a href="http://livestockconservancy.org/" target="_blank">The Livestock Conservancy</a> on breeds. Based on the data collected in the census, he drew some conclusions:<br />
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Chicken breeds present the most challenges in organization
and classification, not least because there are so many of them! Chickens as a
whole have become increasingly popular for both production and as pets, and
this has led to heightened demand for a number of breeds.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Two breeds have managed to graduate off of the list
altogether: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Orpingtons</b> with nearly
16,000 breeding birds, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Wyandottes</b>
with over 21,000 breeding birds. These dual purpose breeds benefit from the
popularity of small flocks. Their easy-going nature, particularly for Orpingtons,
make them favorites. While not a full graduation, both the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Brahma</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Cochin</b>
managed to join the ranks of Recovering breeds due to greater numbers.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Don Monke's lovely White Wyandottes</td></tr>
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To offset the graduations are a few breeds that have been
added to the list. Some of these reflect a recent trend of importation of new
breeds into the USA from a host of countries. In most cases, these are not yet
recognized by the APA. Listing them may seem at variance with the strategy
outlined for turkeys, but when non APA breeds are old established breeds in
their home countries, the Livestock Conservancy has opted to incorporate them
into our priority list. As a result, the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Icelandic</b>
chicken joins the list as Threatened. The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Spitzhauben</b>
joins the list at the Threatened level.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Other, more established breeds have moved around in various
ways. The positive moves include several breeds that moved from Threatened to
Watch: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Andalusian</b>, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Buckeye</b>, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Buttercup</b>, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Delaware</b>, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dorking</b>, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Java</b>, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Langshan</b>, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Phoenix</b>. The Buckeye, especially, has
benefitted from a targeted program of breed recovery, management, and bird
selection that is now being used across other breeds that hope to achieve
similar success in recapturing historically productive types.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Java from Garfield Farm</td></tr>
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Jumping all the way from Critical to Watch include the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Chantecler</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sumatra</b>. The less dramatic jump from Critical to Threatened
includes the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Russian Orloff</b>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gina Bisco's Chantecler male</td></tr>
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Losing ground by moving from Recovering to Watch is the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rhode Island Red</b>. This move
acknowledges the complexity of chicken breeds, because this breed includes many
birds that are not bred to the standard. Equally, many birds promoted as of
this breed are likely not purebred. Sorting through these issues is important
for this useful breed, and will serve as a model for other similar breeds in
the future. Moving from Watch to Threatened are the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Aseel</b>, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Houdan</b>, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Old English Game</b>, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rhode Island White</b>, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sebright</b>.
More troubling are those that move to Critical, including <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">La Fleche</b> (from Watch), and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Malay</b>
(from Threatened).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Robert Gibson's flock of White Houdans</td></tr>
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The CPL changes year to year, and this year has seen more
than a few changes. Most of these have been within poultry breeds. This
reflects the recent census that has shed light on the plight of many of these
breeds. The short life-span and changing demand for these birds makes census a
challenge, and that in turn makes the setting of priorities a difficult
exercise. In the coming year we hope that additional breeders will weigh in and
provide their own census figures to make sure the breeds are accurately placed.
<o:p></o:p></div>
Christine Heinrichshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02338202887056577215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1655793634861146938.post-33189834561883509902017-02-15T10:49:00.001-08:002017-02-15T10:49:42.902-08:00New Breeds
This article appears in the 2016 APA Yearbook:<br />
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Getting a breed or variety recognized in the
Standard is deliberately difficult. The APA confers recognition on a breed or
variety only after thoughtful consideration and convincing evidence that birds
breed true and that it has a significant following.</div>
The process is described in the Standard: <o:p></o:p><br />
<o:p> </o:p><br />
Breed clubs organize their member breeders to
advocate for their breed or variety. Breeders must have been APA members for at
least five years. Those advocating for the breed’s recognition must submit a
written account of the breed’s history and the proposed standard description.
They must produce affidavits from at least five breeders who have raised the
breed for at least five years, affirming that 50 percent or more of the offspring
grow up close to type. <o:p></o:p><br />
<o:p> </o:p><br />
Birds of the breed applying for recognition must
be shown at APA shows at least twice each year for two years. At least four
hens, four pullets, four cocks and four cockerels must be shown. <o:p></o:p><br />
<o:p> </o:p><br />
Judges then submit their opinions of the breed and
a qualifying meet is held. No fewer than 50 birds must be shown at the meet.
Judges expect the birds to resemble each other closely, to establish the breed
type. Birds should come from at least those five breeders who champion the
breed.<o:p></o:p><br />
<o:p> </o:p><br />
Walt Leonard, chairman of the APA’s Standard Revision
Committee, talked with me about breeds and varieties that have achieved
recognition recently, and others that are working on being recognized in the
future. <o:p></o:p><br />
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“The first 40 pages of the Standard are extremely valuable,”
he said. “Read it more than once. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Read
the glossary. See how the chicken is built.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Go beyond the individual breed’s Standard description. The
Standard explains the basics of breeds and exhibition. The APA includes the
economic qualities of the breeds, whether they are known as layers, meat birds,
both, or not so much.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“It’s not just a bag of pretty feathers,” he said. “That’s
why we [judges] handle the birds. When I have that bird in my hands, I feel
literally every part of it. We really do care about the purpose of the bird.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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Mr. Leonard and the other members of the Standard Revision
Committee: Dave Anderson; John Monaco; Donald Barger; and Pat Malone; work
year-round with APA members to improve their birds and help them meet the
Standard.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Ninety percent of
what the Standard committee does is tell people that we are not going to change
the standard to match the birds they have in their backyards,” Mr. Leonard
said.<o:p></o:p></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">New breeds<o:p></o:p></b><br />
<o:p> </o:p><br />
Breeds that have recently succeeded in being added
to the APA Standard include the Black Copper, Wheaten and White varieties of
Marans; the Blue Wheaten variety of Old English Game Bantam; the Splash variety
of Cochin; Ginger Red variety of Modern Game; Self Blue variety of Bearded
Silkie; the American Serama; the Ko Shamo; and the Nankin. <br />
<o:p><br />
Although not previously recognized in the U.S., the
Marans, Serama, Ko Shamo and Nankin have standards in other countries.<br />
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“We try to use the Standard of the country of origin as
often as possible,” he said.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Black Copper Marans</b>
were recognized in April, 2011. Both the breed and the color variety are new to
the Standard. The Wheaten variety was recognized later, in October 2011. The
White variety was recognized in 2014. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bev Davis' lovely rooster</td></tr>
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The preliminary shows and the qualifying meet are not rubber
stamps. They are opportunities for APA judges to work with breeders on the
points that need improvement so that the breed or variety can be recognized. Being
recognized is a process.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“We don’t want them to fail,” Mr. Leonard said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“The Standard committee wants them to get in.
But sometimes people get mad at us.”<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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White Marans were acceptable on their first try, but the
more difficult Black Copper and Wheaten color varieties took a couple of meets
each.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“We saw enough to make some adjustments in the color,” he
said.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Self Blue variety
of Bearded Silkies</b> was recognized in 2010. The lavender color has been
contentious. The APA uses Self Blue as the designation for the color others
call lavender. The APA has decided to continue to use Self Blue as the name for
that color pattern, to avoid confusion with long-standing practice. It’s an
even, light slaty blue color, as compared with the laced blue of the Blue color
pattern. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brenda Gillat's Silkie at the ABA</td></tr>
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The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Splash variety of
bantam Cochins</b> was recognized in 2014. The Splash color variety is slaty
blue and white, in irregular blobs. The main tail feathers and primary wing
feathers have more white than the rest of the body. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Feathersite's photo of a Splash Cochin</td></tr>
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The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ginger Red</b> color
pattern of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Modern Games</b> was
recognized, after a qualifying meet at the 2010 show in Shawnee, Oklahoma, the same
show as the Self Blue Silkie qualifying meet. It’s a bright color pattern, a
variation on Brown Red and Black Breasted Red. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ginger Red Modern Game from the Modern Game Promotional Society</td></tr>
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The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Blue Wheaten</b> variety
of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Old English Game</b> was recognized
in 2014. The difficult blue color is breeding unusually true in this variety of
OEG females. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“These Blue Wheaten females are consistent and they are winning,”
he said. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I don’t know why they are
coming out so good, but the females are winning.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Nankins</b> were
recognized in 2012. They are another old breed that was neglected and are now
getting attention for their many fine qualities. The chicks start dusting
themselves early, and the females are excellent brooders and mothers. The
females’ bright chestnut color compares favorably with Mr. Leonard’s New Hampshires.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Nankin rooster from the Livestock Conservancy</td></tr>
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“They’re active little bantams that fly like a pigeon,” he
said.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Colonial Williamsburg has been influential in breeding
Nankins and bringing them to public notice.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ko Shamo, </b>a
true bantam, was recognized in 2014, in the Wheaten color variety. Although
it’s an ancient breed in Japan, it’s a newcomer to the U.S. poultry scene. It’s
gained popularity in the past decade.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“The qualifying meet for Ko Shamos was the best by far,” Mr.
Leonard said. “They showed 114 birds and they were all good.” </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A pair of Wheaten Ko Shamos from Backyard Chickens</td></tr>
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The Standard description for Ko Shamos requires that they
have a split wing, missing a feather between the primary and secondary wing
feathers. That’s a disqualification in any other breeds, but a requirement for
these.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The chrysanthemum comb is another unique requirement new to
the APA Standard. It starts out looking like a perfect pea comb, then grows
into a chrysanthemum.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Ko Shamo shares a pugnacious nature with other Oriental
breeds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Males dislike other males, so
they must be kept in separate pens. Females can be cantankerous, too. Although
they are small, they hold their ground with larger birds. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“I usually tell people that they are not a beginner’s
breed,” he said. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Mr. Leonard, who raises Ko Shamos himself, stayed out of the
Standard discussions to avoid the appearance of conflict of interest. This
little bird has captured his heart. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“They are cocky
little birds that have a lot of personality,” he said. “They love people and
will interact with you. I’m pretty jaded. Not too many birds get me excited.
But these Ko Shamos are just fun to watch.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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The males engage in ritual behavior. They have an upright
stance, with solid muscular bodies. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“One of their selling points is that they feel like a brick,”
he said. “They are solid, like a Cornish. When I want somebody to like them, I
say: Here, hold this bird. They don’t expect it weigh that much and be that
hard.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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The hens are good layers of eggs that are bigger than would
be expected from a 28-ounce bird. They are good brooders and mothers. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“The strain we have in California reproduce real well,” he
said. “They are like mice. I could have a million of them here if I wanted.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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Ko Shamo chicks are tiny fluffs of energy. Mr. Leonard
describes them as looking like bumblebees. He beds his birds on straw, which
dwarfs them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“The straw looks like telephone poles compared to the
chicks,” he said. “Literally, it looks like they are crawling over logs.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ko Shamos have succeeded across the country. Even cold
climates don’t bother them. When they first arrived from their warm Asian home,
they suffered in cold temperatures. As a breed, they have hardened up.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“The proof is in the
pudding,” he said. “They are out there at shows knocking Cornish out. To go out
and give the established birds a hard time is unusual.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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The American <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Serama </b>was
recognized in 2012 in the White color pattern. This new breed is the smallest
bantam, a tiny handful of feathers. They are gaining popularity as pets. Their
tabletop shows, although not APA certified, are attracting new participants to
poultry.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jerry Schexnayder's Seramas</td></tr>
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“It’s a different spin on poultry shows,” Mr. Leonard said.
“Anything that brings new people into the poultry world is positive.” <o:p></o:p></div>
</o:p>Christine Heinrichshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02338202887056577215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1655793634861146938.post-1194985736084462712017-02-07T09:39:00.002-08:002017-02-07T09:39:37.823-08:00Planning your flockWith so many breeds and varieties, it's hard to choose the one or two that are right for you. Or the one more to add to your flock. The February/March issue of <a href="http://countrysidenetwork.com/magazines/backyard-poultry-magazine/" target="_blank">Backyard Poultry</a> has a Breed Directory of 25 breeds to consider. They are short profiles, to whet your appetite to learn more. <br />
Consider a classic American breed, such as the Buckeye:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chris McCary's Buckeye hen is a good mother.</td></tr>
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A Buckeye is a rich, dark red-colored nut produced by the
tree of the same name. Ohio is the Buckeye State. That’s where the Buckeye
chicken breed was developed. <o:p></o:p><br />
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Recognize them by their buckeye-colored glossy reddish brown
feathers. Don’t confuse them with a Rhode Island Red. The Buckeye is a deeper
mahogany red with some black accents compared to the true red of Rhode Island
Reds. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Buckeyes are heavier and stockier
than the Rhode Island Red. Buckeyes have a pea comb, not the single or rose
comb of the Rhode Island Red. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Buckeyes are vigorous, resilient and disease resistant. They
exemplify the dual purpose ideal, growing to a solid size and laying plenty of
eggs. They are the most active American breed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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They withstand cold winters well, with their
freeze-resistant pea comb. They lay well into the winter. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Buckeyes charm with their engaging personality. They
practically trip their keepers with friendly greetings as they cluster around
their legs. Relations among birds are congenial, with roosters taking a gentle
interest in watching over the flock. Fighting among males is rare. Their social
nature is expressed in a variety of vocalizations, from a purr to a roar,
particularly among the roosters. Their keepers see the dinosaur heritage in
them. <o:p></o:p></div>
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They are good foragers on free range. They like to graze,
and will keep the pasture clipped like a lawn. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<strong>Buckeye<o:p></o:p></strong></div>
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Size: 6 ½ - 9 pounds<o:p></o:p></div>
Egg color: Brown<o:p></o:p><br />
Comb: Pea<o:p></o:p><br />
Plumage: Smooth but fluffy. Glowing color<o:p></o:p><br />
Active, friendly dual purpose breed. Shows well.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<o:p>For more detailed profiles of more than 80 breeds, check out my book, <a href="https://www.quartoknows.com/books/9780760349533/The-Backyard-Field-Guide-to-Chickens.html" target="_blank">TheBackyard Field Guide to Chickens.</a> </o:p></div>
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Christine Heinrichshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02338202887056577215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1655793634861146938.post-47513516312950386762017-02-02T10:45:00.000-08:002017-02-02T10:45:11.229-08:00APA 2016 YearbookThe <a href="http://amerpoultryassn.com/" target="_blank">APA's 2016 Yearbook</a> is now available. The cover photos of a White Rock and a White Wyandotte are a perfect example of two American breeds. The comparison illustrates some of the differences between these two breeds. <br />
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I wrote three articles for the Yearbook: Poultry History Comes to Life; New Breeds and Varieties; and Poultry Marches on: The Livestock Conservancy Counts North American Breeds.<br />
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Poultry History Comes to Life at Living History farms such as Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia. Thanks, Elaine Shirley, for all the work you do keeping those flocks of historic breeds!<br />
Christine Heinrichshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02338202887056577215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1655793634861146938.post-26560513602334304282016-08-16T10:12:00.000-07:002016-08-16T10:12:30.169-07:00APA Flock Inspection programWith increased interest in heritage breed poultry, the American
Poultry Association is stepping up to promote standard breeds. Its new Flock Certification
Program will certify consumer chicken and other poultry with the APA’s
imprimatur.<o:p></o:p><br />
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“We have come to grips with how we will inspect for market
quality and how the flock matches the standard,” said Dave Anderson, APA
president. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Not every chicken with a Standard name will make a good,
productive flock. Hatchery stock may have unacceptable defects. Birds bred for
exhibition may have lost their productivity. Chickens are more than pretty
feathers.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“They need to have good muscle development, fertility, and
egg production,” said Frank Reese, owner of Good Shepherd Poultry Ranch in
Kansas. “This program should help people improve quality and production of
these birds.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the past, the APA inspected flocks, but abandoned that
responsibility 50 years ago. Commercial poultry farms overwhelmed smaller
Standard breed flocks after World War II. The chicken meat business turned to
genetically similar industrially developed chickens, which are unable to mate
and reproduce naturally. They grow to market size in six to seven weeks. If
allowed to grow to maturity, they are hardly able even to walk. Their
underdeveloped immune systems can’t protect them against even ordinary
diseases.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Modern hybrids with flashy names such as Freedom Ranger and
Golden Nugget have been developed to take advantage of the market for chickens
that are raised in better conditions. They may be raised on pasture and fed an
organic diet, but their genetics doom them. They may have unseen internal
abnormalities such as cardiac and skeletal problems.<o:p></o:p></div>
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"Chickens have several serious welfare problems that
come from bad genetics and can be fixed only with good genetics," animal
welfare advisor Temple Grandin wrote in her book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Animals Make Us Human.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Standard breeds have recognizable identity and documented
history. Reviving the inspection program in the 21<sup>st</sup> century will
help standard breed producers justify the higher prices their products deserve.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The APA Standard of Perfection lists all the breeds that
have been described and officially recognized for exhibition at poultry shows.
That’s about 50 different breeds in hundreds of varieties. The first Standard
was published in 1874. Dates are given for every recognized breed. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This Brahma rooster is historically a meat breed.</td></tr>
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That original Standard was written to improve the quality,
uniformity and marketability of poultry flocks. Over the years, its emphasis
changed to focus on poultry exhibitions. Utility became an afterthought,
although the Standard still lists Economic Qualities in its breed descriptions.<o:p></o:p></div>
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‘Standard’ is the operant word, meaning breeds that have
been documented and officially recognized. Heritage, historic, traditional,
antique, heirloom and other words are descriptive, but their meanings vary
slightly and can be stretched and distorted to cover anything. ‘Standard’ is a
word with a defined meaning: If the breed wasn’t in the Standard before 1950, it
can’t get the certification.<o:p></o:p></div>
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APA qualified judges will inspect flocks for their adherence
to the APA written Standard. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“The birds must have the general conformation of their
breed,” said Mr. Anderson. “The flock cannot have more than two percent significant
disqualifications such as roach back. The flock has to have less than 15
percent minor variations from the standard, such as the wrong eye color or side
sprigs on the comb. Of course, the entire flock has to be healthy.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">APA poultry judge Butch Gunderson examines the head of a Buff Cochin at a show.</td></tr>
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Judge-inspectors can offer advice to help the producer
improve his flock. They can help the farmer pick out the best birds for
breeding. Their knowledge, and that of the Standard breed producers they
inspect, will help USDA inspectors learn how to grade Standard-bred birds. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“They are not just coming to judge your birds,” said Mr. Reese.
“They are coming to help you. It should be a learning experience.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mr. Reese is the leading Standard breed poultry producer in
the country. He currently supplies Emmer & Co. with up to 2,000 chickens
every three weeks and Heritage Foods USA with 500 every three weeks. He raises
Barred Rock and New Hampshire chickens, Bronze and Narragansett turkeys, and
other poultry.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mr. Reese, in cooperation with the Livestock Conservancy and
others, has developed a Heritage Breed definition that relies on the APA
Standard. His label has been approved by the USDA and goes on each bird
packaged and sold. Thus far, he is the only producer whose label has USDA
approval.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“The APA will offer a stamp like the USDA to help consumers
make their choices,” Mr. Anderson said. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Certification assures the purchaser that the product they
are buying meets certain standards. The USDA’s Certified Organic label is the
best known. Certifications increase product value. The Certified Organic label
has been so successful in increasing the return to producers that major
retailers claim it, not always honestly. Fraud and lack of clarity as to
standards have resulted in some erosion of its value, but it remains a
significant contributor to farm income and consumer trust. Labels are so
important to consumers and influential on the prices they are willing to pay
that in some areas, such as fish, fraudulently mislabeling is common. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Emmer & Co. can’t keep up with the demand. Reese is
raising as many birds as he can for them and works with other producers to
increase the supply. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“These are true, authentic Standard bred chickens,” Reese
said. “If you will breed them to meet the standards, you will have a marketable
animal,” <o:p></o:p></div>
Christine Heinrichshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02338202887056577215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1655793634861146938.post-74093201564436806682016-08-07T12:59:00.000-07:002016-08-07T12:59:33.044-07:00Cooking heritage chickens --by the season
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As summer draws to a close, farmers look toward the harvest.
Traditionally, the family would work in the fields and enjoy cool chicken
salads for lunch, fried chicken for dinner. As fall unfolded, chicken stew
would warm the family.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The chicken on the menu from traditional breed flocks is
different from the pale plastic-wrapped meat now sold at the supermarket. Particular
dishes are best with chickens of different ages and breeds. Some knowledge is
needed to cook them well.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“There’s no such thing as tough meat,” Joseph Marquette of
Yellow House Farm in New Hampshire, <a href="http://yellowhousefarmnh.com/"><span style="color: blue;">http://yellowhousefarmnh.com/</span></a>,
tells students in the eco-gastronomy program at the Eco-Gastronomy program at
the University of New Hampshire. “Only bad cooking.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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He mellows that to say, “Perhaps inappropriate cooking.” The
time and temperature have to be appropriate to the age and strength of the
chicken, to avoid so much heat that the strong muscles of well-developed
chickens flex instead of relaxing as they cook. Low temperature and long
cooking times can cook any well-raised chicken to heavenly splendor.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Progression in strength is a progression in age and
progression in season,” he says. “Flavor increases with age.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Professional chefs have discovered traditional breed
chickens. Steve Pope, a chef working with Frank Reese’s Good Shepherd Turkey
Ranch in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Lindsborg</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Kansas</st1:state></st1:place>, gets frequent inquiries for the
ranch’s poultry. Events such as the First Annual Heritage Chicken Cooking
Competition held n April 2010 help spread the word. The contest attracted 823
entries and judges of national stature. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p>“Chefs understand that they can use the whole bird in all
their creations,” he says. “They are putting their signature on their
creations.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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A small family flock of 50 birds of a single breed could
provide plenty of meat for a family for a year, and sustain the flock into the
following year. Chicks would hatch in March, April and May, and be culled as
they grow. For the table, chickens progress from broilers to fryers, next to
roasters, and after that to stewing fowl. The farmer would plan on keeping a
dozen hens and two cockerels for the next breeding season. That leaves 36 from
that hatching season, plus older birds, for the table.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The first birds culled are the ones with the most obvious
faults, that the breeder would not consider breeding. They might be culled as
early as four weeks, although usually they grow to be eight to 13 weeks old.
The youngest birds, in French cuisine, are called poussin (pr. poosang).
Technically, this is what all industrial supermarket chicken is, killed at
42-60 days old. Even flavorful traditional breeds don’t have enough time to
acquire much flavor in that short a time.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p>The meat of older traditional breed birds raised in small
flocks is darker because the birds are stronger. Better developed muscles also
become more oily, so that they work well, carrying the bird through the daily
routine of scratching and pecking. Because of their ancestry as upland game
birds, chickens prefer to run from their predators, and only fly up to their
roosts. They develop dark meat legs and thighs, and light breast meat.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“When you have a healthy, strong, able bodied bird, its
muscles are strong, dark and well lubricated,” he says. “Muscles only seldom
used are light and have little lubrication.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Up until 13 weeks of age, the birds are so young that their
muscles won’t flex and cook tough, even when cooked under the intense heat of
the broiler. Hence, their name. Broilers can also be fried and prepared other
ways, but their significant characteristic is that they can be cooked hot and
fast and still be tender.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Birds can be considered fryers from 13 to 20 weeks, with the
ideal age being around 16 weeks. They can be cut up and pan fried, another high
heat cooking method. They can be spatchcocked: cut in half, the backbone and
sternum removed and the half-bird flattened, then grilled that way. Keep the
bird away from the heat, to grill at 275-300 degrees.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sixteen weeks is also a good time to take a serious look at
culling the breeding flock. Quicker growing Anconas, Leghorns and Andalusians
will show obvious flaws by then. You’ll want to give slower growing Dorkings
and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Sussex</st1:country-region></st1:place>
more time to develop.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Some breeds make better fryers than others. Chef Pope
recommends dual purpose breeds such as Barred Rocks and Orpingtons for frying.
They are the traditional breeds to prepare Southern Fried Chicken for summer
picnics. The Colonel’s 11 herbs and spices give flavor to bland industrial
chicks.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p>“That’s what you are tasting, not the chicken,” he says.
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In the fall, after 21 weeks, the birds are roasters. Five to
seven months is the ideal age, depending on the breed. Moist heat, provided by
a cup of liquid such as wine or broth, in a covered roasting pan, at 325
degrees, timed at 25 minutes per pound, warms the kitchen and feeds the family.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Grandma would put that bird into the oven before church,
listen to the pastor and was home when the bird was finished cooking,”<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>says Pope.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Being at church also kept the curious and hungry from
peeking into the pot and releasing the moisture. Hands off to succeed with this
method!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p>R</o:p>oasters can also be dry roasted, on a spit. This method
requires more attention to oil the bird and keep it basted. Olive oil, butter,
bacon, goose or duck fat or any other oil will do. The white meat of the breast
and the dark meat of the thighs require different cooking times. Use a cooking
thermometer to check for done-ness. Cover the breast with a dish towel soaked
in oil or aluminum foil shiny side up, to reflect heat away, and give the legs
time to finish cooking.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Though chicken is a whole bird, it is made of different
cuts of meat,” says Mr. Marquette.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Older birds, the roosters culled during the winter, or birds
from previous years that you don’t want to feed over the winter, become stewing
fowl. These birds have developed full flavor and should not be confused with
industrial chickens tossed in a pot of water and boiled. They can become coq au
vin as well as Grandma’s chicken soup.<o:p></o:p><br />
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Slowly simmer the bird in a bath of liquid until the meat
falls off the bones. The slow moist heat relaxes the strong muscles and
releases flavor. The liquid may be part of the dish, or it can be broth used
later. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Egg breeds may not have the large carcasses of dual purpose
Buckeyes and meat breeds such as Brahmas, but they are delicious and should not
be under-rated. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“If you have a homestead that allows you to hold on to not
only one top cockerel, but top four or six cockerels, you will have your choice
when you set up your breeding pen the following spring,” says Mr. Marquette. “Then
you make the final choice and the others become coq au vin.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Whether you are in a position to keep a small sustaining
flock or are more interested in the cooking, traditional breeds make the best
choice. <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s
cooks are learning how, and their satisfied guests appreciate the effort.<o:p></o:p><br />
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Chef Pope has recipes posted on his web site, <a href="http://www.heritagechef.com/"><span style="color: blue;">www.heritagechef.com</span></a>, and welcomes
additional recipes sent to him at <a href="mailto:spope@orpingtonhill.net"><span style="color: blue;">spope@orpingtonhill.net</span></a>.
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Traditional breeds are best for small backyard flocks. They
have adapted over their history to local conditions. Finding the appropriate
breeds and learning about them is part of the fun. Telling your birds’ story
enriches your experience.<br />
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Doris Robinson, director of the Youth Exhibition Poultry Association,<o:p></o:p><br />
is developing a program to help YEPA members
earn recognition for focusing on heritage breeds that have become rare. She
encourages YEPA members to consider keeping breeds such as Ameraucanas,
Andalusians, Dorkings, Rosecomb and Single Comb Nankins, Buttercups, Minorcas,
Crevecoeurs and Langshans. Aylesbury bantam ducks. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">White Silkie rooster</td></tr>
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The ABA compiles census information on all bantams shown at
ABA shows. It’s extra work for the show secretary, but having facts on the number,
breeds and varieties shown helps ABA leaders know what birds are being raised.
Old English Games remain far and away the most popular bantam, and Silkies have
a strong following. Polish are regaining popularity, especially the White
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ABA President Matt Lhamon of Ohio gets requests almost daily
for the full range of bantam breeds. He usually refers them to the appropriate
breed club, but information about all breeds is available in the Yearbook,
which comes with membership, $25 a year.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“The ABA yearbook alone is worth the price of the
membership,” he said. “If you want to find a bantam, you can find it in the
Yearbook.” </div>
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Lhamon raises Modern Games and
is a member of that breed club.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Modern Game</td></tr>
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“No single breeder can save everything,” he said. “A breeder
needs at least five males and ten females to have a solid foundation. There’s a
difference between multiplying them and keeping a breed going.”</div>
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Bantams that have been on the Inactive list are occasionally
shown, and the breed brought back to Active status. Cornish bantams have
declined in popularity, but the Ko-Shamo, newly recognized in 2013, has
attracted a flurry of new breeders. Their unusual erect stance, split wing, and
sparse feathering mark them as distinctly different from the conventional image
of a chicken.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This KoShamo cock is from Germany, credit feathersite</td></tr>
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Lhamon has updated the ABA books on Silkies and Cochins and
is working to revise the book on Wyandottes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blue and Black Cochins<br />
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Christine Heinrichshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02338202887056577215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1655793634861146938.post-82445611125659914032016-04-28T17:13:00.000-07:002016-04-28T17:13:00.172-07:00Bantams make good mothers
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Bantams are often known for their broodiness and willingness
to be good mothers. Chickens need to be instinctually driven to set for the 21
days required to hatch eggs. Not all chickens retain this natural drive.
Chickens stop laying eggs when they become broody, so breeders who are focused
on egg production select hens who don’t get broody for their flocks. Over time,
many breeds, especially large fowl, have lost the ability to brood their own
eggs. Bantam hens are often willing to hatch any eggs placed under them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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"My Nankin hens will try to hatch a rock," said Mary Anne Harley of the Nankin Club.<br />
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This quality became part of the plot in a book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Flossie and Bossie,</i> published in 1949. “As
a hazel-nut is to a walnut, a Brussels sprout to a cabbage, an Austin to a
Cadillac – so is a Bantam to a regular chicken,” Eva Le Gallienne wrote in her
novel about two bantam hens in a barnyard. Ms. LeGallienne drew on her
observations of her own bantams to write the book. It’s now out of print, but
your local library may be able to locate a copy for you.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Christine Heinrichshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02338202887056577215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1655793634861146938.post-43825806677469459852016-04-26T17:09:00.000-07:002016-04-26T17:09:01.436-07:00Bantams touch the heart
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Bantams come in dozens of colorful varieties. Choose more than one
favorite. Lewis Wright, writing in his 1890 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Illustrated
Book of Poultry</i> about bantams reflects in language of a different time about
advantages that still apply today: <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Many a lady, tired of having nothing to pet but a tom-cat,
has wondered longingly whether she might not keep a few fowls; but looking at
her garden with regretful eyes, has decided that half of it would be needed,
and that she could not spare that; when the happy thought has crossed her mind,
“Why not keep Bantams?” A little space – just that strip which can so easily be
spared – will content <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">them;</i> and as to
crowing, who in the world would mind the voice of a little fellow no bigger
than a pigeon? She is made happy; and even the tom-cat, ousted at first from
his olden place, but who has provided for him a never-ending subject of
interest in the perpetually intense speculation as to the possibility of some
peculiarly tiny chicken coming some day through to the wrong side of the wire –
even he is made happy too. Decidedly, Bantams have their place in the world.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Old English Game bantams</td></tr>
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Christine Heinrichshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02338202887056577215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1655793634861146938.post-29776515734681410982016-04-25T17:06:00.001-07:002016-04-25T17:28:00.818-07:00Kids and Bantams<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From Piper's Bantams: Black; Gold and Silver Sebrights; White; and Modern Game</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Bantams can be a good way for kids to get involved in
poultry. Their small size makes them easy for small hands to manage. Most are
gentler than large fowl birds. With some supervision, kids can take
responsibility for care and husbandry. They are easier for children -- and
adults -- to shampoo for a show.<o:p></o:p><br />
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Poultry can be a lifetime enjoyable hobby or it can lead to a
satisfying career. Leadership is needed in the poultry business. <o:p></o:p>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rosecomb Bantams by Schilling</td></tr>
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Joining the American Bantam Association and getting involved
in YEPA helps young people succeed. The APA and the ABA joined together in 1995
to create a youth program, and YEPA became an independent organization in 2015.
The A.C.E. Program: Activities, Competition, Education is one of the most
popular. Kids get started as young as eight years old, and can continue to
build their knowledge through four levels, to age 21, at which point they can
apprentice to become poultry judges.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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“They learn the basics about pure bred, exhibition poultry,”
said <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Doris
Robinson, director of the Youth Exhibition Poultry Association. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"></span><o:p></o:p> </div>
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The program requires members to learn about their breed and
others, history, husbandry, candling and hatching eggs, health and medications.
They keep notebooks and Health Maintenance Records of their flocks. They track
income and expenses to arrive at a financial summary of their project.<o:p></o:p></div>
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"The kids have to work extremely hard,” says Mrs. Robinson.
“It’s a great reference for kids who want to go to college in poultry. They go
into adulthood with a lot of knowledge.”<o:p></o:p><br />
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More than 1,200 kids are now signed into the program. It is
financed by donations from APA, the Crossroads of America Poultry Show and
others. Individuals and organizations are invited to become supporters. Contact
Mrs. Robinson at 865-717-6270 or through <a href="http://youthexhibitionpoultry.org/" target="_blank">the web site</a>.<o:p></o:p>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of my bantam Sumatras<br />
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</span><br />Christine Heinrichshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02338202887056577215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1655793634861146938.post-8497729972739156722016-03-14T17:29:00.000-07:002016-03-14T17:38:39.661-07:00Blue Copper MaransChris Cameron of Camp Ocean Pines acquired five Blue Copper Marans pullets over the weekend. He had a young cock, too, but he was killed by a predator. So Chris figures he'll have fertile hatching eggs for two weeks. He plans to hatch as many as he can. He's willing to sell them if you are in the Cambria vicinity. Contact him at <a href="mailto:chris@campoceanpines.org" target="_blank">chris@campoceanpines.org</a>.<br />
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Black Copper Marans were the first variety recognized. Here's B.A. Davis' Black Copper rooster:<br />
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Blue Copper Marans aren't yet a recognized color variety, in Marans or any other breed. They are blue where Black Copper Marans are black. Blue Copper reproduces the same way other blue varieties do: incompletely. Typically, about a quarter of the offspring from Blue matings are black, a quarter are splash and half are blue.<br />
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Ryan Masterson sent this chart to explain it:<br />
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There's a lot of useful information there, from legal aspects to coop design. For those who are working to get laws changed to make chicken-keeping legal, Jono Miller's Dozen Tips to Legalize Backyard Chickens in Your Community are especially helpful.<br />
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Free Download, or view on the web. Christine Heinrichshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02338202887056577215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1655793634861146938.post-49284999451486229132016-02-12T11:29:00.001-08:002016-02-12T11:29:49.873-08:00Pacific Poultry Breeders showJeannette Beranger of the <a href="http://www.livestockconservancy.org/index.php/heritage/internal/conservation-priority-list" target="_blank">Livestock Conservancy</a> put the photos she took at the Pacific Poultry Breeders poultry show in Modesto into <a href="https://www.facebook.com/livestockconservancy/videos/10153948571163734/?pnref=story" target="_blank">a slide show and set them to music</a>! Nice job, Jeannette! <br />
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The show was terrific, more than 3,200 birds. It was also the APA National, so there was an APA banquet and meeting. New officers, led by president John Monaco. Retiring president Dave Anderson was praised for his work bringing the APA into financial stability. He was the right man at the right time, serving twice as president. Thanks, Dave.<br />
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John Monaco has years of experience and will move forward with APA's programs. I anticipate a great year for Standard breed poultry. <br />
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“Don't look at them directly,” Rie Henriksen whispers, “otherwise they get suspicious.” The neuroscientist is referring to a dozen or so chickens loitering just a few metres away in the car park of a scenic observation point for Opaekaa Falls on the island of Kauai, Hawaii.<br />
The chickens have every reason to distrust Henriksen and her colleague, evolutionary geneticist Dominic Wright, who have travelled to the island from Linköping University in Sweden armed with traps, drones, thermal cameras and a mobile molecular-biology lab to study the birds.<br />
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As the two try to act casual by their rented car, a jet-black hen with splashes of iridescent green feathers pecks its way along a trail of bird feed up to a device called a goal trap. Wright tugs at a string looped around his big toe and a spring-loaded net snaps over the bird. After a moment of stunned silence, the hen erupts into squawking fury.<br />
Opaekaa Falls, like much of Kauai, is teeming with feral chickens — free-ranging fowl related both to the domestic breeds that lay eggs or produce meat for supermarket shelves and to a more ancestral lineage imported to Hawaii hundreds of years ago.<br />
These modern hybrids inhabit almost every corner of the island, from rugged chasms to KFC car parks. They have clucked their way into local lore and culture and are both beloved and reviled by Kauai's human occupants. Biologists, however, see in the feral animals an improbable experiment in evolution: what happens when chickens go wild?<br />
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Christine Heinrichshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02338202887056577215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1655793634861146938.post-69938486791477786082015-12-15T09:12:00.000-08:002015-12-15T09:12:07.895-08:00My girlsThe girls came out of their run to help me with digging some leaf litter into the soil. They enjoy their work!<br />
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The bantam Sumatras found some greenery to work over.<br />
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Ms. Wyandotte had to get into a planter. She's very bossy.<br />
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Lady Fanny is a Speckled Sussex. She is a senior hen with excellent mothering abilities. <br />
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Pixie is my Peruvian basket hen. She's about the same size as the Sumatras, but her feathers have a purple sheen, while their glisten iridescent green.<br />
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This sweet Ancona is so lovely. Her comb reflects her condition. While she was going through her molt, it was small and shriveled. Now that she is recovering and getting ready to lay again, it is a nice red color and getting bigger. When her comb first started growing, my husband was certain she must be a rooster. he had never seen such a big comb on a hen.<br />
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Blondie, my rosecomb Dorking, the princess of our flock. My personal favorite, but don't tell the other girls.<br />
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A Cuckoo Marans. I look forward to her dark brown eggs again soon. Maybe next week.Christine Heinrichshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02338202887056577215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1655793634861146938.post-62594269813134061452015-12-04T12:15:00.001-08:002015-12-04T12:15:18.631-08:00ABA and APA YearbooksABA president Matt Lhamon remarked the other day that "The ABA Yearbook alone is worth the price of membership." He captured in a few words how encyclopedic and useful these volumes are.<br />
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Both the APA and the ABA publish Yearbooks every year. I'm happy that the APA includes two of my articles in the 2015 Yearbook.<br />
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These Yearbooks are exceptional, compact treasures of information. In an Information Age of the Internet, they are a reminder that some books can't be replaced. Rather than searching electronically for information, just open one of these books and flip through the pages.<br />
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The ABA Yearbook is filled with photos that can acquaint the beginner with breeds, ranging from the Silver Laced Wyandotte and Silkie on the cover to Old English of many colors, Sebrights and Mille Fleur bantams.Experienced breeders can find other contacts, breed clubs can find advocates for their breeds, poultry clubs can find lic4ensed judges. Master breeders are listed. If you want to connect with anything bantam, this is your resource. Well worth the $25 price of a membership, indeed!<br />
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Similarly for the APA Yearbook. Judges are listed, along with photos of many of them. Lots of color photos in the advertisements. The ads in these publications have valuable information not available many other places. And, of course, the articles. Jim Sallee judged the World Gamefowl Expo in the Philippines, and he and Bonnie went to the Hannover, Germany Poultry Show. They tells those stories in the Yearbook's pages.<br />
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Big names in the poultry world contribute to its pages: Frank Reese on What the 'Old Experts' Knew, Mark Fields on Interpreting the Dominique Standard in 2015, Lou Horton on his 20-Year Breeding Program for Buff Wyandotte Bantams, John C. Metzgar on Frizzled Fowls. A report on the 2014 Canadian National, from north of the border.<br />
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I was especially pleased to write about Watt Global Media's collection of original oil portraits, some of which hang in their corporate headquarters lobby.<br />
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These books contain answers to many of the questions you will have in the coming year. Have both at hand. <br /><br />
<span id="goog_1607370693"></span><span id="goog_1607370694"></span>Christine Heinrichshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02338202887056577215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1655793634861146938.post-25207689717037972022015-12-03T11:52:00.000-08:002015-12-03T11:52:07.228-08:00Eggs from pastured hens<h2 class="story-heading" id="story-heading" itemprop="headline">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"> <span style="font-size: small;">The NY Times posted <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/24/business/improving-the-eggs-before-they-are-hatched.html" target="_blank">this encouraging story </a>about a farm raising chickens on pasture for eggs. There are a few more details I'd like to know: What kind of chickens are they raising, and where they get them from; how long do they keep the hens; what do they do with hens who are past laying.</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Whatever the answers are to those questions, this farm and the news story about it represent a huge change for the better. Some day, all eggs people eat will come from hens who are living good lives. </span></span></h2>
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CITY, Calif. — A decade ago, a couple running a dairy business in
Northern California visited a Mennonite farm where the owner had used a
flock of laying hens to teach his children business principles and
instill values like responsibility and care for nature.</div>
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returned home and bought 150 hens for their boys, Christian and Joseph.
“My parents told us, you and Joseph are in charge of keeping these 150
birds alive,” recalled Christian Alexandre, who now heads the family’s
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started as a parental effort to instill solid values has become the
mainstay of Alexandre Family EcoDairy Farms. Within five years,
Christian and Joseph were tending 1,500 hens and had a deal in place to
supply eggs to Whole Foods stores in Northern California. Christian
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rusty red chickens foraging in the fields outnumber the cows 10 to 1 —
and the roughly five million eggs they will produce this year command
prices that make organic milk look cheap. “The egg business has kept the
dairy going for several years,” Blake Alexandre, Christian’s father,
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<span class="visually-hidden">Read the rest of the story <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/24/business/improving-the-eggs-before-they-are-hatched.html" target="_blank">here.</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"> </a></span>
Christine Heinrichshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02338202887056577215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1655793634861146938.post-58201132753548222762015-10-22T10:19:00.002-07:002015-10-22T10:19:34.166-07:00How to Safely Dress Up Your Backyard Chickens for the Holidays<div class="singlePostContent">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">This delightful story was posted on Backyard Poultry in 2014. it's okay to have fun with your chickens. </span></span></h2>
<figure class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_9210" style="width: 480px;"><img alt="chicken-clothes" class="wp-image-9210" height="667" src="http://www.backyardpoultrymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/ChickenDress1-721x1024.jpg" width="470" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="figcaption_attachment_9210">Dress and photo by Holly Olejnik.</figcaption></figure>
Olivia Dougherty, who lives in Delaware, Maryland, created her
chicken clothes for a contest, sponsored by Cooptastic, one of the
nation’s premier educational conferences dedicated to small and backyard
poultry flock. And each conference holds a chicken costume contest.<br />
“It’s along the lines of the lamb- and sheep-dressing contests
frequently held at 4-H shows,” said Brigid McCrea, PhD, associate
professor at Delaware State University and extension poultry specialist
who organizes and helps judge the conference’s contest.<br />
“Audience loves it to pieces,” McCrea continued. “Not only for the
creativity but also for the conversation. It provides an opportunity for
people to converse with one another and to talk to other poultry
people.”<br />
<figure class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_9212" style="width: 494px;"><a href="http://www.backyardpoultrymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/ChickenKitchen.jpg"><img alt="chicken-clothes" class="wp-image-9212" height="225" src="http://www.backyardpoultrymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/ChickenKitchen-1024x475.jpg" width="484" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="figcaption_attachment_9212">Leona Palumbo’s chicken, Kevin, helps out in the kitchen.</figcaption></figure>
For her entry in the contest, Dougherty designed a “Superman” cape,
complete with an egg logo. “I made it for my favorite chicken who is our
biggest, white and black, ‘Supersize’ chicken.” Although her family no
longer has chickens, if she were to design future chicken clothes for
costumes, Dougherty thinks it would also have a superhero theme, along
the lines of a Chicken Spiderman.<br />
Dougherty does have goats and a pig and she admits to dressing them
with collars, necklaces and little blankets. She has also dressed up her
dog up as a lady bug and has put tiny shirts on her cat.<br />
“It’s fun,” she says of the experience.<br />
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<b>Holidays </b></h3>
<figure class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_9215" style="width: 480px;"><a href="http://www.backyardpoultrymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/ChristmasGuyGirlChicken.jpg"><img alt="chicken-clothes" class="wp-image-9215" height="342" src="http://www.backyardpoultrymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/ChristmasGuyGirlChicken-1024x744.jpg" width="470" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="figcaption_attachment_9215">A holiday chicken. Photo by Dead End Acres.</figcaption></figure>
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For some, the urge to put their backyard
poultry in chicken clothes simply comes from a need. Kelly Nichols of
Bloomville, New York, wanted to do a Facebook Christmas card, and
decided what better subjects to use than a kid and her chicken? Nichols
also works with a few of her hens to participate in agility challenges
as well as hen therapy.</div>
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“It has been difficult,” said Nichols of the
designing aspect. “I’ve tried a few dog outfits, but they just don’t fit
right. I make our own chicken clothes. We’re pretty lucky; we have a
couple different hens that will be patient enough to let me pattern on
them.”</div>
<figure class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_9213" style="width: 480px;"><a href="http://www.backyardpoultrymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/HolidayDress.jpg"><img alt="chicken-clothes" class="wp-image-9213" height="668" src="http://www.backyardpoultrymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/HolidayDress.jpg" width="470" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="figcaption_attachment_9213">Kevin with Santa. Photo by Leona Palumbo.</figcaption></figure>
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<b>Raise Awareness </b></h3>
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Some people, like Jennifer Pike, of Florida,
became inspired to dress their flock in chicken clothes on a whim. “I
was shopping with my mom at a store and came across a cute teddy bear
outfit. We started joking about how people dress up dogs, and I said I
was going to get it to put on my house chicken for a cute picture … and
that started it all.”</div>
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Pike, who said she suffers from depression,
also sees posting her chickens in their chicken clothes on Facebook as a
way of bringing enjoyment to others, and has helped her connect with
others who also use chickens as a means of coping.</div>
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“I liked posting funny pics of my chickens,”
Pike said, “as raising chickens can be a heartbreaking hobby and many
people who I chat with on forums. … The cute pictures bring smiles to
people and also get non-chicken people interested in how chickens can be
neat pets.”</div>
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Throughout the years, Sophie’s chicken
clothes for her favorite pet Silkie chicken have included: a pirate
costume, a police officer, a cheerleader, a bride, a Santa suit and a
rain jacket. Pike has also had her chickens wear barrettes in topknots
in shapes of bows or flowers along with a chicken diaper when they went
to stores.</div>
Everywhere Pike takes a dressed-up chicken, people can’t help but
stop and ask questions. “Kids seemed very interested as well as parents.
They never knew how diverse the looks of chickens could be or how
sweet. Sophie traveled with me in my truck everywhere. She often rode in
my lap, looking out the window glass or in a towel sitting in my seat
console.”<br />
Once, Sophie said, a lady at a drive-through got so scared of the
chicken — “a little fluffy chicken with a hair barrett and a flowered
diaper” — that another lady had to hand her the food.<br />
“Eventually she started asking questions and became less afraid,” Sophie said.<br />
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<b>Bring Joy </b></h3>
Holly Olejnik from Huntington Mills, Pennsylvania, first started
dressing up her chicken, Cheep Cheep, four years ago for a Halloween
contest on Facebook. “Everyone loved her and went nuts on how well she
took to being photographed.”<br />
That was only the beginning. Cheep Cheep’s chicken clothes are fairly small now with about 30 dresses.<br />
<figure class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_9216" style="width: 480px;"><a href="http://www.backyardpoultrymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/ChickenFairyDress.jpg"><img alt="chicken-clothes" class="wp-image-9216" height="584" src="http://www.backyardpoultrymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/ChickenFairyDress-824x1024.jpg" width="470" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="figcaption_attachment_9216">Dress and photo by Holly Olejnik.</figcaption></figure>
“We donate all that she has worn to family and friends that have
little ones on the way,” Olejnik says of Cheep Cheep’s dresses. “All the
chicken clothes that she wears are bought from thrift stores or yard
sales. We shop in the children’s department or look for Halloween
costumes that look fun. My grandmother Carolyn Gensel loves to go
hunting for my next dress to post to Facebook. She carries a photo of me
and shows off her grand-chicken to anyone wondering who the pretty
dress is for.”<br />
Cheep Cheep has quite the Facebook following from around the world.
In fact, Olejnik says, “A lot of her friends, if they are in the area on
vacation, ask if they can come meet her in person because she has
brought so much joy and smiles into their life.”<br />
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If you’re interested, Cheep Cheep’s Facebook
fan page is “Cheep Cheep Olejnik,” and her regular profile page is
“CeeCee Olejnik.”</div>
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<b>Functional Attire </b></h3>
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Sometimes, chickens need functional
accessories like aprons (for protection against a rooster’s nails) and
diapers (for, well, you know). Julie Baker, owner of Pampered Poultry
(pamperyourpoultry.com) decided that if a bird has to wear functional
chicken clothes, then it might as well look pretty. She has made
designer chicken clothes, including floral chicken diapers and has added
ruffles to chicken aprons to make them look more like attractive summer
dresses.</div>
<figure class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_9211" style="width: 480px;"><a href="http://www.backyardpoultrymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/ChickenSaddle.jpg"><img alt="chicken-clothes" class="wp-image-9211" height="430" src="http://www.backyardpoultrymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/ChickenSaddle.jpg" width="470" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="figcaption_attachment_9211">Designer chicken attire by Julie Baker. Photo by Julie Baker.</figcaption></figure>
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<b>Plain Old-Fashioned Fun</b></h3>
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And then there is Kevin, the chicken that just showed up in Leona Palumbo’s driveway one day.</div>
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“I never had chickens nor did I know much
about them,” Leona said. “My husband found her in a tree next to our
driveway and brought her in to me as a joke, and she fell instantly
asleep on my lap and it was love at first sight from there. We put
flyers up about her around the neighborhood, but never heard from
anyone. It quickly became apparent that potty issues needed to be dealt
with, so I did a quick search online on a lark for ‘chicken diapers,’
and lo and behold, several designs popped up. I picked out the one I
thought would work and ordered it. It works great and she fit in at home
inside with all of our other pets just fine.”</div>
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Then one day, she bought Kevin a Christmas sweater.</div>
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“To be perfectly honest, I don’t know why the
heck I bought it and put it on her … I really don’t. I just did and it
she was so calm and easy going about it that it just became a thing we
did and took pictures of. … We try to do holidays and family events and
just fun things. I keep her page completely free of hot-button topics
and I am amused and pleased at the incredibly varied following she has
acquired in a very short time.”</div>
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Most people think it is fun, says Palumbo,
but she has gotten some negative comments from animal activist types who
think it is mean.</div>
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“But they just don’t know how loved and
spoiled Kevin is. We never do anything that makes her uncomfortable and I
swear, she even knows what’s going on as she sits so calmly, and once
the picture is taken, she goes off again on her little way. Some other
people have remarked that they can’t believe I let a chicken on my
counters and furniture. Well, ‘That’s why there is soap and water in the
world,’ I usually remark. Kevin is my pet, no different than my cats,
dogs or other animals, and she is just as loved and welcome anywhere in
my home.”</div>
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Kevin’s photos can be found on her Facebook page at “Kevin-The-Chicken.”</div>
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<i>Wendy lives in New Hampshire. Reach her at
wendy@simplethrift.com, follow her on Twitter @WendyEN Thomas, and find
her Facebook page at Wendy.Thomas.</i></div>
<figure class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_9214" style="width: 480px;"><a href="http://www.backyardpoultrymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/ChickenMotorcycle.jpg"><img alt="chicken-clothes" class="wp-image-9214" height="525" src="http://www.backyardpoultrymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/ChickenMotorcycle.jpg" width="470" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="figcaption_attachment_9214">Kevin, on her motorcycle. Photo by Leona Palumbo.</figcaption></figure>
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<span style="color: #cc6753;"><b>Safety Tips</b></span></h3>
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Whether it be for a competition, holiday, or
just for pleasure, many people enjoy putting clothing and accessories on
their chickens in order to dress them up. If you are going to costume
your chickens, advises Brigid McCrea, PhD, associate professor at
Delaware State University and extension poultry specialist, for the
health and safety of your birds keep the following clothing guidelines
in mind:</div>
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• Watch the weight of the costume, as chickens will get flustered if an outfit weighs them down.</div>
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• Along with fabric weight, be careful to not
use fabrics that will overheat the bird. Polar fleece is a lightweight
material but if worn for a long period, it may make your chicken too
warm.</div>
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• An interesting <strong>fact about chickens</strong> is
that they are naturally attracted to the color red and will peck at it;
be careful of where red is used in the bird’s costume.</div>
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• Make sure that the chicken can move her wings and that the outfits do not in any way restrict her wing movement.</div>
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• If you are putting something around the
chicken’s neck (necklace, bandana), make sure that it is lightweight and
does not hang down so low that the chicken could potentially trip over
it.</div>
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• Try not to use hats or head coverings.
Chickens are prey animals, meaning they are constantly on the lookout
for predators who may be after them. A hat restricts vision and won’t be
tolerated very long by any chicken. Consider this the first step toward
learning <a href="http://www.backyardpoultrymag.com/5-ways-stop-aerial-backyard-chicken-predators/" target="_blank">how to protect chickens from hawks</a> and other predators.</div>
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• Be careful of beads and hanging decorations
that the chicken may be tempted to try to eat them. Likewise, inspect
the construction of the outfit to make sure that it does not have loose,
dangly threads or that it might fall apart while the chicken is wearing
it.</div>
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• Allow for waste to happen (because you know
that with chickens it eventually will); either leave the back area open
in a costume or prepare the chicken to wear a diaper. <a href="http://www.backyardpoultrymag.com/how-to-manage-compost-chicken-manure/" target="_blank">Composting chicken manure</a> is an excellent way to add nutrients to your garden.</div>
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• Lastly, make sure that the costumes are
made from washable fabrics, and for bio-security reasons, wash them
after each wearing in order to avoid possible contamination among
chickens.</div>
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Chip, so named after she was corralled by California Highway Patrolmen, got Bay Area attention when she <a href="http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_28754668/custody-battle-over-chip-bay-bridge-chicken" target="_blank">wandered on to the Bay Bridge</a>. One of many stories is quoted below.</div>
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Reporter David DeBolt and the shelter workers may need some help understanding the chicken-and-egg problem. Unless Chip has been consorting with a rooster, they won't have to worry about the egg hatching. Broody hens are unlikely to set on a single egg, anyway.</div>
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OAKLAND
-- Three people are missing a chicken, and you know how that can be.
Especially when they each claim ownership of the same chicken.</div>
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How do you tell one chicken from another? The Oakland Animal
Shelter faced the same question Thursday, when three calls came in about
a certain chicken of recent local fame: The one that strutted between
cars at the Bay Bridge Toll Plaza during the Wednesday morning commute,
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"She's a very popular chicken," said animal services director
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The California Highway Patrol, which rescued the chicken, has not
determined its whereabouts before the bridge sightings began 6:30 a.m.
Wednesday. And she isn't talking.<br />
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The best proof available in this case -- the fowl has no tags and
unlike many felines and canines is not microchipped -- appears to be
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The three callers had not produced photographs as of Thursday
evening. Two rescue groups also want to care for Chip, and there's
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The CHP first brought the chicken to a shelter in Berkeley before
it was handed over to the Oakland shelter.For now, shelter workers have
taken to calling the chicken "Chip," a nod to the CHP for its rescue. At
the shelter, Chip has access to a chicken run and her neighbors include
roosters brought to the shelter because it is illegal to keep them
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On Thursday, Chip laid an egg, Katz said, but they'll probably swap in a substitute egg for her to sit on. <br />
"We don't want anymore chickens," Katz said.<br />
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David DeBolt covers breaking news. Contact him at 510-208-6453. Follow him at <a href="http://twitter.com/daviddebolt">Twitter.com/daviddebolt</a>.</div>
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Several chicken breeds are crested, with a fluffy fountain of
feathers tumbling from a knob on top of their heads. That crest has attracted plenty of attention
over the years, sometimes called a top-knot or a top hat. Recognized crested breeds include Polish, Crevecoeur, Houdan and Sultan. Most likely it’s the small
Polish, the most popular. Crevecoeurs are larger, always all black and show a
distinctive horned comb with two prongs. Houdans are usually mottled black and white.
Observe their legs. Houdans have a fifth toe, a spur on the back of the leg. Unrecognized breeds include the hefty
Sulmtaler. Sulmtaler roosters have a small tuft at the back of the serrated comb, but hens
have a nice crest and their combs meander in an S shape on their heads, the
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Brabanters and Appenzeller
Spitzhaubens have pointy crests behind that V comb. </div>
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Although their appearance invites humor, crested chickens
have a long and distinguished history, and are honored for their productive
usefulness as well. Ulisse Aldrovandi included woodcuts of crested chickens in
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That knob isn’t just feathers up there. Crested breeds have
a dome of bone on their skulls. The feathers grow out of that. Because of the
placement of the crest, the bony skull structure affects the nostrils, so that crested
chickens have flattened, cavernous nostrils,</div>
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Crests require extra care. Breeders may trim the crest back
or hold it back with a rubber band during breeding season, so the birds can see
what they are doing. Special waterers can help the bird avoid getting the crest
and beard feathers soaked, which can ruin them for a show. </div>
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The crested breeds have V combs, even if they are concealed
beneath the crest feathers. The V or horn comb, required for exhibition in the U.S.,
is unusual. In England and France, the leaf comb, shaped like butterfly wings,
is still recognized. Leaf combs are the result of the V comb crossed with a
single comb. </div>
Christine Heinrichshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02338202887056577215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1655793634861146938.post-78016896630817490622015-08-14T08:50:00.003-07:002015-08-14T08:50:58.646-07:00Sign your birds into the Poultry Census!<table align="center" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="height: 739px; width: 643px;"><tbody>
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The Livestock Conservancy is conducting a Poultry Census. The more who participate, the better it will reflect how many and what kinds of birds are out there. The more we know, the better we can all communicate and improve our birds and poultry life in general. </div>
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One of the issues with poultry is that there is no breed registry as there is for other livestock. That's a useful tool poultry breeders and their birds lack. This is a great way to support poultry into the future.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><img align="right" alt="Buff Orpington" border="0" class="CToWUd a6T" height="274" hspace="10" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhg5y3mffZkUifLl8wNZ6UHhRrIhhyphenhyphenwHRLSjsIOYqluWCAsK7K8FmLjM1XOsu6n0NGX7Rh0OFL_ZpRcuZCMAEPm9S6OBvBIbPqAwFyhkF6JcHI265ai6GL5_ZtqhLDDOtnoAZENfzZ0KJRVOj3tyJck0cKTCWrBYIDi7LvmkeSDnqcMqTqASvpNvLlRXPsevEiWszvURs6yC27vwKghmJM6gxpPCJdERCj_HpdIZOdOtd0=s0-d-e1-ft" style="min-height: 274px; width: 218px;" tabindex="0" title="Buff Orpington" vspace="10" width="218" />Dear Poultry Breeders & Friends,</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong><em>Make your poultry efforts count!</em></strong><br />
The Livestock Conservancy (TLC) is conducting a North American
poultry census. Funded by Murray McMurray Hatchery, this critically
important project will enable us to understand how different poultry
breeds are faring in the United States and Canada. The last poultry
census was conducted by TLC more than a decade ago, and now with the
Federal National Poultry Improvement Plan (NPIP) no longer collecting
breed-specific data, this will be the only effort of its kind in
America. The census will be a vital source of information for TLC as
well as other poultry focused organizations nationwide and
internationally. The data gathered will help to aim and extend vital
breed conservation work where it is needed the most and will guide
efforts well into the 21<sup>st</sup> century.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The
census will be focused on old landrace & large fowl standard bred
poultry as recognized in the American Poultry Association’s Standard of
Perfection— more specifically, on the <strong>breeding stock</strong> being maintained. We are specifically asking for information on the number of breeding birds <strong>only</strong> in order to get an estimate on the size of the actively reproducing gene pool for each breed.<br />
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The information you provide for this census will be held in strict
confidence unless you indicate that you would like us to share it with
others interested in the breed you maintain. Please take a few minutes
to complete this census form through the link below. Your participation
is highly valued. The final results will be shared on the TLC website
and with all of our project partners listed below, without whom this
project would not be possible.<br />
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The Conservancy thanks you for your stewardship of poultry and your participation in this vital project. <strong>Please click on the following link to reach the census.</strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?TheLivestockConserva/99d2c1128b/8516fad1ca/00e12cc963" target="_blank"><strong>North American Poultry Census</strong></a></span></span>
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you know of others who breed old landrace & large fowl standard
bred poultry, please forward this email to them and share the census
with any poultry networks you are associated with.</em></span></span></td>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Sincerely,<br />
The Livestock Conservancy Staff</span></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Census Partners</span></span></strong></div>
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Christine Heinrichshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02338202887056577215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1655793634861146938.post-91384541212230404352015-08-12T13:01:00.002-07:002015-08-12T13:01:31.738-07:00Frost on Chickens<h1>
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<a href="http://www.nal.usda.gov/exhibits/ipd/frostonchickens/" target="_blank">Frost on Chickens</a> is a National Agricultural Library Digital Exhibit, available online. Thank you NAL! <br />
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"I kept farm, so to speak for nearly ten years, but less as a
farmer than as a fugitive from the world that seemed to me to
'disallow' me. It was all instinctive, but I can see now that I went
away to save myself and fix myself before I measured myself against all
creation."<br />
Robert Frost<br /><br />
From a letter to the literary editor of the <i>Boston Evening Transcript</i>, March 22, 1915. Quoted in Sheehy, D. G., Richardson, M., & Faggen, R. (eds.) <em>The Letters of Robert Frost: Volume 1, 1886 - 1921</em> (2014), page 12.</blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/grongar/5039504946/" id="anch_11" target="_blank"><img alt="Robert Frost House - Sign by grongar, on Flickr" border="0" href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage" rel="dct:type" src="http://www.nal.usda.gov/exhibits/ipd/frostonchickens/themes/deco/images/RobertFrostSign.jpg" style="width: 100%;" title="Robert Frost House - Sign by grongar, on Flickr" /></a><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/grongar/5039504946/" id="anch_12" target="_blank">Robert Frost House - Sign</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/grongar/" id="anch_13" target="_blank">Grongar</a> is used under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/" id="anch_14" target="_blank">Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license</a><br />
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The poet Robert Frost lived and worked as a poultry farmer in Derry, New
Hampshire from 1900 to 1909. During that period he published a dozen
articles for two trade journals: <em>The Eastern Poultryman</em> and <em>The Farm-Poultry</em>. The <a href="http://www.nal.usda.gov/" id="anch_15" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">National Agricultural Library</span></a> (NAL) holds copies of <b><u><a href="http://www.nal.usda.gov/exhibits/ipd/frostonchickens/collections/show/1" id="anch_16">these publications</a></u></b> and other relevant materials on poultry farming which give context to Frost's articles.</h3>
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Robert Frost, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front
<br />circa 1910 - 1920
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to the subjects contained in Frost's pieces. Each exhibit presents relevant
excerpts from Frost's articles, an overview of the topic, and links to
full-text, digital NAL and USDA materials. The structure of the site follows
the general subjects addressed by Frost's stories. There are nine focused
exhibits: Hen Houses, Backyard Chickens, Chicken Feed, Fancy Chickens, Poultry
Breeds, Poultry Farming, Egg Production, the Poultry Marketplace, and the
Poultry Press. There is also an overview of Robert Frost's time in Derry, New
Hampshire in the early 1900s and the Frost Farm.</span></span></div>
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"Frost on Chickens" contains records for over 200 selected full-text
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meat safety and quality, and poultry production efficiency.</span></h3>
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The Robert Frost Farm in Derry, New Hampshire: Present Day
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Christine Heinrichshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02338202887056577215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1655793634861146938.post-74410600387360344232015-06-27T12:14:00.001-07:002015-06-27T12:14:10.021-07:00MonticelloWhile visiting on the East Coast last week, we spent a day at Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson. The site details many references to chickens and other poultry <a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/poultry" target="_blank">in its archives</a>.<br />
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I found the mentions of a broody bantam hen who hatched eight of 13 eggs in 1808 especially interesting. I wonder what kind they were. Could have been Old English Game bantams, or Rosecombs, which were popular in England then. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Old English Fame bantams by Schilling</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rosecomb bantams by Schilling</td></tr>
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Even Sebrights, which were developed about that time, although I'm not sure they had arrived in America then.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Silver and Golden Sebrights, from Lewis Wright</td></tr>
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J<a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson">efferson</a> had a variety of <strong>poultry</strong> at Monticello, including chickens, ducks, Guinea fowl, peacocks, pigeons, geese, and turkeys.<br />
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Primary Source References</h3>
<strong>1771.</strong>
"Thin the trees...Keep in it deer, rabbits, Peacocks, Guinea poultry,
pidgeons &c. Let it be an asylum for hares, squirrels, pheasants,
partridges...court them to it by laying food for them in proper
places..." <a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/poultry#f1">[1]</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="1" name="1"></a><br />
<strong>1806 November 21.</strong> Jefferson to <a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/martha-jefferson-randolph">Martha Jefferson Randolph</a>). "Davy arrived last night...He carries also a cage with a pair of Bantams for <a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/ellen-wayles-randolph-coolidge">Ellen</a>." <a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/poultry#f2">[2]</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="2" name="2"></a><br />
<strong>1806 November 30.</strong> (Jefferson to <a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/ellen-wayles-randolph-coolidge">Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge</a>).
"By Davy I send you a pair of Bantam fowls; quite young: so that I am
in hopes you will now be enabled to raise some. I propose on their
subject a question of natural history for your enquiry: that is whether
this sis the Gallina Adrianica, or Adria, the Adsatck cock of Aristotle?
For this you must examine Buffon etc." <a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/poultry#f3">[3]</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="3" name="3"></a><br />
<strong>1806 December 12.</strong> (<a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/ellen-wayles-randolph-coolidge">Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge</a>
to Jefferson). "I recieved [sic] the Bantams for which I am very much
obliged to you. They seem to be larger, and younger, than the first and
I think them handsomer." <a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/poultry#f4">[4]</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="4" name="4"></a><br />
<strong>1807 February 17.</strong> (<a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/ellen-wayles-randolph-coolidge">Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge</a>
to Jefferson). "As for the Bantam she laid one egg in the cold weathe
rand eat it up. I am very much afraid she will do all the others so.
If she does she will be as worthless as the others but in spite of that I
am very fond of them and think them very handsome. The old ones are
quite tame but the new much to the contrary." <a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/poultry#f5">[5]</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="5" name="5"></a><br />
<strong>1807 June 29.</strong> (Jefferson to <a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/ellen-wayles-randolph-coolidge">Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge</a>).
"How go on the Bantams? I rely on you for their care, as I do on Anne
for the Algerine fowls, and on our arrangements at Monticello for the
East Indians. These varieties are pleasant for the table and furnish an
agreeable diversification in our domestic occupations." <a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/poultry#f6">[6]</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="6" name="6"></a><br />
<strong>1807 November 1.</strong> (Jefferson to <a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/ann-cary-randolph-bankhead">Ann Cary Randolph Bankhead</a>).
"I expect a pair of wildgeese of a family which have been natives for
several generations, but they will hardley be here in time for Davy.
They are entirely domesticated, beautiful have a very musical note, and
are much superior to the tame for the table." <a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/poultry#f7">[7]</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="7" name="7"></a><br />
<strong>1807 November 11.</strong> (<a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/ellen-wayles-randolph-coolidge">Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge</a>
to Jefferson). "ONe of my poor little Bantams is dead and the one
which I liked the best although it was the old one. He had got so tame
that he could fly up in my lap and eat out of my hand. All the children
were sorry at his death." <a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/poultry#f8">[8]</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="8" name="8"></a><br />
<strong>1808 January 15.</strong> (<a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/ellen-wayles-randolph-coolidge">Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge</a> to Jefferson). "My Bantams are well but I am afraid I shall never raise any." <a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/poultry#f9">[9]</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="9" name="9"></a><br />
<strong>1808 March 11.</strong> (<a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/ellen-wayles-randolph-coolidge">Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge</a>
to Jefferson). "I am in a fair way to raise some Bantams as the hen is
now setting. She has take up her residence in the cellar. Has laid 13
eggs and I hope will hatch some chickens." <a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/poultry#f10">[10]</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="10" name="10"></a><br />
<strong>1808 March 14.</strong> (Jefferson to <a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/ellen-wayles-randolph-coolidge">Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge</a>). "I am glad to learn you are at length likely to succeed with your Bantams. They are worthy of your attention." <a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/poultry#f11">[11]</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="11" name="11"></a><br />
<strong>1808 March 18.</strong> (<a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/ellen-wayles-randolph-coolidge">Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge</a>
to Jefferson). "My bantam will hatch in 10 days and I hope I shall
raise some of her chickens but they are so delicate. She hatched some
last year. We took great care of them but they died." <a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/poultry#f12">[12]</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="12" name="12"></a><br />
<strong>1808 March 25.</strong> (<a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/ellen-wayles-randolph-coolidge">Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge</a> to Jefferson). "My bantam will hatch next week." <a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/poultry#f13">[13]</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="13" name="13"></a><br />
<strong>1808 March 29.</strong> (Jefferson to <a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/ellen-wayles-randolph-coolidge">Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge</a>).
"I am glad to hear you expect a family of Bantams. Take good care of
them. Is it not best to put the hen into a tobacco stick coop in and
round which the chickens will always stay." <a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/poultry#f14">[14</a>]<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="14" name="14"></a><br />
<strong>1808 April 1.</strong> (<a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/ellen-wayles-randolph-coolidge">Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge</a> to Jefferson). "My bantam has hatched 8. pretty little chickens and I shall follow your advice about her treatment." <a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/poultry#f15">[15]</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="15" name="15"></a><br />
<strong>1808 July 1.</strong> (<a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/ellen-wayles-randolph-coolidge">Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge</a> to Jefferson). "My bantams have grown prodigiously and are beautiful." <a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/poultry#f16">[16]</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="16" name="16"></a><br />
<strong>1808 July 15.</strong> (<a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/martha-jefferson-randolph">Martha Jefferson Randolph</a>
to Jefferson). "I must beg the favor of you...to bring me a little
ivory memorandum book...I find my chicken accounts troublesome without
some assistance of the kind." <a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/poultry#f17">[17]</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="17" name="17"></a><br />
<strong>1808 June 4.</strong> "Gave for bringing home a pea-hen." <a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/poultry#f18">[18]</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="18" name="18"></a><br />
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Footnotes</h4>
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="f1" name="f1"></a><a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/poultry#1">1.</a> Bear, James A. Jr., and Lucia C. Stanton, eds. <a class="external text" href="http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=4204" rel="nofollow" title="http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=4204"><em>Jefferson's Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767-1826</em></a>. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997, 1:249.<br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="f2" name="f2"></a><a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/poultry#2">2.</a> Betts, Edwin M., and James Bear, Jr., eds. <a class="external text" href="http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=335" rel="nofollow" title="http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=335"><em>Family Letters of Thomas Jefferson</em></a>. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1966. <a class="external text" href="http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=3033" rel="nofollow" title="http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=3033">Reprinted Charlottesville: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 1986</a>, 290.<br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="f3" name="f3"></a><a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/poultry#3">3.</a> Ibid, 291.<br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="f4" name="f4"></a><a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/poultry#4">4.</a> Ibid, 292.<br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="f5" name="f5"></a><a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/poultry#5">5.</a> Ibid, 296.<br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="f6" name="f6"></a><a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/poultry#6">6.</a> Ibid, 309.<br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="f7" name="f7"></a><a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/poultry#7">7.</a> Ibid, 313.<br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="f8" name="f8"></a><a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/poultry#8">8.</a> Ibid, 314.<br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="f9" name="f9"></a><a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/poultry#9">9.</a> Ibid, 322.<br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="f10" name="f10"></a><a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/poultry#10">10.</a> Ibid, 332.<br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="f11" name="f11"></a><a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/poultry#11">11.</a> Ibid, 334.<br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="f12" name="f12"></a><a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/poultry#12">12.</a> Ibid, 336.<br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="f13" name="f13"></a><a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/poultry#13">13.</a> Ibid, 338.<br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="f14" name="f14"></a><a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/poultry#14">14.</a> Ibid.<br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="f15" name="f15"></a><a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/poultry#15">15.</a> Ibid, 339.<br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="f16" name="f16"></a><a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/poultry#16">16.</a> Ibid, 346.<br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="f17" name="f17"></a><a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/poultry#17">17.</a> Ibid, 349.<br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="f18" name="f18"></a><a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/poultry#18">18.</a> Bear, James A. Jr., and Lucia C. Stanton, eds. <a class="external text" href="http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=4204" rel="nofollow" title="http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=4204"><em>Jefferson's Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767-1826</em></a>. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997, 2:1246.<br />
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