Poultry Talk Ontario (pto.ca)

I wonder if PTO would be able to persuade a Qualified poultry Judge to comment on birds displayed by PTO members?
This is from an Ausie Forum and seems like if would be a fun learning experience?
http://forum.backyardpoultry.com/viewto ... &t=8031981

26930 Funny one side note: Japan had huge issues in winter 2014/2015 with LED traffic lights. Blowing snow would stick to them and not melt due to low energy consumption. The law of unintended consequences. Soo, Ottawa has started to replace street lights with LED's as needed and new installations,...

Good morning, Love the ball game/turkey combo travel plans, you guys make my mornings. :) Looks rainy here, had to convince DH to let everybody out, he thought it might rain ? I need them all to cut grass now that it's actually growing. Good day to put in garlic, only planting about 150 didn't grow ...

Absolutely fascinating. Finally hit the library and was able to look at the large version of pictures. The bottom cockerel looks like an EE The second pullet from top, definitely suggestion of Blue laced Red The third pullet from the top looks like my F1 outcross of Columbian to Blue Wyandottes. Loo...

Very colorful, the bottom one looks like blue laced red?
Never mind, finally downloaded the large version in the library, so not blue laced red, just sort of... :)
I must say its fascinating to see all the possibilities, a bit surprised we can ever breed
anything close to breed standards.

Yeah, I need a coat out of that for my Ameraucanas

Looking good !
So how many chickens can you house now?

I think lots of problems with Breeding Blues arises from people looking for a simple recipe of "How to" and of course there isn't one, because what might work for one person and one strain will not necessarily work with another. I have had very good success using Splash cockerel over Blue hens in Wy...

thegawd wrote:QR_BBPOST HAHAHA But OC.... You do have beautiful birds!

Yeah, but the whole sanity concept has gone by the wayside! ;

26677 You're right OC. The 21st Century Breeding book doesn't have a lot about breeding blue, just the basics of how the genes work. As far as getting lovely birds from OC, I don't see an easy way to do that. I'll just have to keep looking at them in the pictures she posts for inspiration. :) I thi...