Poultry Talk Ontario (pto.ca)

Here are a couple pics I took as I was feeding today...

A couple Ayam cemani... These birds were developed in Indoneisan but so far are doing find in their unheated pen, one roo has a bit of frost bite on comb, but is doing perfectly fine.
One of my 2016 Mottled Houdan pullets in my "Pullet Pen". Currently have 2 houdan pullets and 1 cockeral, ordered a few more chicks from Performance Poultry for this Spring.
A bunch of my other pullets in the Pullet Pen... Bielefelders, Cream Legbars, BC Marans, Malines... There are 2 Malines cockerals in there too, they will be coming out in the next week or so. Then I will leave the girls to themselves for February and then start setting up breeding pens in March/
My 1 Malines cockeral and 2 Malines pullets have yellow legs :sad: , standard calls for flesh coloured legs. I drove over an hour and a half to pick up the birds only to find out when I got there they had yellow legs, bought them anyways. I have 1 cockeral and 2 pullets that meet the standard, plus picking up another malines rooster and 3 hens this weekend that meet the standard, so that will be good. Also picking up a couple more Bielefelder hens and some more Cream Legbar hens.

Some of my Beltsville Small White turkeys... from poults from Cirrus Hill Farm, both BSW bloodlines Albertson-Donnelly and Tibbot-Ames. plus a couple birds from the 2 lines crossed.
Last year I had a pair of Artisan Gold turkeys as well, that I wanted to breed to see what they produced, since they are not a pure breed, my tom was aggressive so I ended up separating him, but my hen was kept with my BSW tom. I hatched 1 egg that I am pretty sure if a cross between the BSW and the AG.

Here is the poult back in June.
Here is the cross-bred turkey today. I have not seen him display yet to get a good look at his pattern, hopefully soon.
Not sure if I will breed him or not, I only have Beltsvilles to breed this year, but might put him with 1 BSW hen and hatch a couple poults.

Thanks for looking.

JimW

Lookin good man---:-)

Very nice birds Jim, all of them!!! that cross turkey looks really cool eh! I would put him with a bsw and the gold hen for sure! and keep goin... of course... if you want another poultry project

Do you know the person who is selling the black chickens on kijiji? I think it's Hovart or something like that.

Sr they are svart honas.....all the rage down here in my area. I just cant get used to them!!!

Very nice Jim!

Beautiful birds Jim Really like the Houdan's :wink:

Skinny rooster wrote:QR_BBPOST Do you know the person who is selling the black chickens on kijiji? I think it's Hovart or something like that.

Yes I know the person, I have bought and sold birds with her several times, very nice person. She is selling Svart honas, Swedish Black chickens, that she got from a breeder in Newfoundland.

I have Svart honas as well from the same breeder, plus I have the Indonesian Black chickens, Ayam cemani in the pctures. I will hopefully be selling both black chicken breeds come Spring, mine are not laying yet as I do not provide artificial lighting or heat, I like to condition my birds to Canadian weather as much as possible. If you are interested in black chickens let me know, I will give best price around. :)

JimW

thegawd wrote:QR_BBPOST Very nice birds Jim, all of them!!! that cross turkey looks really cool eh! I would put him with a bsw and the gold hen for sure! and keep goin... of course... if you want another poultry project

Ya I will definitely put him the a BSW hen, I got rid of my golds so might see if I can find another breed to put with him as well. I have some Sweetgrass turkey hatching eggs coming in the spring, so next year thinking he would go well with a sweet grass hen.

Your Mottled Houdan pullet has a really funky "hairdo"! Very cool!