Just in from Pakenham
- IndianCreek
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Just in from Pakenham
Hi All
Thought I'd introduce myself. I'm Scott, and my partner Marisa and I operate Indian Creek Orchard Gardens outside of Pakenham (45min west of Ottawa). We got into poultry looking for some free labour and fertilirty around the farm. We pasture our Wyandottes in rotations over most of our growing area. 6 months of the year we feed them with cover crops grown where we intend to pasture them. In return they take care of insect larvae and manure for the following season. The flock spends the winters rotating through our five greenhouses doing the same, although we actually feed them during the winters.
Funny thing about these birds is that they slowly (or not so slowly) take over your life. I'm now hell bent on producing a respectable Canadian line of Blue Laced Red Wyandottes. I find myself staying up late and driving long hours tracking down leads on breeding stock. I almost left for Missouri last night until I found out the flock I was going to see were not NPIP certified . But I'm hell bent or addicted now, maybe I'll leave for Oregon next weekend (Is there a 12 step program for this?)
Anyways, I'm on the prowl for some BLRW breeding stock if anyone is in the know? Looking for Pigeon Blue lacing with the darked Mahogany Red ground imaginable. Would also be open to a rose combed Rhode Island Red for a few Blue Wyandottes to fold into the mix to fine tune the colour.
So hi from Pakenham! Please share any leads you might have. Thanks and talk to you in the forums ...
Thought I'd introduce myself. I'm Scott, and my partner Marisa and I operate Indian Creek Orchard Gardens outside of Pakenham (45min west of Ottawa). We got into poultry looking for some free labour and fertilirty around the farm. We pasture our Wyandottes in rotations over most of our growing area. 6 months of the year we feed them with cover crops grown where we intend to pasture them. In return they take care of insect larvae and manure for the following season. The flock spends the winters rotating through our five greenhouses doing the same, although we actually feed them during the winters.
Funny thing about these birds is that they slowly (or not so slowly) take over your life. I'm now hell bent on producing a respectable Canadian line of Blue Laced Red Wyandottes. I find myself staying up late and driving long hours tracking down leads on breeding stock. I almost left for Missouri last night until I found out the flock I was going to see were not NPIP certified . But I'm hell bent or addicted now, maybe I'll leave for Oregon next weekend (Is there a 12 step program for this?)
Anyways, I'm on the prowl for some BLRW breeding stock if anyone is in the know? Looking for Pigeon Blue lacing with the darked Mahogany Red ground imaginable. Would also be open to a rose combed Rhode Island Red for a few Blue Wyandottes to fold into the mix to fine tune the colour.
So hi from Pakenham! Please share any leads you might have. Thanks and talk to you in the forums ...
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- baronrenfrew
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Re: Just in from Pakenham
well good day and welcome eh! Burnstown here!
Yep, the bug has got ya, worse than it has me (or Jim or others)! I've heard of many other addicts: one guy raised endangered species of ducks and he'd send birds and get birds from all over to keep bloodlines healthy.
I would check the results from bird shows and fairs (Royal Winter Fair show https://assistexpo.ca/results/2017-rawf/10/1007 , Syracuse State Fair show, etc) and the show results list all the breeders (name and address) and how they placed in the show.
https://www.poultryshowcentral.com/Canada.html
plus take some pics and put them up please!
your farm is incomplete...no nut trees!
ECSONG- Eastern Chapter Ontario Nut Growers
http://www.songonline.ca/ecsong/
https://www.goldenboughtrees.ca/about.shtml
and you must check this thread: Spring 2018 Garden / Farm Conferences and Workshops
Yep, the bug has got ya, worse than it has me (or Jim or others)! I've heard of many other addicts: one guy raised endangered species of ducks and he'd send birds and get birds from all over to keep bloodlines healthy.
I would check the results from bird shows and fairs (Royal Winter Fair show https://assistexpo.ca/results/2017-rawf/10/1007 , Syracuse State Fair show, etc) and the show results list all the breeders (name and address) and how they placed in the show.
https://www.poultryshowcentral.com/Canada.html
plus take some pics and put them up please!
your farm is incomplete...no nut trees!
ECSONG- Eastern Chapter Ontario Nut Growers
http://www.songonline.ca/ecsong/
https://www.goldenboughtrees.ca/about.shtml
and you must check this thread: Spring 2018 Garden / Farm Conferences and Workshops
Last edited by baronrenfrew on Sat Jan 27, 2018 3:31 am, edited 1 time in total.
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- windwalkingwolf
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Re: Just in from Pakenham
Welcome to PTO!! I think Prosperity Acres on here might have blue laced red wyandottes. I know somebody was using them as a project to make a blue laced red Chantecler, and I think it was them.
Muskoka Maiden I think had some too.
Muskoka Maiden I think had some too.
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- Killerbunny
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Re: Just in from Pakenham
DId Mike have BLRWs or just blues?
ANyway Welcome!
ANyway Welcome!
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Re: Just in from Pakenham
Welcome!
If you have any BLRW spares I’m in! I started with a dozen chicks from McMurray 7 years ago but over time haven’t been able to get enough to keep them going so only have one hen left. They caught my eye and I had to have them so I perfectly understand your addiction to them.
If you have any BLRW spares I’m in! I started with a dozen chicks from McMurray 7 years ago but over time haven’t been able to get enough to keep them going so only have one hen left. They caught my eye and I had to have them so I perfectly understand your addiction to them.
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- TomK
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Re: Just in from Pakenham
Hello and welcome down on the Rideau here...barred Plymouth Rocks and Rhode Island reds in my flock along with some lovely mutts...good luck in your search and breeding, its sounds like a worthwhile challenge...lots of good folks here with help and ideas :running-chicken:
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- WLLady
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Re: Just in from Pakenham
Welcome to pto! Good luck with your project! Hopefully people here will have what you need or know where to find it. Hope you enjoy the forum
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Re: Just in from Pakenham
from one Wyandotte aficionado to another, nice to hear from somebody else who has got the bug :)
Hope you put some of your birds in PTO show.
Hope you put some of your birds in PTO show.
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