Hello!
I started the BYC Dorking club thread and am amazed at the interest! 2001 replies! Haha!
Anyway, I am going to be at the Southern Ohio Poultry Association spring show May 26th and 27th with some Red Dorkings with me for sale. Is anybody else coming? It's a great show!
This is Koko. At least was. I sold her, and so don't know her status, you might say.
This one probably either is Oops, or was Millie(her mother).
One of my Dorking males, Pete.
:D Yello! HElloelloelloelloelloJELL-O!
O.k. I have been doing chickens for a few years.
I have Ameraucanas, Scots Dumpies, Red Dorkings, two Japanese bantams,
and five Rhode Island Reds.I also have a goat named Keeli. She is a black and brown Nubian.
Red dorking female
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Red Dorking...
I would choose #1...If it were me...I mean, the Dorking shape is really important. And I think that behavior with chickens is most of the time just what the chicken itself is like. I have a Dorking cockerel who was never aggressive at all, then came back from a show and jumps at me whenever I go...
We give them leftover soured goat milk, and it is actually really good for them. People have been doing this for years. I actually put a pot of rather normal milk out for them and they waited till it was curdled, *then* knocked it over and ate it up. They love it!
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The rooster passes on traits like comb, coloring, and refinement, then the hen passes on traits like body type, conformation and size. So for rooster, I would select the one with six good points on his comb, and comb shaped closest to the standard. also, if the rooster, as a young...