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I have a couple of last years birds I could part with, I live between Champaign and Bloomington though so I am not too close to you.

Here is a short blurb about them too http://books.google.com/books?id=ccVJAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA48&lpg=PA48&dq=Deems+Aristocrat+Buckeyes&source=bl&ots=iSRu7ppR3B&sig=vKILleNmBWYpHyNvrYJtF7CyCnQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=f3wJUaHqGsWMygHf44DYDw&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Deems%20Aristocrat%20Buckeyes&f=false And...

Just curious but what differences do you see in the washed birds versus the unwashed birds?

I do sometimes use the shining micro fiber cloths that are for shining cars to get a bit of dust off of them and make them shine more, for black birds it enhances their green sheen.

I typically don't wash colored birds, I check them for pests, spray them, and clean anything that is blatantly dirty. I do also put Vapor rub on their combs and clean their feet and put Vaseline on their feet.

The female appears to have black on her body feathers, which you dont want. I like the size of her comb and wattles though.

I know its not the best picture, but here is a picture of my friends Buckeye Cockerel. I really like Buckeyes.

Quote: There are quite a few breeders that ship buckeye chicks

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Quote: Punky some county fairs have it so that they consider young birds hatched before Jan 1 an everything before that is considered old. Stuck in the Coop, I was told that the ideal showing age was 8 months for pullets and 10 months for cockerels. Yes, and I've read in the 2010 SOP, that...

Quote: You don't want them too old to show as cockerels and pullets. for some shows this means under a year, for some of the bigger shows later in the year, they want a bird hatched after January 1. So it depends on when you will be showing and which shows. Sorry, Jen, but that doesn't make...

Heres a new pic of my buckeye roo.

Quote: Ohhh that explains ALOT about all the questions i had with some genetics. Thanks for correcting me

Quote: I'm also a horse person (and breed them, too) and we covered cattle genetics in college. Dr. Congleton did not prepare me for chickens! But there is lots to discover here on BYC. Try a search for "spiral breeding" it's one of 2 methods I have found here on BYC for chickens. It may...

Quote: The ALBC took Urch, Rhodes, Brown and others to rebuild the Buckeye. Am told that these older breeders were very helpful. Is there much visual difference between the different strains? Urch has had his line for 50 years closed breeding. Rhodes got his from Urch. The brown line has...

Quote: Ive heard that theres something in cat food that is poisonous to chickens in high amouts.

Quote: Are they Urch line or do they dropship from them?

Quote: Hes too young to tell hes still scraggly and still needs to fill in IMO. So how old should they be to make selections? There was a paper on selecting birds by Jeanette Beranger and Don Shrider on the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy site that used 8 weeks and 16 weeks for the...

Quote: Hes too young to tell hes still scraggly and still needs to fill in IMO.

I know that she didnt know of RIR when she was making the buckeyes but what I was wondering is if they she used Royal Cochin Chinas instead of the feathered legged cochins that we have now. ETA pic of Royal Cochin Chinas from the RIR post by Chris09