This article is about if you should raise more breeds or varieties or not, and is being republished from Acorn Hollow Bantams website with permission from Lou Horton. It is so very easy to gradually add to the breeds and varieties one raises and if one exceeds one’s capabilities, it can decrease rather than increase […]
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This article is discussing small vs. flock matings and is being republished from Acorn Hollow Bantams website with permission from Lou Horton. I have found over time that small matings made up of high quality birds which are well matched are to be preferred over large matings in which high quality birds are mixed with
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This article is a reminder to pay attention to the details, and is being republished from Acorn Hollow Bantams website with permission from Lou Horton. This item has more to do with the showing aspect of the hobby which is, after all, why many of us are in the hobby. Whether you realize it or
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This article on line breeding is being republished from Acorn Hollow Bantams website with permission from Lou Horton. I believe in line breeding. By that I mean starting with an outstanding individual of either sex (of course, an outstanding pair would be better yet) and using them to build a line of birds that are
First impressions are critical in poultry showmanship, and the way you are dressed or the way your bird is prepared can determine exactly where you place in the class. That is why dressing for success, yourself and your bird, is essential! Both you and your bird should be neat. While the specific clothes you should
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This article on looking back at the past 45 years of exhibition poultry breeds is being republished from Acorn Hollow Bantams website with permission from Lou Horton. Many more breeds of poultry have improved over the last 3-4 decades than have regressed. That has been due to lots of dedicated effort by breeders who loved
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This article on looking back at the past 45 years of exhibition poultry, specifically ducks and geese, is being republished from Acorn Hollow Bantams website with permission from Lou Horton. When I began showing waterfowl in the last half of the 1960s, the big birds were where it was at both in terms of quantity
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This article on looking back at the past 45 years of exhibition poultry is being republished from Acorn Hollow Bantams website with permission from Lou Horton. 2012 was a trying year in our household. In late September, I got up in the morning to find my legs were wobbly and by nine o’clock that evening,
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This article on the importance of oyster shell and grit for waterfowl is being republished from Acorn Hollow Bantams website with permission from Lou Horton. Keepers of domestic waterfowl in particular have a greater tendency than keepers of land fowl do to forget that their birds have gizzards and that those gizzards play a vital
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This article on Call Ducks is being republished from Acorn Hollow Bantams website with permission from Lou Horton. I began judging Call ducks in 1970 and it is amazing how they have changed in the time between then and now. The number of Standard varieties has exploded. There are now a dozen or so varieties
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