Rural Gardening: Chickens??, 0 by crestedchik

crestedchik wrote:
Melissa_Ohio
I am sooooo glad SOMEBODY likes the Polish!!!!

McMurray is how I got started with them kinda
After a barn fire years ago all my Agway chicken were killed

I decieded that as long as I was going to feed chicken why not have some interesting chickens

So I ordered the rare and exotic mixture from McMurrays
It was great,all those chicks and watching them evolve from fluffs to all these awesome birds
I fell in love with the Polish......
After going to a show and seeing exhibition birds,then going home and looking at my McMurray birds compared to real exhibition poultry I decied to geting into showing and got rid of most of my McMurray birds,except for some favorite pets(one of my favorites was a dark brahma ,she lived 7 years and I loved her to death)

the rest I guess they say is history

I now raise Polish,Sumatras(which, if anyone is looking for a great freerange bird that requred little or no care and are excellent mothers and hardy) Lafleche,White Houdan,and I have a few large Fowl Cochins for pets(love their temperment)

You guys that live in Ohio have a great area with shows like the Ohio National (Columbus in November) ,and Lucasville and in November there will be a huge National in Indiana...
big shows ,lots of breeders,lots of choices

My favorite is still the polish
This is one of my birds that was in the December issue of Vogue