Hi Manny, this is what your imports had to endure for 12 weeks down here on top of 16 weeks in a similar facility in the UK so you can see what I mean by a bird needing a tough constitution. I was only in there for five minutes and could not wait to get out.
See the sacrificial sentinel chickens on the top front deck, a must for all importations.
Attached are photos of Wesley birds that Oskar took while visiting Harry in
2007. When Oskar returned he could not stop talking about the Ferguson
birds. After he showed us the pics we were seriously considering getting
some but unfortunately it did not go through. To me these are a typical look
of a good tippler.
Surprised to hear that they were too inbred to be honest...I don't know but
What I can gather Wesley has had his Billing ham birds since1960 all his
birds locked in one hut and left to breed at will, brother to sister none
stop and so on, my opinion is maybe the birds that bred never got to fly and
never were tried fly wise or just to inbred, who knows?? Wesley is a
gentleman of the sport and I think he is in his 80s and still keeping his
tips, god bless him. Sams birds were at their peak from the 1930s until
1960s and held a lot of records from the 30s Sam wound not part with his
