[CameronS]

When we got ours they still had others needing homes, the ones left were mainley i think 8-18months old, mine are fantastic, setteled in extremly well, no problems,  i'll pm the number to anyone considering, situated in Peat inn fife

[happymanoftheworld]

Hi - I am very new to this amazing site (thanks to Happy Hippy!) . I am not a genetivs expert but I believe the situation is that if two "dumpy" dumpies are bred, or two "lanky" ones, the result is either infertile or long- legged so it has to be a dumpy dumpy with a lanky dumpy...... then you end up with about 50% ratio of each ------ no wonder they are rare, they don't really help themselves!

The RBST website has a watchlist with the numbers of dumpys (ies??)...... however I am pretty sure that there are more around which aren't recorded.

[robert waddell]

there must be something about the gow personaly i will stick to vodka

[HappyHippy]

there must be something about the gow personaly i will stick to vodka

Hey, I'm tee-total ! (mostly  but then, that doesn't help  lol! 

Welcome Stuart 
For anyone who doesn't know who you are - can you post a hello in the 'introduce yourself' section ?
Good to have you on board !
Karen

[princesspiggy]

i had trio scots dumpies once, they were rather flighty, kept them in run all winter, and left them out in spring to free range. they ran over hill and never saw them again! lethal gene put me off though.
i was told the reason the hens are chosen to have short legs is so they dont wander far from home, and the cockerals have long legs so he can protect his flock better.
scots greys are lovely but get them from good breeder. we hatched out about 5 different breeds of hatching eggs and only had probs with scots greys, 50% had deformed feet or splayed legs. apparently down to deficiency in parents diet. nice character though.

[happymanoftheworld]

Ho-ho!  If they ran off over hill was it in direction of Scotland. The reason being that it is belived they were used to warn of xcellent info on http://www.scotsdumpy.co.uk/
 

[princesspiggy]

cheeky, we live in scotland, but maybe they didnt like my accent,  lol

[happymanoftheworld]

Ha - They were Gaelic speaking chucks!

[Dundonald hens]

I have scotts dumpys and scotts greys and I do have to say i listend and rerd everything i could find out about them and though we want more so bought 2 incubaters and let a hen sit on them and out of 30 eggs we got 25 chics and 15 of them had short legs !
We sold some, the cockerals fattend up and eat. Thye are great to keep because of there wee short legs they go about realy slowly and quiely in days of old they used to be called creepers and used for gaurding camps as a alarm if someone was coming.
At the moment we have 1 large cockeral and 3 hens all short legs and 2 bantys and a banty cockeral and 1 scots grey banty cockeral and 2 banty hens.
Thye do stop laying about the end of october and dont start till febuary but well worth it lovely eggs and hey goo to do something for a rare breed.
Will be hatching somemore in the spring if anyone is looking for any [/img]

[HappyHippy]

Oooo Dundonald - I might be !
But then again if NLC close Palacerigg I might buy all of theirs 
Please keep me in mind when loading the incy 

[Dundonald hens]

Im more in to the bartering happy how many dumpies for a piglet

[HappyHippy]

Erm, maybe more chickens than I've space for (only got a wee house area at the mo) lol!
I'm a huge fan of bartering too, I'm SURE we could come to an arrangement )

[cluckingnuts]

Why doesn't anyone breed out the auto-inc-Dom lethal Creeper gene for a sex-linked-rec non-lethal dwarfing gene ?
This would still give long legged males and short legged females.

[princesspiggy]

lol - im awaiting to see how many hens 4 a piglet - - so many weaners go for so little,  our 1st tammies were 18 guineas at market - can you really feed and worm the sow properly and cover your costs for that? especially with market fees and travel . last year up here it was hard to find hens for less than £25 yet 3 years earlier they were £8.  suspense is killing me  lol   

[robert waddell]

well if you had been to lanark today somebody brought saddelbacks down from inverness not sold at £12 each large whites approx 180/200kgs £12£15£17 anda sow for not mutch more saddelback weaners at 40/45kgs not sold at £28 you have to remember they were wanting to get rid