black red ck 2nd year little under 4.5lbs

I take it that this exhibition old english game is the same fowl as the one under the heading 1st year cock....very nice colour.

what strain of fowl is this bird?

he is purdera/stevens line, breeding back to purdera pure sires

whats purdera lines? Im gathering you not miss typing purdreau

Doesnt look like anything like the Purdreau fowl I saw in QLD recently

Did you happen to take any pictures of the fowls you saw in Queensland?

beekeeper, and how did that work out long term? No offence but i still dont see how "selection from your own yard " works with 2 seperate lines,they've had to come in from somewhere. I'd like to see pictures of the two distinct lines (purdiau and stevens) if you could doug.

Doug was still buying Tutty fowl from Tutty himself in the 80's, the Purdreau fowl wereoriginally hatch from Sir John Buchanan Jardine in England.

beekeeper,it says bred back to the pure purdreau line. So its been bred back for 23 years? As i said i'd be interested to see some (a few would be better) of these pure fowl of both lines. Now ive heard a few stories on what the purdeau lines actually were (including hatch as BE said) and i have my doubts on there existence nowdays. Is the pic your saying is purdreau the one used on your site and overthegate? Id be interested to hear were these purdreaus go back to

to the best of my knowledge Ray Merediths were the first import (so the fice birds) although he did get new ones from tutty from time to time, im gathering from the crosses of the 2 imports but thats only an assumption on my part. Now the infused bit,to what % ? It says bred back to the pure purdeau line so like i said,id love to see the pics of the 2 lines if doug will post them. If there been bred back to the pure purdreau cocks he must have pure hens or 23 year old roosters. I'll have a look in dougs gallery but i'm gathering the fowl was on exhibition poultry and overthegate,i thought you put it up there beekeeper but i may havr you mixed up with someone else

does anyone care to answer? i dont think the questions shoukd be that difficult really

beekeeper, why doug chooses to not answer i dont know, the % would be interesting. The request for photos of the 2 seperate lines should be easy. So would knowing were the purdreau came from 20 odd years ago. One of my questions is for you. Which is the fowl your saying is purdeau in dougs gallery?

Could be wrong but to me this looks like oxford x show type old english therefore it is a pit

i thought rays merediths   blood line (stevens ) came from mr BILL UNSWORTH of Bowral . bill imported stevens fowls.

i have an article from unsworth and in it he states his black reds are from archbold