TIM AND JILL WOULD LIKE TO WISH OUR VISITORS, CUSTOMERS AND FRIENDS HEALTH AND HAPPINESS FOR 2008
AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR CUSTOM, YOUR INTEREST AND YOUR KIND WORDS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.
Here at Kintaline Plant and Poultry Centre we have very full days with our birds and plants outside, students, guests and customers visiting the farm, as well as email and phone customers.
Please email with your daytime and evening telephone numbers if you are having difficulties getting hold of us by phone. We will return your call as soon as we can.
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OUR DUCKS ARE HERE

WHAT MAKES OUR BIRDS DIFFERNET ?

Our foundation stocks have come from some of the best production breeders in the country and have developed in to lovely strong utility lines. We hope that this will continue - [mind you there are no guarentees in any breeding].

Unlike most breeders nowadays we record our birds productivity and make decisions about breeding accordingly. In the past 10 -20 years most breeders have stopped taking account of production and been breeding for feather colours and for shapes - this has lead in many old breeds to most birds being a poor shadow of their former glory - poor egg numbers and colours and birds which have too large a frame for their health instead of being strong and meaty. We undertake strong positive selection methods from the eggs to the birds.

  • We only hatch eggs that are the right size, shape, colour for each breed;
  • With most breeds all breeding hens are over a year old
  • We do not hatch in the winter
    This means the birds we hatch are the best we can produce - but mostly will be available in the late summer and autumn - however please book your birds earlier in the year TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT

    Please note we DO NOT export eggs, birds or housing. .

    We aim to produce good hens -but don't forget that if you already have birds that it is the cockerels that are the most important for the next generation. Unless his mum was a great layer and he came from an egg colour correct from the breed he will not be a good influence on his pullets.


    The chicks are hatched on the farm and once hatched we aim to maintain the highest standards of rearing.
    We do not deal in birds; we don't have peafowl or wild fowl.

    Dealing in birds where a business says that they can get you x or y is so dangerous in the poultry world. You never know what bugs you might be bringing in to your flock. And you don't know what has passed through their property in the past year.

    Follow the underlined links to see more information on each breed.

    RHODE ISLAND RED
    This is a popular pure breed and we have strains that are still a very good layer. These are getting very rare nowadays with probably only 5 or 6 strains left. They are hardy birds, and can lay through the winter. They have a mid brown egg.

    LIGHT SUSSEX
    We have a good old strain that is good and meaty; lays around 220 eggs a year and has good markings. They are hardy active birds; capable of rearing their own young and produce great table birds.

    Marans
    The breed is a French dual purpose bird, popular for its speckled feathering and deep brown eggs, over 200 a year. The birds make a great slow growing table bird. Unlike most strains in the UK ours don't have any backcrossing of other breeds in them.

    WELSUMER
    Attractively marked brown bird from Holland, the welsumer lays a deep brown egg. We have Partridge and Duckwing - the latter are a particularly strong layer of exceptional eggs - around 200 (the best ever welsumer was Shrewton Wonder in the 1940's who laid 246)

    WHITE WYANDOTTE
    A lovely well feathered white bird laying around 200- 220 eggs throughout the year. Our foundation stock was from the renowned and respected late Clem Shaw - probably one of the last of a generation of great utility breeders.

    BUFF ORPINGTON
    This very attractive beautiful apricot coloured bird will lay around 150-180 tinted brown eggs a year. They are a strong meaty strain but not bred for all the feather and size that is causing so many problems in other strains.
    BLUE ORPINGTON
    Large, grand and gorgeous range of colours in this very popular dual purpose breed

    WHITE LEGHORN
    An Italian breed originally our white Leghorns lay well producing 230 plus eggs a year – with good white shells

    BLACK LEGHORN
    A great looking bird, not quite the productivity of the white. Somehow we have ended up with a very tame strain - they positively like people.
    BROWN LEGHORN
    Lovely birds - smart looking; great white eggs and the boys are stunning

    SCOTS GREY
    This is one of two traditional Scots breeds - we have a very old strain - not as large as modern show birds but not bantams either. The cuckoo colour is well shown off by these proud birds who strut around the farm like little soldiers.

    SCOTS DUMPY
    The second Scots breed - the shortened legs supposedly so that they would be easy to catch; Their biggest problem being that they have a lethal gene; there are short legged - long legged and some in between so getting the breeding right is quite a genetic feat. Good birds are very rare now

    BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK
    very attractive and good layers - the barred plymouth rock was used in the sex linkage for commercial breeds. However getting decent numbers and egg size from current stocks is difficult.

    CREAM LEGBAR
    Very rare, autosexing blue egg layers. Pretty birds and very popular

    ARAUCANA
    The blue egg layer from Chile with the Hebridean connection

    Please bear in mind that all birds have to be collected from the farm - as far as I am aware there are no specialist carriers who work this far north.

    We DO NOT have birds to pick up "on spec" all are booked well in advance. If you have booked birds please contact us before collecting them and remember to bring good stout boxes to carry them in.

    VISITORS WELCOME We are open all year - weather permitting - for you to meet the birds and see what we do. We also have a plant centre. Please email or ring before travelling distances in the winter.
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    Genetics and Evolution of the Domestic Fowl by Lewis Stevens

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    Tim and Jill Bowis
    Kintaline Mill Farm, Benderloch, OBAN Argyll PA37 1QS Scotland
    01631 720223


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