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IBCC Iowa Blue Breed Census – January 2014

Participants:

• 11 IBCC members; 3 Non-Members
  
  
• 12 own Iowa Blues; 2 do not ow Iowa Blues
  
  
• 6 breed Iowa Blues; 7 do not yet breed, but hope to; 1 does not breed and doesn't plan to
  
  
• 2 show at APA/Open shows; 2 show at 4H shows only; 5 plan to show; 5 do not plan to show
  
  
• States of participants:
  
  
  • Iowa – 7
    
    
  • Illinois – 1
    
    
  • Kansas – 1
    
    
  • Maryland – 1
    
    
  • Michigan – 1
    
    
  • North Carolina – 1
    
    
  • Wisconsin – 1
    
    
  • West Virginia – 1
    
    

Totals of Numbers of Iowa Blues:

• Total number of birds reported: 213
  
  
• Total number of birds from each color variety reported:
  
  
  • Silver – 105
    
    
    • 36 Males
      
      
    • 52 Females
      
      
    • 17 Chicks
      
      
  • Charcoal – 11
    
    
    • 4 Males
      
      
    • 7 Females
      
      
    • 0 Chicks
      
      
  • Smoky – 25
    
    
    • 12 Males
      
      
    • 13 Females
      
      
    • 0 Chicks
      
      
  • Birchen – 72
    
    
    • 15 Males
      
      
    • 53 Females
      
      
    • 4 Chicks
      
      

Lines of Origins of Iowa Blues Reported:

• Silver Variety
  
  
  • 5 reported Dark Horse Acres / McKay-Widdel Line
    
    
  • 3 reported Cedar Creek Poultry / Hurley Line
    
    
  • 1 reported Burroughs Line
    
    
  • 4 reported Johnston Line
    
    
  • 1 reported Sandhill Preservation Line
    
    
  • 1 reported Ideal Hatchery Line
    
    
  • 1 reported as “Other”, a rooster received from a friend of unknown origin
    
    
• Charcoal Variety
  
  
  • 2 reported Sandhill Preservation Line
    
    
  • 2 reported Burroughs Line
    
    
  • 1 reported Johnston Line
    
    
• Smoky Variety
  
  
  • 1 reported Ideal Hatchery Line
    
    
  • 2 reported Sandhill Preservation Line
    
    
• Birchen Variety
  
  
  • 2 reported Dark Horse Acres / McKay-Widdel Line
    
    
  • 3 reported as “Unknown / Other Line”
    
    
    • 1 from Welp Hatchery (IA); 2 from Privett Hatchery (NM)
      
      
  • 1 reported as Ideal Hatchery Line
    
    
  • 1 reported as Johnston Line
    
    
  • 1 reported as Burroughs Line
    
    
  • 1 reported as Sandhill Preservation Line
    
    
  • 1 reported as Cedar Creek Poultry / Hurley Line