{"id":113,"date":"2013-02-13T17:40:51","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T22:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appleworm.us\/?page_id=113"},"modified":"2024-06-14T10:40:42","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T14:40:42","slug":"flarry-eye-grays","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/appleworm.us\/?page_id=113","title":{"rendered":"Flarry Eye Grey"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Leopold\"<\/a>

Leopold: Founder of our Flock<\/p><\/div>\n

We no longer breed the Flarry Eye Grey.\u00a0 This page is for informational purposes only.<\/p>\n

In addition to our Hulseys and Whitehackles, Appleworm\u2122 Orchard maintains a pair of Flarry Eye Greys.\u00a0 Our acquisition, truth be told, was a felicitous accident.\u00a0 In Fall 2012 we purchased from Greenfire Farms a very nice flock of Pumpkin Hulseys.\u00a0 Greenfire was, at that time, eager to make space for a new import of an endangered laying hen from Europe or some other distant place.\u00a0 Noting our apparent interest in American gamefowl, Greenfire offered us, at fire-sale prices, its breeding flock of Flarry Eye Greys.\u00a0 We did a bit of research, learning that Greenfire’s source, a breeder in Mississippi, had maintained his flock of birds for over a decade and that he had acquired his stock from a man in Indiana (who had worked with them for two decades).\u00a0 Sounded good.<\/p>\n

\"Lefty\"<\/a>

Lefty: Daughter of Leopold<\/p><\/div>\n

So we bought the flock, started breeding, and posted photographs of the broodstock\u00a0to this website.\u00a0 And we started getting calls.\u00a0 Very interesting calls.\u00a0 From all over the country.\u00a0 Some callers simply wanted to let us know that these birds were very fine.\u00a0 Others offered us lots of money to buy out the flock.\u00a0 Others told us that we had mislabeled them, that they were not just “Flarry Eye Greys” but highly desirable “Joc Wilson Flarry Eye Grays.”\u00a0 (The evidence of this, they said,\u00a0is the birds’ white legs.)\u00a0\u00a0Others said that they were not Flarry Eye Greys at all but “Ginn Greys.” (The evidence: lack of a Cro-Magnon-looking\u00a0protuberance above the eyes.)\u00a0 They might also be,\u00a0possibly, “Ginn x Joc Wilson Greys.”\u00a0 We were so confused. We still are confused.\u00a0 But we are learning.\u00a0 We continue to breed them, watching their offspring carefully.\u00a0 We are doing our research, too, trying to trace their genealogy.<\/p>\n

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Loeb: Son of Leopold. \u00a0He is now our broodcock<\/p><\/div>\n

Even though the original broodflock consisted exclusively of white legged birds, approximately half of their offspring have blue legs.\u00a0 Our plan is to attempt to\u00a0breed this recessive trait out of the flock: Our goal is pure-bred, white-legged birds.\u00a0 So, until we achieve this goal, we will be retaining all white-legged birds for ourselves, but will offer to the public our blue-legged offspring. \u00a0Below is a photograph of one such pullet.<\/p>\n

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Flighty: A blue-legged pullet<\/p><\/div>\n

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For additional photos of any one of these birds, along with information regarding their genealogy etc., please click on the photos above.<\/p>\n

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We no longer breed the Flarry Eye Grey.\u00a0 This page is for informational purposes only. In addition to our Hulseys and Whitehackles, Appleworm\u2122 Orchard maintains a pair of Flarry Eye Greys.\u00a0 Our acquisition, truth be told, was a felicitous accident.\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-113","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appleworm.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appleworm.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appleworm.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appleworm.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appleworm.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/appleworm.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2604,"href":"https:\/\/appleworm.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113\/revisions\/2604"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appleworm.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appleworm.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}