Omega Blue Farms
Morganically Grown * Heritage Conservation
Exhibition Accomplishments
The American Poultry Association has awarded Omega Blue Farms "Grand Master Breeder" recognition in the following breeds:
Bronze Turkey
Brown African Goose
Black Muscovy
Rhode Island Red - Standard Single Comb
Championships
Our Birds have won the following Championships at Sanctioned shows (awarded championship points)
Bronze Turkey
Champion Turkey - 2004 Saanich Fall Fair
Champion Turkey - 2005 APA District - Cowichan Feather Fanciers
Champion Turkey - 2005 Luxton Fall Fair
Champion Turkey - 2006 Luxton Fall Fair
Champion Turkey - 2006 Cowichan Fall Fair
Reserve Bird in Show - 2006 APA Provincial - Saanich Fall Fair
Champion Turkey - 2007 Cowichan Feather Fanciers
Reserve Bird in Show - 2007 APA District - Fraser Valley Feather Fanciers
Champion Turkey - 2008 Comox Valley Fall Fair
Champion Turkey - 2008 Saanich Fall Fair
Champion Turkey - 2008 Nanaimo 4H
Champion Turkey - 2008 APA District - Cowichan Feather Fanciers
Champion Turkey - 2008 Canadian National - Fraser Valley Feather Fanciers
Champion Turkey - 2010 APA District - Fraser Valley Feather Fanciers
Champion Turkey - 2010 APA Provincial - Cowichan Feather Fanciers
Reserve Turkey - 2011 Canadian National - Armstrong
Reserve Bird in Show - APA District - Cowichan Feather Fanciers
Brown African Geese - incomplete, needs updating
Best Bird in Show - 2009 APA Provincial - Comox Valley Exhibition
Champion Goose - 2010 APA Provincial - Cowichan Feather Fanciers
Reserve Goose - 2011 Canadian National - Armstrong
Reserve Goose - 2011 APA District - Cowichan Feather Fanciers
Black Ameraucana
Champion AOSB - 2008 Saanich Fall Fair
Champion AOSB - 2008 Nanaimo 4H poultry
Champion AOSB - 2008 APA District - Cowichan Feather Fanciers
Best Bird in Show - 2010 Comox Valley Exhibition
Champion AOSB - 2010 Saanich Fall Fair
Rhode Island Red
Champion Large Fowl - 2005 APA District - Cowichan Feather Fanciers
Champion American - 2006 Chilliwack Exhibition
Reserve Large Fowl - 2006 Luxton Fall Fair
Reserve Large Fowl - 2006 Cowichan Feather Fanciers
Champion American - 2007 Luxton Fall Fair
Reserve Large Fowl - 2007 Comox Valley Exhibition
Reserve Large Fowl - 2008 Comox Valley Exhibition
Champion American - 2008 Canadian National - Fraser Valley FF
Reserve Bird in Show - 2009 APA Provincial - Comox Valley Exhibition
Champion American - 2011 APA District - Cowichan Feather Fanciers
Muscovy (Black, Blue, & Chocolate)
Reserve Waterfowl (chocolate) - 2004 Saanich Fall Fair
Reserve Waterfowl (black) - 2004 Cowichan Valley Feather Fanciers
Reserve Bird in Show (black) - 2004 Fraser Valley Feather Fanciers
Reserve Waterfowl (chocolate) - 2005 Luxton Fall Fair
Champion Heavy (chocolate) - 2005 Fraser Valley Feather Fanciers
Champion Heavy (chocolate) - 2005 APA District - Cowichan FF
Champion Waterfowl (black) - 2006 Fraser Valley Lawn Show
Champion Heavy (blue) - 2006 Chilliwack Fall Fair
Reserve Duck (black) - 2006 Luxton Fall Fair
Best Bird in Show (black) - 2006 Cowichan Valley Feather Fanciers
Reserve Waterfowl (blue) - 2007 Comox Valley Exhibition
Reserve Waterfowl (black) - 2007 APA District - Fraser Valley FF
Reserve Bird in Show (chocolate) - 2007 Cowichan Feather Fanciers
Champion Heavy (chocolate) - 2007 Luxton Fall Fair
Champion Heavy (blue) - 2008 Comox Valley Exhibition
Champion Heavy (blue) - 2008 Saanich Fall Fair
Champion Heavy (blue) - 2008 Nanaimo 4H
Champion Heavy (blue) - 2008 APA District - Cowichan Feather Fanciers
Champion Heavy (black) - 2008 Canadian National - Fraser Valley FF
Champion Waterfowl (black) - 2010 APA District - Fraser Valley FF
Champion Heavy (black) - 2010 APA Provincial - Cowichan Feather Fanciers
Champion Heavy (black) - 2011 Canadian National - Armstrong
Champion Heavy (black) - 2011 APA District - Cowichan Feather Fanciers
Saxony Duck - incomplete, needs updating
Champion Heavy - 2009 Comox Valley Exhibition
Champion Heavy - 2010 Comox Valley Exhibition
Khaki Campbell Duck - incomplete, needs updating
Champion Light - 2010 Comox Valley Exhibition
Champion Light - 2010 APA District - Fraser Valley Feather Fanciers
Champion Waterfowl - 2011 Canadian National - Armstrong
Reserve Duck Champion - 2011 APA District - Cowichan Feather Fanciers
Malay
Champion AOSB - 2010 APA District - Fraser Valley Feather Fanciers
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Heritage Poultry - Live
Omega Blue Farms is a Heritage Breed Conservation Farm where heritage breeds are traditionally reared and selectively bred to official historic standards. We breed for the table while selecting for show, producing productive champion show quality lines. We feel it is important to show our birds and have our breeding results evaluated by properly trained licensed judges as this helps ensure our breeding efforts remain true to our chosen breeds. Check out our sanctioned SHOW RECORD.
It's important to realize that communities save breeds, not individuals. Without the support of the local community, our breeding efforts are wasted.
By buying our heritage birds, you are supporting locally developed breeding efforts and REAL local food security and sovereignty. Our lines are selectively bred to thrive in our climate and for resistance to our region's natural diseases. The parents of our chicks have been naturally pastured and raised using traditional methods without the aid of chemicals, hormones, or antibiotics.
We only raise the few breeds offered here, and are a breeding farm, not a hatchery. All stock comes from show quality parents unless otherwise stated. Please keep in mind that not all chicks grow up to be show birds, plan to raise 3 chicks for every show bird desired.
Through American Poultry Association show success, Omega Blue Farms has earned "Grand Master Breeder" recognition for the following breeds:
Bronze Turkey
Brown African Geese
Black Muscovy
Sustainable Breeding
I consider us to be serious breeders of Turkeys and Muscovy ducks. By this, I mean that we are maintaining a sufficient population and selective breeding strategy that is expected to guard against inbreeding depression while attempting to restore or maintain the breed's utility function. Each winter, we maintain enough breeding males to ensure the sustainability of our lines. Dawn and I have developed our own unique and closed breeding populations.
Sustainable and viable conservation breeding is the rarest aspect of the Rare Heritage Breed community. Most attempts at conservation breeding result in dead ends with little to no impact to the long term survivial of heritage breeds. Omega Blue Farms hopes to offer a model that others can learn from, support, and/or duplicate.
Acquiring Stock
When considering acquiring our stock, it's important to realize that we are not a hatchery, but heritage breed conservation farm. Improving our breed's economic viability is our priority with each breeding season. Each season's hatching priorities revolve around our actual breeding projects and simply producing food. Economic sustainability is critical for heritage breed conservation. Our hatching season is focussed on producing poultry meat.
We have not found the hatching egg market to be economically sustainable and therefore we do not sell hatching eggs.
We are poorly set-up to offer chick sales at this time and therefore our hatching is dedicated to meat production. However, if we hatch any surplus during peak hatching season, we will make the surplus available. Other than that, we do not sell chicks.
During the growing season, I often find pullets that are built more for egg production than meat production. I will sell these as dual purpose pullets.
As we refine and work our various breeds, we are more than happy to give other prospective breeders access to our genpool in the form of fully grown breeding stock. I often sell birds for something quite close to their meat value.
It's important to realize that our meat chickens and turkeys are big heavy birds. To have a successful hatching season with them, they need to be maintained properly. This usually means making saddles for the hens and managing their weight with measured feeding.
