have to say being reading this tread with great interest as we keep some busshaerts, "mr. bushaert" and "palmer hen" lines, from billy parks and berti flecther of northern ireland and charlie maples of dublin, my father bought a dark check cock in 1986 he's a grand son of mr.busshaert, and although this cock passed on many years ago he is sire g.sire gg.sire of many winners for us, his great grand son is our number one cock to this day only 4 generations away in 24 years, they have a great consitution and we cant knock the busshaert famly of birds in general, they are a very honest hard working bird, thats my shillings worth great tread all the same with some fantastic knowledge of a few members sharing wot they know