Posts by joyous

I wish I could give you some wisdom, shipped eggs can give variable results, everything you read says in could be  the temperature is off, humidity too variable etc , bottom line is that even when you do everything right,...

Thanks everyone, glad to be back thinking about spring and chicks again!   Nice you meet you RedIII and Miss Molly!

My Grandson and some of my icelandics!

Hi mary! Glad to be back and able to concentrate on my chicks again! They have wintered fabulously, these tough little birds! You must have a new grand baby by now? Congrats, pictures to come of my flock! What do you have cooking?

So excited I just set eggs from mary(not a farm)s line that originated from Sigrid thordorson and behl lines with my sand hills that came from lyle behls line! I have three breeding pens and they are all so gorgeous I can't wait to see...

Wow, just found this thread today, cant stop reading.   We have the same day job!  sometimes it interferes with our important hobbies though!  I work in a cardiac catheterization lab in Iowa,   Where do...

19 Dorking project eggs in the inci today!!!  These are my Red Dorking roos with my Cuckoo/red dorking crossed hens.  And now I have ordered 2 dozen red dorking hatching eggs from Dick Horstman to arrive in March. With Mr...

3/13/13  7:00 am

not yet,  the temperatures have been absolutely frigid in eastern Iowa so my hens slowed down laying.   I have just noticed that they are starting up again,  so I am going to dust off my incubator today and...

I'm just waiting for a little warmer weather to incubate my Cuckoo/red dorking crossed hens with my red dorking roosters.   I should get some sex links out of these.  Then I either cross cousins to cousins,  or I...