Recent content by Buttercup Chillin

I have been asked how to close ones account at BYC. This should be a 2 way street. I have noticed that accounts on alot of forums cannot be closed. I don't know - other than closing off your e-mail information. Shutting down your PM. Taking out all contact information from your Profile...

Quote: We know your birds don't get to 14-16 oz in 7 -8 weeks. You have told us repeatedly. ut you had the chance to get this strain and passed it by. Go figure.

You can't always tell by looking at them. Well sometimes you can tell you obviously have a mix. To put it simply Muscovies are Muscovies not ducks. They are the only one in the Muscovy species. When crossed with ducks they will be Mules or Hinnies, depending on how they are crossed...

Quote: Exactly my point with the small portion compared to my Big Brown Coturnix in the same time period. Heres something for you to think about. I know, as you probably do that Texas is in an extreme drought. The cattle ranchers have cut the herds by what was it 30-35% already and...

Thanks all. I figured I could count on you to ID this bird in a minute. Now I know what a young one looks like anyway. I shall do a small taste test comparison to one of My Big Browns when it is 7-8 weeks old. Just for the fun of it. A snack, hum, maybe I should cook 2 Big Browns so...

What I thought, a BOB cause it sure isn't a Coturnix. Quail head, quail body, but a tail. The tail threw me and just not sure. Wanted to make sure it wasn't a wild bird of some kind. (Around here there are wild Blue Scales, but never have seen a young one). Never had BW's - don't...

No comb. Way to small for a chicken, even a small bantam.

Good to hear. The class of now 1st graders hatched the big brown and the new Golds at 100% hatch rate. I was suprised and proud of them. Then they played with them for a week and they still grew well. But now anything that shows up in their room well, teach has my number. Knows to drop it...

You read that right. Got a chick from the kindergarden class, supposed to be a quail from another classes hatch. This little chick ended up in their room after the guy came and picked up the chicks a few days later. (This class hatched some of my Big Browns and the new Golds). So now...

Hope I can post this here. Just letting you know that on ustream there is a hatch going on of little Woodie ducks. They will pop out of their hole and land in the lake later today or in the morning. Cool to watch. They almost look like Muscovy babies but are a wild duck, not a domestic...

Well Martha didn't put up pics of the Pen 5 chicks yet, so I thought I would show you what they will or should look like at almost 4 weeks old. I'll weigh them tomorrow evening and come back and post their weights Fat Daddy. They look similar to the Egyptian Golds. But the EG's do not have...

Diggypaws you got Golds from Pen 1? I don't even have them anymore. You are the only one to accomplish that. Pat yourself on the back and then do it again. OH...... I am waiting on a new bator. Not so patiently I might add. I suppose you will tell us you have a Brown with a White...

Quote: Awesome! I think you are the only one so far who hatched any! Keep us posted on your hatch Yes, but she may have sacrificed the Jumbo Browns and her chicks from her very own eggs to get these. Perhaps once they are all in the brooder she can snap a picture or two and show you All her...

OK, guys I figured a way for you to compete with me and for you to see if you are heading in the right direction. I have 2 different batches that were just 2 weeks old at 1 AM Saturday Morning. I weighted them Thursday and Fri night at 11PM. The Browns are F1's from my second Parent pen that...

Well good luck with your hatches people, remember their lethals. The name should remind you. I see no one else wants me to name my birds. That's strange when I am giving them to people to breed, to trade and to sell. That's right there are only 4 colors aren't there. Oops I have more...