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Oregon Delawares has had a buyer need to change dates and will have a shipment of chicks ready to be mailed April 24th. For details on prices, etc. go to our Facebook Oregon Delawares page. Feel free to comment here, send a private message or message from the Oregon Delawares page :)

I breed Black Copper Marans as well as a few other breeds :) Just set up breeding pens last night so will be starting to set eggs in a couple of weeks. I am not on BYC too much anymore but feel free to message me with any questions, I'll try to get back with you within the week. I am in...

My feelings are exactly the same, have never vaccinated against Mareks. I have been raising/breeding chickens in the Willamette Valley for almost 10 years now (several hundred a year) and have maybe lost one bird early on in all the years to Mareks. I say maybe as I never sent the bird in for...

Thank you! At this point I believe all of us breeders need to get rid of the G :) Years back, a line was imported back to the States from Germany as the New Hamps in the USA had lost the quality they once had. That was quite some time ago and most of the NH lines in the states now are a combo...

Have not been on here for a while but wanted to wish everyone a Happy Spring :) A picture I took the other day of one of my older New Hampshire Hens raising some of my beloved Delawares for me:

One of my older hens raising some Delawares for me :)

MaryinIL, I recently got my NPIP and could ship out some eggs Monday, how many are you looking for? I started with birds from Eight Acres (Luanne) many years ago now :) Message me if you are interested. Shipping chicks is problematic for me as they need to be taken directly to the Portland...

Pea combs are linked with the blue gene. Because this cockeral has a single comb, the chance he will produce olive eggers is very slim even though he is an olive egger by breeding. He will produce brown egg laying offspring. Sorry if this has been answered already, I am way behind on reading...

Here is a sideview of the above cockeral. Liking him more and more!

I sure hope so! This is a new, recreated line and we have certainly gotten some surprises good and bad :)

Kathy Bonham line, F6 of my breeding. 8 month old 2015 Cockeral:

I believe the MCCUSA (Marans Chicken Club USA) has a breeders directory. They have a Facebook page and a separate Forum with a list of breeders who show and breed to standard.

Contact Luanne D'Amico, Eight Acres Farm. Not sure where in Florida she is but she will ship as well. Her user name on her is CPartist but she is not on here much. Better to go to her website and contact through there.

One of my potential chosen breeder Cockerals for next season. Lousy pics but please give input on what you see :)

I use bags made from feed sacks. My friend that makes them puts fairly long handles on them that I can hang from the fish scale hook. Weighing happens at night by headlamp as that is when I have the time and can easily pluck them off the roost. They stay fairly comatose in the bag but I do...

Do you all think that we have "lost" the fast feathering gene from the NH or is it still there? I had not figured that it was gone but I need to rethink things if that is even a possibility. One thing I have put a lot of thought into is that is this slow feathering really a problem? NYReds...

The few I had with grey in my other line was not what I would describe as smut. The top of the feathers looked white as they should but the underfluff was greyish not white to the skin. I understand what you are saying about the rate of feathering and truly appreciate your thoughts/input. I...

Is it your belief that we can not get faster feathering within this line itself with breeding for it at some point? We would need to look for a male from another line like I previously had?

I worked on my own Delaware line for about 5 years before getting the Kathy line. I started with a conglomerate from several different "non" common sources of Delawares, meaning, not Whitmore or any lines that most of you would have heard of. From my very first breedings, the chicks feathered...

The judges I have personally spoken with favor larger birds all else being equal even if oversize. Please don't quote me but I think large fowl are allowed to be 20% oversize without penalty anyways. There is one train of thought that with the better feed and care these days that the weights...