Eastern Tennessee Thread - Page 798  

Dont pay attention to the surroundings. It is in our unfinished basement. 

1st pic shows my main bator, the styrofoam backup bator / hatcher, and the 1st week tub (before they go out to the coop brooder)

2nd and 3rd pics are inside the main bator. Theses eggs are spread out, but I can get easily 36 in there if I use the styrofoam hatcher for half of them when they start to pip. The reason I like having 22 is because they sit perfectly in the holes of the bricks that are below that towel. The bricks serve as thermal mass and natures best wick to soak up water and slowly release it for humidity.

I have 1 starting to pip now...so get ready for a bunch of pics, LOL

I love her! I think she has a pretty head, comb, and wattles, too. If you are breeding towards showing, combs aren't that high on the scale of things they judge, points-wise. The most important thing is type (body size and shape). My little eight-month-old cockerel was DQ'd in Newport for being too heavy.

You've probably already seen this, but here's link to Jeremy's website where he has some of the British orp standard. Here's the link for a summary of the US SOP. I really like this page because it has pictures of the US and British orps side by side. I think I've decided I'm somewhere in the middle. I'm working on broader heads and improving eye color because sometimes I'll hatch light brown eyes. Other than that, I think they're pretty perfect. (An APA judge would completely disagree, I'm sure)

I think BB's feathering is a little looser than the US SOP, but I think it makes her really pretty!

So I have lost a few birds to what I think is a oppossum... guess it's time to live trap again. One of my porch looks pregnant and supposed that is why she needs more food. GRRRRR

Do any of you know of anyone that might have Blue Mille Fleur D'Uccles? I am looking for a pullet/hen (either will do if she is an older pullet/young hen). I need a buddy for another MF D'Uccle hen. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thx!  

I was also wondering....I read in a thread earlier, that you can sex D'Uccles very early. It began an argument in the thread and no real answer was given. Is it true that at 4 weeks or so, you can start to see combs in the boys? 

Pardon my ignorance and thanks for tolerating my questions. Any advice is appreciated. 

lol...it's ok. I was going to tell her. Just wanted to give her crap for not seeing them at the picnic. It may not go well anyway. Even if in a perfect world I got a double blue gene in a rooster and some splash or black hens, it is still fighting a loosing battle. There are only 2 people that I know of working on trying to save the breed, so keeping it going might prove overwhelming. I saw a couple examples and got the eggs before I realized they were nearly non-existent and would turn out to be such a difficult project. That's what I get for being spontaneous, LOL

You'll have to see if BarnQueen will answer your questions. I think she's the only one of us on here actively that has them.

You have a pregnant PORCH!?!?! You just HAVE to take pictures.

If you need to re-home it, I've been wanting a front porch on my coop for a while, now.

Do any of you know of anyone that might have Blue Mille Fleur D'Uccles? I am looking for a pullet/hen (either will do if she is an older pullet/young hen). I need a buddy for another MF D'Uccle hen. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thx!  

I was also wondering....I read in a thread earlier, that you can sex D'Uccles very early. It began an argument in the thread and no real answer was given. Is it true that at 4 weeks or so, you can start to see combs in the boys? 

Pardon my ignorance and thanks for tolerating my questions. Any advice is appreciated. 

You have a pregnant PORCH!?!?! You just HAVE to take pictures.

If you need to re-home it, I've been wanting a front porch on my coop for a while, now.