January Egg Swap Addresses Sent

[pbjmaker]

9catsz - Ostrich looks to have the frizzle gene also possibly. See how her crest kind of goes backwards? Frizzle is more subtle in silkies. I might have to get you a picture of my frizzled silkie/cochin baby so you can see.

BTW I think the Ostrich might be a girl. Not sure if it is 100% true, but when you cross "light skinned" breeds with silkies it seems the girls inherit the darker skin, whereas the boys seem to have the lighter skin. That has been my experience when I have crossed them in the past.

 

[LeasureChix]

Here our post offices are closed on Saturdays. We also have rural routes allowing us to leave money in our mail box for stamps or attached to envelopes/packages for postage. I was told by both post offices that I use that they cannot turn their computers on to process the shipping. Just what I was told.

OK, that makes more sense. I haven't paid for postage online yet but our big post office is open on Saturday and has a 24 hour self service automated postage station so we have more options.

 

[bantiehen]

awwww

want eggs lol

 

[bantiehen]

I'm glad that you're not picky because I thought you were wanting pure bred eggs. My only pures are black splash blue wyandotte bantams.... 4 hens and 1 roo and one of them gets out at least twice a week and mixes with my NN showgirl wannabes and I've been getting some really wierd-but-cute NN and non-NN babies out of their eggs.

I call these two The Twins. They're with a group of 30 that hatched out together, but these two seem to know they're real brothers. I believe both are roos. They're a result of my wyandotte hen and one of my 2 NN showgirl wannabes.




This is a non-NN offspring of my wayward wyandotte x NN showgirl wannabes.


This frizzle was quite a surprise. I had no idea that gene was floating around in my flock. I don't have any adult frizzles. It's cool because it's top hat is black. It's from one of my showgirl wannabes x silkie. She hangs out with The Twins a lot.


The Ostrich, as named by someone from the NYD hatch thread.




I have silkies too....mostly all black, but a few buff and white ones sometimes.


For reference, here's my NN showgirl wannabes.




Black splash blue wyandotte adults.


One thing for sure...ya'll will get bantams. I don't have a LF rooster and I won't send any LF eggs because, so far, none have been fertile.....and it's not for trying because my little roos go at the big girls.

 

[9Catsz]

I so want eggs from you! I love the frizzle thing, although it probably wouldn't fare well in the winters up here.

That frizzle is the only one I've gotten out of around 100 babies I hatched last year. It has to come from one of the Wannabes. I talked to the guy I bought them from and he has frizzles. Oh and as pbjmaker said, Ostrich is probably a frizzle...so that would make it 2 frizzles out of about 100 hatched.

I love the wannabes!! They are darling!!!

I really wanted true showgirls and couldn't find any locally, the wannabes are as close as I could get and I fell in love w/them. They've made a few real showgirls, but these two are so unique.

9catsz - Ostrich looks to have the frizzle gene also possibly. See how her crest kind of goes backwards? Frizzle is more subtle in silkies. I might have to get you a picture of my frizzled silkie/cochin baby so you can see.

BTW I think the Ostrich might be a girl. Not sure if it is 100% true, but when you cross "light skinned" breeds with silkies it seems the girls inherit the darker skin, whereas the boys seem to have the lighter skin. That has been my experience when I have crossed them in the past.

I'd love to see pics of your frizzle silkies. I, too, believe Ostrich is a girl. Very little comb and it's at least 2 weeks older than The Twins and they've both got huge combs going on already. Interesting about the skin color, I hadn't considered that, but it appears you're right.

awwww

want eggs lol

I'm getting quite a lot of eggs from my silkies and wyandottes and it's hard for me to NOT set them, so if anyone else wants eggs, PM me and we can work something out.....I don't need to set 18 eggs every week....at least that's what I keep telling myself.

but I don't listen and do it anyway.

 

[dixiebeast]

I LOVE the splash wyndottes...I have blue laced but my gals just started laying tiny eggs and are not with a roo.I have a roo but he has a flock of gals( RIR,BO,Barred) and on the 4th day of them in the big coop the girls got evil and tried to eat them...they are recovering well! I wish they were LF splashes....sooo pretty!

 

[PeeperKeeper]

Mine are sent and should arrive on Fri- Sat. Good Luck to; karimw and Eagle TheHenpecked.

 

[CapricornFarm]

KarimW, Your eggs went out today! 0310 0480 0000 4063 6494. Please let me know when you get them! Deb

 

[bikerchic]

I just got though packaging my eggs. I hope Tennessee Truly has room for extras

and doesn't mind a couple large fowl. I couldn't bring myself to feed them to the dog

I will PM Tennessee and Mr Heinz the conformation number tomorrow.

 

[chick-among-us]

SCG and peeperkeeper you eggs are on the way! Peeperkeeper I have tried several times to pm you not sure if you are getting them or if you check it on here. Finally just sent them...Sorry!

Hope you are ok with extras and I packed them extra careful so that you don't have ANOTHER tragedy....

(knock on wood) Hope you both get your packages safely!~ Cyndy