We were in the Hamilton Quality Supply yesterday and oh my, those Silver Laced Wyandotte chicks are SO CUTE! I was tempted again to buy some. Good grief!
I was going to ask which hatchery they ordered from this year, but everyone was so very busy that I didn't want to bother them. I have a friend who has Wyandottes from McMurray and she is very happy with them. Hers have better lacing than the hens that I brought home from Quality last year and they also all have the proper comb type (rose) unlike mine who are about half single comb.
I do have a gorgeous Silver Laced Wyadotte rooster that I brought home a couple of weeks ago. He is young yet - just beginning to try and woo the girls. It's pretty cute watching the poor clumsy fellow trying to get it all figured out. I'm working on another breeding pen for him and the few quality Silver Laced Wyandotte girls that I do have. Hopefully I'll have some chicks to offer later this season.
I have 57 chicks right now that I have kept from the last three weeks hatches and the plan is to grow these chickens up to have started birds to offer in about six weeks, once they are off the heat lamps and I can tell who is male and who is female. These are mixed breeds, possibly pure bred birds, of the breeds that I offer for sale. I will be growing some of these guys up to point of lay and selling once I know for sure what color eggs they lay; I have some delightful egg colors manifest out of my mixed flock. We have a whole bunch of these mixed birds running around out in our field and they make for a wonderfully pretty carton of eggs.
I just this morning finished the last hatch of eggs that I had in the incubator and am waiting around for my birds to decide to start laying again. I have a couple dozen Rhode Island Red eggs to set, but that is it for now. Sigh.
There is a waiting list on the Araucana large fowl, but the bantams are as yet unspoken for.
Just waiting, waiting for the girls to feel like laying.
Oh how I do love chick season.
I was going to ask which hatchery they ordered from this year, but everyone was so very busy that I didn't want to bother them. I have a friend who has Wyandottes from McMurray and she is very happy with them. Hers have better lacing than the hens that I brought home from Quality last year and they also all have the proper comb type (rose) unlike mine who are about half single comb.
I do have a gorgeous Silver Laced Wyadotte rooster that I brought home a couple of weeks ago. He is young yet - just beginning to try and woo the girls. It's pretty cute watching the poor clumsy fellow trying to get it all figured out. I'm working on another breeding pen for him and the few quality Silver Laced Wyandotte girls that I do have. Hopefully I'll have some chicks to offer later this season.
I have 57 chicks right now that I have kept from the last three weeks hatches and the plan is to grow these chickens up to have started birds to offer in about six weeks, once they are off the heat lamps and I can tell who is male and who is female. These are mixed breeds, possibly pure bred birds, of the breeds that I offer for sale. I will be growing some of these guys up to point of lay and selling once I know for sure what color eggs they lay; I have some delightful egg colors manifest out of my mixed flock. We have a whole bunch of these mixed birds running around out in our field and they make for a wonderfully pretty carton of eggs.
I just this morning finished the last hatch of eggs that I had in the incubator and am waiting around for my birds to decide to start laying again. I have a couple dozen Rhode Island Red eggs to set, but that is it for now. Sigh.
There is a waiting list on the Araucana large fowl, but the bantams are as yet unspoken for.
Just waiting, waiting for the girls to feel like laying.
Oh how I do love chick season.
