Recent content by Christabelle

I wanted to extend my apologies to those on this thread, I offered 12 jubilee eggs to the winner, but my last three hatches of jubilee have not gone well (fully developed chicks, but not strong enough to hatch). I am switching out my rooster with a spangle roo to see if this helps things, but...

My final count. 10 chocolate 12 mauve/blue 4 cuckoo 15 project (mixed color). Not that great of a hatch- if I remember right I set 73. A basket of chocolates!

My three year old painted this- and himself...

Eggs are piping and chirping!!

Wow- you really improved type, and added blue. Great job!

It's not so much that he is not an orpington- it's just that not everyone totally understands genetics, and if I tell people they are orps I'm afraid they are going to be bred and sold as such... But because they are a mix of colors, they throw strange mixed color chicks- if red gets mixed in...

The red bleed makes him a pet or a project. Selling chicks (as Orpingtons) from him would be out of the question (I mix colors for projects, but any split chicks I permanently mark, and if I decide not to keep them, I give them away as barnyard mix... Orpington never comes out of my mouth. If...

I guess it depends on what ya wanna do with him?

Chocolate rooster over splash hen = 100% mauve pullets (Roos be blue). I don't know that you could get a splash split choc roo, not that many people are making mauve. They have some mauve Orp chicks on rare-breeds, and I have some too. My mauve are all pullets though. Oh- and a splash...

Silly momma- any Orpington chick you want from me is free. I hope you have better duck egg luck soon.

Yes, come over to the dark side...

Lol- I stay away from the big ones in springtime. I use my little local guy down the street who does not sell chicks. Heaven knows why I even want them, I hatch better ones all the time... But.. A bantam assortment bin... You never know what your gunna get!!

Some people do. Greenfire's prices are high. You can get stuff cheeper on rarebreed auction if you want some chicks from them. You just have to wait for it to come up- or find someone else who has the breed.

These emus are just too friggin' cute. It makes me want one, and the last thing I need is a chicken the size of a pony, lol.

Couple of cute chicks!