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  1. JoAnn_WI_4-H_Mom

    Show off your Delawares! *PIC HEAVY*

    https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=6903171#p6903171 I think you all have reported much nicer personalities on your Dealwares than I got on my cross.
  2. JoAnn_WI_4-H_Mom

    Show off your Delawares! *PIC HEAVY*

    Deliweggers. I have a black Ameraucana Roo and only two Delaware hens left. Hmmmm... The Buckeye Roo over Delaware Hen sex-link chicks (1 month old) were all lightly downed and do appear to all be boys. They are larger than the other boys in the pen. Moved them to the garage brooder this...
  3. JoAnn_WI_4-H_Mom

    Show off your Delawares! *PIC HEAVY*

    Congrats!
  4. JoAnn_WI_4-H_Mom

    Show off your Delawares! *PIC HEAVY*

    Quote: Are they sex links? They should be, if my Dels have the silver gene and the Buckeye has the red gene. They should, but I have been wondering if the Dels have been crossed somewhere in their background with another white or Columbian breed. I am concerned that it would change the outcome.
  5. JoAnn_WI_4-H_Mom

    Show off your Delawares! *PIC HEAVY*

    My eldest son and I are hatching Buckeye Roo over Delaware hen as a broiler-cross project. It isn't strictly a Delaware project, so I will start a thread for it under the meat birds. I just wanted to post here as some Delaware growers expressed interest in the cross. The first three chicks...
  6. JoAnn_WI_4-H_Mom

    Show off your Delawares! *PIC HEAVY*

    VERY COLD -20F temp this AM. 15F in the insulated coop-room in the pole shed. Best I can do folks. Supposed to be colder tonight. Most of the Dellie girls look ok, but one has the appearance of frostbite in the comb. At least their feet seem warm. Love Dellies, but they just are not cut...
  7. JoAnn_WI_4-H_Mom

    Show off your Delawares! *PIC HEAVY*

    Quote: I have a few of their Delawares. While they are really attractive and healthy birds, have that Del personality and have good stocky bodies, they have the black v's in their hackles rather than the barring called for in the SOP. Their catalog description is a closer description of...
  8. JoAnn_WI_4-H_Mom

    Show off your Delawares! *PIC HEAVY*

    My eldest son thought the 16week old Delaware roos "acted like juniors in high school. Not quite top dog and pushing all the time" -25F temp without wind chill this morning. 2 feet of snow. Coop room has 25F. Still worried about humidity in there. Delawares running around like there is no...
  9. JoAnn_WI_4-H_Mom

    Show off your Delawares! *PIC HEAVY*

    Quote: I know we are trying to improve the breed here and the SOP calls for barring in the hackles....but I confess my sons really like the V's our Sand Hill girls have instead of barring, calling them "Lace Collars". Every Delaware's nickname is "Lacey" and they all come running and have to...
  10. JoAnn_WI_4-H_Mom

    Show off your Delawares! *PIC HEAVY*

    Happy Chickens to all. That big greeting post is just too funny. Thanks!
  11. JoAnn_WI_4-H_Mom

    Show off your Delawares! *PIC HEAVY*

    I understand that roadkill maggot farms over fish ponds to supply maggots to trout is not that uncommon...in very remote fish ponds due to the smell and increase in the fly population (they do not all fall in). I think I would rather find other protein sources for the birds, but what they pick...
  12. JoAnn_WI_4-H_Mom

    Show off your Delawares! *PIC HEAVY*

    Quote: The judge at the fair called several tails "pinched". What does that mean? Sorry, I should know, but I do not.
  13. JoAnn_WI_4-H_Mom

    Show off your Delawares! *PIC HEAVY*

    Quote: I keep putting off ordering the SOP because I am told there will be a new one out "soon". I would like to get the latest version. Why are they delaying the publishing!?!?!? I have been told it would be "soon" for a year! The one on Amazon has a comment that it does not have...
  14. JoAnn_WI_4-H_Mom

    Show off your Delawares! *PIC HEAVY*

    The DH (who doesn't like chickens) is continuing to modify and improve the insulated coop room in our pole shed. The Delawares decided to DWD Mind Control him. While building a shelf pen for a Jaerhon rooster, they kept flying up onto the boards he was attaching to walls and looking at him...
  15. JoAnn_WI_4-H_Mom

    Show off your Delawares! *PIC HEAVY*

    Quote: feathering and comb look exactly like my Speckled Sussex Roo X Delaware Hen cross cockerel. His comb never got big either, which we thought was odd as both parent breeds have sizable male combs. I am guessing some red roo over Delaware Hen cross, and a male. But I am newer to this...
  16. JoAnn_WI_4-H_Mom

    Show off your Delawares! *PIC HEAVY*

    Quote: A bird in the hand....
  17. JoAnn_WI_4-H_Mom

    Show off your Delawares! *PIC HEAVY*

    {pout} I'm not in Ohio {pout} Lots of pics please! One of the local 4-H dad's is there and he is hoping to find a Speckled Sussex Rooster for our eldest boy. I'd love to see pics of those too! Our current stock is hatchery and shows it. Ok, we have had very good weather in WI for November...
  18. JoAnn_WI_4-H_Mom

    Show off your Delawares! *PIC HEAVY*

    Thanks everyone for making me laugh before I head out to face the weekend! I am ready to pout with SpeckledHen all next weekend while you are admiring birds in Ohio!
  19. JoAnn_WI_4-H_Mom

    Show off your Delawares! *PIC HEAVY*

    So everyone is going to Ohio but me? Wish I could join you DH is almost finished insulating the winter quarters. The birds are going to get in just before snow. He likes things tight, I might have a ventilation problem. I have already worked out a way to screen one of the doors and leave...
  20. JoAnn_WI_4-H_Mom

    Show off your Delawares! *PIC HEAVY*

    Quote: We used a SS roo over Del hen accidentally, got White/Silver boy with lots more baring than the usual Del and WHITE legs. This spring we are looking to use a Buckeye Roo over our imperfect Del hens for a meat cross. I currently do not have a Del Roo. When we brought the Whitmore...
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