If you have the new GQF equipment where the hatching tray is slick I would suggest that you put a paper towel or something in the bottom of it otherwise it can be too slick for them and then could end up with sprattle legs if they can't get good footing and are in the hatcher too long.
Nice. I have the color down pretty good but need to work on body type a little more and plan to do the same by breeding to some nice blacks but someone came out yesterday and begged me for my black rooster so will have to put that off for awhile longer.
So a lady called and asked to put her 7 year old son on the phone to let me explain why the daddy duck is trying to drown the momma duck in the pond. Once I explained to the lady what the ducks were actually doing that was a conversation that she fortunately said that she would have with her son.
My newest additions posing for their "ugly duckling" before pictures but just wait until they are a beautiful pair of Australian Black Swans swimming around my front yard. They have become so bonded to people that they threw a fit until I let them follow me around to do my evening chores.
These are new for me and they need some work to get as nice as my other mottled cochins. I am going to give it a go through even though I am color blind as heck. Black and white is so much easier for me.
I have it pretty bad this year myself. But once I get a couple of hundred ducks in the brooders and remember how much of a mess they can be I bet I stop putting so many eggs in the incubator.
This week for me should be: Lavender Orpingtons, Patridge Rocks, Silver Sussex, Black LF Cochins, Barred LF Cochins, Blue Fawn Mallards, White, Pastel & Grey Calls, White, Black & Chocolate Runners, Lavender Ice Geese, Blue Mottled Bantam Cochins and Lavender Bantam Cochins.
Not very close but there is a lady in Broken Arrow (near Tulsa) that is selling Rhodebars. I don't know where she got them from but I know she has some nice Orpingtons that look pretty good and are supporsed to be from a good line. I think she had pictures and an ad on Tulsa Craigslist.
I have about wore about my computer searching for Trout Indian Runners but have finally found some nice quality ones and am on the list for a future hatch. Now the fun part comes in getting them. They don't ship so it sounds like I will be driving 20 hours to get them. But...so worth it. If...
I would call and talked to Sherry at the Dept of Ag. She handles all the NPIP stuff for our state and I am sure that she can help you. Her office number is 405-522-6139.
Anyone in here that went to the Coweta sale last Friday evening that might know who had all those nice LF cochins. It was the part of the group that had some for a lemon blue project. I bought a couple of birds out of there but could kick myself that I didn't buy more. I thought at least I...