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Quote: Nice! Good to know they can survive the trip from out west. What was your hatch rate on the total order? The PO is especially brutal here. I can hardly get eggs that go from NC to TN that aren't scrambled.

My first fertile Orloff egg is due next week. Hoping it's not a mutt! I had a banty orloff x ameraucana roo in "time out" with them after he had my giant cochin roo pinned in a corner for 2 days. Little booger. Worst case scenario- I have a pretty EE

I know- I saw the auction and I sooo want to buy it, but I have wasted so much money on scrambled eggs the past month. I need to actually hatch some of those eggs and sell some chicks so I can buy more eggs. Viscious circle

I need some girls! Or chicks. Having an awful time with shipped eggs. I am lucky to get 50% in eggs from NC, and 100% of my own, so I know it's not the bators. I have some orloffs developing, but I had a banty roo in thier coop for a couple days so they might be minis.

Quote: Well, I'll be posting an auction or two for some testers soon....I want to see the roo showing a little more "interest" in the girls, first. He's crowing and acting like he might be doing that soon! It'd be a test just to see if eggs can survive the trip to me. I am going to be...

I need some eggs- mine are still not fertile

MFB- let me know if you track down those birds by Memphis! There was an ad in the NW GA craigslist a few weeks back selling pairs for $75 because "They were on the Martha Stewart show". I emailed them a bunch of questions about leg color and comb and stuff, and guess what? No response!

Yeah- the eggs are not big. They look just like my salmon faverolles eggs- small and chalky, tinted. I guess I won't bother with the ameraucana eggs from the girl that's in with them for a while either. I shouldn't complain- I have so many other fertile eggs right now my head is spinning as to...

I just candled my Orloff eggs that have been cooking for a week. They're all clear I've never actually seen the roo "doing the deed", and now I know why- because he's not! This is so dissappointing because I have heard repeatedly how their laying drops off considerably after the first...

Quote: I used to think that that was a good idea, until I started seriously raising welsummers. Now I have seen it on more than one occasion that the less agressive roos in the bunch will actually have stunted growth- maybe as a natural defense mechanism.(?) And then when the "top roo" is...

Quote: Purely Poultry is a not a hatchery, they are a broker. The chicks probably came from Welp or Ideal. Does Sandhill haev them? I will have to look, btu they have a big minimum order.... I grew out 2 roosters and they got along fine- never a fight. The coons got my extra. I agree with...

Quote: How far into NC are you? I'm going to be hatching some. Not enough eggs from the one hen to ship them out while they are still fertile, but I plan on selling chicks to anyone interested in keeping the breed going. Every egg I can get before it freezes is going into the incubator.

I'm going to start setting eggs in a couple weeks- as soon as the new incubator gets here. After all the predator problems I had over the winter, I am left with on nice pair. Not many eggs, but I put a black ameraucana pullet in with them too for some split for mottled EEs. My roo sure is a...

Mine are rather Malay looking- well, at least the roo is. They have yellow legs, but the comb I would guess is walnut. This is the first time I've ever seen anything like it on a non-silkie. I've never had a rose combed rooster before (but will this spring )

Sooo...what kind of comb are we trying to have now? I might just be making some spangled EEs here soon.......

Quote: Yah, after a while of reading and whatnot, I kinda figured he wasn't but did retain some of the qualities. If anything though it made me really get an interest in the breed in itself . What? Why isn't he full blood? Because of the white-ish legs? You do know that the european standard...

Quote: Very nice! I *think* yellow legs are dominant- just from experience with my welsummers and making olive eggers with them.

I'm not sure how good his carriage is, but he stands very similar to both of the roos I've had. The difference in the roos and hens is quite significant too- the hens are leggy, but don't look nearly as "maylay" as the boys.

Here's my pair (and an EE). Caught the hen in the nestbox yesterday!!!! I need to set up a seperate pen for them. The one I had ready ended up wth some turkey squatters

Quote: Awwww! That sounds just like how I think mine will be in a year. They have the personalities for it- outcasts from the start, last ones in at night, first ones out. They walk right into the house if i leave the door open. Not sure if it's to come in for treats, or to get away from the...