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Mame, Congrats on yer pic! Tinman, you have quite a herd of giants! These critters are too big to call merely a "flock", heheh.

Forgot to mention Achmed. She's a couple of months old and is bosom buddies with a tiny white silkie named flea. Both were named before I knew they were pullets, if yer wondering.

Actually, as it turns out they are just under 6 months, according to my sweetie. One we hatched, the others we bought as chicks, but they were hatched at roughly the same time. It would be cool if they were this big at 7 weeks old though. We have two black roosters too, also about the same age...

Here are some mediocre pics of some of our Blue Jersey Giants. About 7 months old or so.

Quote: Cool, I love these big guys! We have 2 Blacks and a Splash Roo, and a few Blue Hens, about five months old. Hard to photograph them though, they're the most uncooperative of the bunch when posing for pics. I also have a pair of those Pink Floyd P.J. bottoms! One of the fellas is named...

Quote: Nice sequay back to topic, heheh. Congrats! 10 more days till we see our "new Giants." Maria Halls Eggs.

Oh I'm sure, lol. I half expected to read about it in the paper.

Quote: I am glad to hear about you bird. I had a neighbor who stated that a neighbor's dog ended up killing about 50 of her chickens over a period of 4-5 years and his only response was, "dogs will be dogs". He never offered to stop the dog or pay for her loses. Interesting !@#$%%)(@&(*...

Quote: Do you have any photos of your silkies that you can post as examples (i,e, A., B., etc.) so that other BYC viewers can make their own comparisons of different breeders? No good ones, that would work for comparative purposes, anyway.

Quote: I have blue, black, splash, white, and buff adults. Don't know what colors will hatch, as I did have about 25% nonfertile eggs. We have some silkies that my sweetie bought from Bobbi Porto, and three we bought from a local seller. Bobbies are noticeably higher quality than the the...

Well my BJG that got nipped by the dog seems to be doing just dandy. Thanks for the help, ya'll! That link to show info for us newbies to showing was great too. I think I'm still gonna make my walnut cage though, even if just for transporting. It doesn't make the chickens better . . . but I...

Quote: Wow, that was perfect! It doesn't seem all that different than prepping a horse for show, oddly enough, heheh. Right down to using a little laundry bluing for the white. I was a little bummed to find out no modification of the cages for the show though. I was wanting to build a fancy...

Thanks Kathy, I guess I'll dump the Terramycin, since we were cleaning it within like 30 seconds of the incident. We did dump a little peroxide on the little wound and put some Neosporin on it. Washing the bird did get me to realize something unrelated to injuries though: I have no idea how to...

I apologize for breaking the rules. Sorry about that. Anyway, we had 'an incident' today. One of our dogs grabbed ahold of the BGG cockerel. I'd let the giants out of the pen to run around behind the mower to hunt the critters I stirred up with the mower. Wife got home and let the dogs out...

Well . . . I suppose we see things differently. Good idea about the "Live Chick Embryos" instead of just "Eggs" though.

Just recandled my eggs, and there does appear to be air sac issues . . .though I'm not experienced enough at 'reading the candle' to declare that with any real authority, heheh. Not sure how I would go about filing a claim on that with the Post office, and I don't blame the seller for that...

I have to make a correction to my original post, after talking to my sweetie this morning: It was the last eggs we got from Bobbi Porto. We got these from Maria Hall, sorry about that! As for the post office, we have to keep in mind that it isn't necessarily some mean-spirited person that can...

Quote: We just candled at 7 days and I think we had handling issues with the Post Office too, and candling seems to reenforce our initial suspicions. We have 13 eggs from Bobbi P. had 14 but one was broken when we opened the package . . .not a sign of good handling, because they were VERY...

Thanks! She was "manually hatched", but came out of it just fine, thankfully. I find wine reviews frustrating as chicken colors too. They'll describe a given wine with something like "This wine is warm to the palate, a smoky backend, with hints of chocolate and burnt toast" or some such uppity...

Here's a pic of my first Blue JG at about 7 1/2 Weeks. I keep seeing about "willow" legs. Since "Willow" is actually "pretty dang green" in my part of the country, I'm wondering what color it is in "actual color" terms. Dang these new names for colors drive me nuts, like "teal". . .are they...