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Yes, very much!! Between the dairy and the kids I don't have much time to think!! :)

I'm in the Pensacola area. I have a cockerel and about 5 pullets.

Tha Thank you all! Momma and Nora are doing well. Probably will be going home this evening. Born 12/23/14 at 12:40pm, 7lbs 8 ounces, 20 ounces long. Full head of hair like me when I was a baby. So proud of Laurel and happy to be a dad of a precious baby girl. Grandparents are at home...

Merry Christmas to you too! She was due December 20th. Went to the hospital this morning but it was a false alarm. :)

That's a good point, it's not comparing apples to apples. I need to get live weights on my cockerels I got from you and see where they are.

Just to give some contrast to my post the other day about weights. This is NOT one of Kathy's line of birds, but from my own line. There are lots of things wrong with him but he weighs 8.75lbs and is about 6 months old. He is a meaty boy. As far as type, he is off... he is too long, his back...

From what I've read of the Marans standard they are supposed to be 7lb cockerels and 8lb cocks, which is 1/2lb lighter than Delawares. The standard doesn't give any time frames for growth for either breed but I would think the Delawares should be ready to process in around 20-24 weeks. That's...

We actually order from a local hatchery some birds that they call a "plymouth rock" line. They pretty much look like cornish x to me but they do take 10 weeks to grow out, are much more active than the cornish rock x we've had in the past. The cuckoo marans I processed was 5.24lbs. Based on...

Mine were lanky, not small and plump.

We get a custom mix and we found out the minerals that were being used in it were expired. It was an accidental mix up when the feed store sold the mixing equipment to another local farm that is now doing our custom mixes. It's been fixed now but it took a toll on my birds this year.

I don't but that's not very good weights for a 7 month old bird. Again, it could have been a feed problem. I have 2 cockerels left that I can weigh. I kept them b/c they were a little bigger/heavier than these others.

I processed 4 Delaware cockerels yesterday and to be honest I'm a little disappointed with their weights. These boys were 7 months old. Processed weights were 3.1lbs, 4.24lbs, 4.03lbs, and 4.2lbs. I did have a feed issue this year but I also processed a Cuckoo Marans cockerel that weighed...

Interesting! I hope my Florida weather helps :) I plan on crossing her line with my line as they mature a little faster so hopefully that will help. I'll keep track and see how that goes.

These are the older chicks I got from you and they are from Bert. I just realized these are 7 months old, shouldn't I be getting eggs by now?! I'm sure the shorter days are throwing them off. I don't have photos of the birds that came from the eggs I got from you, which should be all Ernie.

I like that hen A LOT!

Hey Everyone, Sorry I've been MIA, I have a lot going on. Here's some of the Delaware's that I got from Finnfur. I have another group as well but didn't get photos of them yet. Feel free to comment the good, the bad and the ugly. :) These birds still have some filling out to do but...

From my understanding the Blue Delaware is a completely different breed and doesn't have anything to do with our Delaware breed. It's more of a game cock. Here's a link to wikipedia with some information. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware_Blue_Hen As far as production goes I'd like to...

Dang, what are you feeding those birds!! Sounds like my largest cockerel is on the small size of yours. I really wish I hadn't lost 8 birds to a skunk, I'm sure they were the best ones. :/

Just wanted to give a small update. I weighed my two largest Delaware cockerels at 14 weeks. Largest was 3.5lbs and the smaller one was just over 3lbs. The rest of the birds were smaller but I didn't weigh them. Anyone else have weights recorded for 14 weeks?

For me, yes, the plan is to keep the offspring with he widest and deepest body and most spread out tail. I need to retain the silver gene which I think cleans up the orange from the New Hampshires so I may also cross them back into Barred Rocks as well either before or after taking them back to...