Answer to the Delaware Dilemma

[tnchickenut]

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Try [email protected] - they are in Washington state too. Dawn Turbyfill is the contact name.

 

[tnchickenut]

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there is woman in Michigan... Ellen Zawanda... [email protected]

 

[joletabey]

Anyone interested - the web site continues to improve. We are working on the breeders page and history page. There is a membership form available for you Delaware owners and breeders, and lots of good reasons to join. Like, it's free. AND we will have some evaluations done by an APA judge so that we can all learn the fine points and see where we need to head with our breeding programs.
Please check it out!

www.delawarepoultryclub.org

 

[kathyinmo]

Hey, Beth, Did you happen to get any pictures of the pair of Delawares you saw at the show you went to?

 

[Cindiloohoo]

I FINALLY joined the delaware poultry club

Tuesday at 9 right? Would somebody PM me Tuesday to remind me? I am SOOOO busy! I lost track of time last Tuesday

and missed the meeting....again!

Joletaby you are doing a FABULOUS job, dear

Just thought you should know

I wanna see pics from the shows too! I need to take some recent shots of my flock as well. I'm gonna have to build a new coop soon

 

[kathyinmo]

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We have been wondering where you have been! Tuesdays at 9PM Eastern time!

Beth does a most wonderful job, I agree!

Pictures .... yes, we do need pictures!

I sent a PM to Claudia (allaboutdemchicks) to tell her about the Club, too. She has some great stock.

 

[kathyinmo]

Commercial Poultry Production, by Fred Jeffrey and Dean Marble, 1955
page 54 and 56....

Delaware. The Delaware was first developed in 1940 from off colored sports which occurred in a cross between Barred Rock males and New Hampshire females. These sports lacked the inherited factor for the extension of black pigment to all parts of the plumage. which would normally have been transmitted to the progeny by the Barred Rock male. The result was a bird that was largely white but carried a slight indication of barring in the hackle, primaries, secondaries, and tail.

Many people might mistake the plumage pattern of the Delaware for that of the Columbian variety of the Plymouth Rocks, but close examination will differentiate the two patterns. In the Columbian pattern the main tail feathers are black and the white and black in the wing feathers tend to form a barring pattern. The undercolor of the Columbian pattern is a light bluish slate, whereas the Delaware carries a white undercolor.

The Delaware is classified as a dual-purpose breed but to date has made its reputation on its meat qualities rather than its egg-producing qualities. Delaware males mated with New Hampshire or Rhode Island Red females produce chicks carrying the Delaware feather pattern. When the Delaware females are mated with the New Hampshires of Rhode Islands Reds, sex-linked chicks are produced, thus giving males with the Delaware pattern and solid red females.

 

[kathyinmo]

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[jeremy]

Someone created those Dels Kathy?!?! Is that what you're saying!

 

[tnchickenut]

I absolutely LOVE that tail on the first hen Kathy posted. WOW. Never have seen the coverts barred before anywhere. Leads me to believe we all have immitators. I'll hold on truely whole-heartedly believing that until further investigation... the NHs are in with the BRboy soon. Tried it last week and there was tension. Trying it again... sneaky like. New birds on roost at night this time.

I put 5 Del eggs in the bator and today is day 7. Going to check fertility after the cold. Now, what do I do with the chicks? LOL!! I guess there is always room for more Dels.