B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

[pysankigirl]

was this the frontier culture museum?

 

[ki4got]

was this the frontier culture museum?

yeah I think so... the guy's name is Mark.

 

[pysankigirl]

predators suck.

 

[ronott1]

I finished a small hatch for capayvalleychick yesterday. She has been working with a Rooster and a Hen that had now produced fertile eggs this year. After working her magic, 5 of 6 eggs hatched!

The first one hatched on the morning of the 21 day and the last one hatched overnight. No helping necessary Thank You Very Much!

Extremely healthy and active chicks.



They are from 10 to 3 hours old:

 

[pysankigirl]

they are so adorable!!! thanks for the movie! I needed a chick fix!

 

[speedy2020]

I just got a call from a guy that runs a heritage museum here in VA. apparently they had some predator problems and lost their colored dorking flock... my only colored right now are babies i'm growing out, but hopefully I'll have some to part with later this summer.

if anyone else is interested in helping him out with some birds, pm me, and i'll pass along his phone number. he's near Staunton VA...

he said he'd email me some pics of the colored they had before, so i'll know what he's looking for, since there's so much variation among them.

This is why to share your block with someone that live near you with same interest. You can always get your breed blood line back.

 

[ronott1]

they are so adorable!!! thanks for the movie! I needed a chick fix!

Your Welcome! These are always very nice chicks to hatch--This is the fourth one this year for SG Dorkings. It was the smallest so far but a great hatch rate.

 

[pysankigirl]

I lost one of my SG girls. She disappeared a few weeks ago. I was hoping she just found a nice place to sit on some eggs, but I think I need to accept the fact that she is gone. Why do Dorking have to be so sweet?

 

[Sazbaby]

Finally got around to taking a picture! These are the surviving SG Dorking chicks from McMurray, just over a week old. I was quite surprised at how many of them died- none of the other breeds had any losses, just the dorkings... thought it was interesting. Anyhow, I ordered half males and half straight run, and unfortunately didn't look terribly closely at head coloring on the ones that died, so I don't know what I started with, but out of these 8 remaining, I'm thinking 3 girls, 4 definite boys and one uncertain but probably boy... (top right in the first picture) Anyone else care to give input? I included some side shots of the chicks in the same arrangement in the tub, a couple definitely have less eyeliner... Wish I had ordered more, after losing so many!!!

 

[ki4got]

Finally got around to taking a picture! These are the surviving SG Dorking chicks from McMurray, just over a week old. I was quite surprised at how many of them died- none of the other breeds had any losses, just the dorkings... thought it was interesting. Anyhow, I ordered half males and half straight run, and unfortunately didn't look terribly closely at head coloring on the ones that died, so I don't know what I started with, but out of these 8 remaining, I'm thinking 3 girls, 4 definite boys and one uncertain but probably boy... (top right in the first picture) Anyone else care to give input? I included some side shots of the chicks in the same arrangement in the tub, a couple definitely have less eyeliner... Wish I had ordered more, after losing so many!!!

honestly, I think you have more pullets than cockerels... or maybe a 4/4 split, but i'm leaning more towards pullets for the top pic, and maybe one pullet in the bottom one.

then again I use strictly the head markings, not the eyes.