Bay Area BYCers!

[SunnyDawn]

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Let me know if they have any extras after filling your order!

I will and maybe if I have to buy X amounts we can go in on them.

Sounds great!

 

[SunnyDawn]

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One of the Barnie girls has gone broody!

Big time! She puffs all up any time we come near and screetches! One of my black girls is doing the same thing (minus the screetching). They must think it's spring.

So, are you gonna let her hatch some wee ones?

I thought one of my Barnies was going broody, too. She probably would have if I didn't steal the eggs. She growled and puffed up her neck, and sat in the nest box collecting anything that remotely resembled an egg. If she does go broody, I'm getting her some eggs.

Not this young, I've not had good luck with young pullets as mothers.

 

[dldolan]

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The rooster in the auction picture looks like he's a big boy! The egg color looks very nice for splash birds, too.

Will you be breeding these as well or just hatching/selling?

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Ha! My cochin is sitting on 9 eggs from this same gal in Texas! Hatch date Feb 4th, so I'll post pictures when they hatch! Woo-hoo!!!
She was really nice to work with, and the eggs all came in perfect condition. I only wanted 6, so she posted a private sale for me on e-Bay then sent 10 eggs! Other hens trying to get in with my broody broke, #10, but she has been on the other 9 for nine days now! Here they are. I numbered them!

 

[OrpingtonManor]

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It's not a medal, but it's the best I could do.

 

[OrpingtonManor]

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The rooster in the auction picture looks like he's a big boy! The egg color looks very nice for splash birds, too.

Will you be breeding these as well or just hatching/selling?

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Ha! My cochin is sitting on 9 eggs from this same gal in Texas! Hatch date Feb 4th, so I'll post pictures when they hatch! Woo-hoo!!!
She was really nice to work with, and the eggs all came in perfect condition. I only wanted 6, so she posted a private sale for me on e-Bay then sent 10 eggs! Other hens trying to get in with my broody broke, #10, but she has been on the other 9 for nine days now! Here they are. I numbered them!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/65263_splash_marans_eggs_no_numbers.jpg

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/65263_splash_marans_eggs.jpg

really beautiful dark eggs!!

 

[wolftracks]

She has nice birds, but the box I got was bent almost in half. No broken eggs, but none hatched.

I'll be ordering from her again though after SS figures out what the heck they're doing.

I think Stockton is where my shipments get brutily beaten.

 

[OrpingtonManor]

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So, are you gonna let her hatch some wee ones?

I thought one of my Barnies was going broody, too. She probably would have if I didn't steal the eggs. She growled and puffed up her neck, and sat in the nest box collecting anything that remotely resembled an egg. If she does go broody, I'm getting her some eggs.

Not this young, I've not had good luck with young pullets as mothers.

I can never get them to go broody later. Freckles is laying regularly again, but has shown no sign of broodiness.

eta - but I thought teen moms were all the rage lately.

 

[Laurieks]

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Indeed you do!!!

 

[jeremy]

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The rooster in the auction picture looks like he's a big boy! The egg color looks very nice for splash birds, too.

Will you be breeding these as well or just hatching/selling?

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Ha! My cochin is sitting on 9 eggs from this same gal in Texas! Hatch date Feb 4th, so I'll post pictures when they hatch! Woo-hoo!!!
She was really nice to work with, and the eggs all came in perfect condition. I only wanted 6, so she posted a private sale for me on e-Bay then sent 10 eggs! Other hens trying to get in with my broody broke, #10, but she has been on the other 9 for nine days now! Here they are. I numbered them!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/65263_splash_marans_eggs_no_numbers.jpg

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/65263_splash_marans_eggs.jpg

Dawn those are gorgeous!!!

I would so trade you a BW pullet for a splash pullet... eh, eh?

 

[jeremy]

So this is a picture of me "saving" one of my Delawares from the creek that runs along the property line of my house. The bank slopes down to a point where it's rather low by the chicken run. I guess one of my pullets who is just starting to lay decided it would be a good idea to fly down and "swim" over to that little rocky area to the left of me in the picture. What was she doing there? Laying her egg, not even kidding! Then she started screaming as if something was killing her, waiting for me to rescue her. The egg is in my hand in the picture.

Sorry about the quality of the photo, I was getting laughed out while wading through freezing cold water to save her...

Lesson learned here?
DON'T let the girls out of the coop before they lay their eggs tomorrow morning.