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[wolftracks]

Ya know. I have a couple of EEs that lay a pink egg. I've get a few hatched out that I've taken to auction along with some Olive Eggers and the Game x BCMs. Helps with the feed bill.

Anyway, I occassionally have to put the eggs away and go do something else and think zi'll know what's what when zI come back. Silly me.

So I have a BCM roo over the EEs and I had a couple of eggs I marked EE?...because I just wasn't sure.

I got this beautiful chick to hatch. I was so excited, but none of the others looked like this one. Then HE started changing. Weird ear lobs....where did those come from?

Was out in the yard the other day and had the youngest grow out chicks free ranging. Thought they'd be all over. Nope! They were flying up to me and landing on over me. I loved like the pigeon lady in Home Alone II. Anyway this little guy would even stand on my foot when I tried to walk. I picked him up to ask him what his problem was and then it hit me. Ran over to one of the coops and yep. I have a little SPPR cockerel. He's soooo pretty already. I hope I get more out this hatch. Only having the two hens, sometimes I get 2 eggs, sometimes one, sometimes nothing, so when I set I never know how many will go in. At least I got one to hatch. LOL I hope he gets big and beautiful, so I can keep him, because he's just so friendly. Him and his hatch mates stick together and they love my big Cane Corso, Isis. I wasn't sure if really trusted her with the birds, so she's not running the yard, but they come up to her and she just sticks her big nose into the feathers and take a big whiff. LOL I think the cockerel is her favorite. She even let him eat out of her dish.

 

[OrpingtonManor]

Kim, great news on that little guy! I know you thought you weren't going to have a chick from the SPPRs.

I have to get rid of 4 roosters over here. (BR who might be a cross with something long-legged, Lav x Wheaten EE, Black EE, and what I'm guessing is a BR x BCM) They are now 12 weeks old, and becoming both lovers and fighters, if you know what I mean.

I will post pics over in the BSA section. If you know of anyone who wants them, send me an email. My PM box is full, and I'm working on emptying it.

eta - here are the links to my birds.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=536768
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=536774
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=536778
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=536785

 

[AmCanyonStables]

So, you only ended up with one pullet from that hatch? Bubba's boy is cute - looks like him. I have one of his EE babies growing up now that looks like a silver. But soon, he will have more appropriate girlfriends, when my BBS Ams grow up!

 

[OrpingtonManor]

I only put two of those six eggs from you in the 'bator. The other four went under the broodies. They weren't too successful. None of those eggs hatched. Of the two in the bator, only one hatched. That is the little roo I have on auction. He's a sweetie! He was my favorite chick from that hatch. He would walk onto my hand, even when he got bigger. He was a contented lap-sitter like Bubba. Only recently has he started to act like a teenager. Still, he doesn't fight me if I pick him up. I'd keep him if I could have a roo.

The rest of the eggs were from a mixed flock from a lady in Sebastopol. There were 4 pullets from those eggs. I gave 3 to a friend. That leaves me one EE pullet.

I saw that you were hatching BBS eggs! Good stuff! Then you'll start to have some fun! I'm looking forward to seeing those babies.

 

[sewandgrow]

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Karen, we're going to try again for you- I want you to get your money's worth. When my broodies start laying again I could either collect a dozen for you and you could try to hatch 'em again or I could incubate for you and we could meet up and I could give you live babies. I've done that for lots of folk this year and it's so much better to send folks home with babies than eggs.

Sound good?

Thank you Jeremy,
I look forward to it........Babies would be great.......... Reading of all this broody successes I am temped to stick a couple of my BCMs eggs under my Silkies next time they go broody which is almost always between the 3 of them.
You just let me know & I will drive to meet you.
Thanks again
Karen in Turlock

 

[Truevalentine]

So, I've been procrastinating on doing anything with the babies I hatched out just before Easter with the daycare kids. Rehomed three pullets recently, have three more in with my big girls, though I know I can't keep them all. The big problem is the 5 cockerels I have! 3 of them have now started crowing... at 5:30 am! And I'm NOT in an area that allows roosters. SO... I either need to rehome them quick or find a processor. I don't think I have the heart or skill to process them myself, but I don't have a problem with the concept of eating them, lol. Unfortunately the one person I know who processes his own birds had brain surgery a while ago and is not exactly back to his old self.

So, any suggestions? One cockerel is a banty that I hatched from pnp4kids and the others I lost track of what they were.

 

[wolftracks]

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http://www.riellafarms.com/cms/ Is in Manteca

Some of them may be the Game x BCMs that you hatched out from me. Processing the roos was part of the reason I did that mix, so if that's what they are, let me know how it goes.

 

[PetRock]

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What feedstore do you go to? You might ask there if they know anyone who processes chickens. We sometimes go to Brentwood Feed and the man who works there said that he knows a man who processes for a fee. I was able to rehome our roos this year so I didn't need to go that route.

 

[AmCanyonStables]

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[wolftracks]

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