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[ShrekDawg]

It would depend what you want from your flock. I don't know if you have an Easter egger cockerel, but that could add a lot into your flock like colored eggs.

I'm not sure what the lav orp would do with coloring, but that would be awesome too.

I'm really into colored eggs so I would choose a cockerel that would color my eggs.

I don’t really have specific goals. Just thought it would be fun to hatch and also have a protector.

The Barred Rock or one of the red cockerels should make sex links depending on what I put them with, right?

I do have one EE chick and I wasn’t sure on it at first but now I’m thinking it looks like a cockerel? It’s that blotchy red one and I read blotchy red is not a good sign. Plus his comb and cockerel stance.

But he seems to be pretty subordinate and I’ve read the subordinate ones are better to keep?

The Lav Orp I bet would make some awesome colored chicks!!!

And yeah, the EE I think would do a great job of that!! Or the Andalusian. They lay white eggs.

The others are all brown egg layers but might produce something cool with my EE or Leghorn.

Or actually the Welsummer might be cool. They lay speckled eggs. Maybe I could keep the Welsummer pair.

My current hens/pullets are:

4 year olds (October 2015):

2 Black Australorps
2 Buff Orpingtons
2 Easter Eggers

April 2019 pullets:

1 White Leghorn
1 Speckled Sussex
1 Delaware
1 Partridge Rock
1 Easter Egger

Plus whatever pullets I have in this current batch of chicks. Definitely one Welsummer and hopefully a Buff Orpington.

I don’t even know if a rooster would even mate the older girls? Plus they’re not really laying much anyway and I’ve read about defects from older hens?

But I’d love to hatch the one EEs eggs. She’s an amazing bird and great layer even in winter.

I should get some very colorful chicks too if I hatched their eggs!!!

Although I doubt any would make sex links? Except maybe the Delaware?

Not that it matters. Just curious.

Should get some excellent layers from the Leghorn though.

The chick breeds are

1 Black Australorp
1 Blue Andalusian (wound up with a black)
1 Buff Orpington
1 Lavender Orpington
1 Rhode Island Red
1 Barred Rock
1 Easter Egger
2 Welsummers (boy and a girl for sure)

 

[featherhead007]

My mother had vision like that. She had Lasik surgery and hated it because then she needed glasses for reading.

Way back in grade school, my teachers thought I was superman, because they always said I need constant "Super Vision"

 

[ShrekDawg]

We had yellow jackets that actually burrow into the ground here. It's always fun when you step on one of their holes they made one of their holes in my garden! I was not happy at all.

My husband poured gas in the hole and lit it on fire then put screen over the hole so they couldn't get out.

We have some burrowing wasps too but I think they’re harmless.

You would not like Virginia then because we have big carpenter bees... They are harmless but they have no fear of humans whatsoever. They will get right in your face and are nasty, but they can't do anything to you.

We also have some type of Asian wasp that is about the length of my thumb and very fat. They come out at night when you turn on the light and they are very aggressive. We kill them with brooms


I want to get one of those tennis rackets that you wack bugs with and it kills them because it's electric. I want to smack one of those wasps with it I also want a bug zapper for the back porch.

OMG!! NOPE!! I would not be able to handle that!!! LOL

All your snakes and deadly bugs too!!

 

[ShrekDawg]

Sorry for the huge novel

 

[SusanCranford]

Hi, Susan. Welcome to the Café. A drama free zone and a great place to chat and make friends.

Oh good! My family provides the drama in my life already! And you can't have too many friends!

 

[SusanCranford]

I didn't want to scare her off!

No worries, I don't scare easily.

 

[Building Bridges]

Not to mention moving all the stuff. We moved hete 10 years ago. I found boxes that were never opened or even made it inside from the garage. Purged without opening. (If my husband knew that he'd be upset so I didn't tell him.)

OH my!! You are not alone! My attic space is under the eaves, the length of the front of the house. Barely room to crawl in there....and I just KNOW when I get to the end there will be boxes that came here with me when I moved in (1995)..... No telling what I'll find.
Many years ago when my son moved out he left piles of boxes in my garage.....stuff he wanted to keep but not so important that he bothered to move it. I kept telling him to get that stuff out and finally I said every week that these boxes are here....I'm going to drag one to the curb without looking inside!! Several boxes went to the curb before he finally came and got the rest. We think we need things and when they're gone....we never give them another thought.

 

[SusanCranford]

Morning! Welcome to the Cafe, Susan!
Sunny, Breezy and maybe above Freezing today, maybe...
Thanks for the hot coffee and have a wonderful day you all!

Windy, cold and raining here. The girls are enjoying the warm spot that was created by the wind break we put on the coop a few days ago. Hot Cocoa and a good book day.

 

[FortCluck]

Windy, cold and raining here. The girls are enjoying the warm spot that was created by the wind break we put on the coop a few days ago. Hot Cocoa and a good book day.

What type of books do you read?

 

[SusanCranford]

I like bees and try not to run from them because I know they are harmless and actually quite beneficial but it’s hard what I can’t see what is near me and I don’t wanna take the chance! If I can see it is a bee or something harmless I won’t run but if something just buzzes by my head or bumps into me, I take off!!

We have everything here in Texas, although not much is moving right now. I'm in North Texas so winter is upon us for a few more weeks. Once things warm up the critters will start making their presence known and the fun will start. I will get a short window of sunshine later this week and I plan to jump out there and get my new raised bed and a cold frame built so that I can get started on the garden early. Every time I have tried to put things in the in March we get a last frost and I get to start over again, so this year I will beat Jack frost with the cold frame.