California - Northern

[chickee]

I do love my blue wheaten Ameraucanas! They just keep getting prettier as they get their feathers in. The dad of these chicks is in my Avatar.

Do you breed them chickee and what do you do with your extra cockerels??

I have hatched chicks from the Polish, BLRW and Buff Brahmas. Some of the cockerels were sold as breeders, some went to the local feed store (Auburn) and some to the Roseville auction.

 

[ronott1]

I heart the splash!

My OE is an Amelia and she lays a lovely egg with speckles 5-6 days a week. I think that one day when I have BBS Ameraucana and good NH breeding stock I will see what they make.

I have an EE that lays an egg that ranges from a greyish khaki to an olive too. I hope to find a new home for her this spring. She is fine but I have to make room for the NH and MJ.

Amelias lay like crazy! mine are into their second laying season now and laying like the above still.

 

[ronott1]

I have a new layer too. Joan Baez, the older of the two Dorking girls I got from Kim in Oct left one in the middle of their run

A couple of weeks ago my second Icelandic started laying, in the nest box of all places. Then she seemed to have stopped laying but yesterday I found a nest of Icelandic eggs in a dog house...of course!

@ronott1 thanks again for your advice re quarantine. When @debs_flock returns I hope I can get a couple of NH pullets from her. If I can't find Mottled Java Pullets close enough to avoid shipping I will have to go the hatching egg route. I have a contact in Oregon for the MJs. I would have had her eggs for Beakface instead of the Wys but they had a mud slide on their property and the breeder was consumed with mud on their ranch. I just want 1 or 2 girls out of a hatch. So far my broody girl is 5/0 cockerels /pullets At some point that has to turn around.

How many of you all have Bantams??

I was thinking about hatching some at some point but ow much do you get when you process a cockerel? Is it similar in size to a quail or a dove? Do you roast them and serve them like you would a cornish game hen or do you make stock out of them?

Your welcome!

I hope Deb gets back soon and that her chickens are all ok!

 

[AlpineButterfly]

How many of you all have Bantams??

I was thinking about hatching some at some point but ow much do you get when you process a cockerel? Is it similar in size to a quail or a dove? Do you roast them and serve them like you would a cornish game hen or do you make stock out of them?

I have bantams! Two buff brahma bantams, three easter egger bantams, and a black frizzle cochin bantam. But they are all girl pets.

 

[AlpineButterfly]

Thought I would share the pictures I just posted of my NYD hatch on the NYD cutest chick contest thread. They aren't the cutest (I think the Silkie chicks are) but they might be some of the prettiest

I had fun taking their pictures anyway!

The two Blue Wheaten Ameraucana chicks-




The 6 Blue Wheaten x Golden Cuckoo Marans chicks- "Olive Eggers"

What a pretty dish, with some very cute chicks!

 

[Happy Chooks]

Adorable babies! Makes me want to break out my incubator.

 

[chickee]

What a pretty dish, with some very cute chicks!

Thanks

It is one of my favorite dish's that is an antique that belonged to my husband's grandmother.

Adorable babies! Makes me want to break out my incubator.

Chick pictures will do that to you

 

[OR4-hmom]

We have a few bantams up here Tommysgirl. Buff Brahma, SLW, BBS Orp, OEGB, Dutch bantam. We only have our ORP boy left. Last year was the first year we hatched any of them and the 3 boys that hatched we gave away so can't be of much help on size after processed. I don't imagine they are very big under all the feathers, not much bigger than DDs roller pigeons. When handling them I think Cornish games are bigger. What they lack in size they make up in personality!

 

[chrissyr]

This is where I explained how I got them:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/25/california-northern/36050_50#post_12592685

Thank you Happy Chooks. Those are really nice birds! How well are they laying? I know the mother you said was a great layer but I'm not familiar with barnvelders egg laying. My Marans are pretty, but not great layers. I'm hoping it'll get better with more daylight hours, but they just started laying in Sept. So I like pretty AND productive

 

[CackleJoy]

I will add you to my post of those with OEs!

I have OE's too (laughing - everyone has OE's - just like you said)