California - Northern

[ronott1]

@capayvalleychick

Good job Kim!

#1 ovation for yesterday!

 

[ronott1]

Thought some of you might be interested if how egg with the strange air cell is progressing.

This is what it look like on 3-11


This is what it looked like 3-18



-Kathy

Very nice!

When do they hatch?

 

[PetRock]

@capayvalleychick

Good job Kim!

#1 ovation for yesterday!

 

[casportpony]

Very handsome boy! The feedstore I go to recently purchased a bunch of Call ducks and is now breeding them... definetly *not* a real breeder, lol, but they try. -Kathy

Good Call ducks are extremely difficult to reproduce.....big Call ducks with long bills are pretty easy to reproduce. For some reason the hatchery type Calls don't have the same personality of the exhibition Calls either and the personality of the Calls is what people love. Walt

I doubt I could tell the difference between the two, but he bought them at a poultry show and claims they're "show quality", but who knows, lol. They are really cute! -Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Thought some of you might be interested if how egg with the strange air cell is progressing. This is what it look like on 3-11 This is what it looked like 3-18 -Kathy

Very nice! When do they hatch?

They're under a Muscovy duck and I didn't make note of when she started sitting, but if I had to guess, I'd say no sooner than April 7? -Kathy

 

[lawatt]

ok, my 20-egg capacity incubator is now officially overloaded: 12 eggs that should be hatching next monday/tuesday, and then added 17 shipped isbar eggs, will see how they do... figuring the 12 no longer need to be turned, since today is day 18, and the shipped ones might benefit from sitting still for their first few days. wish me luck!

 

[sewandgrow]

I knew it from the moment that I met you! It is so nice to be understood!

I am sure there are a lot of us that understand you two on here. I LOVE being where I am.............. After all these years it could be easy to get complacent & take what you have for granted but I am always grateful. This time of year I always get "Spring Fever" and want to do all sorts of new things around here, especially after visiting Kim in Guinda. New ideas are flying...................LOL

 

[sewandgrow]

ok, my 20-egg capacity incubator is now officially overloaded: 12 eggs that should be hatching next monday/tuesday, and then added 17 shipped isbar eggs, will see how they do... figuring the 12 no longer need to be turned, since today is day 18, and the shipped ones might benefit from sitting still for their first few days. wish me luck!

Good luck with that. I am trying to decide what to fill mine with too...........................too many choices......LOL

 

[chiqita]

So if I breed my Marans rooster to my EE, what are the chances I'll get an olive layer? She's a good layer of nice big eggs. Just wondering my odds. I think she has a slight green tint to her eggs. Can't remember.

A rule of thumb is you loose about 1/2 the brown from the brown layer . If she has 2 blue genes all the chicks will have it. Vonnie had 2 blue genes miss fury had 1. I had someone get a non olive from her eggs.

@Lotsapaints , Denny Thomas, in Paso Robles has Midget Whites. She is coming to the party in May & doing the demo on sprouted grains. I have Royal Palms from her & the 3 hens just started laying. I do wish they would do that in the nice big lug box nest box I filled with shavings for them though......LOL

Turkeys can be trained but its a pita. I usually let them lay where they want so I dont have to find the new spot.

I would love some land that is just permanent pasture. I drool over every green field that I see. Have I mentioned that my goal in life when I was a little girl growing up in a small farming community in Iowa was to be a farmer? Some of my adult children just don't understand it.

When I lived outside of sierraville we were on 360 acres that backed up onto a national forest. It is only pretty like that for a few months a year. But I do love a snowy field too.

Good Call ducks are extremely difficult to reproduce.....big Call ducks with long bills are pretty easy to reproduce. For some reason the hatchery type Calls don't have the same personality of the exhibition Calls either and the personality of the Calls is what people love. Walt

I have hear the small billed ones cant hatch naturally and need to be helped out. I have been scard to hatch eggs. They do seem like funny little things like sleek ponies.

 

[fowlman01]

I doubt I could tell the difference between the two, but he bought them at a poultry show and claims they're "show quality", but who knows, lol. They are really cute!

-Kathy

If you were around a show quality Call you would know the difference right away. Not only size, but personality. I would doubt that a feed store can can reproduce an exhibition Call. I have trouble with that and I have had them for 50 years. Every bird is cute when it is young, but the test is if they are cute as adults. lol Exhibition Calls are extremely cute as adults.

Walt