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anyone have a dog run they want to sell?
I need a grow out run and had neck surgery and can not really build anything yet plus i am really wanting a mobile run
I hope that you find one! I daily scour the Bay area craigslist looking for good deals on dog runs. We recently found a 10 x 10 for $100 only to have the person decide to sell it to a neighbor after saying we could have it. Arghhhhhh!
 
The feed store has Welsummers and they say their eggs are red. What color are their eggs really. Look like they lay a mottled egg to me.

Hatchery welsummers are a crap shoot on egg color. They are supposed to lay a terra cotta (clay pot) colored egg, but hatchery birds many times lay pale eggs.

Deann, hysterical video on "cow drinks from hose".  Too cute!
I got my first two small Premier plates today!  Counting down...  Tuesday March 17th, St Patrick's Day Hatch!  
Chick names anyone?
Guiness
Blarney
Shamrock
Waterford
Leprechaun
???? 

Clover? I'm terrible at this stuff. I love blarney.
 
@Kaylish the Bantam Cochin babies are from @chooklet. The eggs came from several different pens so I will have an assortment! Her "confetti" project produces gorgeous birds!

@lualshannon those babies are darling! Such soft looking colors.

@dldolan how about Patty, Lucky or Irish :)

@caychris I agree, sounds like that would be worth a drive. I'll keep an eye out for more info too. @sewand and I love chicken roadtrips
 
Deann, hysterical video on "cow drinks from hose". Too cute!
I got my first two small Premier plates today! Counting down... Tuesday March 17th, St Patrick's Day Hatch!
Chick names anyone?
Guiness
Blarney
Shamrock
Waterford
Leprechaun
????
My 13 yr old loves all things Irish. She suggests Declan, Pub, Lucky, Finnian, Finnegan, Clover, Emerald, Donegal, Cork, Dublin, Kildare, Galway, Limerick, Tipperary.
 
Irish chick name list:
Guiness
Blarney
Shamrock
Waterford
Leprechaun
Lucky
Patty
Declan,
Pub
Finnigan
Finnian
Clover
Emerald
Donegal
Cork
Dublin
Kildare
Galway
Tipperary
Limerick

And how about my favorite: Maureeen O'Hara!

Awesome choices! I'll use this list for my Marans and OE, but probably it would not be good to name the (British) Cream Legbars off this list!
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I would like to share photos of my brand new joys of life: chicks : ) I would like to thank "DIDolan" for the beautiful eggs from her lovely hens, and delightful experience. When we first started to communicate, Dawn sent me some photos of her Blue, and Splash Marans eggs where the color was dark and quite impressive, but, they were much impressive and prettier in person. The eggs had 100% fertility, and the hatch started very early hours of the 21st.day, and was completed within 15 hrs. To my surprise, the first chick took only 3 hours from pip to hatch. Well, looked like all the chicks were in a big hurry to get out of their eggs. So nice to have fuzzy little chicks to love, and play with rather than doing my work...

Lual


Wow, Lual! Thanks so much for the recommendation! I am glad that the work I have been slowly (like a snail!) doing to get the egg color up while keeping to the standards (now that Marans are an approved breed in the SOP, although not my beloved Splash color) is paying off.
Here's what I have set to hatch in ten days, if all goes well.. Candled last night and all fertile!



The biggest eggs are around 75-83grams, and that girl puts a lot of calcium into her egg--you can see two that are pretty chalky. It doesn't seem to affect hatch, but I always worry about it. I mark all my eggs with a number so I can track it if the "chalkier" ones do/don't hatch, which hens have the best rate, etc... Statistics geek, I know! :)

Those are beautiful chicks, and the leg feathering seems clean and even, which I like! Dawn
 
Dr Dan was one of my 4H kids........lol

Walt
Isn't it great the effect we can have? We don't even know how we touch a child's or student's life until much later. I gave up teaching elementary school sixteen years ago, but still jump at opportunities to mentor college students when I can now! Once a teacher, always a teacher, whether you are a 4-H leader, Girl/boy Scout leader, French club mentor, FFA leader, soccer coach... It is a cool feeling to work with students of any age that have minds open to learning. I feel strongly that life-long learners have a richer, more interesting life right to the end.
 
Can someone (@fowlman01) explain why splash seems to get excluded from the SOP for multiple breeds? Is there a reason, or are people just not showing enough of them to get them recognized? It seems so odd considering they're a normal part of BBS colored breeds.
 
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My Blue Marans layed a whopper 104g egg yesterday - from the top: bantam Cochin, giant egg, same blue Marans egg from the day before, Cream Legbar and my splash Marans.
 

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