California - Northern

[ronott1]

In related news I have picked up my privett shipment. All happy and healthy eating pooping and drinking. I am having trouble IDing though... The CA Greys are dinstinct...not all of the EEs have green legs and or puffy cheeks and they look very similar to the speckled sussex. What I assume to be Part Rocks are beautiful though they look less chipmonky than the images I have seen on line and there are 7 of them not 5 which tells me that at least a couple must be EEs

Some l are playing Mosh Pit under the lamp and it is hysterical b/c the CGs willn take a run and leap into the middle of the chick pile. They are the littlest and it's pretty cute

5 of the EEs belong to someone else and she is coming to get them tonight So I better get them all sorted. I will send pics

one of the eggs from ChooksChick almost has its top off. I think it is a Choclate Rock! the first chick is I believe out of a Buff Orp egg. It is HUGE next to the little white one who showed me her foot. There are 3 toes, she came out of a dorking egg therefore she is a dorking polish mix.

Yes, EEs can look like chipmunks! If you look closely, the EEs should have the beginnings of muffs.

 

[Ali707]

Peas sell well! You don't have to keep them. I think they are not easy hatches however.

I'm getting james Marie meat pharoah silver snoflake Manchurian reg Manchurian and xl tams and something else.
The James Marie pharoahs have eggs too big to fit in a regular quail turner. He wouldn't sell me the eggs until I told him I had a humid air that would fit anything.

It was like seeing a quail line... I had to stand in it!!

Way out of my quail league..... would the eggs fit in a chicken egg turner? I sort of like the smaller eggs, and haven't yet thought about using them for meat. I just have a hard time snuffing the life out of something. Even a bug....

When you get them you will have to share pictures. I want to see what all your excitement is about.

Ali my bator sucks too . it ranges way up and down. I have a tough time with shipped eggs
I was thinking of buying a genesis tonight but now not sure.

The Silver eggs I got ranged from small to medium. They are not anywhere near as glossy as my blue ameraucana hen

Well I didn't think my bator sucked, but I am maybe reevaluating that. I think maybe I suck more than it. I just wasn't monitoring it the way I should. I became complacent in thinking the temp gauge was still reading accurately.

I am going to lock it down tonight and candle everything. I had one blood ring with veins a while back and I do think that it gave up, so I will be down to 36. The shipped ones are still weird. If I didn't bake them we will know in the next couple of days.

Are you going to get a Dickey? Deanne has one now and loves It!

Dickey's went out of style in the 70's Ron!

(thank goodness)

I HAVE A CHICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I CAN NOT BELIEVE IT. no pip no nothing then 2 hours later sitting in the bottom of the egg resting, breathing....a CHICK....don't know what kind yet because I lost control of my senses but when I put it in the brooder tomorrow morning with its new little buddies I will let you know. of to take a picture....


Deerling...gasp....I know now what you mean! I can not stinking believe it...I HAVE

A CHICK

WHOOOOooo Hooooooo! How many eggs did you set total? I can't remember. What day was that? 20 or 21?

Well Thank you! That is encouraging anyway. I hope my Jersey Giants turn out to be what they are supposed to be. They look like the pictures. Even though I try to hold my chicks they are not too friendly, they fly all around the cage. My Brahma chick is my favorite. She lets me hold her. I talk to them all the time. It's a wonderful experience having chicks as I am sure you know already. This is all new to me.

I noticed that after they started to lay eggs, or right before that actually they calmed down a bit.

Ohhh exciting!!! Chicks many chick coming!
Welcome! Hang town is awesome will be fun to visit very rare chickens.

Something is tunneling under my big outside coop! There is dirt but no holes. What does that?

Moles, Voles, Gophers, Ground Squirrels and Bugs Bunny.

What a GOOOooood Kitty. He is invaluable if he is really that good of a rodent getter.

Sooo here is the update. Woke up to a second chick!!! Two more are currently pipping. The second chick out is up around and wild...I think the first is in trouble. It is laying next to the carton there is a bit of yolk in the bottom of the egg still and a glob of yolkiness next to it on the bottom of the bator plus the second chick is so much more lively that I am worried for the first one.

...it is also tiny and pale yellow and came from a Dorking egg...BethBug told me that she may have included some dorking/polish eggs in her mix...It's OK I paid for a mix of 6 and she sent me 11. Anyway she said that they hatch out yellow and turn white. Anyway I am pretty sure this is one of them I will know better when I look at its toes....so, sorry I don't remember who wanted a white polish...if you are interested in a mix I may have the girl for you.

Should I do anything for the first chick? It is breathing and moving but not up and around and it hatched fully sometime between 11:00 pm and 5:45 a.m... When I went to bed it had blown the top of its egg but was still in the bottom.

This is cool but I hope it's OK

ETA Chick 1 is now moving around ...it is one of my red layer mutts from my uncle's flock.

Good luck......Maybe chick 1 was just a little tired???

 

[chiqita]

In related news I have picked up my privett shipment. All happy and healthy eating pooping and drinking. I am having trouble IDing though... The CA Greys are distinct...not all of the EEs have green legs and or puffy cheeks and they look very similar to the speckled sussex. What I assume to be Part Rocks are beautiful though they look less chipmonky than the images I have seen on line and there are 7 of them not 5 which tells me that at least a couple must be EEs

Some l are playing Mosh Pit under the lamp and it is hysterical b/c the CGs willn take a run and leap into the middle of the chick pile. They are the littlest and it's pretty cute

5 of the EEs belong to someone else and she is coming to get them tonight So I better get them all sorted. I will send pics

one of the eggs from ChooksChick almost has its top off. I think it is a Choclate Rock! the first chick is I believe out of a Buff Orp egg. It is HUGE next to the little white one who showed me her foot. There are 3 toes, she came out of a dorking egg therefore she is a dorking polish mix.

I have a friend that is trying to differentiate between ee's and speckled sussexs too! Sneaky chicks!

My ee's look more like generic chicks then other birds I hatch is shape, but I have fairly unique ee's. You are looking for the green legs.

My EE girls are also champion layers. Most hatchery chickens have a little leghorn in them, so they lay better for the first year or 2 then some other chickens. I got extremely lucky in my 2 girls who look to be double blue gened ee's one looks like a amerauacana, one not so much. Not all EE's have double blues, this is why you get other colors from some parents.

This leads me onto the research I have been doing on developing a true genetic OE....

 

[OR4-hmom]

Tommysgirl, hopefully your EE will have the start of a Pea comb. The rocks and SS will be singles, might help IDing them.

 

[Miss Molly]

What a beautiful Cat..

 

[ronott1]

Dickey's went out of style in the 70's Ron!

(thank goodness)

That is so funny!

I should have said Dickey's incubator:

http://dickeyincubators.com/

Our 2 x 2 Incubator/Hatcher

 

[chiqita]

The problem I see with Or's is the same as a lot of ee's . Since blue is dominant, you get a lot of chicks that have only a single blue gene. In fact, ALL of your f1 crosses will be single. to get a OE that reproduces faithfully, you need to get double blue chicks.

I am thinking of crossing back the f2 peacomed roo to blue egg layers will give you 50% chicks with the double blue gene. But the only way to truly know is genetic testing . Otherwise you will have the constant problem of brown only eggs cropping up in the line. And it will never go away because you wont be taking out the single blues from your OE lines.

I know they sex test birds genetically, and because they are used for growing vaccines, a fair bit is known about there genome. But I don't know if you could get that point tested or if it would be economically viable if you did. Anyone know much about that part of the industry? I'm sitting on a returned f2 rooster that is just beautiful, and wondering if it is worth trying to go forward with this experiment or not...

 

[HighNDryFarm]

My neighbor lady really wants to buy white Polish chicks or chickens. Do any of you NorCal peeps breed and sell white ones?

I'm setting Polish in the next couple of days and I get white with a little bit of splash. I'm actually trying for more splash but so far they look like this, all the ones from her look just like her.

A little fuzzy of a photo, but such cuties

My big fat English Orp is broody and she's now happily sitting on 12 eggs. I'm not sure if the barnie eggs are fertile yet (blue boys have been super busy trying to mate though), but I'm going to find out. She's got some wellie eggs and an olive egger too.

Love a big fat Orp! Congrats! My broodies will probably kick in when I've filled all the chicks orders with incubated chicks and then I'll have a bunch of extras....darn!

Quote: I would stare at that girl for hours if I owned her! She is amazing! I'm so glad I got to see her and there's no doubt why she made it to the winners table! She's GO GESS!

I HAVE A CHICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I CAN NOT BELIEVE IT. no pip no nothing then 2 hours later sitting in the bottom of the egg resting, breathing....a CHICK....don't know what kind yet because I lost control of my senses but when I put it in the brooder tomorrow morning with its new little buddies I will let you know. of to take a picture....Deerling...gasp....I know now what you mean! I can not stinking believe it...I HAVE

A CHICK

Yippee!!!!

Quote:

Quote: That cat looks like she runs the neighborhood! Ron, you need to tell your cat what happens to the curious cat!

 

[tommysgirl]

WHOOOOooo Hooooooo! How many eggs did you set total? I can't remember. What day was that? 20 or 21

Good luck......Maybe chick 1 was just a little tired???

Thank you Ali and everyone else who is sharing my excitement.

Ali I set 36...13 home grown, 12 from ChooksChick and 11 from BethBug

I put 17 into lockdown, 11 I was pretty sure had something going on and 6 questionable....of the 11, 5 were home grown, 5 were from Chooks Chick and 1 was from BethBug. So far the Bethbug egg has hatched...Baby #2, and Baby #1 out of a home grown egg. I have pips in a home grown and zips in two of the ChooksChick eggs...I think they are both Chocolate Rocks, one of her projects. All of the action is in the eggs I felt confident were viable.

The dorking mix baby is sitting on top of the two zipped eggs but she is such a pipsqueak it is unlikely to make a difference.

My hatchery birds look ginormous and mature by comparison. When will the incubabies get fluffy? I feel like giving them a comb out

Now I have to go clean my house so that I don't sit up here obsessing.

 

[CALI CHICK]

I'm setting Polish in the next couple of days and I get white with a little bit of splash. I'm actually trying for more splash but so far they look like this, all the ones from her look just like her.

Love a big fat Orp! Congrats! My broodies will probably kick in when I've filled all the chicks orders with incubated chicks and then I'll have a bunch of extras....darn!
I would stare at that girl for hours if I owned her! She is amazing! I'm so glad I got to see her and there's no doubt why she made it to the winners table! She's GO GESS!

Yippee!!!!
That cat looks like she runs the neighborhood! Ron, you need to tell your cat what happens to the curious cat!

I'm pretty sure she'd be thrilled with them and will show her the picture of the hen today. Would she be able to buy a few of the Polish chicks from you and how much per chick? She is just looking for pet chickens and enjoys them the more unique and unusual they are. So far she has a couple of sizzles, silkies and Americana's.