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The smaller of our two local feed stores is going with Privet this year. I asked D if she was going to be ordering any Del's from Privet. She said she had seen them on the list, but, because she didn't know anything about the breed, she hadn't planned on it. That, of course, launched me into a 20 minute speech on the virtues of Delaware's!
I told her not to special order any for me as I'm pretty much full up here at the moment, but that if she did happen to get any in, to give me a call. I'd be happy to take three or four pullets off of her hands!
I've got the strong, sneaking suspicion that D will be ordering Del's from Privet this year. Her eyes really lit up when I told her about my own little half breed Delawegger Cosette. And, of course, I regaled her with another 20 minute dissertation on the wonderful Del's I know of like, Isaak, Oliver, Alexander, Cannonball, Floozy......oh the list just goes on and on, doesn't it?
D said that was just the kind of breed she's been looking for, for her customers, pretty much all of whom are small backyard flock owners, who in turn are looking for good natured, friendly birds. Part of me really hopes that I get a call from D next week. I think I can find room for 3 or 4 more chicks!
Nick, I am truly sorry to hear about Luna. I hope you can find the strength to do the right thing. It's never an easy task, but take some measure of comfort in knowing that you will be ending his suffering long before he must endure such. This dwarfing thing is a cruel twist of fate, and I know that Cyn would never have allowed Luna to go home with you if she had known, or even suspected, that this might be the case with the chick. You'll be in my thoughts. I know it's not easy, and if any one of us could lift the burden of the act from such young shoulders, we surely would.
