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[Trish44]

@sharol you're very welcome!

 

[chicken danz]

Hi everyone! Been watching my white pea and I'm starting to wonder is he is a she?!! Can anyone help me out?

I'm so stoked, my silkies are laying, my SS hen, at least one of my Ameraucanas and a BCM (sadly her eggs are too light to consider using her for breeding). I'm getting excited for spring and hatching out babies. Crossing fingers my peahen will think about laying and hatching out some peachicks even tho I know it's not very likely.

How old is your white and the India blue you have there? If they are 2014 hatches, since you have an adult male there they should have fertile eggs. If they are 2015 chances are they may lay an egg or two but most likely won't be fertile. If the white is a 2015 it's too early to tell what sex she is. If she is a 2014 she would be female.
Originally Posted by sharol
I was going to answer this but I see Trish did. Just put a label on a used carton that has your name and write Ungraded on it. They should be washed in a solution with bleach or oxine.
I broke hte ear piece off my cheap computer glasses and it's giving me a headache to look through these things. It looks sunny out there today. I didn't see the weather last night cause we were gone. I do hope it's a nice day. I have a ton of work to do.

 

[sharol]

I thought I would post a couple of pictures of the chicks my Araucana hatched last weekend.

This little one is a Jubilee Orpington (I think). I have 2 Jubilees laying as well as a lavender and a white. The roo is Jubilee.





The gray one is Breda Fowl. Feathered feet and a curious expression. The Bredas and the Araucanas were raised in the house, so they are pretty tame. Mom is pretty easy going (except when she is on eggs -- then she is a tiger.)

 

[Prairie Fleur]

@chicken danz the white is one I got from you the last time I met you in Wichita and I can't remember how old she was when I got her. I'm thinking early 2015 hatch but not sure at all. I thought she was the same age as my other two that I got around the same time from @KsKingBee but I'm not sure on that either. The ones from KKB seem quite a bit older than the white in size and appearance.
By the way, I'm really loving the SS I got from you last year. The cockerel is HUGE!!!! But gentle and easy to be around. He will take on the peacocks tho and makes certain they remember the He is the boss of the yard!!! Lol I'm finally finally getting eggs from the hens I got as chicks last year. Even several of my silkies are laying. I'm wanting to get breeding pens set up soon but I'm currently down with a nasty sinus infection so it'll have to be after that.

 

[chicken danz]

I thought I would post a couple of pictures of the chicks my Araucana hatched last weekend.

This little one is a Jubilee Orpington (I think). I have 2 Jubilees laying as well as a lavender and a white. The roo is Jubilee.




Yep it looks like a pure jubilee. Standing like a little cockerel. I guess time will tell.
The gray one is Breda Fowl. Feathered feet and a curious expression. The Bredas and the Araucanas were raised in the house, so they are pretty tame. Mom is pretty easy going (except when she is on eggs -- then she is a tiger.)

Sweet little chick! My Bredas aren't producing and it's driving me nuts. They kept laying when I wasn't hatching and now are on extended break

@chicken danz the white is one I got from you the last time I met you in Wichita and I can't remember how old she was when I got her. I'm thinking early 2015 hatch but not sure at all. I thought she was the same age as my other two that I got around the same time from @KsKingBee but I'm not sure on that either. The ones from KKB seem quite a bit older than the white in size and appearance.
By the way, I'm really loving the SS I got from you last year. The cockerel is HUGE!!!! But gentle and easy to be around. He will take on the peacocks tho and makes certain they remember the He is the boss of the yard!!! Lol I'm finally finally getting eggs from the hens I got as chicks last year. Even several of my silkies are laying. I'm wanting to get breeding pens set up soon but I'm currently down with a nasty sinus infection so it'll have to be after that.

That would have been in the spring. You went to a dog show I think. I am trying to remember if that was a baby or if it was one that I had kept over winter. I am racking my brain. Do you remember how big it was?
I love those sussex! I've been hatching gobs of them. Good since I have customers wanting them. I moved a couple of my older hens in with the pullets this week. I've given them three days to make sure they are bred with the currrent roo. I pulled the eggs today so tomorrow I should be able to begin collecting for hatching again. I think I need to keep a few girls back for myself for breeding. They are really popular. And since I've finally got them to be more hearty than the originals they are selling even better than before.

 

[Prairie Fleur]

Sweet little chick! My Bredas aren't producing and it's driving me nuts. They kept laying when I wasn't hatching and now are on extended break

That would have been in the spring. You went to a dog show I think. I am trying to remember if that was a baby or if it was one that I had kept over winter. I am racking my brain. Do you remember how big it was?
I love those sussex! I've been hatching gobs of them. Good since I have customers wanting them. I moved a couple of my older hens in with the pullets this week. I've given them three days to make sure they are bred with the currrent roo. I pulled the eggs today so tomorrow I should be able to begin collecting for hatching again. I think I need to keep a few girls back for myself for breeding. They are really popular. And since I've finally got them to be more hearty than the originals they are selling even better than before.

That was early April if I remember right. And I know she was more than just a chick when I got her but not full grown either.
I need some more of your blue partridge Brahmas and some more SS!! I only have a pair of each and they're my favorite birds! I've been pretty disappointed in my Wyandottes because they're only sporadic layers at best.

 

[Trish44]

Cute chicks sharol! My Jubilees aren't laying right now, in fact none of my Orps are laying right now, get with it girls. Some of the other breeds are starting to lay again, so hopefully the big girls will get started as well. I have quite a few chick orders waiting for them all to get with it. I'm hoping since the weather has been so mild that they will start earlier this year. Our late, cold springs sure put a damper on laying the last two years, so this year has to be better right?

I miss caring for my birds & animals but I at least do get to go out & walk around now & check on them all. I'm just not allowed yet to do any chores, so my DH is still doing them. I love going out to watch my 4 new little lambs. They were really enjoying the sunshine today.

Oh sharol, you remember that my little MF bantam Cochin hen was sitting on a nest of eggs. Well a couple hatched but didn't make it due to the cold. I really didn't want her to sit right now anyway & am not ready for chicks. Maybe this will break her for awhile. Those little things are really broody little birds.

 

[sharol]

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The only birds that are laying for me are the 37 week olds from last summer and 3 other birds (my 2 broodies and one marans cross. I wouldn't have many eggs except for them. The Orp eggs are almost full sized (they look about the same size as my EE eggs) medium eggs, and one pullet is laying bigger ones. Yesterday my Jubilee cockerel and the Breda cockerel got in a stand off over a hen. They raised hackle feathers and jumped at each other a few times with the pullet looking on, then amazingly they both found a bit of food on the ground and backed away from each other. They live in different pens, so their only interaction is when they are in the yard together. It was funny to watch them both back down at the same time. Saving face, I suppose. Winston (the Jubilee) went back to his little flock, and Bert went back to his and all was well. My little Araucana mama is doing well with her 2. She had them out in the hoop run yesterday when it was so nice out, and at a week old they seem to be doing fine. In February.

 

[Trish44]

"Yesterday my Jubilee cockerel and the Breda cockerel got in a stand off over a hen. They raised hackle feathers and jumped at each other a few times with the pullet looking on, then amazingly they both found a bit of food on the ground and backed away from each other. They live in different pens, so their only interaction is when they are in the yard together. It was funny to watch them both back down at the same time. Saving face, I suppose. Winston (the Jubilee) went back to his little flock, and Bert went back to his and all was well."

You're lucky they gave it up. I've had roosters go at it till they drew blood & I was sure they were going to continue till one was dead. I had to separate them to stop it. Usually Orps aren't that aggressive but they are protective of their hens so if one thought another rooster was trying to take over his hen I can see that happening. My Partridge Orp guy thought one time I was threatening his hens & he went after me. He usually isn't that way but something got him stirred up that time.

Yesterday was so pretty out compared to today, it's so grey & it's colder today.

 

[sharol]

"Yesterday my Jubilee cockerel and the Breda cockerel got in a stand off over a hen. They raised hackle feathers and jumped at each other a few times with the pullet looking on, then amazingly they both found a bit of food on the ground and backed away from each other. They live in different pens, so their only interaction is when they are in the yard together. It was funny to watch them both back down at the same time. Saving face, I suppose. Winston (the Jubilee) went back to his little flock, and Bert went back to his and all was well."

You're lucky they gave it up. I've had roosters go at it till they drew blood & I was sure they were going to continue till one was dead. I had to separate them to stop it. Usually Orps aren't that aggressive but they are protective of their hens so if one thought another rooster was trying to take over his hen I can see that happening. My Partridge Orp guy thought one time I was threatening his hens & he went after me. He usually isn't that way but something got him stirred up that time.

Yesterday was so pretty out compared to today, it's so grey & it's colder today.

Trust me, I was standing there with a broom in my hand to intervene. They are about the same age still teenagers, and I don't want injured birds. The orps are the reason I got a second coop and run, and if necessary, they flocks will take turns in the yard.