Delawares from kathyinmo

[finnfur]

OK all accounted for thats good - It won't take long to tell who's who.

 

[rancher hicks]

More Dels in the incubator. My hens are doing pretty good considering the cold. Everyone has been switched to 21% protein feed.

Even my C. Rocks are laying better. I'll be setting more when these are done. I expect to have lots to choose from come fall.

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

More Dels in the incubator.  My hens are doing pretty good considering the cold.  Everyone has been switched to 21% protein feed.

Even my C. Rocks are laying better.  I'll be setting more when these are done.  I expect to have lots to choose from come fall. 

Excellent!!!

I think I finally have a broody hen settling down in the laying flock whick means I should be able to start a clutch soon. I'd rather start two broodies at once so they can co-parent. But this hen is being wonderfully vicious, so I might take the chance with just her.

 

[rancher hicks]

I know the Dels are fertile but the C.Rocks not sure. Todays' breakfast yielded a blood egg that looked fertile but surely wouldn't have hatched. The other not. I've got three hens laying. One from two years ago.

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

I absolutely LOVE broody hens. Funny, though, how much they all seem to HATE me.

This is the first broody of the season and I set her up with a clutch of Delaware eggs tonight. It's a good thing she is so fierce as I'm not giving her a broody buddy to co-parent with. Maybe if I get another broody in the next week or so I'll divide her clutch.

 

[xoxocammyxoxo]

How loud are Dels? We rent and live in the "city" (its residential but on the indian reservation). Our neighbors have chickens and a rooster who crows a couple times a day. But I'd kinda like to be the secret chicken keeper for a while.

 

[Zanna]

How loud are Dels? We rent and live in the "city" (its residential but on the indian reservation). Our neighbors have chickens and a rooster who crows a couple times a day. But I'd kinda like to be the secret chicken keeper for a while.

It completely depends on the individual bird. I have some Cocks that barely crow, some that crow a lot. Some hens sing the egg song before they go in the nestbox, the whole time they are in there and then tell the whole flock for 10 min. after they come out, and some that never make a sound. I raise three breeds and the same goes for all of them. You can be the secret chicken keeper for about three months till the little tykes start coming of age

 

[xoxocammyxoxo]

It completely depends on the individual bird. I have some Cocks that barely crow, some that crow a lot. Some hens sing the egg song before they go in the nestbox, the whole time they are in there and then tell the whole flock for 10 min. after they come out, and some that never make a sound. I raise three breeds and the same goes for all of them. You can be the secret chicken keeper for about three months till the little tykes start coming of age

Hmm, I never hear the neighbors hens.... wonder if he has any lmao.

 

[caychris]

It completely depends on the individual bird. I have some Cocks that barely crow, some that crow a lot. Some hens sing the egg song before they go in the nestbox, the whole time they are in there and then tell the whole flock for 10 min. after they come out, and some that never make a sound. I raise three breeds and the same goes for all of them. You can be the secret chicken keeper for about three months till the little tykes start coming of age

I have one who is the town crier for the whole flock.

 

[KittieChick]

Hi. I've been spending way too much time watching my Bonham Delawares in the brooder. Something I've noticed is that a few of them have no black on their primary feathers coming in while others are showing definite barring. Also a few seem to have a bit of a ruddiness in the down.

I'll try to get some good photographs today to post.

I'm thinking I should mark one or the other so I can track them through their growth.