Delawares from kathyinmo

[Zanna]

Hey Kathy, if you are still online........ As well as being genetics iliterate, I am computer iliterate!!! How do you get the pics. side by side? Much better for comparison purposes, I can't figure it out...........

 

[kathyinmo]

Hey Kathy, if you are still online........ As well as being genetics iliterate, I am computer iliterate!!! How do you get the pics. side by side? Much better for comparison purposes, I can't figure it out...........

click on the picture and then reduce the size. Do you know how to do that? When you click on the picture, they have little squares on the corners. Grab a corner and "drag" it in to a smaller size.

 

[finnfur]

I dont think I would hesitate breeding that hen. Might try a lighter hackled Cock to Breed to.
Most of my better hens have a more columbian hackle . The Cocks have good barring , Hoping it will all work out.

Talking about frustration.I just put the Cock with the hens last monday . Have only five F4 hens. Three of which are better breeding quality.
So two of those have been brooding for two weeks and are not laying. The third had a eye injury and appears to have lost the eye. She is not laying while in the hospital pen waiting for eye to heal . it appears to be healing
as swelling has gone down.
So no fertile eggs to sit under the broodys. But they keeping the wood eggs warm. LOL

 

[Zanna]

click on the picture and then reduce the size. Do you know how to do that? When you click on the picture, they have little squares on the corners. Grab a corner and "drag" it in to a smaller size.

Think I've got it, Thanks!

 

[Zanna]

I dont think I would hesitate breeding that hen. Might try a lighter hackled Cock to Breed to.
Most of my better hens have a more columbian hackle . The Cocks have good barring , Hoping it will all work out.

Talking about frustration.I just put the Cock with the hens last monday . Have only five F4 hens. Three of which are better breeding quality.
So two of those have been brooding for two weeks and are not laying. The third had a eye injury and appears to have lost the eye. She is not laying while in the hospital pen waiting for eye to heal . it appears to be healing
as swelling has gone down.
So no fertile eggs to sit under the broodys. But they keeping the wood eggs warm. LOL

Are the Broody's Kathy's or your other line? And sorry to hear about the one that lost an eye! She should still be ok to breed though once she gets over the stress of the injury.

I am working with 3 breeds, yes 2 too many but when setbacks occur, I still have the others so in a way it eases things up. Just drags out the hope of getting the breeding finished up earlier this year. It's all good though! No frustrations here, it's just chickens

 

[Zanna]

Hey Speckledhen, thanks for your input as well, almost missed it! I have two and possibly a third Cockeral from Kathy that I will be single mating two, and now this third pullet with. We shall see where it goes........ She went in the pen last night with the pullet pictured that I used for comparison. Will start collecting eggs when I can tell them apart for certain. The other pullet hasn't laid in 3 weeks anyways and I know this one is laying so it will be easy to figure out.

 

[finnfur]

Are the Broody's Kathy's or your other line? And sorry to hear about the one that lost an eye! She should still be ok to breed though once she gets over the stress of the injury.

I am working with 3 breeds, yes 2 too many but when setbacks occur, I still have the others so in a way it eases things up. Just drags out the hope of getting the breeding finished up earlier this year. It's all good though! No frustrations here, it's just chickens

All broodys are Kathy F4s and while they brooding no eggs . So basically I have one - one eyed F4 breeder hen LOL - But she laid and egg today and I took it and one other and two EEs eggs and stuck them under the broody.Doing same thing tomorrow and then let em roll see if they hatch em . may be a couple NH
eggs in there too. Gotta do something to get hatching . Can always be table fare .I will be prepared if they go broody next time but this time there was no Cock in they pen and they started brooding and stopped laying before I got the Cock in he pen . I will give it 5 or six days , candle and see if Berts dong his job if not Ernie will get the assignment.

 

[desertmarcy]

Finally got 2 fertile eggs from this past week's setting. 1 out of 1 from first pullet, 1 out of 4 from the second pullet. The first pullet seems to have stopped laying. I am leaving the cockerel in with the second pullet for now. 4 out of 4 of the eggs from the third pullet, mated to a Rhode Island Red, are fertile.

 

[capayvalleychick]

My Del pullets are doing fairly well with fertility, much better than my Dorkings. There were two, out of the four breeders, who had less fertility than the others. I think that I solved that by leaving the cockerel in the pen with each hen for longer - not moving him every night.

Has anyone else hatched 5th generation Dels from Kathy's strain?

Here are my results from the first hatch: 24 eggs set. 4 not fertile. 1 blood ring. 19 to hatch. 1 dead in shell. 18 hatched. 2 took longer to get out of shell and were not thriving and were culled. 16 active, thriving chicks.
Photo by Ron, who does my incubating for me:

 

[Zanna]

My Del pullets are doing fairly well with fertility, much better than my Dorkings. There were two, out of the four breeders, who had less fertility than the others. I think that I solved that by leaving the cockerel in the pen with each hen for longer - not moving him every night.

Has anyone else hatched 5th generation Dels from Kathy's strain?

Here are my results from the first hatch: 24 eggs set. 4 not fertile. 1 blood ring. 19 to hatch. 1 dead in shell. 18 hatched. 2 took longer to get out of shell and were not thriving and were culled. 16 active, thriving chicks.
Photo by Ron, who does my incubating for me:

Yay!!! I am about 2 weeks behind you, first 5 eggs from one of the pairs went in about a week ago.