Delawares from kathyinmo

[LeslieDJoyce]

Luanne posted some photos of her Delawares and talked a bit about her work with them over at the Breeding Delawares to the SOP thread. It really looks like Eight Acres is doing a good job with the breed.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...-the-standard-of-perfection/350#post_14693343

 

[finnfur]

Yes CPARTIST - thanks for helping the old brain cells out

She has done quality work on her line and if looking for Quality Dels I would contact her without hesitation

Also Micheal Newman is in the panhandle of FL area - don't know if he has any thing this year

 

[Mr King]

I believe this is the correct link 
http://eightacresfarm.weebly.com
She also did a very informative write up on her Delawares on the " Breeding Delawares to the standard of perfection" thread.
But I can not remember her BYC handle - some one will need to help there

Thanks alot finnfur and capayvalley chick for all your help It seems eight acre farm have what I was looking for. I will order some next month I would like Delawares,barred rocks, and new hampshires..

 

[rancher hicks]

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[LeslieDJoyce]

The males in the cockerel colony and Mr Fatty were fighting between a short section of shared fence line, which wasn't good for their combs. We put black plastic there. Wish we did it sooner. Mr. Fatty got a small tear under the blade of his comb, and BigBrassy got a much more serious tear in the same spot ... boy did that bleed. Yuck.

 

[finnfur]

The males in the cockerel colony and Mr Fatty were fighting between a short section of shared fence line, which wasn't good for their combs. We put black plastic there. Wish we did it sooner. Mr. Fatty got a small tear under the blade of his comb, and BigBrassy got a much more serious tear in the same spot ... boy did that bleed. Yuck.

My bet is on Mr Fatty
The combs have a lot of blood flow and can bleed a lot .
Ernie got a little frost bite at the back side of his comb and he got hen pecked - it finally clearing up but was bleeding a little on and off.
The girls see the blood and will keep it open .

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

My bet is on Mr Fatty
The combs have a lot of blood flow and can bleed a lot .
Ernie got a little frost bite at the back side of his comb and he got hen pecked - it finally clearing up but was bleeding a little on and off.
The girls see the blood and will keep it open .

You are so right. The hens can be very determined.


We had one cock (hatchery Speckled Sussex) that wouldn't stop bleeding on one side when we removed his spurs. Not a lot of blood after the first day, but it sure made him attractive to the hens. It was right when we were confining the laying flock in hopes that the pullets would find the nesting boxes. (hahahahaha on that, BTW). I went into the coop one afternoon to open the doors for a few hours of free-ranging, and he was laying on the ground and refused to stand up to expose his feet. I isolated him. But those hens pestered him every time I'd let him back out and would open it back up. Finally I just wrapped his leg in vet wrap and he was able to be his normal self again. I just took that wrap off the other day, and he lay there in my lap with his feet up in the air like a big baby ... he was my ex's lap bird, and now is Dad's pall. A very gentle, solid bird.

Too bad we can't vet wrap their combs.

 

[1zooman12]

Hello All!
Just a note about bleeding of birds. Birds tend to have a larger than normal blood storage capacity than do mammals. I think that this derives from the fact that birds have no blood storage organ (spleen) so this is a partial compensation. But beware, as any bleeding bird is at greater risk of loss of life. Unless quenched in quick time a bleeding bird is also a dying bird! This cannot be stressed too much! Another thing, a bird that appears sick is likely in the last stages of its life. You see,over the aeons of evolutionary time birds assigned it to their DNA to hide illnesses of any kind at great cost. Why? The bird which displays problems attracts predators!
Sincerely,
Neal, the Zooman (and Vet Tech), ret.

 

[finnfur]

Hello All!
Just a note about bleeding of birds. Birds tend to have a larger than normal blood storage capacity than do mammals. I think that this derives from the fact that birds have no blood storage organ (spleen) so this is a partial compensation. But beware, as any bleeding bird is at greater risk of loss of life. Unless quenched in quick time a bleeding bird is also a dying bird! This cannot be stressed too much! Another thing, a bird that appears sick is likely in the last stages of its life. You see,over the aeons of evolutionary time birds assigned it to their DNA to hide illnesses of any kind at great cost. Why? The bird which displays problems attracts predators!
Sincerely,
Neal, the Zooman (and Vet Tech), ret.

That sounds right on Zooman - A predator can ID a weak animal in a herd in short order.

Too bad we can't vet wrap their combs.

Some have used the Blu-coat dressing with success - it doesn't attract the scavenging like the Red color.
Why not vet wrap and make him a bonnet - he would look tough then- fatty would laugh himself to death.

 

[Zanna]

Blu-cote works, just don't get any on you unless purple is your favorite colour!!

Butchered the remaining "didn't make the cut" four Dels. and two NH Sat. AM. They were all close to the same age, almost a year old. My husbands comment was the Dels. are much better meat birds. A more compact bird, shorter legs, thicker drumsticks, quite meaty all over. The NH while they were bigger birds were longer legged and lankier. All 6 of these birds have been free-ranging far and wide following around some Royal Palm Turkeys so we were very pleased with the quality. Can't imagine they will be tender though so tonight we will cut off drumsticks/thighs/breasts and package/freeze those and boil the rest for broth. The pieces will fit better in the crock pot, I don't think a whole bird would fit in mine.

My F'5 pullets in the breeding pen have been laying huge eggs from the beginning. They barely fit in the egg holders that come with the incubator, they won't go all the way to the bottom and the eggs touch. They weigh off the scale on my egg scale. 34 pullet eggs in the incubator over two different hatches so far and 31 hen eggs over 3 hatches plus the one that hatched Friday. Will do one or two more settings than return PapaDel to Leslie

I think these birds are the "bomb"!!!