Delawares- post your pics

[s6bee]

I only have one Deleware. She's my bully. She doesn't look anything like the ones in the pictures, I mean she's white with black tips, etc. but I would best describe her as a tom boy. She's assertive, top of the pecking order, in your face when ever I come with a treat, and filthy at all times. She's in the mud, coverd in blood from the hens she's pecked, etc. I guess I just got a sour one! Not sure if I'd order them again. A good layer through the winter though.

I like my Barred Rock and Austrolorp.

Steph

 

[hcammack]

some strains are slightly volitile my girls are kept in line by the bigger girls and seem perfectly nice.

Henry

 

[herechickchick]

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She will be a year next month but that photo was taken in November.

 

[herechickchick]

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No, the Delaware is a cross between a Barred Rock and a New Hampshire.

Delawares were developed originally in the 1940's by crossing a Barred Rock and a New Hampshire, but they have been a stand-alone breed for many years now. I just thought I'd clarify, for those wondering, that you can't get a Delaware by doing this cross yourself.

Here's the large version of my avatar. My cockerel Pete and some of his ladies.

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s244/dallywhere/P1010001-1.jpg

Good point! Your birds are beautiful!

 

[sweetshoplady]

I hatched 5 Delaware chicks. 2 have long tails, 1 has a medium length tail, and 2 have short tails. These chicks are now 4 weeks old and not fully feathered (of course). My question is will their tails "even out" on the hens as they get their feathers in? Or do some Dellies have longer tails than others?

I think its neat the way they change colors. That one morning a feather will all of a sudden be black or have a black dot on it. Or gray feathers will be whiter.

Does anyone have pics of them in adolescent stages?

Thanks for posting pics everyone.

Pete is very handsome. Zaxby is very handsome.

 

[coopist]

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Yogiman, thanks again for your kind words. But I'm really pretty much a novice myself, as far as serious breeding goes, but I'll help out any way I can. I'm more than happy to share what I've learned so far.

 

[coopist]

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Delawares were developed originally in the 1940's by crossing a Barred Rock and a New Hampshire, but they have been a stand-alone breed for many years now. I just thought I'd clarify, for those wondering, that you can't get a Delaware by doing this cross yourself.

Here's the large version of my avatar. My cockerel Pete and some of his ladies.

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s244/dallywhere/P1010001-1.jpg

Good point! Your birds are beautiful!

Thanks very much.

 

[coopist]

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Yes, Lowlife, Delawares are supposed to be "dual-purpose" birds, which means they were developed for eggs and meat. The breed standard calls for a good-sized bird, weighing 8.5-9 lbs (male), with a broad breast. Some of the hatchery birds you see these days are light-weight, thin-chested and flighty, which is not what the breed is supposed to look like or act like. I'm trying to get these birds even "fatter."

 

[okto]

thread hijack

please start a new post and post some pictures of "cornelius"

he looks great

thanks