Eastern Tennessee Thread

[stanglover2001]

Dont pay attention to the surroundings. It is in our unfinished basement.
1st pic shows my main bator, the styrofoam backup bator / hatcher, and the 1st week tub (before they go out to the coop brooder)
2nd and 3rd pics are inside the main bator. Theses eggs are spread out, but I can get easily 36 in there if I use the styrofoam hatcher for half of them when they start to pip. The reason I like having 22 is because they sit perfectly in the holes of the bricks that are below that towel. The bricks serve as thermal mass and natures best wick to soak up water and slowly release it for humidity.
I have 1 starting to pip now...so get ready for a bunch of pics, LOL​

I will welcome the pictures!! I'm droning over homework right now

darn teacher said it was time consuming... she wasn't kidding.

 

[littlechicklet]

I love her! I think she has a pretty head, comb, and wattles, too. If you are breeding towards showing, combs aren't that high on the scale of things they judge, points-wise. The most important thing is type (body size and shape). My little eight-month-old cockerel was DQ'd in Newport for being too heavy.

You've probably already seen this, but here's link to Jeremy's website where he has some of the British orp standard. Here's the link for a summary of the US SOP. I really like this page because it has pictures of the US and British orps side by side. I think I've decided I'm somewhere in the middle. I'm working on broader heads and improving eye color because sometimes I'll hatch light brown eyes. Other than that, I think they're pretty perfect. (An APA judge would completely disagree, I'm sure)

I think BB's feathering is a little looser than the US SOP, but I think it makes her really pretty!

Thanks Daphne. I really like BB & have a nice blue, Crisco. I don't know where I am going with mine. I think what I like will fall short of either standard. I did not realize how brutal it was out there among show people.

I am just glad I have several bloodlines to build from. Thanks for the links I have seen a couple of them.

 

[Lunar]

Do any of you know of anyone that might have Blue Mille Fleur D'Uccles? I am looking for a pullet/hen (either will do if she is an older pullet/young hen). I need a buddy for another MF D'Uccle hen. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thx!

I was also wondering....I read in a thread earlier, that you can sex D'Uccles very early. It began an argument in the thread and no real answer was given. Is it true that at 4 weeks or so, you can start to see combs in the boys?

Pardon my ignorance and thanks for tolerating my questions. Any advice is appreciated.

 

[tennesseeckn]

So I have lost a few birds to what I think is a oppossum... guess it's time to live trap again. One of my porch looks pregnant and supposed that is why she needs more food. GRRRRR

You have a pregnant PORCH!?!?! You just HAVE to take pictures.

If you need to re-home it, I've been wanting a front porch on my coop for a while, now.

 

[tennesseeckn]

Do any of you know of anyone that might have Blue Mille Fleur D'Uccles? I am looking for a pullet/hen (either will do if she is an older pullet/young hen). I need a buddy for another MF D'Uccle hen. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thx!

I was also wondering....I read in a thread earlier, that you can sex D'Uccles very early. It began an argument in the thread and no real answer was given. Is it true that at 4 weeks or so, you can start to see combs in the boys?

Pardon my ignorance and thanks for tolerating my questions. Any advice is appreciated.

You'll have to see if BarnQueen will answer your questions. I think she's the only one of us on here actively that has them.

 

[tennesseeckn]

lol...it's ok. I was going to tell her. Just wanted to give her crap for not seeing them at the picnic. It may not go well anyway. Even if in a perfect world I got a double blue gene in a rooster and some splash or black hens, it is still fighting a loosing battle. There are only 2 people that I know of working on trying to save the breed, so keeping it going might prove overwhelming. I saw a couple examples and got the eggs before I realized they were nearly non-existent and would turn out to be such a difficult project. That's what I get for being spontaneous, LOL

Oh, I KNEW the sole reason you didn't tell me was to torture me! I wish I weren't so nosy. I'm not as bad as DH, though. He has to run to the window every time a car drives by the house.

 

[Lunar]

You'll have to see if BarnQueen will answer your questions. I think she's the only one of us on here actively that has them.

She is where I am getting the first MF hen from (hopefully) if I can find a buddy for her in the right color. I got my first 2 silkies from her on Wed. I have a partridge and a blue ShowGirl in the broder and 2 very sweet lavender d'uccles from her. Thank you though. I appreciate the reply.

 

[tnchickenut]

You have a pregnant PORCH!?!?! You just HAVE to take pictures.

If you need to re-home it, I've been wanting a front porch on my coop for a while, now.

Smarty pants. LOL.... "the one on my porch" as in the oppossum on my porch.... and yeah, you can have it.

 

[stanglover2001]

Do any of you know of anyone that might have Blue Mille Fleur D'Uccles? I am looking for a pullet/hen (either will do if she is an older pullet/young hen). I need a buddy for another MF D'Uccle hen. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thx!

I was also wondering....I read in a thread earlier, that you can sex D'Uccles very early. It began an argument in the thread and no real answer was given. Is it true that at 4 weeks or so, you can start to see combs in the boys?

Pardon my ignorance and thanks for tolerating my questions. Any advice is appreciated.

I wish Lori was still on this site, she is the state rep (I think, may be called something else) for D'Uccles. She just told me at the Knoxville show she'd be putting her roosters in soon to hatch off more, she has some lavs too. May be where Terry got hers? If I can get a hold of her, I'll ask.

 

[itsthelaw37801]

You have a pregnant PORCH!?!?! You just HAVE to take pictures.

If you need to re-home it, I've been wanting a front porch on my coop for a while, now.

Oh I want a porch. I would put it on the back. I'd love to be able to breed it.