EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[BantyChooks]

Not to long ago I quoted something about us doing Show Birds back in the day, before we got into this massive disorganized egg laying mess nowadays.
I can't find that post where @BantyChooks replied with "you did show birds?".
So here Banty, just for you. Cleaning out our spare bedroom on this rainy flor-ruh-duh morning, I though of you when I stumbled upon a box under the bed!
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Meh & the DD were on the go! Even went out of State to Georgia once. The good ole days.
There is a swine award box too.. I'll share that over on the herd site..

Pretty impressive. APA or fair only?

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Pretty impressive. APA or fair only?

Key word: Daughter. But of course a team effort. She got the bragging rights and I got the bills..lol

Youth Fairs. 3yrs 4H and 4yrs FFA.. Most of the FFA stuff was swine/lamb/cow/Llama-(chickens were a gate way introduction to the big beasts)
Wanna see some Llama pix?

 

[Akrnaf2]

Key word: Daughter. But of course a team effort. She got the bragging rights and I got the bills..lol

Youth Fairs. 3yrs 4H and 4yrs FFA.. Most of the FFA stuff was swine/lamb/cow/Llama-(chickens were a gate way introduction to the big beasts)
Wanna see some Llama pix?

I wish that we would have some kind of this poultry shows.

 

[kwhites634]

Key word: Daughter. But of course a team effort. She got the bragging rights and I got the bills..lol

Youth Fairs. 3yrs 4H and 4yrs FFA.. Most of the FFA stuff was swine/lamb/cow/Llama-(chickens were a gate way introduction to the big beasts)
Wanna see some Llama pix?

Kinda small for llamas

 

[Lazy Farmer]

I failed to mention the reason of this pic post.
THAT is the mother sow with 5 offspring still nursing at 12 weeks old. They are eating hard food along side of her and nursing still. A couple are almost 40#.
Mother (alfalfa hat) gets a super high nutrition diet to help her go with the program.
You see, these are our future freezer stock pigs. When you raise a pig to 250# in only 4.5 months, you get super lean and ultra tender meat.
All our other sows reject the offspring around 4 weeks old or so. Spotty here, never gets tired of them. Best sow we have.
Look how small she looks with those mambas next to her!
She is eating alfalfa, rolled oats, whole oats, barley, broccoli, carrots and conventional sow grain 18%pro.
She is about to have them removed finally coming up real soon. Space available from a couple big-in's going to process here real quick.

 

[BantyChooks]

Key word: Daughter. But of course a team effort. She got the bragging rights and I got the bills..lol

Youth Fairs. 3yrs 4H and 4yrs FFA.. Most of the FFA stuff was swine/lamb/cow/Llama-(chickens were a gate way introduction to the big beasts)
Wanna see some Llama pix?

Cute! I never new llamas were so tiny and feathery.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Wanna see some Llama pix?

Kinda small for llamas

Cute! I never new llamas were so tiny and feathery.

I had to scan them from 35mm print. Out of a scrap book. Remember the days when all your priceless photos were in scrap books and not your phone and computer?
Too many to scan.. here are a quick half dozen.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

If any of you metric system folks feel froggy to help this dude out..
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/first-time.1221286/

 

[BullChick]

Imagine a cross of these. I’m wondering if I’ll end up with Partridge Rocks and/or Silver Pencil Wyandotte looking birds. Interesting.

 

[BantyChooks]

Imagine a cross of these. I’m wondering if I’ll end up with Partridge Rocks and/or Silver Pencil Wyandotte looking birds. Interesting.
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Wow, I love the lacing on that left hen's top.