Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[flocksalot]

I don't know if I signed up for the Easter swap or not. I know I wanted to do it but my dad's wife is having a birthday party for him and my brother just told me about it today. The party starts at 4-5 so most likely won't be back until 6 or 7 and at that point my girls will have to go to bed . So I guess I will just be reading back over what happens that night!  That's ok because I have already spent waaaay to much on eggs.

I am so close to swapping eggs, I have 6 of my own buff Cochins in the incubator with 100% fertility even when not collected for 5 hrs in 25 degree weather! The only thing is they are all from the same hen my other hen isn't laying yet. And I have 8 Blue Bantam Cochin eggs and NONE are fertile!! arggggggh! I think I have to have a talk with my roo!

Trim their bum feathers. That usually helps the roo to do his job.

 

[flocksalot]

I made a Gnome house last year for Christmas. It's 100% eatable. It was for a gingerbread contest.

My son wants to go all Hansel and Gretal on that gnome house. I think maybe I should feed him. It does look wonderful though.

 

[FeyRaine]

Don, Since you asked "seriously" I will give you some of the Standard of Perfection differences:

Polish: Developed in Eastern Europe as an ornamental fowl
may be bearded or non-bearded
have four toes
come in many recognized varieties/colors
should weigh cocks 6 lbs hens 4 1/2 lbs

Houdans: Developed in Houdan, France as a meat and egg fowl
bearded
have five toes
only recognized in black and mottled
should weigh cocks 8 lbs hens 6 1/2 lbs

Similiarities:
both have crests
both lay white eggs

I happen to have some polish in my bator atm - this is a helpful bit of info, thanks for taking the time to post it

Oh and those moose eggs are all mine. LOL

Crystal sent me some Bantam Buttercup eggs and when I told my son he looked them up on the Internet. He found a rooster that he said looked like a moose through his comb. He wanted a rooster that he could call Moose. Especially with it being a bantam he thought that was so funny. He's only nine. At that age they come up with all kinds of things. I'll have to see if I can find some more so I can get him his tiny Moose.

That is way too funny, & likely he won't out grow his sence of humor in names, my DH has the same at age 48,
we had a cat nicknamed "goose" (short for mongoose as it killed a copperhead at age 10 wks), a chicken named monkey,
a Donkey named HoeDee (say it run togther, Don-key-hoeDee), & his mate a Jenny named Geni, our farmdog is nicknamed Dew (short for Mildew, long story) , & his sister DD (short for D***Dog which I refused to allow as a name), a mama barn cat named Various (as in "Come & Eat Many & Various Barn Cats"), & a few others of a similar bent, it can brighten a day doing chores to have goofy livestock names, our Breeding Sow is of course named Sue, while each yr's Boar is Rex, king for a year then off to freezer camp. Our current goat Buck (all black nubian w/ flying nun ears) is Black Bart the Pirate goat - his pasture sun shade is even the sun shade from a little fishing boat, much adult humor re: his farm duties has been said in pirate speak you can be sure.

I hope you have good luck finding a tiny Moose Bantam Buttercup ;>

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& I really do intend to do some swapping as soon as I have proven eggs - Mr Buckeye has started to do his job again recently, and today I got a Buckeye hen egg literally the size of my Bourbon Red poult egg! So soon soon I'll get to join the swapping fun!
Oh, & I have a H. BR pair now too, quite young, but they will grow...

 

[Lilwanis]

MINE on the "striped chickens" !!!!!
offer: $17 on paypal

   ...... seriously folks,  I do have a question: what is the difference between polish chickens and houdan chickens? to me they look the same.

thanks for the replies and just kidding on the emu, they look great.

don

 

If you buy Houdans (or Polish or any other breed for that matter), more than likely they are not pure anyway.  Houdans need some serious breeders to keep they where they should be.

NotAFarm, thank you for posting the standard. My autistic son took an interest in Houdans, so I have spent the past year reading about them. He no longer remembers that was his choice but I am jumping in all the same. A big complaint from the old timers on BYC are that houdans have become polishized. At one point in time they were considered one of the best meat birds and good layers. It will take a lot of work from a number of dedicated breeders to get them where they should be...I need to ru. But wanted to spit out a few words.

 

[flocksalot]

I happen to have some polish in my bator atm - this is a helpful bit of info, thanks for taking the time to post it
That is way too funny, & likely he won't out grow his sence of humor in names, my DH has the same at age 48,
we had a cat nicknamed "goose" (short for mongoose as it killed a copperhead at age 10 wks), a chicken named monkey,
a Donkey named HoeDee (say it run togther, Don-key-hoeDee), & his mate a Jenny named Geni, our farmdog is nicknamed Dew (short for Mildew, long story) , & his sister DD (short for D***Dog which I refused to allow as a name), a mama barn cat named Various (as in "Come & Eat Many & Various Barn Cats"), & a few others of a similar bent, it can brighten a day doing chores to have goofy livestock names, our Breeding Sow is of course named Sue, while each yr's Boar is Rex, king for a year then off to freezer camp. Our current goat Buck (all black nubian w/ flying nun ears) is Black Bart the Pirate goat - his pasture sun shade is even the sun shade from a little fishing boat, much adult humor re: his farm duties has been said in pirate speak you can be sure.

I hope you have good luck finding a tiny Moose Bantam Buttercup ;> 

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& I really do intend to do some swapping as soon as I have proven eggs - Mr Buckeye has started to do his job again recently, and today I got a Buckeye hen egg literally the size of my Bourbon Red poult egg! So soon soon I'll get to join the swapping fun!
Oh, & I have a H. BR pair now too, quite young, but they will grow...

I need some Buckeye eggs! They are on my sons list too. We currently have two Buckeye Roos. Red you gonna be dead and little Red. Our hens got stolen this last fall when we had 40 chickens go missing over night from a secure from non human predators. That's the reason for some of my sons list, but of course he has added several breeds to it.

 

[FeyRaine]

I need some Buckeye eggs! They are on my sons list too. We currently have two Buckeye Roos. Red you gonna be dead and little Red. Our hens got stolen this last fall when we had 40 chickens go missing over night from a secure from non human predators. That's the reason for some of my sons list, but of course he has added several breeds to it.

The Trio I got are very impressive they just had quit a shock in the move due to the weather which was unreasonable since they got here, they came from several hundred miles south & about 1,500ft less elevation, I told my DH they must think they were sent to Mordor. But the hen & pullet have been laying & I'm setting every egg, I have 3 that looked like some developement just last night so I'm hopeful. I intend to hatch a batch for myself, then while the bator is full I'll have a few to swap, then I'll be letting at least the hen go broody as that is part of the point of having H quality Buckeyes (I'm told this hen raised 3 clutches of her own last yr.)

Here is Mr Buckeye 90 sec after being let out of his travel cage, & our first meeting, I picked him up & he didn't even squirm or anything, he is huge and really docile to me.

 

[flocksalot]

The Trio I got are very impressive they just had quit a shock in the move due to the weather which was unreasonable since they got here, they came from several hundred miles south & about 1,500ft less elevation, I told my DH they must think they were sent to Mordor. But the hen & pullet have been laying & I'm setting every egg, I have 3 that looked like some developement just last night so I'm hopeful. I intend to hatch a batch for myself, then while the bator is full I'll have a few to swap, then I'll be letting at least the hen go broody as that is part of the point of having H quality Buckeyes (I'm told this hen raised 3 clutches of her own last yr.) Here is Mr Buckeye 90 sec after being let out of his travel cage, & our first meeting, I picked him up & he didn't even squirm or anything, he is huge and really docile to me.

He looks like quite a guy! Our big Red is like that, and he needs some girls of his own. Well he's been courting some of our mutts so he's not being wasted, but he does need some girls that I want him to have.

 

[caj1985]

Nope these guys have been out of the shell for a while

As you can see fat as a chick should be!

I will send some more Moose eggs.

 

[flocksalot]

I will send some more Moose eggs.

Oh thank you! Just let me know what I owe you. Yeah! The kid might get a mini moose.

 

[AyeUpChuck]

bring the bourbon ( I mean Turkeys)

packing up the trailer now! Good thing I'm partial to both types of bourbon.....ahem....for cooking of course.....