Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

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Would be interesting and very well may be autosexing or maybe sex-linked for first gen, both birds are based on double barring but the E allele is different. The GCM is based on eb and the Legbar based on the e+ (wild type) chick down. The off-spring would be e+/eb, off course you could probably breed the e+ into the Marans and have GCM that have wild type chick-down. The double barring factor should lead to lighter males though just not sure if it will reflect as much with the e+/eb.

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I moved this girl into my Cream Legbar pen last night...I will start hatching her eggs in a few weeks and see what I get! Might be a cool project also to get different down on the GCM
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OK, who's the goat enabler? DH wants a couple of goats for brush clearing, etc. We need something calm that won't need to be milked as he refuses, and I don't have time.
I have a pygmy buck that can clear 20 foot of field in about a week. His only purpose is a weedeater- my teenager loves him! Less work for her.
 
Morning peeps. I feel like crude this morning. I should have stayed home instead of coming to work. Might be a short day. On another note, I got a visit from the bee inspector last night. We use to have bees until my reaction to bee stings kept getting worse. He was there to inspect them. So we got to talking and I told him I would love to bee hives on my property but if someone else took care of them. He said he would see what he could do. 5 minutes later he was knocking on my door again. He had found someone close by that couldn't keep their bee hives on their property and would love to put them on ours!!!!! Apparently a neighbor or relative is deathly afraid of bees.
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Goodness- I hope you start to feel better soon! That's pretty neat about the bees. My grandfather was a beekeeper when I was a child. He developed an extreme allergy (died & was resuscitated several times - liked to live dangerously I guess) and can't keep them any longer.
Do you have any Loquat trees growing yet? They take a few years to start producing fruit but boy is it tasty. Nice big green leaves for shade and the chickens love the fruit.
Nope, but am now on the hunt for some. thanks to both of you!
Loquats are awesome! I have a BYCer picking up a 4 ft tree from me this weekend.
 
OK, who's the goat enabler?  DH wants a couple of goats for brush clearing, etc.  We need something calm that won't need to be milked as he refuses, and I don't have time. 


We plan to get some goats for brush clearing too, but I want milkers as the milk is good for auto immune people like me.
 
Quote: I went through the desensitization shots too. Two shots a week for 6 months. Two shots every other week for 6 months. Relapse. Repeat. I went through the shots for 7 years and am now able to get stung by half a bee sting without dying. Ha ha ha! As if a bee thinks to itself that it is going to only inject half of a dose of venom. After 7 years, I still have to go to the hospital every single time I get stung!
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Oh dear...how do you do that?
read up on weighing eggs, I don't explain it well. It is a GREAT way of finding out why your hatch rates are low and finding out what is the "real" right humidity for where you have your incubator, since every place is different.
What do you mean by close mix? I have been to Central America 3 times and in their towns, donkeys, cattle, pigs, chickens, ducks, and just about any other animal you can think of is right there living with the people. They also have a wet season where it literally rains every single day.
Did you ever read Guns germs and Steel? That explains how diseases move better then I can. Its fascinating. And of course Africa comes up with the most deadly bugs, too, often. But they don't move around as much as the ones from China. These things are more likely to move sideways then up and down, and central America is short that way. That sounds stupid when you put it that way, but the book explains it better. Jarded Diamond is an interesting read.
Sounds like the best of both worlds, you get the bees around but don't have to work with them. payment via honey is a bonus too lol

Hope you feel better soon


Loquats are great, they can eat the fruit, you can eat the fruit and make jam from it too.

Apple trees (we have 3 varieties which do well here in FL) Anna is one the FL apple tree is another.


Either will give great shade, and fruit too for you and the birds.
Loquats are my FAVORITE fruit. They come in a non fruiting variety, don't get that!. Ours bloomed late this year so the fruit isn't ripe yet, but I'm ready to start fighting the squirrels for em. If you all were closer id offer up the wild ones growing around here from random seeds dropped over the years, there are about 20 small ones from the gully in the back.

I have broodies popping out chicks everywhere, its silkie madness here I say. # have hatched babies this week, and 4 are due the next week or so. 2 more just went broody this week, its crazy. That puts me at 11. I don't even know HOW that happens, but people better step up and start wanting chicks!
 
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