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[mrandmrschicken]

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Very nice picture!

I miss Brooster and the sissies so much!

The rooster I bought back from Troy, is really nice looking, he's gonna have a very nice comb. The girl is still young, not at POL yet, and they are both pretty flighty, not used to being handled. I am gonna have to let them fly around a bit. they do like bread!

 

[pbjmaker]

Sorry - haven't been on much. Stuart was an all day event. We got a pair of Muscovy ducks from oldiaguy. They are adjusting OK. They keep wanting to sleep in the coop with the chickens but I'm afraid of what the drake might do to the hens. I actually found them roosting in the coop last night. I never knew that ducks would roost!?! Now if the hen would start laying for me! He ended up buying my pair of Ia. Blues. I'm glad to hear the frizzy girl is doing good. I told you she looked rough - the roosters here loved her A LOT.

It looks like I will be working the rest of the school year except on Wednesdays. I'll have to head up on a Wednesday soon.

Sam - I have the storey's guide to chickens. It has good pictures but only a little information about each breed. I really like it. When I come for a visit I will bring it.

OH my hubby also got a bunch of hatching eggs including some pheasant eggs. He just wanted to see if he could hatch some. They are black mutes. Then we got 4 dozen cochin eggs (I only wanted 2 but the hubby doesn't know when to stop at auctions) I'm a little perturbed because they stated they were "cochin eggs" but when we picked them up they box says mixed cochin eggs. I don't know if that means they are a mix of colors (as in out of different pens), mixed colors (all colors in one pen) or mixed breeds but the hens were cochins...

He also got me some cuckoo maran eggs (OK they said kuku meraines on the box)

OK off to catch up the house work from working full time and then being gone most of the weekend!

This next weekend we are going down to Osceola if anyone is headed there. Hubby is still after a lamb for slaughter.

 

[mrandmrschicken]

Glad to see you on the thread again Steph, been wondering how you were doing.

My Netherlands contact emailed me with bad news. He said the Twentse Hoen eggs were only 1/2 fertile and the guy found out why, his rooster was sick, it died last week! However, he gave my friend the number of another guy who has them also, another club member, so he called and he has them in LF and Bantam! He has 20 hatching eggs set aside and ready for p/u.
May have to wait till Monday to get the freshest ones. Now to figure out how to get them into the country..... hmmmm. Easter is coming up, could they be ornamental eggs from the Netherlands????

 

[pbjmaker]

The computer fan went out also so I couldn't use the computer until the new one came in today

 

[mrandmrschicken]

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Cool! I have been through 2 laptops since Sept. the first one is past store warranty...... The second is by now too?

 

[iowachks]

Anyone coming over to Maquoketa's swap this Saturday? I love swap time! I have baby chicks (mixed barnyard mutts) hatching today and it's a gorgeous (if windy) day!
Gooooood morning Iowa!

 

[FlashPointFarm]

We might go to Maquoketa. We went last fall when it was rainy and barely made the gas money to get there. I'll be keeping an eye on the weather. If it's cold and rainy, I don't want to stress out our chicks and goat kids by bringing them.

 

[Black Cochin Bantams]

Was the burlington swap Big? I had planned on going to work the show for the Eastern Iowa poultry club and ended up in the Hospital Saturday until Wednesday. Haven't heard much about it. Was also going to take my extra incubator down. A Brauer tabletop stir model that cost over 175 new and I don't need it. Hope to make it next month!

 

[Tiramisu]

I got a job at Animal Care Sanctuary! I start tomorrow, at 7:30am, kind of early, but I am glad to get that job so I wil just have to make a habit of getting to bed early now, besides it's getting nice so might as well as enjoy all of the daylight lol. It's also like 2 minutes away from us so it is close.

All the 2 month old chicks were put in the pens now. The orloffs were in the hutch, but we let them out to run around and put the b-cups back in there. It's weird how those chicks looked so big in the cage but when we put them in there, and with the orloffs they look so tiny! It might be a bit cold for them still to be in there, but they should be fine. The orloffs are doing pretty good with them besides them being huge compared to them and they only peck or get in a little fight with each other and not the chicks lol.
Those b-cup chicks look like mini clones of their parents too

well I guess they are....
When can we tell the sex of them? I think they are over a month old now...I do notice two showing not as well markings like the other ones, but that is because they have red feathers comming, also more developed combs. Guess they are males? It might be 3 males 3 females, but I can't really tell with one bird.
I wish there were more swaps around here too...I need to get rid of some of the silver laced cochins, looks like a few are boys too, and the only "swap" thing i know of are the chickenstocks, but they are like 3 hours away, although we did want to go to them.

 

[iowachks]

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What kind of goats, and how much?

Congrats on the job, Tiramisu!