Lavender Orpington project ....

[Megs]

i FINALLY got a black orp out of the blue eggs i have been trying this summer (19 so far) and it died after pipping, just my luck.

im trying to get some blacks for my lav orp project birds, as they are already from sibling parents i do not want to inbred again with siblings of siblings, if that makes sence. o well, 5 more blue eggs to go this batch. and i just received 4 dozen blue eggs in the mail (2 dozen were smashed in shipping), so hopefully the 4 dozen that were not are not scrambled. and hopefully i get some black!

 

[HenThymes]

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Thank you very much!

Two pips for far this evening, 10 to go. I think tomorrow is going to be a busy day!!

 

[ChooksChick]

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Megs,

I was going to offer you some extra splits I have, but am I remembering you're in Canada? We've talked before about this, haven't we?

Phooey, if that's true.

 

[Tomhusker]

Kathy, I am driving by Nevada TWICE, once on the 7th and then on the 8th.

DO NOT STAND OUTSIDE WITH ANY CHICKS OUT IN THE OPEN FOR ME TO SEE!! I promised my wife I would not tell you that I would be in that area around noon or 1:00 on those days. There is no possible way I could squeeze a few more chicks into our coop...... even after I send a couple of them to freezer camp.

Now my conscience is clear.

 

[kathyinmo]

Ohhhhhh, but you might find room if you know what is hatching out on the 30th and the 8th!

Awwww, heck, I will just wave then.

 

[Tomhusker]

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Well, it will be lunch time and all.... I will have to stop SOMEWHERE....... I'll be transporting our youngest son down for a visit.



So, whats in the 'bator?

 

[kathyinmo]

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Well, it will be lunch time and all.... I will have to stop SOMEWHERE....... I'll be transporting our youngest son down for a visit.



So, whats in the 'bator?

They're mine ..... ALL MINE ! ! !

 

[Megs]

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thank you very much for the offer, i so wish i could get eggs across the boarder (yes im in canada)!

we only have one person with lav orps here (or at least only one who will share, i would be surprised if there were others though), and i have found only two breeders with blue orps! (eggs in the incy from the second breeder now) makes it a bit difficult to get a breeding project for these lovely birds going! I did have one black orp hatch today, it appears to have a ever so slightly crooked beak, so i will have to see how it matures, im pretty sure it was the humidity during incubation because i have a few crooked beaks from this batch and i have had only two (in hundreds of chicks) all summer. However i did have one blue orp hatch from this breeders eggs with a crooked beak last batch, so it could also have been genetics i suppose. at any rate, crooked beaks just dont make the cut for breeding, no matter how badly i wanted this black.

 

[Tomhusker]

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Well, it will be lunch time and all.... I will have to stop SOMEWHERE....... I'll be transporting our youngest son down for a visit.



So, whats in the 'bator?

They're mine ..... ALL MINE ! ! !

Sure they are......
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...

I tried not to laugh out loud.

 

[ChooksChick]

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thank you very much for the offer, i so wish i could get eggs across the boarder (yes im in canada)!

we only have one person with lav orps here (or at least only one who will share, i would be surprised if there were others though), and i have found only two breeders with blue orps! (eggs in the incy from the second breeder now) makes it a bit difficult to get a breeding project for these lovely birds going! I did have one black orp hatch today, it appears to have a ever so slightly crooked beak, so i will have to see how it matures, im pretty sure it was the humidity during incubation because i have a few crooked beaks from this batch and i have had only two (in hundreds of chicks) all summer. However i did have one blue orp hatch from this breeders eggs with a crooked beak last batch, so it could also have been genetics i suppose. at any rate, crooked beaks just dont make the cut for breeding, no matter how badly i wanted this black.

Yuck. I'm thinking genetics if you had that many.

I should look again into what is necessary to export to Canada. If it's just a matter of NPIP paperwork, that's not really any big deal at all.