Nevadans?

[americanvalkyrie]

My marans are starting to feather out like the one on the bottom right! Nothing like the one in the far corner, though. And I'm still confused on who's a rooster and who's not, but hopefully there's at least 1 pullet in there.

 

[americanvalkyrie]

Ok these are horrible cell phone pics and the chicks might still be too young to tell, but does anyone have a guess on the gender of these two? I was thinking both pullets, but now the feathers are gold on the tips and blue further down the shaft.

I might just have to wait until my nicer camera comes home.



This is the one that has blue further down the shaft.



On this one, the neck feathers are starting to grow in a darker brown, not pure gold.

 

[SunnyDawn]

How old are they now Missy? They look like pullets to me but that's if they are wheaten. If they are blue wheaten then I'm not sure. They feather in lighter than the regular wheatens.

 

[SunnyDawn]

Does anyone have an extra wheaten ameraucana cockerel? Genny has fallen in love with my only wheaten boy and I need a boy to go with my 2 girls. She has mentioned twice that she would love to have him if I am not going to use him. He is such a sweetie and so good looking too! I really hate to say no cause she has done so much for us. I'd love to let her have him if I could get another one.

My guy and his two pullets are almost 2 months old but if your's are a lot younger then I'll just let Genny have the younger one. Then my little boy can stay with his pullets.

 

[americanvalkyrie]

Does anyone have an extra wheaten ameraucana cockerel? Genny has fallen in love with my only wheaten boy and I need a boy to go with my 2 girls. She has mentioned twice that she would love to have him if I am not going to use him. He is such a sweetie and so good looking too! I really hate to say no cause she has done so much for us. I'd love to let her have him if I could get another one.

My guy and his two pullets are almost 2 months old but if your's are a lot younger then I'll just let Genny have the younger one. Then my little boy can stay with his pullets.

I might, Sunny. I'm still waiting for the buff x wheatens to show as boys or girls. I have the two wheaten/bw chicks I posted pics of, and 3 buff x wheatens here. I'm guessing, with those ratios, that there's at least one boy. They're going to be 3 weeks in a couple of days.

 

[chickee]

Sunny, I have a couple extra wheaten rooster chicks available that are from the same hatch you got from me. They are cute and friendly

Sorry, not the best picture. Their color is prettier in person.

Does anyone have an extra wheaten ameraucana cockerel? Genny has fallen in love with my only wheaten boy and I need a boy to go with my 2 girls. She has mentioned twice that she would love to have him if I am not going to use him. He is such a sweetie and so good looking too! I really hate to say no cause she has done so much for us. I'd love to let her have him if I could get another one.

My guy and his two pullets are almost 2 months old but if your's are a lot younger then I'll just let Genny have the younger one. Then my little boy can stay with his pullets.

 

[NevadaRon]

One thing I like about spending more on seed potatoes is that they're certified. I didn't pay much attention to this until I got an email from the company that I bought my and Sunny's taters from, saying that one of the varieties didn't pass certification. (They replaced it with the conventionally grown variety of the same breed.) So far...

I haven't gotten any blight or anything. But there is a chance that a storebought potato has the virus even if it doesn't show damage.

Last year, though I did plant some little purple marbling potatoes I had bought from Whole Foods, and they sprouted and did well. They were marked organic, so I'm sure they weren't sprayed. But my dad (still living in Idaho) says the same thing... they're often sprayed to retard sprouting, and he saves all his own seed or gets it from a close friend.

When you buy potatoes, think about this... The two places most potatoes are grown are Idaho and Maine. I've never lived in Maine, but in Idaho the last frost can be early June, with the first frost in September. Which means all Idaho potatoes are grown in this time. So, if you buy a bag of potatoes in May, guess when those were harvested? Using a sprouting retardant would make a lot of sense to prolong a harvest for that many months.

My favorite reason to buy seed potatoes, though, is the amazing variety. I don't grow russets because you can buy 10 lbs for $1 at certain times of the year. I want to grow viking purple and yellow finn and mountain rose, and all those that would be horribly expensive if they were even available, and know they got so big from actual nourishment in the soil.

 

[laceynoelle]

Well guys, bad incubator news. I had a heat surge yesterday. I left at 4 in the morning, got back at about three in the afternoon, and the temp was between 101 and 102. And today is lockdown. It really sucks, because although I didnt know thier personalities and stuff, I watched their little hearts beating at 6 days, and watched them moving around at 12, I now I dont know if any of them made it, and are going to hatch. I feel like I just killed 38 chicks.

I hope some of them still hatch.
On the other hand, on Saturday when we went to Green's, I bought two white cochins and two Welsummers, which are adorable, but have kinda added to the suckiness of the situation.

About hormones and stuff in food, you all might want to read "Skinny (somthing that rhymes with 'witch' and I cant say on BYC)" It was a diet book my mom was reading, and she told me I might be interested in it. So I read it last week, and its not really a diet book, it's just a book that grosses you out so much about the FDA that you dont really want to eat ever agian. Needless to say, I dont know how biased it might be, but I will not be eating any meat that doesnt come from my yard. And Im eating oranic everything until I can grow my own. Which is probably better anyway. And, on the upside, organic food is really easy to find in Nevada.

 

[LV-Bird-Lover]

Hey everyone!
I've got an Ameracauna Rooster that has to find a new home SOON! If my neighbors turn me in for a crowing rooster I may lose all my birds! Does anyone need this handsome boy?? or have any suggestions??? I think I can take him to one of the feed stores - but I worry what they do with them... I'd much rather have him go to a real home! I posted his picture a few weeks ago but thot I'd try again just in case! Thanks!

 

[NevadaRon]

Fingers crossed on you hatch Lacey.

I don't know anything about hatching except to say that chickens somehow managed to do it for a long time before incubators came along, and I don't think their temperature regulation is perfect! So don't give up on them just yet.

As for the food thing, that's why I (and I suspect most of the others here) are growing our own: We don't trust the government! (Did I say that out loud?)

That's a beautiful roo LV-Bird-Lover! Sorry I can't be of help to you.