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[americanvalkyrie]

Sheryl, my friend loves his ducklings! And I'm loving mine. If I'm having a bad day, I just need to turn the sprinkler on over the pond. Watching ducks dance around in the sprinkler, racing each other and diving, and opening their mouths to take a drink, is just about the best cure for the blues that I've ever seen.

 

[chicharomirinda]

Jose has been applying for a bunch of warehouse/stocking type jobs now that the kids will be starting kindergarten at the end of the month. keep your fingers crossed.

He's been out of the workforce for 3 years so it's challenging getting back in.

, sheryl. Praying for you and your sister. thanks for sharing the photos. such a handsome/beautiful flock.

Cute photo of the papa and his chicks, Candy.

Hope Steve recovers quickly, Sunny. I'm sure he's worn out from all the work of moving.

 

[chickee]

They are all beautiful Sheryl!!! Leroy and Lacey have gorgeous color! I am looking forward to seeing chicks from those two!! I am impressed with the lavender pullets even color and great feather quality! Now you need to get a black split to lavender rooster from Kirstie for her. I love being an enabler

Leroy loves coming over and saying hi to me everyday!





Lacey decided not to come down from the tree trunk just yet. The ducks in the front is Harmony and Mo!



As you can see, Lacey is really coming of age. It won't be long now before she's laying eggs.



Wynnie had to come over and check out the camera as usual. She's the one who hatched the
ducklings in April. She also went right into a molt afterwards too. She came through her molt
very nicely I think. He sister Sylvia is broody and molting at the same time. The poor girl is really
suffering.

 

[sherylreno]

Sheryl, my friend loves his ducklings! And I'm loving mine. If I'm having a bad day, I just need to turn the sprinkler on over the pond. Watching ducks dance around in the sprinkler, racing each other and diving, and opening their mouths to take a drink, is just about the best cure for the blues that I've ever seen.

I keep meaning to ask you how those babies were doing. I think of them every day too. I know what you mean how they make us feel. I love how they actually have conversations with each other.
I couldn't believe it when Justin sorta attacked Sylvia one day thinking she was Wynnie who was broody at the time. When Sierra and Misty went up into the coop to lay eggs one night Wynnie hissed them back out of there. The next day those 2 girls were talking to Justin and he just ran and sorta attacked Sylvia but he should of went after Wynnie. So I know they have an actual conversation with each other.

Jose has been applying for a bunch of warehouse/stocking type jobs now that the kids will be starting kindergarten at the end of the month. keep your fingers crossed.

He's been out of the workforce for 3 years so it's challenging getting back in.

, sheryl. Praying for you and your sister. thanks for sharing the photos. such a handsome/beautiful flock.

Cute photo of the papa and his chicks, Candy.

Hope Steve recovers quickly, Sunny. I'm sure he's worn out from all the work of moving.

Thank you Elizabeth.

They are all beautiful Sheryl!!! Leroy and Lacey have gorgeous color! I am looking forward to seeing chicks from those two!! I am impressed with the lavender pullets even color and great feather quality! Now you need to get a black split to lavender rooster from Kirstie for her. I love being an enabler

Not gonna do it, nope, no siree! Nada! Lucky Leroy is the most quieted rooster ever and I don't dare risk it. Besides Leroy and Amanda can make a muttled olive egger. I just want to see what I get from those 2 as well.

 

[americanvalkyrie]

I keep meaning to ask you how those babies were doing. I think of them every day too. I know what you mean how they make us feel. I love how they actually have conversations with each other.

Not gonna do it, nope, no siree! Nada! Lucky Leroy is the most quieted rooster ever and I don't dare risk it. Besides Leroy and Amanda can make a muttled olive egger. I just want to see what I get from those 2 as well.

I actually saw the babies 3 days ago. My friend and his wife were telling me how they planned to turn the yard into a duck run, with a kiddie pool and everything. He had built a duck house with a top sleeping area, and was going to partitian it into separate nesting areas, but I recommended he leave it as one large sleeping area with a separate actual nesting box in the far back corner. I told him that they never outgrow that family unit, and cuddle together every chance they get. We also had a big talk about raccoons. His neighbor directly behind him had just lost 3 or 4 chickens, due to using 2" wire on her coop. The coons had eaten the chickens through the wire, yanking pieces off and pulling them back out to eat them. I said, "Oh yeah. You never use that on anything they're going to sleep against" and gave them the gory details on what coons could do with a gap less than an inch. They live within a few blocks of me, so coons are a huge concern.

If you manage to create an extra olive egger that's proven to lay, and you're selling her... hint hint. I might actually manage to get me a BCM from these fertile eggs Sunny gave me. No idea on the quality of the eggs, but it'll be a lot better than I'd be getting from any hatchery, anyway.

Hmmm too bad we can't take those two ameraucana roosters that Daniel has to get rid of, and find a way to make a sound-proof yard, and cook us up some olive egger babies.

 

[chickee]

I keep meaning to ask you how those babies were doing. I think of them every day too. I know what you mean how they make us feel. I love how they actually have conversations with each other.
I couldn't believe it when Justin sorta attacked Sylvia one day thinking she was Wynnie who was broody at the time. When Sierra and Misty went up into the coop to lay eggs one night Wynnie hissed them back out of there. The next day those 2 girls were talking to Justin and he just ran and sorta attacked Sylvia but he should of went after Wynnie. So I know they have an actual conversation with each other.
Thank you Elizabeth.
Not gonna do it, nope, no siree! Nada! Lucky Leroy is the most quieted rooster ever and I don't dare risk it. Besides Leroy and Amanda can make a muttled olive egger. I just want to see what I get from those 2 as well.

Darn! Your a hard sell

Oh well, you will have lots of fun hatching BLRW and Oliver egger chicks

According to the "Chicken color Calculator" BLRW x Lavender = 25% black/ 25% blue cockerels and 25% black/ 25% blue pullets

 

[aubreynoramarie]

I actually saw the babies 3 days ago. My friend and his wife were telling me how they planned to turn the yard into a duck run, with a kiddie pool and everything. He had built a duck house with a top sleeping area, and was going to partitian it into separate nesting areas, but I recommended he leave it as one large sleeping area with a separate actual nesting box in the far back corner. I told him that they never outgrow that family unit, and cuddle together every chance they get. We also had a big talk about raccoons. His neighbor directly behind him had just lost 3 or 4 chickens, due to using 2" wire on her coop. The coons had eaten the chickens through the wire, yanking pieces off and pulling them back out to eat them. I said, "Oh yeah. You never use that on anything they're going to sleep against" and gave them the gory details on what coons could do with a gap less than an inch. They live within a few blocks of me, so coons are a huge concern.

If you manage to create an extra olive egger that's proven to lay, and you're selling her... hint hint. I might actually manage to get me a BCM from these fertile eggs Sunny gave me. No idea on the quality of the eggs, but it'll be a lot better than I'd be getting from any hatchery, anyway.

Hmmm too bad we can't take those two ameraucana roosters that Daniel has to get rid of, and find a way to make a sound-proof yard, and cook us up some olive egger babies.

If the BLRW lines are not from extremely dark eggs you will just get easter eggers, not olive eggers. I believe you would need a rooster that comes from eggs like sunnys in order to get an olive egger for sure. I forget though what kind of lines those wyandottes come from. I thought at first they were hatchery then i remembered that they came from candy, durr aubrey. either way look at your hens, sheryl, If their eggs are super dark you will get olive eggers, if not you will get easter eggers. Either way what will happen is you will breed leroy to an easter egger or blue layer, they will make a lighter green egg, then you will have to breed him to that offspring to get the olive eggs. Ive been looking into it a lot because I plan on breeding Gregory Peck once he matures.

 

[horseshowmomnv]

That works! The kids and I are having a yard sale, so we'll be home.

Missy, It was such a pleasure to meet you today, and meet your chickens! Thank you for showing them to me. Hope your yard sale went well!
Jann

 

[americanvalkyrie]

Missy, It was such a pleasure to meet you today, and meet your chickens! Thank you for showing them to me. Hope your yard sale went well!
Jann

It was so nice to meet you, too! I think we have a lot in common, which never comes up on anonymous internet threads.
We made a few bucks, which will probably be turned around to buy more food to put in my new freezer!!!

I got to meet Ron as well. It was so nice meeting you, Ron.

We'll have to try for another get-together before the summer is over. Maybe a harvest party, with food from the gardens.

 

[NevadaRon]

It was so nice to meet you, too! I think we have a lot in common, which never comes up on anonymous internet threads.
We made a few bucks, which will probably be turned around to buy more food to put in my new freezer!!!

I got to meet Ron as well. It was so nice meeting you, Ron.

We'll have to try for another get-together before the summer is over. Maybe a harvest party, with food from the gardens.

Thanks, Missy! It was great meeting you and Russ, too. And checking out your flock and your awesome gardens! I'm really glad you guys took the freezer and will put it to good use. I was dreading putting it on Craigslist and dealing with that hassle!