Nevadans?

[aubreynoramarie]

I Googled that, and still have no idea. But I agree- I like the funky ones. Can't wait to see one!

LOL yeah, Im assuming its just poor quality gold laced. which seems like a really weird thing to come from a white bird and a black and white bird

 

[NevadaRon]

ahhh i am so excited!!!

plus i just realized that while i know who the EE egg belongs to, I am unsure of who the other egg belongs to. I was worried about having to guess who mom was but I just realized that by process of elimination it is a bantam brownish layer. given the bantam brown layers i have crossed with a white rooster the color of the baby will determine exactly who mama is. woo hoo! Im hoping its my silver laced cochin because those two colors create something called "black patterned gold incomplete laced". sounds like a mess, just like i like em.

HaHa that's funny!

Well I processed 7 of my meat birds today. It was pretty easy. Two of them went straight to the charcoal grill - yum!

I will definitely do it again, with some changes. Fermented feed is absolutely the way to go. But with the cool nighttime temps we usually have here, it takes a while to ferment a batch. So I will need to have at least three fermenting setups to make sure I can give them a diet of nothing but. Also, I didn't give them feed free choice after the first week. I fed them once a day for the next 5 weeks, then twice a day the last two weeks.

 

[aubreynoramarie]

WOW RON! I bet Markie would pay you pretty well to raise up an extra 3 or 4 birds and butcher them for him! Weve been really conscious of where our food comes from lately...

 

[aubreynoramarie]

Oh and by the way, my Olive Egger finally started laying this week...!!!!




and the color is!!!!!!........






...(drumroll please!)....







GREY. a very dreary shade of grey.


(oh here i am in between a pretty white, brown, and blue egg...how dreary i look.)


The lady must have not known that it takes a few generations to create an olive egg, and sold me some stupid expensive chicks from an F1. grrr!!!! I hate when people dont know what theyre talking about! I guess i should have asked more questions. I suppose ill just try breeding greggors to this bird and see how that goes.

how anti-climactic...

 

[sherylreno]

Missy, it sounds like what you saw was the chick starting to break through the membrane. Keep an eye on it, you may get an early hatch there? I wouldn't candle anymore if the chicks are to hatch on Wednesday. This is the hard part of this now you are going into and the broody needs to stay on those eggs the whole time without getting off of them. If you can move her at night this may be the time to do it since she's very dedicated? You may want to wait for a chick to hatch first too.

Oh Aubrey, I so hope it is your cochin too. I would love to see how it looks later on.

I'm getting closer to having my old shift back finally. Almost everyone has a steady shift except for me. I'm having a really hard time trying to sleep when I must and getting up too. I have no problem waking up at 6am but it is a problem when you go to bed at 1 or 2 am and then you can't get back to sleep until finally you do and you almost over sleep. The one thing I'm most worried about is not waking up in time and being late to work. My body does much better when I'm on a regular schedule and home early so I can be in bed no later than 10pm and up by 6am. I have never been late to work yet in the almost 12 years I've been there and I don't need to start that now.

 

[Lacy Blues]

Well I processed 7 of my meat birds today. It was pretty easy. Two of them went straight to the charcoal grill - yum!

I will definitely do it again, with some changes. Fermented feed is absolutely the way to go. But with the cool nighttime temps we usually have here, it takes a while to ferment a batch. So I will need to have at least three fermenting setups to make sure I can give them a diet of nothing but. Also, I didn't give them feed free choice after the first week. I fed them once a day for the next 5 weeks, then twice a day the last two weeks.

NevadaRon,

Can you share about this fermented feed thing you are doing with meat birds?

I've raising heritage meat birds this year. Not sure I'll do it again. They're eating me out of house and home. Bought a box of Delaware chicks, straight run. Out of 27 birds, I have 19 boys! Can you believe that! I'm looking forward to butchering some of them.

Please tell me about the feed thing.

 

[americanvalkyrie]

GREY. a very dreary shade of grey.


(oh here i am in between a pretty white, brown, and blue egg...how dreary i look.)

Awwwww! (wuh-waaah music) Well, at least grey is a cool color, right? Better than boring white.

 

[sherylreno]

Oh Aubrey, not everything can be in color. Sometimes we need to have grey to remind us just how colorful we actually are. That's why we get these unexpected happenings now and again. Grey is a beautiful color. I'm actually trying to find the hair color at the store but all the bottles says it removes the grey.

I think we need to have a petition started and tell the government about this profiling on the grey color. It's discrimination I tell ya!

 

[aubreynoramarie]

Oh Aubrey, not everything can be in color. Sometimes we need to have grey to remind us just how colorful we actually are. That's why we get these unexpected happenings now and again. Grey is a beautiful color. I'm actually trying to find the hair color at the store but all the bottles says it removes the grey.

I think we need to have a petition started and tell the government about this profiling on the grey color. It's discrimination I tell ya!

Hahahahaha!

 

[wolftracks]

Half asleep but just caught up and saw the gray egg. You want this egg, it will help you get lavender or purple one's down the line.

OK I need sleep.