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[artsyrobin]

couldn't you have someone near you that is going to poops pick him up for you at poops and then you could gget him from them that way??

interested in a few buff Orp cockerels? How about a couple of nice very large and mainly quiet NH Reds that really look a lot like RI Red cockerels?


Hey Janbcoo1,
I've been looking for a roo either kind of what you have. Still not sure that I didn't get one in my hatchery order. They are 10 weeks old now so I guess it's too early to tell. How long will you keep them past POOPS? We can't come to it this year.

 

[Ksane]

Good Afternoon everyone, I absolutely love this weather today. I have been reading away and have a question. Just how do I tell a real ameraucana compared to an EE? I have some chicks that said ameraucana on the box but no clue if that was true. They are getting pretty big now.

Ameraucanas come in specific colors that breed true when bred to each other (I love this subject). They also have gray/slate colored legs and the bottoms of their feet are white. All have muffs and beards of course, and I believe Ameraucana lay blue eggs,not green. EE's lay blue or green or pink tinted or white, they can lay about any color . I think Kass covered it pretty well. Some people selling what they call 'Ameraucana' don't even realize they have Easter Eggers and not Ameraucana. I think it's kind of a silly sometimes. You can breed 2 pure Ameraucanas of different colors and if they chicks come out something other than one of the accepted Ameraucana colors then it's considered an Easter Egger. Even though it's still pure Ameraucana. Strange, huh? I've yet to see a pure Ameraucana as pretty as Kass's Easter Eggers. I'm a little partial to EE's because of hers. And the 3 EE's I've got lay HUGE pretty eggs and they lay them every day like clockwork.

Wow, I don't even know any of you personally (yet) but it just broke my heart hearing how down you were on yourself about this, so had to just give you a big cyber-

for it.
Was in Shawnee for a dentist appointment this morning and was thinking about those that live nearby that I could bug... err... visit, while in town if I only knew who you were. I can't wait to meet everybody at POOPS!

Dang, you're so sweet. I feel really bad about it. Everyone else seems able to place birds and not get so attached to them and I lack whatever gene it takes to do that with some of mine. I can place them if they're still young but obviously not if I keep them around for 9 months :-/ Thanks for the hug though, I needed it.
A bit of really nice news though-the 4 Silver Phoenix chicks I got at Newcastle are all pullets Come to find out they can be sexed (in most all cases) by their chest feathers. I'm sure whoever bred them knew that. Most people who show seem to want the males because they get these really long tails. But I wanted girls. I love the Silver Duckwing color in pullets and hens. It's so pretty.

 

[youfordz]

I am gonna try and get someone that is more computer savvy than me to do it. Where are you coming from?

just north of muskogee.

all i need is the exit number and how far i go up the road, seems like it was pretty much a straight shot off of i40 if my mind is working at its peak efficiancy!

 

[Oceanseve]

Mitzi - awww. You don't suck, you're just a sucker for pets I can relate!

Thanks whoever clarified the NPIP thing, question tho, if you are buying new birds regularly does the state ever cut you off and say they won't come back out for X amount of time to test?

My guinea keets are starting to look blueish on their chests. I was hoping they would be a mixture of kinds, but looks like they're all the same, oh well.

 

[Cjarvis]

Nanakat,
.... You have D'anver Babies out and running around the hatcher... early but a very good sign.. More on the way.

 

[Oceanseve]

Hm, I looked up guinea keets and judging from their juvenile markings they are either pearl gray or brown, I guess what I'm thinking it blue is actually grey. Hm.... I thought all keet colors started the same, should have known better!

 

[Oakieridge]

just north of muskogee.

all i need is the exit number and how far i go up the road, seems like it was pretty much a straight shot off of i40 if my mind is working at its peak efficiancy!

I don't know the exit # but if you are coming down I-40 get off at Choctaw Rd. got to NE 10th turn west go to the stop sign, I think that is Harper (not 100% since when I was in high school then it was a dirt road named "baha") turn north there (the only way you can go) and you will see the park on the west side of the road about 1/4 mile down. I am sure someone with better directions will come along.

 

[Oakieridge]

Well was starting to think we royally sucked at this hatching thing, got home to no guinea keets of course. BUT we have one chick out and another almost there and yet another working on it!!! We have 9 eggs in that hatcher so hoping for at least a 50% hatch, but we will see.

 

[Cjarvis]

Well was starting to think we royally sucked at this hatching thing, got home to no guinea keets of course. BUT we have one chick out and another almost there and yet another working on it!!! We have 9 eggs in that hatcher so hoping for at least a 50% hatch, but we will see.

it takes time, trial and error, adjust your temp to the hatch.. If they are early reduce the temp by 1/2 degree, if they are late increase by 1/2 degree. after 3-4 hatches you will have the incubator tuned, then its time for the hatcher.. you will learn over time about humidity and spring storms.. You have to watch humidity closely and each hatcher is different.

 

[Ksane]

Go Cathie and Nana! Get some babies
I guess it's time to move the little Phoenix babies outside to a playpen. These guys gals are good little babies, they never try to go anywhere, just perch on the edge and watch me all the time. And talk and talk and talk.
The blue rubbermaid tub has the 5 little Cochins from MJ in it, they're only 10 days old and adorable!