Oregon Spring Poultry Swap April 23, 2011 in Canby!!!

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I have my last batch of 40 in the Brinsea set to hatch on Feb 28th. My fingers are crossed on this hatch - I have booted, frizzled and silkied from a farm in WA who got her stock from Jerry and Grady? We shall see....they are temperamental little things to hatch. I'm not candling this time till Day 18 and I'm keeping the humidity low like Jerry suggested.

ugh - don't tell me that! I've also heard that they tend to hatch early - have you seen that at all in yours?
 
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I have my last batch of 40 in the Brinsea set to hatch on Feb 28th. My fingers are crossed on this hatch - I have booted, frizzled and silkied from a farm in WA who got her stock from Jerry and Grady? We shall see....they are temperamental little things to hatch. I'm not candling this time till Day 18 and I'm keeping the humidity low like Jerry suggested.

ugh - don't tell me that! I've also heard that they tend to hatch early - have you seen that at all in yours?

Sorry! After I posted I kicked myself...but they are hard. I pop my eggs from my chickens in and they hatch at a 99% rater or better. I have been running at 50% on all my hatches (about 5 now) and I've been told that is great for shipped eggs on the Serama thread. Most people who have high hatch rates hatch their own eggs which is what I'm striving for next year. The shipping does them in I'm learning and it really doesn't matter how well they are packed. Candling is bad for them too it seems which is why I've stopped candling like normal. The less I touch them the better. Out of this hatch, I know I will toss half the eggs (about 15-20) and and maybe out of that I will get more than half to hatch and/or live. You have that whole lethal gene thing going on too. And nope, I've never had one hatch before 21 days. I've been reading up on that too and I don't think it's the norm as people tend to think. I've had just the opposite actually - more like 22 or 23 days but that could have been a temperature thing too with my LG. In the Brinsea, they pipped on Day 20 and hatched on Day 21.

Even with all the difficulties and the heartbreak of losing them (lol and the money I've lost - 14 chicks from over 100 eggs now), they are still so worth it. I love these little birds. They love to be around people - they need it actually - and they are so tiny! Zephyr is actually sitting on my head right now and my little blind one is sitting on my hand as I type! I'm just using it as a learning process - Hatching 101 Advanced LOL. I figure if I can hatch these I can hatch anything!
 
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No, I'm glad you said it. It's good to know. Hopefully these will be ok with the shipping, they came from WA and were shipped express. Hopefully they were handled ok. There are 10 eggs, and I'll be happy as long as I end up with 2 girls. I don't care how many boys, or if any. The other good thing is the person I got them from will be at the next couple of shows I go to, so if they don't hatch, she'll bring me chicks.
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I wonder if I can leave them in the turner and see anything with a flashlight rather than lifting them out to candle...hmm...well, if not, I'll just wait and not candle. Thanks!!
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Mine came from WA too
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Are they smooth or ? I was thrilled to find booted AND frizzled AND silkied from one seller. I've bought from 3 people now who swore they had frizzled - nope, not a single one - so I'm hoping this is the batch. Don't be scared, you will get chicks, you just might not get 10. If you do, I'm bringing all my eggs to you to hatch
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Will you bring any of the boys to the swap that you don't want? Oddly enough lol I might be looking for Serama roosters if I don't get what I want color wise. Since I'm only going to keep a couple boys (other than Zephyr), I really want some nice coloring and so far I only have black and white. I love them but I'd like something different if I can get it.
 
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Mine came from WA too
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Are they smooth or ? I was thrilled to find booted AND frizzled AND silkied from one seller. I've bought from 3 people now who swore they had frizzled - nope, not a single one - so I'm hoping this is the batch. Don't be scared, you will get chicks, you just might not get 10. If you do, I'm bringing all my eggs to you to hatch
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Will you bring any of the boys to the swap that you don't want? Oddly enough lol I might be looking for Serama roosters if I don't get what I want color wise. Since I'm only going to keep a couple boys (other than Zephyr), I really want some nice coloring and so far I only have black and white. I love them but I'd like something different if I can get it.

Black and white like mottled? Or solid black and solid white? Yeah, I'll let you know what I end up with. If I'm overrun with boys, I'll post pics and get rid of any you aren't interested in ahead of time.
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I don't want TOO many boys crowing in the house! LOL I know she has a silkied girl, but I don't think she's laying yet, and she has a frizzle girl too. I know it's not the same person though, because this was her first time shipping.
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Unless you picked them up...I got them from jbear. If you look her up on the user list and go to her blog (the link is in her sig line) and then click on "seramas" you can see the parent stock of my eggies! BEAUTIES!
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btw...I love how you said a chicken was sitting on your head while you're typing, and it seems so commonplace, I didn't even feel the need to comment on it!
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Hey there everyone!!!! I have been busy rearranging my entire life, LOL. Thought I should definantly pop in and say howdy to all my Oregon chicken friends, as it has been awhile. I hope I can make it to the Spring Swap, would love to catch up with everyone. Hope you are all doing well...
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Mine came from WA too
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Are they smooth or ? I was thrilled to find booted AND frizzled AND silkied from one seller. I've bought from 3 people now who swore they had frizzled - nope, not a single one - so I'm hoping this is the batch. Don't be scared, you will get chicks, you just might not get 10. If you do, I'm bringing all my eggs to you to hatch
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Will you bring any of the boys to the swap that you don't want? Oddly enough lol I might be looking for Serama roosters if I don't get what I want color wise. Since I'm only going to keep a couple boys (other than Zephyr), I really want some nice coloring and so far I only have black and white. I love them but I'd like something different if I can get it.

Black and white like mottled? Or solid black and solid white? Yeah, I'll let you know what I end up with. If I'm overrun with boys, I'll post pics and get rid of any you aren't interested in ahead of time.
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I don't want TOO many boys crowing in the house! LOL I know she has a silkied girl, but I don't think she's laying yet, and she has a frizzle girl too. I know it's not the same person though, because this was her first time shipping.
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Unless you picked them up...I got them from jbear. If you look her up on the user list and go to her blog (the link is in her sig line) and then click on "seramas" you can see the parent stock of my eggies! BEAUTIES!
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btw...I love how you said a chicken was sitting on your head while you're typing, and it seems so commonplace, I didn't even feel the need to comment on it!
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Oh yeah those are beauties! My black and white ones are going to be like that rooster I think but Seramas don't get their true colors till 6 months or later I think (?) so time will tell. I have a girl who is just the opposite - white with black. In this last hatch I'm pretty sure I got a mille fleur which is extremely exciting!

And yeah, chickens sitting on my head...shoulder...hands...just about anywhere is pretty commonplace around here
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Zoomummzy -

Have -
**Seramas chicks/teens – would like to sell as many as pairs/trios/quads as possible but will consider pullet only sales. Hopefully will have smooth, frizzled, silkied,booted
**bantam mutt chicks/teens – right now I have NN Frizzles/Silkie-Cochin X’s, Frizzle/Silkie-Cochin X’s, smooth Silkie-Cochin X, Silkie-Cochin x/Dark Brahma, Japanese - OEGB X
**show-girl chicks/teens (white/lav mix)
**Maran X mystery chicks/teens
**Sizzle/Leghorn chicks (brown & white)

chicks for swap/purchase will be posted in this set on flickr . I will update it on a regular basis http://www.flickr.com/photos/zoomommy/sets/72157625800696859/

**egg cartons – dozen and 18 pack

Baked Cheesecakes $15 each; will come frozen and wrapped. Cut off date for ordering will be 2 weeks prior to the swap. Let me know what flavor/crust you'd like. If I have time, I will try and make extras of the more popular kinds in case people want to buy them.

Cheesecake Menu:
Blue Ribbon (plain) w/ graham cracker crust (specify cinnamon or not)
Chocolate Chip w/chocolate graham cracker crust
Plain w/gluten free crust (oats and nuts of your choice)
Sunshine (lemon) w/graham cracker crust
Buckeye w/Nutter Butter crust
Red Velvet w/chocolate cookie crust
Mocha cheesecake w/chocolate graham cracker crust
Rocky Road cheesecake w/chocolate graham cracker crust
Pina Colada cheesecake w/ coconut & graham cracker crust
Triple Berry cheesecake w/ sugar cookie crust
Blueberries and Creme cheesecake w/butter cookie crust
Key Lime cheesecake w/butter cookie crust
Maple Walnut cheesecake w/plain graham cracker crust


Want -
1 Salmon/Blue Bantam and 1 Buff Favs girls from Cloverleaf
MF cochin(s) from Tallyho
Nasturtium seeds from Silkiechicken
herb/veggie starts from Silkiechicken and oregonjen
egg ornament from oregonjen
goat cheese/soap from oregonjen
jam from CathyM
a larger breed pullet/hen (Brahma preferred but she is open to any good layer) for my neighbor
2 vanilla extract from Silkiechicken

What I am bringing for others:
CHEESECAKES Ordered:
Cloverleaf – buckeye and sunshine
Celtic - plain gluten cheesecake crust with oats
Celiandy - buckeye

Cloverleaf Farm -

Have -
bantam and large fowl Faverolles, should have plenty of chicks and started birds by then (bantams in salmon and blue salmon, also maybe some splash salmons, large fowl will be all salmons)
bantam Ameraucanas in black and lavender (possibly some splits also)
large fowl Ameraucanas in lavender and black splits
bantam feather legged frizzled black/lav split Easter Egger chicks, if they ever start laying!!
d'uccle x bantam Faverolles chicks

I have several LF Salmon Faverolles cockerels hatching. Many of them NEED to go before the swap if anyone is interested, please contact me ASAP. Thanks!

Wants - Hopefully nothing! Well, except for a cheesecake from Laura and MORE goat cheese from Jen!! Cheesecakes I want: a buckeye and a sunshine! Vanilla extract from silkiechicken!

What I'm bringing that others have spoken for (so far) - 1 bantam or LF Fav pullet for Tallyho, 1 blue salmon bantam & 1 buff bantam pullet for Laura, pair lf Ameraucanas for tlb796, 2 LF Faverolles pullets for K7, 2 LF lavender Ameraucana pullets for CorgiHouse, up to 6 LF Lav Am pullets (1 or 2 splits ok) for OregonJen, 2 LF Am 2 LF Fav & 1 LF Lav Am cockerel for slurrywidow

WallTenters -

Want - breeder quality Dominiques

Have - Dominques - chicks, hatching eggs, and extra culls

oregonJen -

I have sold ALL adult birds except the guineas and a few nice bantam roosters.
Also might part with some adult birds not listed, feel free to ask if it's not posted.
I can bring chicks or eggs to the swap from

Cuckoo Marans
Blue Marans
Black copper Marans
Buckeyes
SLW
BLRW
GLW
silkies in many colors
Bantam cochins in many colors
Standard blue or splash Cochins
white Frizzles
Speckled Sussex
Ancona Ducks
Sebastapol Goslings- blue, black, splash, lavender, saddleback
Coturnix Quail
Royal Palm Turkeys
Auburn Turkeys
Buff Orpingtons- production type
Peafowl
assorted pheasants
possibly Bantam Wyandotte and Serama
Blue/ Black/ Splash/ lavender split Ameraucanas

If you would like eggs or chicks from these breeds, please let me know at least 6-8 weeks ahead of time so I will know how many to hatch.
I will only be bringing Silkies to the swap unless somebody requests something else (keeping things simple this time).

100-200 starts on heirloom tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, herbs and probably a few other things
goat cheese, goat milk soap (cranberry, chocolate, lemon verbina, lavender, eucalyptus/ mint, tea tree, lilac, Almond Joy, a lot more than I can remember $3-$4 per bar and gift sets available), feather jewelry, other non-feather jewelry, egg ornaments, etc.
Photos of most everything on my website @ http://toomuchbucks.com photos of poultry (not updated) http://eggsetera.com
We also sell custom tile, metalwork, milk stanchions, chicken or small animal barns and more!

Looking for:

Cuckoo Marans roo with feathered shanks (must be true to French Standard)
BLRW hens/ pullets
Silkie hens/ pullets
Columbian Wyandottes

Noncentzters -

Have - Nothing! Woo Hoo!

Wants - Ilias 2 BWA pullets and some vanilla extract

silkiechicken -
Want: Another watermelon goat milk soap!

Have:
Plant Starts if all goes well:
Tomato: Roma, sweetie, gold nugget, early girl.

Herbs: Basil

Other: Morning glory-turns out my blue with yellow throat of last year were not as labeled! They really are darker blue with white throats.

Seeds: Nasturtium and Morning glory if you chose to direct sow

Vanilla Extract!!!

Real Madagascar beans from Madagascar and vodka! Not that ebay stuff from Paupa New Guinea and no sugar added to give off a fake sweetness. I've made them going by the federal minimum of about 14 ounces of beans per gallon of vodka, so there is about 3.5 beans per 4 ounce jar. Vanilla extract, not vanilla vodka. LOL $8 each or 2/$15. It is unfiltered and if you shake it up, you can get little vanilla specks in your baked goodies!

tallyho -

Have right now:
Mille Fleur Bantam Cochins https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=5598728#p5598728
pair or trio to K7
trio or quad to Daze
extras to ZooMum

11 week old BBS cochins pullets
1 black
1 purported splash, actually white with mutant with red lacing

7 week cochin (great hatch rate but bad boy rates)
1 blue cockerel (maybe to celiandy (he's getting a few more feathers!))
1 silver laced cockerel
3 silver laced pullets (maybe only 1 left)
2 silkie cockerels, 1 splash (maybe gray?), 1 blue

Want:
bantam or LF faverolle pullet (from cloverleaf!)
Hatching eggs (I have 3 notoriously broody hens)
ZooMum - I need to know what you have when it gets closer!

jzarabs -
I am planning a spring order of BLRW chicks from Paul's in the spring and would be happy to add anyone elses order on to mine to split shipping costs. Minimum order is 12 chicks, I haven't decided yet how many I'm getting but we can work out details if anyone is interested. Depending on quantities I should be able to hold onto them until the spring swap unless an earlier pickup is arranged!

Want - a polish

Celiandy -
Wants - Hatching eggs, chicks or hens - polish, cochins (frizzled or straight feathered standard or frizzled bantam), silkies, turkeys, or anything else that is kind of interesting. a nice buff silkie roo and a cuckoo one if anyone has one. does anyone have any standard blue or splash or buff LF cochin roosters they are getting rid of? I would be into picking them up before the swap if possible.

Haves - I will hopefully have a bunch of nice silkies available, maybe some polish and various cochins. Is anyone a fan of NN/turkens? I might be hatching some bantams and standards and am just wondering if there will be some other people out there that might like some

Zoomummzy - I also ordered some of those crele polish eggs, I really hope mine hatch, but if not, maybe I can get some of yours. I'll probably also need to get a cheesecake again, they were delicious, I'm just not sure what kind yet.

tlb796 -
I Have:
2-6 Light Sussex.
5-6 Coro or Split Sussex
1-3 Barnevelders.
2-4 BBS Marans Cockerals.
1 or 2 young KC drakes.
Some eggs from my Cayuga pair Holderread lines.
Cayuga ducklings.??????
Tamera
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I may even have some Icelandic Lambs....

want - pair of lf ameraucanas from Cloverleaf

celtic -
Have -
Want - would like 2 of K7 Menagerie Standard Cochin Hens. Zoomummy the plain gluten cheesecake crust with oats please

jcbydesign -
Want - a SQ silkie pullet

K7 Menagerie -
Want:
Splash Marans Hens
Ameraucana Hens (prefer the blue eggs, not olive)

"chickens I want to bring home with me list".

Cloverleaf - 2 Salmon Fav LF Pullets
OregonJen - Fred the Rooster, BLRW chicks or pullets, a LF splash cochin pullet
Silkiechicken - Tomato starts (something with a shorter growing time, preferably. It has been known to snow in August here).
Tallyho - A breeding pair or trio of Mille Fleur Cochins
Jzarabs - A few of the BLRW (added to the order from Paul's)
Ilia - One or both of the Blue Wheaten Ameraucana pullets
Lensters, put me down for one or two of the blue egg EE pullets, the 7 weekers if you're sure they're female, if not then the 5 month ones

Bringing:
For Celtic - 2 of the standard cochin hens (will figure out color as we get closer)

For Daze333 - Mille fleur cochins

Mille Fleur & Frizzle Bantam Cochin chicks, possibly an adult breeding pair or trio
Standard Cochin Chicks
Standard Cochin Hens
Ameraucana Chicks (Blue Ameraucana Roo over Olive Egger hen)
Misc. Chicks (I ordered 25 of the Meyer Hatchery All Pullet Rainbow Pack - hatch date 3/23)

Would anyone be interested in a breeding pair or trio with EE hens and an EE/Cuckoo Maran X rooster? He looks just like a feather legged cuckoo maran, but I know his mom is an EE

chkgnt -

I'm looking forward to coming to my first Poultry Swap. Can hardly wait to see the different breeds. I'll have no chickens to swap but may possibly have some fertile Narragansett Turkey eggs if any one is interested. I'm looking for BLRW eggs or chickens

daze333 -

Haves:
LF Cochin trio-Black roo 9 mo and 2 nice blue hens 2-3 yrs (from Oregonjen)
Black Copper Marans cockerel 3 mo
May have extra lf nice cochin teens
Will have several 1 mo old buff brahmas and speckled sussex
Sicilian buttercup rooster 2 yrs
Banties
Extra silkies, mostly boys
Golden laced seabright hen-2 yr
Hope to hatch by swap
Cuckoo marans (clean legged)
Olive eggers
Std White/splash polish
Giant cochins blue, black and partridge
Sicilian buttercups

Wants:
SQ silkies (bbs, partridge and white
Frizzled std polish
6 Narragansett turkey poults or 12 hatching eggs from Chkgnt
Trio of mille cochins from Tallyho
Sebbie goslings from Oregonjen??
Possibly crele polish from Zoomummy
6 cayuga duck eggs from Tlb796
Can I get some of that jam?

CorgiHouse -
I probably won't have anything to bring - possibly some chicks or youngsters if my htaching plans pan out. But I will be looking to possibly purchase some to add to my flock.

Want -
Cinnamon Boysenberry jam from CathyM

2 - LF Lavendar Ameraucana pullets from Cloverleaf

1 - LF Splash Ameraucana pullet from Illia (if available)

Blue Wheaton Ameraucana pullet(s)
Speckled Sussex
Buff Sussex

Ilia -
I'm not able to go, but I do have a list in case I get someone else to transport my birds.

--right now I have --

1 Araucana hen (color is hard to describe)
2 Blue Wheaten Ameraucana pullets
4 BC Marans x New Hampshire pullets
3 Blue Jersey Giant pullets
1 Splash Jersey Giant pullet
1 Black Ameraucana/Easter Egger hen (purebred, blue egg, but has no beard/muffs)
1 Easter Egger hen
4 Olive Egger cockerels
1 Tufted, Rumpless Easter Egger cockerel
1 Black Copper Marans cockerel
1 Wheaten Marans cockerel
1 Splash rumpless, tufted Araucana cock

By the swap, I'll have: -- Blue Wheaten Marans, Black Copper Marans, B/B/S Ameraucanas, Araucanas, Olive Eggers, Shamos, Tolbunt Polish, and Easter Eggers. (not your typical hatchery EE's)

-- I want --

Gold Laced Polish hens/pullets
Silver Laced Polish hens/pullets
Wheaten Ameraucana pullets/hens
Lavender Ameraucana pullets/cockerel/hens
Shamo pullet(s)
Wheaten Marans pullets/hens

Lensters -

Have-
12 - Delaware x White Rhode Island - 2 pullets at 13 weeks and 10 straight run at 7 weeks - spectacular layers - hatchery secret for making Red Sexlinks
3 - 7 weeks Blue Egg Easter Eggers - straight run, can't figure out a way to sex this breed at a reasonable age
2 - 7 week old Blue English Marans culls - pretty birds but don't make my cut - probably pullets
1 - 7 week old Welsummer pullet cull - too small and dark for my liking
1 - nearly 2 year old Blue Wheaten Ameraucana rooster - SQ until he got pecked in the eye, very gentle

More older Marans and Welsummer culls to come as I get them sorted.

Also commercial brooders are available

CathyM -

Have -
I have at least 7 pints of the cinnamon boysenberry jam, of which 3 are spoken for (Corgyhouse, zoomummzy, daze333). I also have:

2 1/2 pint jars of boysenberry
3 1/2 pint jars of orange marmalade
4 1/2 pint jars of low-sugar raspberry (no artificial sweetener)
3 pint jars of boysenberry apple
2 4 oz (small) jars of tomato orange marmalade (good!)
1 8 oz jar of raspberry

The oranges and apples came from the store, but the rest came from my garden.

Want -
I am leaning toward wanting cochins or silkies or wyandottes (I know - that doesn't narrow down too much)... not show birds; I just want pretty plummage in my backyard! I would love younger chicks, since I'd be quaranteening them for a month at least anyway... and likely in my garage/studio with a heatlamp, like I did with the six I have now... sigh... April feels too far away!

slurrywidow -
want
2 lg faverolles pullets (from cloverleaf)
2 lg ameraucanas pullets (from cloverleaf)
1 lf ameraucanas roo (from cloverleaf)

silkies -girl and boy- non show quality. Just some fun fluff for myself and my little girl.

1-2 marans pullets -- love the black copper and also the cuckoo

zanna -

I may have 4-6 FBCM roos, 5 1/2 months old by the meet that I would sell or trade for young FBCM hens that would compliment the roos I am going to keep. Not sure I can make the meet yet but I am going to try, I would really like to meet you all (I have been lurking but spending most of my time on the black copper marans discussion thread). My roos all look promising (Bev Davis lines), I just want to match the roos and hens to breed the best possible offspring and only want to keep one or two. I already have a 5 month old who is quite lovely, except no feathers on the legs . He may go also if one of the youngsters looks more promising. I could send anyone pics if they are interested.

pkforever -

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