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

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Hi,
I'm new to the board and new to backyard chickens (at least for me, my g'ma had a chicken farm which I visited years ago).

I'm interested in going to the Canby Swap on April 23rd (?) but after shifting through about 10 pages of posts, and doing several google searches which bring back to this forum, I've yet to see a definitive time and confirmation of place and date...I think it will be some park in Canby behind Safeway. Time????

I'd love to come see what y'all have got, and learn about chickens from those willing to talk.

I'm starting my second brood this year (had an unfortunate coop fire that ended last year's project)...learned a lot and am beginning again with:
2 Rhode Island Reds
2 Barred Rocks
6 Buff Orpingtons

Looking forward to the fun, if I can know when it all begins and exactly where.

Thanks
Lady of McCamley

Mom to 3 kids (mostly grown), homeschooler, 2 dogs (currently...did 7 guide dog projects), 2 cats, and 10 chicks, and wife to a loving and patient husband who is rebuilding a coop this spring for me
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I picked up Delphine and Dorthy today, and they are even cuter in person than in their photos!! Beautiful plumage, and they make the cutest little trilling sounds! Thanks, ZooMummzy, and it was great meeting you!
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OK, this is totally off topic.....but have to ask this question. I see that your bator has some tiny downy looking feathers at the edges. I just had my first hatch in my new Brinsea, and mine had a ton of that in it!! What causes that and why? Just curious if it's normal or not. Any insight would be greatly appreciated!
 
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OK, this is totally off topic.....but have to ask this question. I see that your bator has some tiny downy looking feathers at the edges. I just had my first hatch in my new Brinsea, and mine had a ton of that in it!! What causes that and why? Just curious if it's normal or not. Any insight would be greatly appreciated!

My hatcher is absolutely fully of that fuzz when I am done with a hatch. It's enough to compare to dryer lint! Yes it's normal. I think they are already losing their first coat of fuzz when they are first hatched. Ducklings have much more than chicks and I held one and that fuzz was ALL OVER me!! te he
 
I think the hatch is done, no activity since yesterday morning. In total only 8 chicks. Not what I was hoping for. I set 14 lemon blue cochin eggs that were shipped. At LD 4 right off the bat were clear so I tossed those to make more room. Added 8 brabanter from my own flock so they were fresh and then added two volunteer sexlink eggs to round it out. Happy that the largest total in the hatch were the shipped eggs. 5 Cochin, 2 black volunteers and 1 brabanter. I still have the incubator going, it's day 23 but I think it's finished. Will clean it up and get it ready for BLRW later in the week.... and collect more Brabanter
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I know they are good layers, last June the same group hatched 8 of 10.

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edited for bad math.. there are 5 Cochins, 3 yellow and two darker.
 
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Oh, and a P.S. -- no matter what ZooMummzy says about "dust", I didn't find any! I was in awe of the neat, bright set-up, rows of orderly cages with calm happy birds... she's definitely someone with chicken experience!!
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