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[dheltzel]

Are you still planning on keeping the Bielefelders going? Or has that been scrapped?

I'm raising some young ones, so for now I plan to keep them. Compared to my Welbars, I find them inferior in several ways, but then so are BCM's and I keep a pen of them to hatch chicks for my customers. If I ever have to scale back, they are probably next to go.

 

[Chaos18]

Oh my gosh! I have ducks! I don't understand, but... (Breathe, girl!) I sent three duck eggs because it wasn't making sense that the previous owner said that they had had fertile eggs before. When I candled a few days ago, I didn't see anything. I assumed that I was correct and that once again, the eggs were not fertile. Of course, it takes more than five days for a duck egg to start veining that I can see it. Since I'm awake anyway, and hatch a batch said it was time to candle the chicken eggs, I candled the duck eggs. The first one was clear. I wasn't going to bother checking the other two. I was just going to throw them all away.
Then, I decided to leave them in for a few more days. Check a chicken egg, It looked odd because I'm not used to incubating my as laying down. So I checked another duck egg to see if it looked the same. I saw veins!!
I only candled two more chicken eggs, and saw veining in those two as well.

 

[WackyQuacky]

Oh my gosh! I have ducks! I don't understand, but... (Breathe, girl!) I sent three duck eggs because it wasn't making sense that the previous owner said that they had had fertile eggs before. When I candled a few days ago, I didn't see anything. I assumed that I was correct and that once again, the eggs were not fertile. Of course, it takes more than five days for a duck egg to start veining that I can see it. Since I'm awake anyway, and hatch a batch said it was time to candle the chicken eggs, I candled the duck eggs. The first one was clear. I wasn't going to bother checking the other two. I was just going to throw them all away.
Then, I decided to leave them in for a few more days. Check a chicken egg, It looked odd because I'm not used to incubating my as laying down. So I checked another duck egg to see if it looked the same. I saw veins!!
I only candled two more chicken eggs, and saw veining in those two as well.

Yippy Skippy! So happy for you!!! Congratulations

 

[BullChick]

 

[KJ6485]

FINALLY have my long awaited for chicks, We decided to make it a long weekend and drive the 7 hours to Ohio (Meyer Hatchery) and pick up the babies instead of have them shipped. We ended up with 2 extra ( Meyers Meal Maker and an additional random chick) I will label them as to my best guess based on what i ordered!



Chick 1, Salmon Favorolle (Know for sure, feathered legs)



2. Deleware



3. New Hampshire Red?

4. Buff Orpington


5. Red Sex link?


6. Maybe an extra of some kind? Rhode island red? This one is a lot darker than the sex links



7. Speckled sussex 1

8. Sussex 2



9. Black Australorp 1

10. Black Australorp 2

11. Dominique



12. Gold Laced Wyandotte

13. Silver Laced Wyandotte



14. Easter egger

 

[fisherlady]

FINALLY have my long awaited for chicks, We decided to make it a long weekend and drive the 7 hours to Ohio (Meyer Hatchery) and pick up the babies instead of have them shipped. We ended up with 2 extra ( Meyers Meal Maker and an additional random chick) I will label them as to my best guess based on what i ordered! Chick 1, Salmon Favorolle (Know for sure, feathered legs) 2. Deleware 3. New Hampshire Red? 4. Buff Orpington 5. Red Sex link? 6. Maybe an extra of some kind? Rhode island red? This one is a lot darker than the sex links 7. Speckled sussex 1 8. Sussex 2 9. Black Australorp 1 10. Black Australorp 2 11. Dominique 12. Gold Laced Wyandotte 13. Silver Laced Wyandotte 14. Easter egger

They are a bunch of cuties!! Congrats! The red one could be a Buckeye also, time will tell....

 

[fisherlady]

Here is a picture of Gracie with a couple of her Buckeye chicks, probably a couple weeks old as a reference.....

And someone asked about Jersey Giants a couple of pages back, just found this picture of one of ours at a couple of days old.

 

[BullChick]

What two people needed female ducks?

 

[stake]

ALL:


Blarney posted this a while back...when funding cut were in order for PA AG.....the web site was Think again.....Thanks "B" looks like it worked!!!


Thank you from PSU College of Ag Sciences Dean Rick Roush

Apr 26, 2016 — Yesterday the final piece of the budget process for FY 2015/16 was completed with HB 1589, the fiscal code bill, becoming law. That action allows for the distribution of approximately $25 million of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture (PDA) budget, which includes $1.5 million for the PDA Ag research line, $5.3 million for the Animal Health Commission, and $5.3 million for the veterinary lab... Read more

 

[hippiechickX4]

Here is a picture of Gracie with a couple of her Buckeye chicks, probably a couple weeks old as a reference.....

And someone asked about Jersey Giants a couple of pages back, just found this picture of one of ours at a couple of days old.

I asked about the Jersey Giants. I'm still not sure what we have. She looks identical to your pic at a week old. She's suppose to be an Austrolorp. She has yellow feet though. Do they grow really slow? I got Delawares and Black sex link that are huge compared to her.