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Werforpsu said:
We got our first egg! Finally. I mean, these BSL's are 22 weeks and our red unknown breed is 26! It's an adorable little egg too!
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Congrats! You'll have a basket full before you know it! :thumbsup
 
Hi guys, checking back in with a few updates. First, thanks again for the help a couple weeks ago when I was away and had a couple deaths in the flock. I wanted to let you know that I got a necropsy, and it did turn out to be coccidiosis. So, the introduction of the Corid probably did prevent further losses, and the rest of the flock is happy and healthy now. Just wish I had been there to see the problem and medicate sooner, but I guess it went about as well as it could have under the circumstances. I will want to replace the buff and lavender orpingtons I lost in the spring, but I don't know anywhere to get another lavender orp pullet now....

Also, my Olive Egger chick (Welsummer x Cream Crested Legbar) that was in question is now pretty certainly a cockerel. Like, 99.999999% Here's a picture today, at almost 9 weeks--you'll probably say 100% roo, but I still have a (very) tiny bit of denial/hope remaining:



And in addition to the big comb and wattles, he is getting some bright chestnut on his back and wings, and some glossy green black wing feathers too:



All that's left is to wait for crowing....

BUT, if he doesn't do too much crowing for the neighbors' liking (I'm in the city, no roosters allowed), I have visions of keeping him, at least for awhile, to cross with my dark or green egg laying hens. Any idea what the offspring would look like if I crossed him with my Blue Copper Marans or Black Copper Marans?

Here is the BCM chick in question, also 8.5 weeks:


I also have a couple EEs and a Blue Ameraucana that might make interesting chicks.

I've never had a rooster, and never bred chickens or hatched eggs, but it seems like it could be a fun project. I think he'll be a handsome boy, and I might get better color olive eggs if I cross him with my BCM than from the standard F1 OEs that I otherwise have access to. I'd love to know what his offspring with the BCM or blue copper Marans might look like. Any ideas?
 
Also, I was thinking my little guy might look kind of like this when he grows up (I pulled these pictures off the Cream Legear Hybrid thread). Am I on the right track?



 
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Does anyone have bantam white crested black/chocolate/khaki/cuckoo polish?

I hatched out a bunch of eggs shipped from breeders around the country. Ended up with all cockerels and ONE pullet! :-/

Could really use a little help getting my breeding program going in these colors! Lol

Looking for pullets but may consider chicks/eggs.
 
Hey everyone! I live near Harrisburg and I need help with emergency rehoming of 4 chicks. I've been raising them inside for a family friend to add to their adult flock and now they've backed out. But the problem is that my landlord found out about them today and and apparently chickens aren't approved pets so I need them rehomed by Monday because they say that I'm violating my lease. Yikes!

They are broilers but I've raised them before for this family friend and have had the luck of raising ones that don't become cripplingly overweight. Right now they have 2 roosters from me that are 8 months old and are basically turkeys but are great flock protectors. I don't know if they have tried mating the females but they're probably too large. They also have a few pullets that are nearing egg laying age and those girls will probably lay some pretty large eggs.

I have one 2 month old black cockerel, one 2 month old silver pullet, one 1 month old white pullet and one 3 week old white chick of unknown gender.

I'm desperate to find a home for them. I'm so desperate that I don't want care if you plan on butchering them or adding them to your current flock, I'd just like to not know which is done. Is anyone willing to take these guys?
 
fisherlady said:
We have a 175 hp outboard on this boat, it was a big "ouch" to replace it, even though we lucked into a good used one....
DH went out Monday and got the replacement motor, he went south on 70 past Baltimore and then onto 50 and across the bridge to the Delmarva peninsula, so never too close to you or I would have sent eggs with him.

I am searching for another boat, something fiberglass with a full width cabin and either an inboard or an I/O, depending on how the motor box affects the back end floor space. It needs to be 25' or less and 8.5' wide or less, since it needs to be legally towable without permits. Parker boats are about the style we like, but way, way too pricey for me, Steigercraft are also good, an older John Allmand has great lines if it has an inboard set up, Thompsons and Penn Yans are about right also and most likely candidates because I can find them in our area more than the others. We are hoping to find a cheap project boat since I want to modify it anyway for our particular needs, most boats are set up with a ton of wasted cabin space, so some redoing will be needed, and the cabin roofline will need raised, since DH is 6'5" and I don't want him ducking or banging his head for the next 20 some years! LOL. I don't mind replacing the motor if needed either if the boat price is right, the new inboard motors are much quieter and more fuel efficient than the ones from the 70s anyway, and often can get more HP from a new engine in the same physical size range as the older ones.

There is no rush to find the new boat though, so I can wait to find the right deal. It is probably sitting under a tarp in 4 ft of weeds in someone's backyard or stashed in a barn somewhere, lol...but since I am hoping it is the last Erie boat we need to get I am going to take my time...
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Don't know if they are made anymore but, a Shamrock is/was a very sturdy boat (inboard)....imho you should stay outboard....newer ones are really good power plants and they are only 4 bolts away from going away....stay away from the Penn yans....tunnel drives arn't the best and I/Os are really maintenance intensive ($$$)....my two cents.....
 

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