San Diego Chicken meetup and Chat thread

[All-American-Chick]

oh id be interested in a few guineas and wellie rumpless-how cute would that be?

OK I am going to try to make the meetup.

I will bring as many Welsummer eggs as I can collect. I have about fifteen Wellie Hens, and three Roos I know those eggs are fertile.


I also will collect Wellie/silkey and Wellie/Araucana cross eggs. NO guarantee if they are fertile or which ones are which. But if its a Wellie/Araucana cross then the chick hatched should be an Olive egger right?


I also can bring some Guinea eggs too.

I will be very very interested in Oz's incubator workshop.

deb

 

[alisar]

I'm trying to envision a wellie/silkie...

 

[perchie.girl]

oh id be interested in a few guineas and wellie rumpless-how cute would that be?

Quote: LOL.... I have two rumpless welly roos and one Wellie roo with sparse rump feathers. Courtesy of a bout of feather eating when they were just starting to grow them in as youngsters. I since learned what I was doing wrong..... But the tail feathers never grew back. The one roo that is my FAV is sooo handsome even without his tail....

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

I'm trying to envision a wellie/silkie...

LOL.... SB a brown egg layer with soft whispy brown feathers..... Dont know how dominant five toes and feathers are....

deb

 

[dfdesigns]

I have a splash Silkie/Wyandotte... she has regular feathering, but is extra soft. She does have five toes and black skin, too. A very sweet hen who is perpetually broody!

 

[Aumlet]

LOVE them. Good size egg for a one pound chicken. Banty egg, but a big one. I can bring a couple of eggs for you. Not sure if the hen that's laying is letting the rooster do his business though.

Oh wow. I could not resist those. !!! That would be a valid reason to let my broodies do actual work.

 

[aaajjss1]

does anyone know where i can buy Valbazen locally?

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

I've always ordered mine from Jeffers... much cheaper than the feedstores.

 

[aaajjss1]

i called titfeed stores today neither carried it. so iwill try jeffers thanks

 

[jules4fun]

Awesome!!

So who's excited about the meet up on Sunday? :yiipchick :cd

I'm so glad every one is feeling better.

Can't wait to see everyone on Sunday and all the chicks!
Renee will you be bringing goat milk and cheese, jam? Please!
We will be bringing LOTS of Fertile eggs and some chicks (sorry- to those in chick/egg rehab!).

A client reciently called and asked me to come and pickup a very noisy guinea fowl that flew in to there yard three days prior and was waking up the neighborhood screeching at 5am. Needless to say it was not used to being handled and bit me Real good. Anyway its up at Gails ranch now and I have been trying to figure out if it's m or f, I just don't know anything about them. I would appreciate any help and if anyone has experience with them. Can they live w/o other guinea around or do they need a mate?
Thanks
Jules
Ps; I wish I had a video of the Imus meeting the guinea. One of them must have started talking smack about the others momma.... WOW what a show!