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[kathyinmo]

I STILL can not find my camera. I love that little camera, too. It is a Fujifilm FinePix F470. So, today I had to break down and go to Walmart and buy a new one. I bought a Sony Cyber-shot W220. I am practicing with it. Here are a few pictures of a couple little Delaware boys trying to act like "big boys!"

Yes, I need more practice.

 

[Inkheart]

Such "big" boys! Kathy what and who is that black pullet in the background on the first shot?

 

[kathyinmo]

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Those are Jersey Giants.

 

[Inkheart]

so pretty - didnt know their outline and tails were like that!

 

[catdaddyfro]

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Good morning Mrs. Kathy and the rest of SDWD nation.

I really like the looks of the Del. boy there with the "yellower" legs, the one with his rump pointed this way in the last two pics. Looks like he is going to be thick, going by his neck size but you know how things can change too with the weeks to come. Sometime before spring-time hatching begins, prolly around the end of Jan. to early Feb. By that time it might be under a 100*, maybe and shipping one won't be so bad. I'm gonna be looking for another young cockerel to add into my Delaware breeding program. I've got two older males one is OK(Sylvester or Sly for short) the other is just pet quality (Alabaster or Ally for short) I think if/when I get the new one I shall name him (DALE) appropriately, you know of all the Delaware roosters on the BYC I've yet to see a Dale.

Do ya'll reckon I might be able to locate an extra Delaware rooster some-time before then?-I bet I can

Anyways till later on see ya,

Jeff

 

[kathyinmo]

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I currently have a yard full of Delaware boys! Even with culling more than half of them, I still have tons of boys.
Come on over and see Dale here!

 

[catdaddyfro]

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I currently have a yard full of Delaware boys! Even with culling more than half of them, I still have tons of boys.
Come on over and see Dale here!

I kinda sorta figured I'd get a sure hit on my quest for Dale and for some reason I just knew it'd be from Mrs. Kathy she always saves the day for me esp. for uploading pictures which I'm getting a lot better at too, BTW, and I really need to get some took and posted up on here too. I've got some Delaware pullets up and coming that are surely impressing me esp. being hatchery type birds,(Ideal). Maybe, since being ribbed so much here as of late for poor quality they might have started paying a little closer attention and been having DO-BETTER talks with the breeders, maybe? IDK

Do ya'll remember do-better talks

, I do and they usually made quite a bit of difference, too. Yes Ma'am

Jeff

 

[speckledhen]

I'm losing my best Del hen, Ellie. She hasn't laid in ages and has quit even going to the nest. She has something hard in her abdomen, plus is in full molt, bone thin, dark in her color. I hate this! She was the best of the Dellie personality without the irritating part like Georgie has of biting you if you don't pay attention to her.

On a brighter note, here is a pic I just took of my BR cockerel, Rex, with one of his girls, Wynette. It's about 50 degrees and he just didn't want to get off his perch to pose, though I did coax him off later with scratch. Doesn't he have kind eyes?

 

[Serrin]

Oh Cyn! What a pretty pair! Did those come from Kathy? So sorry to hear that Ellie is not well. I didn't know that you had a Del named Ellie too. Is that short for Eleanore like my little Ellie? Oddly enough, it is my Ellie that is the sweeter of the two Del girls. She never pecks hard at me to get my attention. Just a sweet gently scraping of her beak across my foot or something. Now Maddie [aka Madison] is another matter all together! That little wench is gonna get a thumping on her nose one of these days if she doesn't discover a better way to get my attention than to try to take a chunk out of my ankle!

 

[speckledhen]

My Ellie is named after my friend Ellie in California, whose BYC screen name is also "Ellie". I hate that I am going to lose her. When she first began going to the nest, sitting, then leaving with no egg produced, we did the exam and tried to reach into the oviduct, and did that several times over a couple-month period. Nothing we could reach. It may be in the abdomen. Her sister, Maxie, had a huge egg-within-an-egg that dropped into the abdomen and we had to euthanize her when she was near death. Poor hens go through so much to lay those eggs.

My BRs are from Marvin Stukel lines, a breeder out of Arizona, but Pine Grove sent me the eggs. I didn't have any pullets from Kathy's eggs except one with a twisted hock joint. Killed me to have to put her down not long after she hatched. I'm sure she would have been a beauty. I had one cockerel I would have kept from Kathy, but with only three BR pullets and no extra pens for extra roosters, I had to choose between Rex and that one. I passed on the good genes from Kathy's male to a friend so her BRs could come up in quality, too.

Everyone should have some of this eye candy!

There are more pictures in the thread here which include the splash Rock, Olive Egger and Easter Egger, plus the Buff Orp girls: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=7365864#p7365864