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[X2Farm]

WOOHOOO Kathy!!!! Good luck with those!!!

Louie... no clue.. but he sure is purty!!!!!

I hope all yall SDWD'ers out there are doin well, keeping warm, and ready for Christmas!!!

 

[NellaBean]

I'm here! Dad picked up the new kitty from the shelter for me today since i was still at work. Integration into the NellaBean household is a bit rocky at best. Norman is doing the crazy cat scream, Frankie the dog wants to eat her and she has some very obvious neurological or inner ear problems. I.e., she FALLS OVER. Super cute, super sweet....I stuck a qtip in her ear and its gross in there, so hoping its indeed just a fixable ear problem. If not, she is just "quirky" then. First time she accidently tipped over and fell onto her side, I thought OMG SHE IS PERFECT. All my animals are retarded here

She and Norman the cat are arch enemies right now.......she is laying on the arm of the couch next to me here, just dozing......hopefully everybody starts CALMING down soon. Norman is SO ANGRY.

 

[Orchid]

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Like owner, like kitteh.

 

[kathyinmo]

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Honestly, I burst out laughing .... OUT LOUD, when I read this! You're killin me here!

 

[NellaBean]

She also ran into the wall a couple times, but let's not even go there.

She needs a name. I was thinking of calling her Paris or maybe Lindsey....since she acts like she's on DRUGS....

 

[Braclin]

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Yay Kathy!
6 chicks here so far and a slow pipping tky.

 

[kathyinmo]

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PARIS should be her name, for sure! THAT is perfect! ! !

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I was wondering about you! 6 here already....

Come one now, you are wayyyyyyyyy ahead of me!

 

[Braclin]

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I was wondering about you! 6 here already....

Come one now, you are wayyyyyyyyy ahead of me!

Well the screamer has finally stopped screaming, lol Thank goodness me and my dog were about to choke him/her. Not sure what the deal was and i tried everything. I've gotten a feeling 6 is probably all of the chicks out of this bunch. Its day 21 here. This tky needs to come on I wanna see what it looks like, lol. Hope at least one more of those hatch. Just play the waiting game. Then we go on lockdown next week with the new years bunch, only seven of those.

 

[Serrin]

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Hey Jessica, I'm not sure at all what went into the creation of your boy. He's definitely a handsome roo. As for having Delaware in him, I think it's on the slimmest of chances, if at all. While I'm no where near an expert on the matter, I'm just not seeing anything remotely indicative of a Del, other than the fact that he has a lot of white in him. But then, so do about a dozen other breeds as well.

Do you feed your boys a lot of corn? Do they spend a great deal of time out in the sun? Either could explain the golden hue of his hackle and saddles. Otherwise, I would think that his natural feather color would be stark white. Also note the complete lack of any yellow present in either legs or beak. True Delawares have very yellow legs and beaks, in both hen and rooster.

I have a pair of half breed Del's. Their father is Kathyinmo's Jacob or Oliver, and her EE mama, Maggie. Actually, all three of them are mine now. Anyway, what I'm trying to get at here is that the two girls, Lisette and Cosette both have the yellow legs and a partially yellow beak. They get the bit of horn color in their beaks from their mother. As you can see from the picture below, it's fairly easy to see that they are half breed "Delaweggers".

But these are first generation cross breeds. If your boy has Delaware in him, it's probably buried so deep in the subsequent cross breedings that you'd never be able to tease out the Delaware genetics in any kind of a breeding program that included him.

In my humble opinion, there's nothing wrong with mutts, what so ever! I know. I have four of them! And I wouldn't trade a single one of my boys for a whole pen full of purebred anything! Nope, I wouldn't trade a single one! I might ADD purebred boys to the line up, but I'd never TRADE one of my boys for a purebred!!

Oh, and here's that picture I promised ya:

This one shows Lisette's leg color even better.

Both of those pictures were taken back in late October, on the first night after their arrival. Since those were taken, the leg color on both Lisette and Cosette has deepened and become all the more of a brilliant yellow as they mature. Unfortunately you can't see Cosette's beak in either of those pictures. She's the one that has just a little bit of the horn color in her beak that she got from her mother. In comparison with how they look today, I'd say the horn color is gradually receding. She may end up with an all yellow beak yet!

At 8 months of age now on your boy, what you see is pretty much what he's going to be. He will probably fill out a great deal more, but as to feather, leg and beak coloration, I think this is what he'll still look like in another year yet. Such a pretty boy! I sure hope you're going to keep him. He looks like a sweetie!

Dang it! Kathy, tell me one more time when Lisette and Cosette hatched out! I swear I'm going to go back and write it down on my calendar!

I suffer from an incurable case of CRS, I tell ya!

CRS = Can't Remember Stuff

 

[kathyinmo]

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I had one of those screamers last week, too! Drove me nuts for about 3 days!

Hope you get more hatched out!