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Why'd you get rid of your buckeyes? You got pics and you got hatching eggs? Where's the best place to get bucks? Good layers? I got some CM's would it hurt to cross them with a BCM to get darker eggs? I'm pretty sure I can get a roo, though it might be easier to get eggs to hatch but I like my hens.
Yes, the Buckeyes are good layers. At least mine were. I had to make cuts, so they had to go. I do have a goal..... My goal is to focus on 4 things. 1. Barred Rocks, 2. creating Delawares, 3. New Hampshires, 4. Icelandics. The rest are purely for my pleasure .... I LOVE my English Orps, Coronation Sussex, and Jersey Giants; and the Silver Laced Wyandottes and Blue Laced Red Wyandottes are so gorgeous, too! BCMarans I enjoy the eggs, and will keep a couple of them around for that. Currently I have a dozen eggs (BCM) in the bator as a test hatch for cpartist (Luanne), and I will follow up on keeping good records on them, as well. I also kept a Lavender Orp project rooster to work with in the spring. For now, winter, I had to make cuts...
I am a hatchaholic, and will hatch lots, I'm sure.
More selling this week, I hope!
I hear that! I just like to keep an assortment for the yard and different colored eggs for the customers. Of course I love Dels and want to get started on my Lave Amers. If I hatch I have to have pretty birds for the hobbiest who just keeps hens. BLRW's would be good and Trylin had some but got rid of the roos I think. I don't like just anyones birds cuz they don't all lay the same. I've got the land just not the building space. I read an interesting article in the november PP about single comb and rosecomb in wyandottes.. Apparently my single combs from Ideal is not an unusual thing as they were in the line all along from the start. From what I understand the single combs were better layers than the rose. You ever hear of that being the case?
DW thinks I have alot cuz I got maybe 50 including chicks, she has no idea what I'd have if I had building space.
