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[Serrin]

Scott, that's absolutely marvelous news!! I'll be happy to keep the prayers and good Karma flowing from this neck of the woods!

I just know that you'll wow their socks off at this face to face interview! And if they have noodle one in their heads, they'll snatch you up in a heart beat!

As for them broody girls y'all have....stick a couple of ice cubes under their butts! That should solve that!

 

[Cetawin]

Praying for you Scott...you will get the job, I feel it.

Keep us posted and Good Luck tomorrow!

Okay more pictures as if I have nothing else I should be doing...housework....I'd rather be taking pics of the chickens...so i did.

Sir Lancelot and Ebony spending today in the playpen ( they have a feeder in there...the red one had their scrambled eggs in it)

The Princess in training, Hera with Spike, Blossom and Rose (Yes, I cleaned out their waterer yet again)

I am thinking Hera is just a big bantam. She is younger than Spike and his girls though....


The Silkies and Milles

 

[Serrin]

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I think it may have more to do with the quality of the chicken than the breed perhaps, Germaine. Hatchery stock seem to be not quite as hearty as those birds that come from quality breeders. Hatcheries, after all, are only interested in quantity, rather than quality.

Having said that, my hatchery girls have only recently started their downward spiral after four and a half years. Either I've just been extremely lucky, or the hatchery that my stock came from was just a tad bit better than the average. I'm thinking I just got ridiculously lucky myself!

It will be interesting to see how this flock of mutts that I hatched out myself does after two or three years. If the beginning is any indication, then I think this bunch of girls is going to be with me for more than just a couple of years. Oh how I do hope so!

I'm in love with each and every one of them!!

 

[NellaBean]

Hera is awfully leggy to be a bantam.........I have some large fowl silver laced cochins that are around the same age as my d'uccle group. I will have to get them all together to compare. Easier said than done LOL.

I might lean more towards a small standard with her. I have one of those. I got 3 barred cochins from TSC in Spring 09. 1 really struggled in the beginning and ended up way smaller than the rest. Taller than a bantam though. I know because I have an actual bantam barred cochin hen plus the 2 standard hens to compare with.

here she is, minus a lot of feathers. Poor thing

Anywho, even my hatchery quality cochin bantams are much shorter than Hera is. She is built like a standard. She may just be a small standard.


eta: speak of the devil, there is one of my silver laced ladies in the back left on that picture. She is built just like Hera....only a little thinner. She is the bird that got stuck in the fence for a few days so she is still thin.

 

[Cetawin]

I need to get a picture of my red cochin...she is a small standard but still much bigger than Hera but much smaller than my Splash girl Luna. Luna is a tank of a girl. So, see why I am confused? LOL Will have to get Ruby and Hera together. hmmm

 

[crazyhen]

Prayers for you and yours Scott. Gloria Jean

 

[Germaine_11.20]

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I think it may have more to do with the quality of the chicken than the breed perhaps, Germaine. Hatchery stock seem to be not quite as hearty as those birds that come from quality breeders. Hatcheries, after all, are only interested in quantity, rather than quality.

Having said that, my hatchery girls have only recently started their downward spiral after four and a half years. Either I've just been extremely lucky, or the hatchery that my stock came from was just a tad bit better than the average. I'm thinking I just got ridiculously lucky myself!

It will be interesting to see how this flock of mutts that I hatched out myself does after two or three years. If the beginning is any indication, then I think this bunch of girls is going to be with me for more than just a couple of years. Oh how I do hope so!

I'm in love with each and every one of them!!

Thank you Serrin, That makes me happy to know that.

 

[NellaBean]

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There is a HUGE difference in cochin sizes. I have a whole spectrum. From TINY bantams to regular bantams to small large fowl to medium large fowl to HUGE large fowl. I saw a barred rooster who was GIANT when I was in SC recently. I just fell in love with it and want one just like it now. He made my big blue cochin rooster look like an ant. I would have begged to buy him but his comb was all bloody from trying to fight through the fence and I have adult boys already.....just seemed like a fight waiting to happen.

My "breeder quality" splash hens are bigger than my hatchery barred hens. I have a lavender bantam and a partridge bantam who are teeny tiny. Like. Tiny tiny. Way smaller than my "breeder quality" bantam hens.

 

[Cetawin]

Nella in the words of Jack Sparrow "That is just maddenly unhelpful". LOL

 

[Yard full o' rocks]

Ok....Janelle and Amy. Its time for Dellie pix!!??

I would love to see how the little rascals are growing

Post some when you can......please!!??