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I've got one broody due to hatch hers on Saturday and another next Wednesday. Here's hoping for pullets!!! Between the 2 they're hatching out 8 eggs, it'd be nice to get at least 4 pullets out of that.
Tim, I'm hoping you're not taking offense to my posting pics of the roo on here, I'm not being critical of your stock, not in the least. I've always felt that if I were to breed, I'd want to breed only the best. This roo is the best out of the three I've got, at least in my very limited knowledgeable opinion, lol! But I just feel that if they're a heritage/endangered breed, then I'd want to preserve the quality, not necessarily the quantity of the breed. Am I making any sense? It sounds good in my head, but sometimes when I write things down, they don't come out quite the way I want it to! So anyways, no hard feelings?
After all, you're the one that got me hooked on these guys!!
Please spare me! If I end up commited for my chicken addiction you'll be there right beside me, I'll see to that. We'll be like the drug dealers who the cops say open your mouth and they'll find a chick inside. Chicks in all our pockets. We'll have spouses who get caught trying to smuggle chickens into the jail. Get the picture?
I've got three roos other than Nick and Georgia boy running around so you can have your pick of any of them. Two of them don't look good at all. Now I know these four chicks I've got and the ones you hope to hatch out are all the WNY line. I've got records of the numbered hens and Nick is the dad.
Here's some pics of my smallest egg. It's 1 1/2 " long and 4" around. I figure it was Buckwheat, Frenchy (hatchery red/blk friz bantam) and Erics' (CM) daughter but she seperated with Frenchy and hasn't laid anything so I don't know for sure. It would have been her first egg. DW found it on the ground outside the coop. It was in the mud and I never would have noticed it. I washed it off and it's still that dark.
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You're the best!!
I can just see our spouses running hell bent for leather, smuggling chickens! LOL
I am so jealous of that little dark egg! When the heck are my CM girls gonna lay?? GRRR!!!! Oh well, I haven't even seen their fat fluffy butts in the nesting boxes yet, so who knows. Soon, I'm hoping or you're gonna find a box under your window! LOL
Psst.....feel eyes on you????
Never even rode him. Granddaddy kept him at the farm in west Ga, called him "Bob", so, since he was sort of strawberry blonde, I called him Robert Redford, LOL.
