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[kathyinmo]

Your girls were Maggie's first ever. She was just over a year old when she went broody. Her 2 sisters never have. Honestly, when she went broody, I did not want more chicks and wanted to break her broodiness. Brock, on the other hand, had other ideas. He left her eggs with her (2) and added a couple others. The others didn't hatch (infertile).

I had all 3 Del roos at that time, so any of them (Alexander, Jacob, Oliver) could be the daddy of the 2. The 3 Easter Egger girls had free range of our place. They were our only girls, at that time, that would come up to the house to visit, and were a bit spoiled.

Egg color, hmmmm; I imagine they should lay some shade of green; and am thinking darker than Maggie's, since the cross was with a brown (though light brown) egg layer. Just a guess on my part.

You know you are welcome to Delaware eggs in the spring!

 

[NellaBean]

Well, everything was frozen solid this morning but the baby chicks in the garage were all happy as can be. Even my juveniles that are still in that broooder in there were happy as a clam. I have one that is "stunted". It is a bantam cochin that is about 4 months old now and is the size of a shower loofah. Super cute but obviously has some issues. She was planted directly under the heat lamp, basking in the warmth. When I went in to switch bulbs last night, she was huddle in the corner with the rooster in that brooder, both looking frozen.

I'm never going to be able to move those little buggars outside! Sigh.

Missing chicken was chomping away at the feeder in the garage this morning. Guess she figured out how to let herself back in the yard.

Going to try putting a divider into the bottom of my brooder shed, to make two 3x4 brooders. I really want to move that barred cochin and her new babies into the garage.

On a sidenote, I showed my neighbor some of the babies last night.....I love being able to stick my hand under a broody and pull out a handle of babies. SO CUTE. I can tell there are a lot of babies as I came out with three on my first try.

 

[X2Farm]

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Thanks Nella! Hawt coffee out the nose!!

Hope she gets to doin better!!!

Frozen here too... my dang hose nozzle broke,

so I had to cart hot water from the house to cut with all the cold/frozen waterers. everyone was happily scrounging and foraging in the frozen ground though! Especially when I put tossed em some bbq pork

 

[NellaBean]

Seriously. The size and SHAPE of a shower loofah. Maybe I will bring mine outside to compare with pix LOL.

She is super cute though. I could start a line of mini-bantam cochins! ha! Or not. My partridge cochin rooster is very small too.....and my partridge hen and lavender hen are also teeny tiny.

All of mine got scrambled eggs this morning and the big yard also got about 2-3 quarts of scratch/boss mix and almost an entire old pizza. It's a good day to be a chicken at my place

 

[speckledhen]

Nugget is officially over the edge.

 

[Yard full o' rocks]

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uuugggghhhhh....Janelle's "reach" of broodiness has hit Georgia. May need to move over the Alabama line

 

[Inkheart]

Yard full o' rocks :

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uuugggghhhhh....Janelle's "reach" of broodiness has hit Georgia. May need to move over the Alabama line

OH NO!!!!!!!!!!!!​

 

[kathyinmo]

Yard full o' rocks :

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uuugggghhhhh....Janelle's "reach" of broodiness has hit Georgia. May need to move over the Alabama line

You all keep those broodies down your way! We do not need them here!

 

[Cetawin]

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WTH is she thinking? Does she not realize it is December? argh

 

[speckledhen]

I told her that. Her answer was "grrrr, cluck, cluck, cluck".