Show off your Delawares! *PIC HEAVY*

[kathyinmo]

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YAY ! ! ! I am soooo glad to hear they are there! I always worry!

 

[pinkchick]

I love in motion photos!

Here's a couple pictures my sister caught of my boy Steve stretching his wings.

 

[kathyinmo]

I love pictures like that, too! Looks so cool ! Love it!

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

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Love it!

 

[catdaddyfro]

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Kathy I think you started a trend!!!

I think I somehow got one too.... Seems Big Guy got ahold of one of the EE girls on a free range day and I've got a perfect Delaware color pattern, peacombed and muff/bearded pullets in the grow out pen

Possibly a few more in there too

Top it off with the telltale Delaware personality and voila!

Exactly! Pea combed, blue egg gene birds with Delaware personality! PERFECT ! !

I went out to the coop this morning to do my morning rituals of feeding and watering and I just happened to glance over to my broody game hens box to see whats up and lo and behold what'd I see 10 little Delawegger pip squeeks staring at me like, and just who are you?

Yep you women on this Delaware thread have made a softy outta me yet, I'm one of those guys that would never ever have anything of the such like EE's, Silkies(still holding out on those though), ect...you know things I did'nt really even think to be chicken like animals. Well a couple of months ago my buddy was going off to work a shutdown for some-time and gave me about 20 something chickens. In that group were pro reds, pro red/brn. leghorn X's, a Brown Leghorn hen, a black Cochin hen and guess what, yep and EE hen so I took them all and really started liking that EE hen (talk about different) gave her a name(Ugly Betty) because she's ugly to me. Well I got into all the hoopla about the Delaweggers on here and decided I should have some to see how/what the are or turn out to be and there ya go ol' catdaddy's old hard-@$$ is getting a litlle bit soft in my middle age life, I reckon. Will try to get some pics posted of them, still have a few more eggs to go with the hatch, so maybe tomorrow or so I'll get some done up.


Jeff

 

[kathyinmo]

Hahahaha! Jeff, I knew you were an old softie from the git go!

 

[Stevenson]

One of my 4 Del eggs has already pipped...day 19...guess they are trying to keep up with the speckled sussex eggs that are pipping and hatching at day 20!

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

Good luck with your hatch

 

[Urbanfarmerkc]

I finally was outside while I had the camera in hand and decided to get some pics of the Dels. I know my girls are not SOP but and we got to work on size but I still think they are pretty and like I said in earlier posts, the babies hatch out with a vengeance!

I have wanted to use the ALBC's guidelines using 10% but didn't know what I'd do with all the chicks. Today, I got a call from a guy who is wanting to raise them for his Asian community and he wants "regular chickens" instead of those nasty white ones... (I'm assuming he means Cornish Crosses.) So, if all goes well, he said he would be willing to buy all I can hatch and let me come out and pick the ones I want before they butcher them. Whoo Hoo... I get to hatch and hatch and hatch and then they'll pay me for the chicks and THEN they'll do all the work. All I got to do is pick out the best!!!! LOL

Sounds like a good deal.

Anyway, here are some pics of my girls. Tell me what you think.

 

[Stevenson]

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False alarm on the pip....was going by my wife's observations since I wasn't there...7 of 9 speckled sussex have hatched, but no pips yet on the delaware.