Show off your Delawares! *PIC HEAVY*

[kathyinmo]

At least one of my boys is smart enough to cool off in the water.

 

[Urbanfarmerkc]

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Wow, that is some luck... well, you should have your pic at the perfect male. LOL

 

[kathyinmo]

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Wow, that is some luck... well, you should have your pic at the perfect male. LOL

I have some "half" Delaware girls, though.

I have some crosses growing out, that would have been nice if THEY were male, as they will be for processing.

 

[Goose and Fig]

I'm selling all the girls from my crosses. They such pretty birds and I know they'll be awesome layers like their moms. So much friendlier than usual production reds everyone has too.
Still have to find somebody to process the roos- I really want to get to that point but nobody does poultry here.

 

[Stevenson]

I have learned SOOO much the last few days as to what I am supposed to be looking for in my Delaware Roosters. Thank you to everyone who has helped me open my eyes. I still need to look over all of my roosters, but I now know that number 28 isn't my best rooster (as I had indicated in one of my previous videos). This one is the best of the ones I have been scrutinizing the last couple of days...I still have to go through the rest of them and take notes. (They are 14 weeks old, so there will still be a lot of changes ahead)

 

[Goose and Fig]

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Ha ha- he's definitely got the personality worth passing on. Very nice

 

[kathyinmo]

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Mine are a couple weeks older than yours, and I STILL can not pick out the best boy. Wait til 20 weeks and you will be surprised. I love the "paint job" on the pullets. But, I think my pullets are small for their age.

I will wait it out and see how it goes.

OH, and I heard the first crowing attempt from their pen this morning!

 

[Stevenson]

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Mine are a couple weeks older than yours, and I STILL can not pick out the best boy. Wait til 20 weeks and you will be surprised. I love the "paint job" on the pullets. But, I think my pullets are small for their age.

I will wait it out and see how it goes.

OH, and I heard the first crowing attempt from their pen this morning!

Oh, I haven't made the final decision...at this point I am trying to learn what I am supposed to be looking for. I was telling Walt that I feel like the SOP is in a different language a lot of the time because I don't understand the terminology. It makes it so much nicer for someone to explain why you don't want a pinched tail rather than just saying pinched tails aren't good.

Mine started attempting to crow at 9 weeks old believe it or not. I am greeted with crowing each morning!

 

[Stevenson]

I am looking forward to them being 20 weeks old though!

 

[fowlman01]

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Mine are a couple weeks older than yours, and I STILL can not pick out the best boy. Wait til 20 weeks and you will be surprised. I love the "paint job" on the pullets. But, I think my pullets are small for their age.

I will wait it out and see how it goes.

OH, and I heard the first crowing attempt from their pen this morning!

Oh, I haven't made the final decision...at this point I am trying to learn what I am supposed to be looking for. I was telling Walt that I feel like the SOP is in a different language a lot of the time because I don't understand the terminology. It makes it so much nicer for someone to explain why you don't want a pinched tail rather than just saying pinched tails aren't good.

Mine started attempting to crow at 9 weeks old believe it or not. I am greeted with crowing each morning!

The SOP is a technical manual in some ways and not geared toward a beginner. It does make more sense if one reads pages 1-40. Lots of folks don't bother to do that....they just go to the section on their breed. Pages 14-22 are probably the most important pages in the book.

Walt