Show off your Delawares! *PIC HEAVY*

[speckledhen]

Questions

1) Can Delaware really be a breed if it requires two separate lines to get properly colored males and females?

2) Is it possible to have properly colored males & females from one line?

3) If the honest answer is "no" to both questions above, then does the SOP need to be changed by either eliminated th Delaware enitrely, or by adjusting the description of either or both sexes of Delawares to something that can be produced from one line of birds?

4) How do we find the answers to these questions?

Frankly, I think the answer is yes to both of those first two questions. You can have "properly colored" males and females from one line, however, for the BEST colored males and females, you'd keep two lines.

 

[finnfur]

Frankly, I think the answer is yes to both of those first two questions. You can have "properly colored" males and females from one line, however, for the BEST colored males and females, you'd keep two lines.

Good answer

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

Yeah, I like that answer, too. And I hope we can manage that when we start painting the barn.

In one of those "go figure" type situations, one of my basic goals this year was to improve wing carriage. Then all kinds of funky wing things popped up as the birds starte to grow their adult feathers and it was a bit of a panic. Wings growing in very oddly so the birds looked to have lobster claws. Funny droopy wings on some birds. Uneven shoulders. In the end, looking at the potential breeders, I think we did end up with better wing carriage. I moved one cockerel into the cull cage for a slipped wing on one side, might have another with the same problem. But otherwise the wings are higher and more tightly folded in this generation.

Other goals were deeper rounder chests, and I think we are improving with that, too.

I'll have to go back and check what my third goal was (besides hatching enough birds to give us some choices).

 

[delawaregirl09]

Wow, I haven't been on here in so long. Seeing those old pics of my dels makes my eyes water, I sure miss them

 

[finnfur]

Wow, I haven't been on here in so long. Seeing those old pics of my dels makes my eyes water, I sure miss them

Cure for that is get some more - thats what SDWD members do !

 

[delawaregirl09]

Cure for that is get some more - thats what SDWD members do !

I'm actually trying to, they are hard to find in Oklahoma though

 

[finnfur]

I'm actually trying to, they are hard to find in Oklahoma though

Gee I don't know anybody there - There are two in CA have KATHYs LINE one in OR - we had one in AZ but believe she downsized.
Micheal Newman is in Panhandle of FL thats the closest I know - I am sure there are other - you can always get chicks shipped

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

Delaware cockerels roosting in a tree. If you get too close, they come mooching for treats.

 

[mckee farms]

Are the white ones

my delaware chics

 

[mckee farms]

I really like that pic.

Delaware cockerels roosting in a tree. If you get too close, they come mooching for treats.