Show off your Delawares! *PIC HEAVY*

[speckledhen]

Hahaha, no need to do a feed donation, but thanks!

 

[TACEYPERKINS]

Hi to everyone- thank you for the warm greetings this morning! This is such a great topic! I am so excited to get Dels, I can't stand it. And with this warm weather we have been having, it makes me that much more eager to find the breeder soon. So I can get some. I will definately keep you guys posted at what I find. And I will post pictures when I get some. Talk to you soon. Look out woman on a mission!!!

 

[Cetawin]

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Well I do not want MY boys giving all their food to a bunch of piggy women. hahahahahaha

I know we are casually speaking of my taking Ike and that it will hurt you to do such a thing... but I want you to know as does DH, that we will gladly give Ike a loving home if you feel that is what you need to do...if not, we udnerstand that too. If he were mine, I would have a hard time parting with him too. So no worries, he has a new home when we get out there if you still think that is best for him.

 

[speckledhen]

I know that, my friend. I do love this boy, but then, I am so attached to all my roosters, even that butthead Dutch (don't tell him; he'll use it against me). We'll have to see how all this plays out. When Ike is healed a bit, he'll go back in with those witches, and then we'll see. Or, we'll go back to where they are in the Firetower and he makes conjugal visits. Eventually, the Firetower must go back to being the grow-out coop, so that arrangement can't last long.

 

[jeremy]

Question for the masses- (and I've seen this topic sort of discussed here on the thread just by scanning) How is Sandhill's Delaware stock? Are the considered true heritage lines, or just an overall good hatchery strain?

Does anybody have some of these birds, their website doesn't offer up much visually.

 

[delawaregirl09]

WOW! I know, I've been gone long enough to be exterminated

Welcome to all the new people I see. Its wonderful that more people are so interested in quality breeding. Urbanfarmboi, I dont know the answer to your question, but someone on here will answer soon!!

Cyn, thats terrible about Ike. I wish those witches would leave him be. I know how it goes though, poor Heff just got his wattles torn up by Elanore and Flip. I tell you what, I locked both of those ladies in the broody box for the night and put him in the nice grow-out pen. I hope you can manage to find a balance between your roosters and hens, and still keep the ones you love.

Cetawin, I think you would fly across the world to get those boys, LOL! Who wouldnt!!!???

I've been gone for so long, but I skipped around the pages to read a few posts here and there. Sounds like everyones doing good. I'm on hairs end with studying for Zoology, I've got all sorts of terms stuck in my head, like Zooxanthellae, Gemmules, Budding, Porifera, GAH! But its over tomorrow

Truly though, I hope everyone gets warmer temperatures. Were starting towards the fifties here lately, but they are talking snow later this weak

CYNTHIA! I just read that you use Ivermectin!!!! I use Ivermectin plus, the plus is for liver flukes. I just started using it but my grandfather has always used it for our animals. Do I need to keep back eggs for so long, or what? Because I have no idea. Cats and dogs dont lay eggs for human consumption

The stuff works so good though!

I'll be on as much as I can, I see I have missed way too much!

 

[joletabey]

Delgirl. . .gemmules? porifawhats??? Oh dear, I have been out of school for way too long- those sound like things I don't want to have.

Poor Ike! Maybe, Cynthia, you SHOULD wash those girls up in some lavender bubbles and see if they calm down - I could run you over some, it's my favorite scent - and not to butt in on Cetawin's total takeover of your birds (ahem!!!) but I think you know that almost everyone would be panting to have any of your flock, so if you do need to get rid of some of those wenches, don't worry.

Maybe hen's need to be culled for personality as well as the roos? I have one wench, figured it was a Kira Kid, who pulls hard on me already.

 

[Cetawin]

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I say the wenches get a bath in something scented like fruit, primarily blueberry! They will get a dose of their own medicine when the flock gets a wiff of them.

If that fails...give them a bath and then a nice shot of some ridiculously nasty perfume.

I am not even considering a total takeover of her flock....I am very particular. Suede, Ike, Zane, Snow, Shadow, Nora, Miranda, Riley hahahahaha

 

[kathyinmo]

I was out admiring my 5 Delaware roo babies today. They are nearly 10 weeks old now. I opened the door/gate and let them come out .... there are over 40 chicks in there (8' x 13' "room," inside a large building), and ONLY the Delawares came out! And, they didn't just venture outside the door and linger there ... oh, no ... they went the entire length of the building (33'). Only 2 of the 6 girls came out, but all 5 roos checked it out. I'm tellin' ya, these Delawares are the most curious creatures ever! Usually they are busy untieing my shoe laces, but not today! They were up on top of the bales of hay (stacked 1 high), and snooping around in every corner!

I have 1 Jersey Giant (18 weeks old) inside a tractor, inside the building, because she has a (scabbed over) wound on her hip that everybody wanted to pick at (and she kept picking it too!). The Dels went over and visited with her and shared her lunch through the wire!

She squawked at them, and they just continued eating!

I just love this breed! They are soooo much fun!

 

[joletabey]

Kathy- how fun! I am SO hoping that mine will adapt quickly to the coop and the run when we get it done- I want to be able to get in there and play with them - if I step in the brooder, I take up all the room left, so all they can do is stand on my feet!

Cetawin, could I PLEASE have Shadow? Just Shadow, you can have everybody else you want. I just want Shadow. One simple little hen. (Cynthia, do you feel like we are dividing your cloak?

)

You know, during those sleepless moments of my menopausal night, I got thinking about culling for personality - if we do it for roos, why not hens? Maybe people shouldn't give the girls such leeway just because they can produce eggs. What do you all think?