Show off your Delawares! *PIC HEAVY*

[rancher hicks]

Here's my Del eggs and some that are white but I have no white layers. Anybody know why they are laying white eggs. I don't know which hens are laying them.

I have no pink eggs today. Sold the ones I have. They ought to look nice next to the EE's and Ameraucana's when they start laying. Both pics taken with the same camera and yet one looks yellowish. Wonder why. Sometimes the spots are bigger.

 

[speckledhen]

My Delaware hen, Maxie, lays a huge, round,creamy colored egg, not white, but not beige/tan/brown at all. Kira also laid a very similar egg, not much like the Delaware eggs we are used to seeing.

Tim, that egg in the top right, the very round one, looks like the ones Maxie and Kira lay.

 

[kathyinmo]

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I'm particularly proud of Coyote Ugly - people will forever wonder if I meant the homely construction or the turkeys within it...

Eat Mor Pig, is the sign on the front of the coop, I remodeled an old hog shed to make the coop.

It'll Do was made from the dog kennel, pallets and some tarps. Self explanatory.

They're safe and it's worth it. But we are talking about moving them inside the electric fence line for more protection. I swear that one is going to be almost level and plumb.

Shed, garage and basement for giant self designed coop?????? Good trade.

This is not a chicken, it's in my rubbermaid garden shed....

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/13263_april23elmerand_002.jpg Meet Elmer Fuddrucker.

Cher, Elmer looks sooooo sweet! What the heck is that Delaware thing? Blue?
Coops .... hey, function over beauty, I say!

My Delaware eggs are all pretty similar, and I can tell them from the others already!

 

[rancher hicks]

Sorry I didn't mean to infer that the Dels are laying white but some of the other breeds are and I don't know why. I isn't a bad thing cuz I expect to go see my bro. and my SIL doesn't like brown eggs. I don't know why. She's from the hills of NC, if that means anything.

 

[Cetawin]

Oh Cher that Elmer is a cuddle bug isn't he? I love calves and buffalo calves, they are so sweet.

I dunno about the trade being fair really....I think I should get at least at 20' x 50- 60' coop in exchange for his taking over this, which by the way has a heated and air conditioned office/tack room in it that is fully finished

But, I did make another trade with him today *smirk* I get my goose/geese that I want as hawk deterents and he gets some blacksmithing tools he wants. Although, I may have to add a bunny to that trade for myself or a goat. muahahahahahaha

 

[joletabey]

Cher, is Elmer a Jersey? He has that sweet face- I have plans for a coop made from pallets that will probably qualify to be called Butt Ugly coop, so what the heck. Like Cetawin said, if they are safe, that's what counts, and speaking of Cetawin. . . . .

Cetawin, you spoiled darling, you- you are going to get geese AND a NEW state of the art coop! I think my DH needs a call from yours. I'll give my DH the whole garage for a new coop!

Kathy- you are braver than I am - I got some one else to process mine. AND they did taste different than other organic chicken I have eaten, the meat was darker overall, and richer. And congratulations on your 6 egg day!

Tim, my Del girls will lay speckled eggs now and then, there just didn't happen to be one on the 8 egg day- and today I got a weird big egg with a sort of bulgy top. I figure mine are still tweaking the blueprints?

Lizzie can now stand upright, but she can't walk upright yet. Faithful little dear laid an egg in the cat carrier today. The Orp girls are getting less skittish all the time, and I am NOT looking forward to a week of rain, even if we do need it!

Cynthia - I may not make it to the swap if it's raining here when I get up - I am not sure I want to drive 2 1/2 hours in the rain -

 

[walkswithdog]

Toad is my All Hallows Eve mystery chick. Born blue, she turned into that. An incomplete columbian on a blue base. It's probable her father was my splash sizzle of all things. Her under down is blue/gray and in the right light even her white has a slight bluish tint. Very cool. I had to keep her, I may breed her back to a sizzle again this year LOL.

 

[walkswithdog]

As to pallets as coop parts it totally works. We built the goat shed with them, worked great. Hooved Homely at least works. I have to change the roofing this year and then it might even be presentable. Who knew we'd have one of those rare half a century ice storms it's first year... oh my.

As a chicken Toad lays a nice egg, is sweet and social and never starts fights. She's also much prettier in person. Easy keeper. So she'll stay. Sometimes fate makes lemonade all by itself. My layer flock will be about half Delaware and half Marans. I may hatch one of the eggs from the Del Pullet who is my Brown Birchen sizzle's love of his life. Won't that be a hoot? I've mellowed. About the only thing I'm worried about purebred for now is the silly little Sizzles. And they're easy. NOt going to worry about purebred anything til I get the new coop and pens set up.

 

[kathyinmo]

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Oh, good grief .... no rabbits! Go for a goat! YEA, goats! You can have goat milk, instead of bunny turds! I can't do the bunny thing .... they are not cute little floopy eared beauties to me.

More like a Turken! Double

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I think some of the crosses I have seen are the neatest birds ever! Oh yeah, go for the Del Sizzle cross!

This is my Stella, my little helper. She follows me around, and jumps up on me every chance she gets. She LOVES to have her waddles and beak massaged, as well as her chest rub. She even closes her eyes and relaxes. Excuse the dirty face; I just wiped off her mouth (errr beak) from when she was acting like a pig in the muddy water puddle I made when I was washing waterers ....

 

[Cetawin]

oops posted twice I HATE HUGHES NET