Show off your Delawares! *PIC HEAVY*

[Germaine_11.20]

Wow Cynthia, thank you. I will copy that info for future. I have never wormed my flock. Do I need to if they are all healthy looking? A friend said I should twice a year whether they need it or not. I have always gone with if it isn't broke don't fix it. What do you think on that subject?

 

[speckledhen]

I have only wormed my entire flock maybe three times in the last four years. Each time, I had a reason to do so, so I never wormed mine till there seemed a need. Once it was just because there were a bunch of roundworms laying on the top of the soil after a rain. Wouldn't be a bad thing to do it once a year, but many never do worm theirs until and unless there is an issue. I always used the pumpkin seed and buttermilk remedy and it probably keeps the worm loads down to manageable levels for them.


Here's my Gracie today! She has a bit more color in her hackles than her mama, decent tail black, beautiful wing carriage and a nice 5 point comb. I'm pleased with Ike's first kid. She's just six months old and has been laying a few weeks now.

Nosy Maxie:

 

[Germaine_11.20]

She is beautiful Cyn, really. I was ohhhing and ahhhing until the last pic and then I just LOL! What a stink eye!!!

You are right about her wing carriage. I never really could see just how good is good. But in those pictures I sure can. Ike is the Roo!



Edited due to spelling. I can't leave typos alone!

 

[Cetawin]

Maxie and Cannonball have that in common...NOSEY!

Yard Full Of It - I know what a hawg is...I was born and raised in the South, I eat grits and say Ya'll too. I feed the deer here too and will not kill them or let them be killed here. The one deer that I used the hide to bead Suede on for Cyn was taken by bow here. It had a broken rear lower leg and winter was coming...I could not let it drag that leg and die slowly...so I shot him from the deck.

Hey the sun is out today...babies get to go into the garden.

 

[joletabey]

Gracie is really filling out - and the wing carriage is really beautiful- I have to save those pictures to use in comparing mine as they grow up - she is a pretty, pretty girl.

I am exhausted. Wiped out. Pooped. I just put DE, Shavings, feed, water, a red heat lamp and 15 babies out in the coop. Most everyone was up for it and extremely quiet and cooperative, curious,compliant, EXCEPT Buckshot, Ultrasuede, Lizzie and Rejectable Roo #1. Buckshot wanted my shoulder and got it- so here I am with one foot holding the door of the cat carrier closed so Alice doesn't get loose, trying to get Buckshot off my shoulder with one hand, and trying to keep the rest of the Delaware snoops from getting out the door before I can coax him off my shoulder- I finally got him to walk off backward onto the poop board under the roosts. The other three had flapping fits, but they are all in there, eating, checking the place out, and hopefully liking it.

I have realized in all this that I HATE (

) this coop. I was an idiot when I bought it, and now I am going to have to put up with it. Oh well. Live and learn. Maybe I can adapt it somehow.

 

[Yard full o' rocks]

Well....I had a nice "work in the chicken yard" day y'all

Here are some new pix of my Del pullets, they are 15 weeks old this Friday.

Here is DOT (named because she stands around constantly just "watching" me work, kinda like a D.O.T. worker in Ga)

This is Harley...second picture of her with my son is the reason for her name (2 pix)

She absolutely loves to ride with Landon on the four-wheeler...go figure. DOT and Harley both seem to have good coloring in their hackles and tails and both are going to be nice in size.

These next two have yet to be named. The first has a very little barring in her hackles and a little tail black (2 pix, 1 from side and one from back)

This one has a few small "dots" in her hackles (like maybe 6-8) and a very little tail black

Here is the whole mob, two lighter colored ones at 9 o'clock and 12 o'clock positions and then Harley making a mess (6 o'clock position) and DOT watching...duh

Finally, meet Winston. He is the Light Brahma roo I got last week. He is in "quarantine" right now, but I will be putting him with a few black, a few barred, a partridge and a mixed Columbian rock hen to try to "re-create" a Columbian rock....he's a BIG dude.

 

[speckledhen]

Winston is handsome!!

 

[kathyinmo]

Are Brahmas like big, huge birds? You know I love those big ol' birds the best!

 

[Yard full o' rocks]

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Kathy....yes "big ole birds" describes them well. Typical roo may be 10-11lbs!!

Plus, they are supposed to be pretty docile. I think Cyn has had brahmas before...Cyn?? Personalities?

 

[speckledhen]

I have one Lt. Brahma hen and one Buff Brahma hen. They are sweet girls, both of them, though the buff, Caroline, can be really bossy with the younger ones.