Show off your Delawares! *PIC HEAVY*

[Cetawin]

Where are my babies? Are they here yet? NUGGET get a move on already....


Well, this was the scene around here yesterday...what do you get when you mix ducks, a kiddie pool and chickens? A HUGE waterer for the chickens...LOL the ducks were not at all impressed

Then the ducks decided "What the heck?"

This morning everyone got a nice scrambled egg breakfast and a huge casserole dish full of grits...

My chickens are not spoiled...I merely made too much food this morning.

 

[Germaine_11.20]

Sure they aren't spoiled...... sure....... (cough, cough)

 

[Cetawin]

 

[Laney]

Hey all, sorry I've been away. Things have been crazy here. Shannon has gotten her Black belt! Yay! Mom has visited and left. I've been sick and gotten better.

We've had more goat babies born. That is a segue into horrible news. Biden has to go. Anyone interested in an aggressive rooster

I'm going to post him on craigs list, if no takers then he might meet his maker. He Flogged Shannon, 3 times in one day. That sealed his fate that he was leaving the farm. There was actual broken skin involved on both her legs and arms. Then just last evening he attempted to flog a 2 day old kid. Little Aurora weighs about 1 1/2lbs. Biden is huge and other than a few extra comb points and not so great tail angle isn't a bad rooster.

So, any takers or does he go up on Craigs list tonight? He's in Rooster prison right now.

Laney
BTW, I haven't read any of the back posts, I hope everyone is OK

 

[rancher hicks]

Ok there are two more Dels in the world. Oh and a Lavender Amer and an EE too. No pics yet mom won't get up.

 

[Cetawin]

Laney I am so sorry about Biden...dang these stupid roos. They have it made and then act stupid. I cannot take him because I would stew him and be done with his butt.

 

[speckledhen]

Laney, did you manage to get any decent ones out of your hatch from Isaac?



Look at Meg and Suede's latest creation!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4139470#p4139470

 

[delawaregirl09]

Cynthia, I voted. I loved many names, but could only choose one... We need a multi-select poll one of these days. That little baby is so cute, too, and beautiful! So Cetawin, your lucky to get little Rose You know, the way Meg and Suede babies are turning out, I kinda wish I had some now

Joletabey, this summer will be a break for me. I get to have a part-time job and part-time chicken lover. I do fear, however, that after this summer I will have to dwindle my flock down to just a few, but maybe in the future I will be able to get more birds. I have two wyandottes from JamesA's BLRW flock. One is a splash and one is a black, and i'm 99% sure on the black. Its kind of sad because I wanted some BLRW, but these two babies are the cutest.

Laney, I'm sorry to hear about Biden. My Delaware rooster, Legs, flogged me several times for the first time today. I picked up #40 (it has become her name

) and she squacked a little, then he came a runnin', flogged her, then me. I told him he was butter on toast if he did it again and gave him a good kick in the rear. He came at me once more, but kept his feet firmly on the ground and then ran back to the girls. He will learn, or he will be Mothers Day dinner

Cetawin, I love the pictures of your ducks and chickens. I wish I still had my three hen ducks, but the winters are so bad if we get ice and I had no place to put them that was out of the cold. I was sad the day I sold those three girls. I will say though, duck eggs taste... odd to me.

Well, I have 12 Delaware babies from my own birds to see if Leg's parents might have influence. So far, there are a few chicks that look... okay. I have one solid white one, and it kind of makes me think it could be from Bologna's hens and not the Delawares. But I will find out soon. I have two Oreo daughters, crossses unfortunently, and one Hefner son left. They turn 7 weeks old tomorrow. They are cutest little buggers

We turned our winter coop into a mega brooder yesterday. The chicks love it!

Scott, I WISH I had a broody. I wouldnt give two cents for the incubator and hatcher I have. They cant hold temps worth the weather! I had a gold sex link charge me when I went for the eggs the other day, but after she laid her egg, she left the nest and begged to be let out of the pen

Silly hen.

ETS: I forgot to mention about the pet feeders. Cetawin, I think thats a great idea. I'm going to have to try that because these hanging feeders... I'm about ready to just through them away. The pins come out of the holes and the birds just knock them around and scratch all the feed out, even when it has a cover and its hanging the level of their backs!! I tried lifting it some and they acted like they couldnt reach it at all

Silly girls.

 

[kathyinmo]

Cerawin, I love those pictures! I have never had ducks, and know nothing about them. I just learned that they mate in the water. That surprised me. A friend of mine at work just discovered her duck was setting (for a month) on nonfertile eggs. When I told her (she didn't know either), she was surprised, too. (Makes me feel better that I'm not the only one who didn't know!

)

Laney, I am so sorry to hear about Biden. I agree with you, it is best not to take any more chances once a rooster becomes aggressive.

Tim, Congrats on the new chicks. Are you gonna let the mama hen raise them?

 

[jeremy]

Here's a few new pictures of Stewart, the little Del cockerel from Cyn's eggs that I'm thinking of keeping, what do y'all think?

It was sunny out today,

He would hold still long enough to get many decent shots, all he wanted was to do was scratch at the grass!