Show off your Delawares! *PIC HEAVY*

[poultryhaven]

Quote:
I got them from ThePamperedPullet on here. I got eggs from him to hatch and he has nice heritage delewares. If I want some more, ill just buy them from him, I live in the city so standard roosters arent too good

 

[speckledhen]

Janet Holtman's Dels are broody types. Mine haven't gone broody so far, though.

 

[kathyinmo]

Hi Beth, Cyn, LadyHawk, Germaine, Jeremy, Scott, Tim, Kathy, and all .... Are you sick to death of my pictures yet? In case you are not, here are some from today.

I just can't help myself; ya know this is my first broody mama taking care of chicks (Silkie mama failed), and I am so fascinated!

I went outside to see the broody and chicks. Brock had let them outside. I panicked for a moment, as I only saw the mama sitting there. Then, I saw 2 chicks come out from under her ....

Then there were 3 .....

Within a couple minutes the mama was up and all 6 were out ....

It is so cute how she calls them, and the come to her! I LOVE this!

This nosey girl is quite curious about the chicks, and keeps going over to the fenced in area to look.

 

[popcornpuppy]

My broody Dels are from a breeder in PA. I got the eggs from her on ebay. I hatched them at the same time as I hatched Cyn's Del eggs. (I made my husband drive almost 2000 miles to get the eggs from Cynthia

)

I have seen a trend with the posts here on BYC that this is just the time of year when hens go broody. One of the mods, Gumpsgirl had 7 go broody at once, recently.
I would say it is best to seperate your broodies so that there is no issue with egg swapping or injuries to the babies.
I first marked the eggs under my #1 broody so that I knew how many eggs she had and that they were hers and supossed to be there. I used crayon and drew lines on the egg shells of the eggs she was sitting on.
Next I sepeated her into a dog crate (inside the coop) so that the other girls did not bother her or her chicks.
Then with broody #2, I gave her a different clutch off eggs. She was trying to help broody #1 before I put her in the dog crate, so she was sharing the nest and the eggs until I seperated them. After almost 2 weeks of isolation broody #2 quit and I took her eggs and put them under broody #1. I took the first batch of eggs away from broody #1 and set them in the incubator because they had passed what I thought was the hatch date.
That's my story and I'm stciking to it!
I don't know if this info helps, but it worked for me


ETA: Kathy this is a thread called Show off you Delawares. You are just staying on topic!

Seriously, who would ever get sick of seeing Delawares, especially little fuzzy butts

 

[joletabey]

Kathy- I will never, ever be sick of chickie pix-

And that is one very pretty Del girl-

Those are such sweet pics- I love the series- 2, 3 then all of them out from under that beautiful mama!
Maybe next year. . . . . .

 

[kathyinmo]

Thank you, Kathy and Beth .... You are enablers (for me to keep taking pictures!

) Off I go .....

I am going to go check the other 2 broodies, who had pips this morning!

 

[speckledhen]

Awww! Kathy, that hen is beautiful.

 

[Bassleg]

She looks very nice and fat,,, I mean big boned.

 

[joletabey]

 

[kathyinmo]

New baby hatched. I dunno what it is, but it is a girl (I think, and I hope!) She has a dot on her head, and she is dark. It could be Mama Cuckoo Marans and BCM papa. It is a mix, for sure. This was one of the, "surprise eggs," that was in the nest, after she had already been sitting, so I left it, cuz I didn't know when it got there!