Show off your Delawares! *PIC HEAVY*

[kathyinmo]

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Hmmmm, that must mean something. Honestly, I am leaning toward keeping Oliver. I really would like to keep them both, but that would just be plain silly, to have that many roosters. (Wouldn't it?

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Currently have 37 Cornish Cross meaties due to be processed this month. I have decided to also take my extra roosters to the processor at the same time. I am guessing about 30 - 40 roosters going. Those are Buckeyes, RIRs, rosecomb RIRs, and Barred Rocks. I just do not want to sell them at auction for a couple bucks a piece, when I know they are worth more than that in meat. Plus, I know they are healthy and well cared for, so they should taste even better. I should have a freezer full of chicken next month!

 

[kathyinmo]

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Congratulations on the Dellies! That's great. Welcome to the Delaware thread. We are all like family here. Feel free to jump in!

Hey, that is a very nice brooder you have there! very nice!

 

[NellaBean]

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The mille girl is one of my TSC chicks, same batch as the porcelain. She has been out in the yard this whole time,never exposed to the new birds and is fine and dandy

The "sick birds" came home in their own container and have been isolated in my garage this whole time. Looks like eye infections on a couple......one bird has one eye totally normal and one eye swollen and ouchy looking. Another bird just has gooey eyes. The rest are normal. No sneezing or nasal discharge, just the eye thing. Everyone else who came home from the swap is fine and dandy. All eating and drinking well......I hadn't decided whether to cull or treat and sell....what if it is just an eye thing? Or are all eye things related to upper respiratory issues?

 

[kathyinmo]

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Look on this page. These are the possibilities with the eye ....

http://www.avianweb.com/eyeproblems.html

 

[speckledhen]

Nella, you won't know unless they're tested, really. Sometimes, it is just the eyes that are symptomatic, yes. Sometimes, being in a high ammonia environment will cause eye troubles, too, but we can't really know for certain. It's just better safe than sorry. I hate that you were sold sick birds!

 

[tnchickenut]

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I tell ya what, if you want another pair of Porcelain, I will also sell (ha) you a Mille female. I have a single one, but no rooster....had planned on just leaving her, the blue mille girl and 2 mottled girls all with the porcelain group. But I need to downsize......I bought that pair of Mille Fleur D'uccles off the old guy (or rather, swapped for them) but 2 of the 6 birds I got from him ended up sick so they are all staying in quarantine, being treated until healthy and then sold. Without ever leaving quarantine. Do not want SICK BIRDS.

So yes, you have a week to decide! All my extra porcelain are going to a local chicken sale next saturday....if you want another pair, I will pull a pair out first

I sold one Mille Fleur Cochin rooster yesterday, but it was not the dark one. Did you like the one i brought with me to the swap? Or the other one I showed pix of? Those boys are going to the sale next weekend too, but I can pull one out if you're interested.

Anywho, here is the mille girl. She is itty bitty....was one of the last batche of d'uccles I got. Her head is blurry as I was aiming for the other birds, not her.....so it didn't matter

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/24277_downsized_0723001902b.jpg

BACK TO DELLIES:
Hey Scott, how goes the hatch? Any pipping zipping peeping or pooping? LOL

{doing my quarterly "pop in"}


Nella - are you talking about the Madisonville trade? I'm still planning on going like I talked to you about. Going to be taking my Bantam Dellies and maybe some others. I am down to three available bantam Delawares so I'm going to have room to take someone else. I think it will be the two buff sebright boys and maybe the red cochin bantam boys. I got so many I just can't decide. I got to sell my blue andalusian boys... they are rough on everyone!

Well, I hope everyone's Dels are doing well. I'm putting eggs in the incubator from my Delawares and will be selling day olds in about three weeks.

I guess I should add that I don't ship chickies. Sorry. I just have a handful of people wanting some chicks so bad I decided to go ahead and do a hatch for them. (I swear I won't keep any... I got some show stock eggs comming in spring and need to keep telling myself to wait for that before adding to the flock - need the room for those babies)

 

[speckledhen]

Stacy, did you get some good ones from the eggs you came here for? I sure hope so!

 

[Cetawin]

Nella the eyes can be the only symptom show in a respiratory problem but it can also be other things such as eye irritation. I just do not know if i would chance it.

I will think on the Mille...got to work out housing stuff with hubby this week so I will let you know by week's end. You planning on being in lexington in August?

 

[NellaBean]

Yep, Madisonville........bringing my extra d'uccle pairs (porcelain, gold neck, white) extra cochin pairs (gold laced, silver laced, white, mottled) and extra bantam cochin boys (silver laced, gold laced, black, mille fleur).

I'll have to think on what to do with the swap birds. They all looked fine when I bought them....one had a gooey eye when I got home and the other two had gooey eyes the next day. Nothing changed since then.....grrrr......

Had a scary thing happen tonight.....went to put all the chickens away and once again for the 3rd night in a row, 3 of my silver laced cochin kids were trying to spend the night under a bush in the planter......after i pulled them out to put them in the coop, I kept hearing something...sounded like another chicken....was shining the flashlight into the bushes looking for the source of the noise and found a chicken wedged under a pile of wood stuck partway through the lattice fencing (my yard has multiple levels). I had to get the big loppers out and cut the fence apart AND remove the entire pile of wood. I have no idea how she got in there.....but once I had her unstuck I pulled her out and she weighs nothing.....I bet she has been there at least 2 days.....probably why the other silver laced kids wanted to spend the night there (to be with her, I guess). I put her in the big dish of water and she drank and drank and drank. She was shaky and wobbly though, so I put her in one of the empty brooders with a big dog dish of gamebird starter and scratch which she just laid right into.

The water is gross from the ducks, I replace it every morning...

Poor thing! The area she was wedged in is under ivy and bushes, so she has been in shade mostly....which is probably the only way she survived this long in this horrible heat. I feel bad but she was almost invisible.

This is a general idea of where she was.....stuck between the lattice and the ground, but wedged up into the fence by a pallet covered in wood.

Crazy! I hope she makes it.......poor thing.

 

[speckledhen]

Poor sweet girl! I hope she makes it, too.