Show off your Delawares! *PIC HEAVY*

[sheilawagner]

My Delaware hen, at pre-dawn this morning. She wasn't very happy to find this white stuff called snow on the ground..

 

[HorizonSon]

We are supposed to get some snow right here on the coast, in Southern Oregon! That is rare; usually only happening in the dead of Winter...
If at all!

Supposed to hit sometime after midnight, tonight.

 

[Inkheart]

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What a great picture - DESPITE that "evil" white stuff on the ground!

 

[ca]

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Wow! That dog is a keeper! You think the chick will learn to bark if it's a cockerel?

 

[HorizonSon]

Well... we got a "touch of snow" this e-a-r-l-y AM. It's supposed to actually keep getting colder and colder, through the AM and past noon! RIDICULOUS! Roos was getting ticked that his henny honey wasn't wanting out of their "coop"... The chicks are alive, so it seems. All were under the lamps; some standing. There was no over bunching observed; thankfully...

The wind chill is bringing are temps down to the teens!

That usually only happens in late January through February!

 

[JoAnn_WI_4-H_Mom]

The DH (who doesn't like chickens) is continuing to modify and improve the insulated coop room in our pole shed.

The Delawares decided to DWD Mind Control him.

While building a shelf pen for a Jaerhon rooster, they kept flying up onto the boards he was attaching to walls and looking at him and what he was working on and offering advice...I really wish I had a camera, as it was really hilarious how unafraid of him they were, even though he is not normally in the pens. He would set them away and they would keep coming back.

These are the nice chucky Sand Hill girls with the incorrect black hackles (their tail black is looking ok though).

So the spouse asked the eldest boy to hold the most persistent one to keep her out of the way. She made such a racket that DH told him to put her down. The boy just made it before she laid an egg at his feat. "oh weird, it is still wet!" So I guess the lady was just trying to get the DH to build her a nest box and HURRY!

It was a funny, chicken-filled weekend. Everyone is now safe and warm in the coop room as winter gets raw.

 

[kathyinmo]

JoAnn_WI_4-H_Mom
That is just soooo typical of the Delaware, isn't it! That is great. If any breed can sway one from not caring for chickens into enjoying them .... it would be the Delaware! Thanks for sharing the story. I love it!

About the Sandhill Dels ...... you say they are nice and chunky? Do you have pictures you could post?

 

[Inkheart]

Joann

This makes me want to hatch some or raise Del chicks of my own! ( hint hint anyone- incubator is on Xmas list) I got my as pullets - they are friendly - but not THAT friendly!

 

[HorizonSon]

Observation/Question: I noticed several of my chicks seem to have partially ashy green-gray legs. Is this normal/typical?... I felt them and they did not seem especially cold... Any thoughts?

 

[PepsNick]

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They dellies?