Show off your Delawares! *PIC HEAVY*

[capayvalleychick]

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Awesome!

I liked pinkchick's pics, too!

Kim

 

[Serrin]

Ooooh! Jeremy! Please! Please! Please! When she lays her first little pullet egg, be sure to post a picture of it! I want to compare it to Cosette's!

She's a cutie pie!

So far, I'm fairly pleased with my trio from Privette. They're appropriately friendly and active and, to date, their colors are looking reasonably good for ones so young. However, I must add this caveat: Eleanore's legs have that dreaded green tinge to them.

It's so hard to tell at this young age [just shy of a month old now] just how well they're going to turn out with regards to SOP. But in the personality department, they're everything I could hope them to be!

These pictures were taken at right about 2 weeks of age:

Amelia

Madison

Eleanore

As you can see in that picture of Eleanore, she has that green hue to her legs and feet. Nothing is wrong with the form of her toes. She was just getting her little toenails caught in the cloth I was using as a backdrop, the poor little thing.

She has the most ridiculously long toenails!

Jeremy, I love your boy Claude. What an extraordinarily handsome fella! Is there any chance I could talk you out of a few eggs from your BWA girls next spring? I'd love to start working on a Delawegger line and see if I can't get some momentum going towards getting the Delawegger recognized as a new breed!! Wouldn't that be a ton of fun!

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

Ok, I understand that you do not want to have the green tinge in the legs. However if you have a hen with a good body type but the greenish legs couldn't you breed her to a roo with yellow legs and hope for the best?
Also this pullet is 10 weeks old here, what do you think of her? She is the sweetest so I call her Shug.

 

[PepsNick]

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Her legs aren't that green so I assume that she would do well with a yellow legged cockerel.

Her type is okay, not really a great example of the bowl shape though. Can you get a picture of her tail from the back? I can't tell if it's pinched. Also, her hackles could darken a little- Nicely barred though. Just my input.

She's cute.

 

[ChicksterJo]

I have a Delaware from a local hatchery and her tail feathers are so different from the other chickens' tails. Her "sister" (the other Delaware) died at a week old so I couldn't compare the two. I was just wondering what you mean by "bowl shape"? Thanks.

 

[jeremy]

Nick, you sure do know a lot about Delawares.

 

[PepsNick]

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Actually I don't. Thanks though. Just stuff I've read from some great people.

 

[Zanna]

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Go back to post #10078, great pics of what you are looking for

 

[ChicksterJo]

Thanks, Zanna, for pointing me in the right direction. I understand now.

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

Thanks from me too

I forgot about that post. Maybe I need to go back and re read this whole thread