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Howdy do there GhostRider65 nice Dels there too, not bad for hatchery stock(which hatchery ?) if you don't mind me asking.
The reason being is this spring I was at my local feedstore and lo and behold I looked over at the chick bins and they had some Delaware pullets just off the truck from Ideal. Well I couldn't help myself and just had to have some, so I gave in and purchased them @ $ 2.75 a piece. So off I go on my way home, well the closer I got to the house and the further I got from the feed store reality started sinking in and I was really starting to second guess my purchase of hatchery type Dells after all the ho-hum and not so good experiences I had heard and read about them, really wanting to start kicking my self in my own rump, kinda feeling. Well it rocked on and I waited and just sorta leisurely took care of them really never getting too excited over my Delaware girls (had/have way too many irons on the fire so too speak) here recently and I'm telling you the more these girls are getting closer to POL the more I'm really starting to take more interest in them (might have some to do with the small fortune I have invested in them too so far, maybe) but some are turning out to be some of the better looking hatchery type Dels that I've seen for quite sometime. Some have very beautiful tail-black with correct lacing to boot, and some have correctly shaped tails not pinched either, alot better than my first go around with my supposedly breeder type from a farm that swore in good selecting and hard culling (I must have gotten the culls evidently, IDK) Maybe sooner rather than later I can get some pics of them and post some on here. I was out looking at them and my project girls today and noticed that all 7 of the Del girls had that fixing to start laying look to them. It seems like all of the sudden overnight 'blamo' there it is those rosey-red combs start getting brighter and their wattles start growing a little more noticble than the day before, oh yeah its getting close to time for them to start practicing nesting(actually getting in there and messing things up is more like it, scratching all the nesting out of the boxes and they sure are heck on any freshly laid eggs that might be in their way of their practice runs of sit and wait game).
Anyway keep us posted on your endeavours into the Delaware world, it's a trip!
Jeff
