Stella's Social Club

[mbmess2003]

Good catch Deb! That would not have been pretty

 

[The Sheriff]

Try the wax Deb!

 

[NotAFarm]

Tucker

Deb's egg

 

[tazcat70]

Sue me!  

I thought you were done with lawyers?

Deb, good catch! That could have been very bad!

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Try the wax Deb!

 

[Mahonri]

Well, this weekend I'm going to be real nice.

Over my five years on BYC, I've had folks here on BYC be VERY nice to me, (The Sheriff, kathyinmo, laree, NotAFarm, SCG, pasofinofarm, and many others etc..) so I'm passing it on. I can no longer keep roos so.....

There is an FFA group in the East Valley that are looking for "project chickens".

So, they will be picking up my entire flock of Icelandics. 1 pretty roo and 9 hens/pullets.

I got them originally to help preserve the breed. While I love watching them and their antics and they are most certainly "EYE CANDY"... with the gorgeous young roo crowing to beat the band each morning and doing nothing yet with the ladies, I decided I'd let them go where I know they'll stay pure and this land race chicken will be preserved.

My wife will miss those pretty little white eggs, (they lay almost as well as my leghorns) but they are going to a greater good.

Mary, Mary and Kathy... THANK YOU!

 

[1muttsfan]

I know how you feel, my entire flock of bantam Lemon Blue/Brown Red cochins are going today to another breeder who has a real passion for them. (Minus some eggs that somehow made their way into the incubator last weekend...). But now I have room for some other projects that interest me more, although I will miss their fluffy butts.

 

[The Sheriff]

Tough choices to re-home your flocks. I certainly understand.

I am in the throes of decision making as to where I want to go with my chickens. I will always keep my Icelandics and my old layer girls but beyond that I just don't know. Mahonri, I know your wife will miss the Icelandic eggs for cooking. They work really well for poaching. Not too big. If I had any bread in the house I would make a poached egg on toast for breakfast but alas, I do not. Plus someone is picking up Icelandic hatching eggs on Friday so I can't eat them. I am no longer selling or sharing Icelandic eggs. The brouhaha on the Icelandic thread and the threats put me off to it ever again. But this guy has been getting chicks from me for a number of years and has a flock in Utah exclusively Icelandic. This time he is picking up hatching eggs and driving them back home. I hope he has a good hatch.

I have 8 olive eggers and one Isbar on lockdown right now. I have a broody on eight project eggs. I will put a dozen Isbar eggs in the incubator today and then that is it for me unless something totally irresistible comes along.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Yay for Isbar eggs!

Sorry to hear you've got to let them go Mahonri. Sure glad you found them a great home.

 

[The Sheriff]

Yay for Isbar eggs!

Sorry to hear you've got to let them go Mahonri. Sure glad you found them a great home.

Don't get too excited about Isbar eggs just yet. They are already old but I am setting them anyway. I am finally able to get one every day or two that isn't eaten. The blue Isbar currently residing with the layers is eating eggs and one of the splashes in the Isbar coop is eating every egg laid in there. So I will be moving the egg eaters to a coop of their own as soon as I have one available. I may have to build a roll-out nest box for them until they forget how good eggs taste. I may just band the egg eaters and put a roll-out nest box in the Isbar coop and leave them there. Right now they are just frustrating the heck out of me, especially the one eating Icelandic eggs!

So I am hoping to hatch their replacements in 21 days!