Stella's Social Club

[mlm Mike]

Great photos and flocks Rinda.
It's probably best if you husband and I don't go to an auction together though.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Maybe the ladies here will tell me what I may have done wrong, and the guys will learn something or get a laugh.

I got to go shopping with my wife today. When we were at Walmart we walked past the electronics department, I stopped backed up and told my wife I wanted to show her something. We went down the pc aisle, I showed her a laptop and told her I almost bought you this one for Valentines Day. Apparently that was wrong. So next we are going past the sporting goods, she points to a tackle box and tells me she almost got me that for Valentines Day. Thankfully a few more aisles and there was an exercise ball, I told her I almost got you that and an anger management book. Oh, we will be laughing about this for awhile.

Hubby once bought me a Stihl garden cultivator for Valentines Day. Now, it's a great gift, but not what one normally gives for Valentine's Day.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Great pictures Rinda!

 

[chiqita]

Great photos and flocks Rinda.
It's probably best if you husband and I don't go to an auction together though. 

Coming back with chickens and tractors and laptops?

 

[The Sheriff]

Rinda, did you read about the Isbars on GFF's site? Immune suppression due to the ones they originally imported being closely related. I think much of the problems with hatching Isbars and keeping them alive stems from inbreeding. In the beginning I had no problems, added more birds, and in the end couldn't hatch an egg. But, for a few hundred dollars more you can fix the problem by adding GFF's "new" imports.

Hopefully I have learned my lesson on imports of rare breeds. Although, I do admit to having Croad Langshans eggs cooking in an incubator to be shipped to me as chicks! Bring on the plum bloom!

Rinda the coloring on your CL's looks pretty good. I kept the crested girls with less salmon on their chests in case down the road I decide to add a Jill Reese male. I doubt it though. I am so tired of all I went through with the CL's and Isbars.

I thought about the brabanters too but didn't want another white egg layer. I am too old to keep things straight between what will be three pens of Icelandics and one of brabanters. So, I went purple!

 

[1muttsfan]

For the last few years for gift opportunities I have been on the receiving end of many fishing theme T-shirts and sweatshirts. Not that they are not nice, but I have a LOT of them. And not really what I would pick out for myself. But, the thought was definitely there, so I wear them and tolerate the second looks from other men (no not at me, at the shirts

).

 

[mlm Mike]

For the last few years for gift opportunities I have been on the receiving end of many fishing theme T-shirts and sweatshirts. Not that they are not nice, but I have a LOT of them. And not really what I would pick out for myself. But, the thought was definitely there, so I wear them and tolerate the second looks from other men (no not at me, at the shirts

).

That's funny. I have a growing collection of Pirate related T-shirts my wife brings home to me from her annual winter vacation.

 

[The Sheriff]

I wanted to share a neat chicken carrier I bought at an antique store yesterday. I have been admiring it for almost a year but didn't want to spend $50 on it. Yesterday it was on Craigslist for $39 so I got in the car and went to get it. I almost couldn't find it because it had been moved so I thought I had missed out. But then I found it and brought it home. Tag says it was found in an old barn in Nevada County which is where I live! It is about three feet long and HEAVY. I am going to take the hardware cloth off because it looks too new and use it for display. I just ordered a lifelike hen sitting on eggs. I'll put her in the middle box and probably have it on the front porch.




The openings for putting the birds in are spring loaded hinges on the back.



I just love old pieces like this!

 

[mlm Mike]

That is a great find Mary!

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Rinda, did you read about the Isbars on GFF's site? Immune suppression due to the ones they originally imported being closely related. I think much of the problems with hatching Isbars and keeping them alive stems from inbreeding. In the beginning I had no problems, added more birds, and in the end couldn't hatch an egg. But, for a few hundred dollars more you can fix the problem by adding GFF's "new" imports.

Hopefully I have learned my lesson on imports of rare breeds. Although, I do admit to having Croad Langshans eggs cooking in an incubator to be shipped to me as chicks! Bring on the plum bloom!

Rinda the coloring on your CL's looks pretty good. I kept the crested girls with less salmon on their chests in case down the road I decide to add a Jill Reese male. I doubt it though. I am so tired of all I went through with the CL's and Isbars.

I thought about the brabanters too but didn't want another white egg layer. I am too old to keep things straight between what will be three pens of Icelandics and one of brabanters. So, I went purple!

THAT would be why they had pulled Isbars off their website for a while. I am not having hatching trouble, my original rooster came from your eggs and the hens hatched from someone else. Then your rooster died defending his girls against a neighborhood dog (he saved all but one), so I have a new rooster from someone completely different and his eggs are hatching fine, too. I agree not worth the price for more from GFF. Same on the CL lines, I will wait for the price to go down or get the Rees line second hand.

The lure of plum bloom was too much for me, too- ordered these last fall as a young quad and am anxiously awaiting eggs- I noticed this weekend one girl it getting red in the face!

The breeder I bought the from said about 60% of her hens lay a plum bloom. Out of the 3 girls I'm hoping at least 2 have it. The blue boy is HUGE- comes to my 6 year old's waist. I just had to name him Goliath!