Stella's Social Club

[The Sheriff]

Congrats Deb! Hey, are you not helping out at the fair this year?

Because I need to move that snake picture off the big space at the top I am posting my breakfast pic. Sorry but that snake gives me the creeps.

Polenta with Collard Greens and Poached Egg.

From my garden!

 

[ronott1]

Congrats Deb! Hey, are you not helping out at the fair this year?

Because I need to move that snake picture off the big space at the top I am posting my breakfast pic. Sorry but that snake gives me the creeps.

Polenta with Collard Greens and Poached Egg.

From my garden!

More pictures need to be posted--The snake is still there....

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Hahaha, I'll help. Here's a few of some work I've been doing. We bought this playset off Craigslist for $300 plus about $100 in new parts/boards. It was a beast to take apart and move, and a beast to put back together. But it's done! The little playhouse has good bones but the siding was shot, so that's next week's project. It will be cute!






And this year's honey yum!


My hopefuls for this fall's Cream Legbar breeding pen (swapped stock with another breeder):

 

[ronott1]

Hahaha, I'll help. Here's a few of some work I've been doing. We bought this playset off Craigslist for $300 plus about $100 in new parts/boards. It was a beast to take apart and move, and a beast to put back together. But it's done! The little playhouse has good bones but the siding was shot, so that's next week's project. It will be cute!






And this year's honey yum!


My hopefuls for this fall's Cream Legbar breeding pen (swapped stock with another breeder):

Very nice Rinda!

You have the gray cream legbars? Is that import 2 from GFF?

 

[ronott1]

The snake is gone!

 

[Eva2012]

Congrats Deb! Hey, are you not helping out at the fair this year? Because I need to move that snake picture off the big space at the top I am posting my breakfast pic. Sorry but that snake gives me the creeps. Polenta with Collard Greens and Poached Egg. From my garden!

LOL I got over the shock after I saw it the first time, or maybe I am still in shock.... And I certainly prefer your breakfast, Mary, stunning and delicious.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Very nice Rinda!

You have the gray cream legbars? Is that import 2 from GFF?

These are not the new Rees line, those have just been released and even people who have them already only have little bitty ones just a few weeks old.

These are from another breeder who's had them from one of the first import lines. She hatched all summer last year from her trio or quad and only got two girls- the other girls were all dead in shell when she opened the unhatched eggs. So she had a LOT of boys and she grew them all out. She decided the problem was her male was too closely related to her females hence the fatalities in her female chicks. So I sent her a few girls and she picked out a few of her best boys for me to work with. Win win! The genetics are THERE with the original GFF lines. You just have to hatch a lot and cull HARD. I started with the boy on the left, Charlie. My current rooster is the boy on the right, it's his son Hugger (named by my 6 year old). A few issues he has that are major problems- he carries the recessive white which I hope to eliminate, and the bigger problem he is throwing some white egg layers so he is heterozygous for the blue egg gene. He will be moving out in a few weeks to another breeder (with full disclosure). These new boys should be clean of both problems. Now I just have to test mate all my hens and find out which of them are also heterozygous. It's a headache.


More recent picture of Hugger:


And this is his son, who is being test mated for blue egg gene. He's young so some of the hens in his pen aren't letting him breed them yet. He's got two RIR, mean things who won't let him near him, and two exchequer leghorns, one of which has a neurological problem and has already quit laying (under a year old started laying in January). I really should cull her but don't have the heart to do it yet. She flops on the ground in a "seizure" everytime she gets startled or a roo tries to mount her.




I've learned the key to the lighter boys. I no longer grow out males with a "cinnamon" tint to them. There are 5 in this box. The dark boys sometimes are too colorful sometimes not- I think the darkness sometimes hides the cinnamon tint. The light boys are almost universally light when they grow up. I wish I could figure out what the female counterpart is to this puzzle so I can pick the correct females at hatch, too!

The snake is gone!

You're welcome.

 

[The Sheriff]

I have old lady eyes so once the snake lost the big spot I was good! If I ever found one of those in the coop I would move to high rise apartment! Along the same line as the snake but to a lesser level, I opened the door to the brooder house this morning and a lizard ran across my foot! I panicked and jumped backwards falling off the top step and scraping the front of my leg. It is bruised and swollen. Jeeze. I hate slithering things.

 

[ronott1]

These are not the new Rees line, those have just been released and even people who have them already only have little bitty ones just a few weeks old.

These are from another breeder who's had them from one of the first import lines. She hatched all summer last year from her trio or quad and only got two girls- the other girls were all dead in shell when she opened the unhatched eggs. So she had a LOT of boys and she grew them all out. She decided the problem was her male was too closely related to her females hence the fatalities in her female chicks. So I sent her a few girls and she picked out a few of her best boys for me to work with. Win win! The genetics are THERE with the original GFF lines. You just have to hatch a lot and cull HARD. I started with the boy on the left, Charlie. My current rooster is the boy on the right, it's his son Hugger (named by my 6 year old). A few issues he has that are major problems- he carries the recessive white which I hope to eliminate, and the bigger problem he is throwing some white egg layers so he is heterozygous for the blue egg gene. He will be moving out in a few weeks to another breeder (with full disclosure). These new boys should be clean of both problems. Now I just have to test mate all my hens and find out which of them are also heterozygous. It's a headache.


More recent picture of Hugger:


And this is his son, who is being test mated for blue egg gene. He's young so some of the hens in his pen aren't letting him breed them yet. He's got two RIR, mean things who won't let him near him, and two exchequer leghorns, one of which has a neurological problem and has already quit laying (under a year old started laying in January). I really should cull her but don't have the heart to do it yet. She flops on the ground in a "seizure" everytime she gets startled or a roo tries to mount her.




I've learned the key to the lighter boys. I no longer grow out males with a "cinnamon" tint to them. There are 5 in this box. The dark boys sometimes are too colorful sometimes not- I think the darkness sometimes hides the cinnamon tint. The light boys are almost universally light when they grow up. I wish I could figure out what the female counterpart is to this puzzle so I can pick the correct females at hatch, too!




You're welcome.

You are doing a nice job with them. Are you working with just struttin? she had an event day for CCLs this spring with the APA goal in mind.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

You are doing a nice job with them. Are you working with just struttin? she had an event day for CCLs this spring with the APA goal in mind.

Is that Deanne in CA? I wanted to attend but I'm way out in Oklahoma and I was in the middle of honey season at the time. They recorded it and we will watch some of it at the next Cream Legbar Club meeting in August. Would loved to have picked Walt's brain in person though!!!