The 5th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

[ronott1]

SO are you saying I should get some araucana now to put in with my Legbars!? lol

Ill be sure to tell DH it wasn't my idea it was Rons and we needed to test this theory.

I have been blamed for worse things!

All for poultry science....

UofA blues crossed with Cream Legbars would work--Bigger and more eggs.

 

[Cynthia12]

Good Morning ALL!

I woke up to this bit of humor...thought you might appreciate it, lol!​

I don't get it.
Ooohh, now I get it!

 

[Cynthia12]

The Dorking in the picture is a bit off for coloring:


This is a picture of the parent flock from 2006. They have been improved since then.

Oooo, that is better.

 

[Cynthia12]

How do I sign up- do I just declare it here?

I have eggs in the bator now that should hatch the 25-26th, leaving me just enough time to clean it and get another batch going!

I have chick fever!

ME TOO!

 

[Cynthia12]

NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

I woke up this morning to 4-6 inches of snow and more coming down fast!!! After the past two 50 degree days with all the paths melted and lots of nice bare ground and grass showing, this is quite a depressing blow.

Out shoveling paths to the coops for over an hour this morning. Now, I like shoveling, and making neat wide paths in the snow, but I think we have had enough practice in perfect-path-making already this winter!!!

A looong time ago... And to top it off, we are forecast to have NEGATIVE temperatures AGAIN tonight!!! I don't think any of my hens will want to go broody in those temps!!

On the egg prices - we sell our eggs for $4 per dozen this year. We started at $3 several years ago, and slowly went up, mainly due to rising grain costs. We make our own Soy-Free, Organic feed, and we have many customers from a local health group that really wants the Soy-free eggs. I have seen other Organic local eggs going for close to $5 per dozen around here in Lapeer, Michigan, and I know Free Range, Organic eggs in the stores are close to $4 per dozen as well.

I'm sorry, for the snow you..we sure could use it up on our mountains for spring run off. We haven't gotten enough yet. Just getting it in the valleys doesn't help us much for the summer..we are looking at drought so far.
Man, I think I may just have to raise my egg prices up 24 cents. Yep.

 

[ronott1]

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Oooo, that is better.

The Pullets need to have salmon colored breast feathers. The pattern on the neck goes to make the black and white on the rooster. You have to have both of those things to make the boys and girls look correct. It is a tough pattern to keep up. they look good but are a bit small. Tail feathers are a bit off but not too much.

Kim's culls are beautiful.

This one has nice coloring. Mimi likes to fly up onto my coup!



This is a hatch of SG Dorkings from last year

 

[Gardeningmama]

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Oh Yeah!

Quote: Absolutely you should....and totally blame Ron!

I was about to post that the Sun hasn't been out yet....

Good Afternoon Mrs. Sunshine

 

[abmaddox1981]

I will put you on my list!

Ok, you are on my list of People that Want Chickens!

Awesomeness!!

 

[Cynthia12]

Wow! at least you got notice. They just cut ours. with no warning when they do that here. good luck getting a generator.

Same with us Scott..had eggs in year before last, and it was off for three hrs. But, they couldn't let us know..they didn't cut it, there was a bad car accident, hit a power station...ouch? I put my eggs out in a vehichle. Plugged in one that I had a plug for, put the other in the sun with a towel over the windows..yes, it was summer.

Sorry Wisher..hope you find that generator. We have one, I keep telling DH that we need to get it out in the open, where we can reach it quickly. It's almost new, not used much, just for camping a few times.

 

[Cynthia12]

They are beautiful! I love these colors!