The Evolution of Atlas: A Breeding (and Chat) Thread

[1muttsfan]

Whereabouts are you from, mr King?

 

[holm25]

Kathy no longer sells Delawares. I believe she is selling most of her birds and just keeping some for eggs. Sorry this conversation was awhile ago.

We are getting our goats in 2-3 days!! And got a new cat today!!

Got a Welsummer roo to but lost his fingers on his comb to the Minnesota cold!!

 

[Mr King]

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Whereabouts are you from, mr King?

I'm from. Donna Texas. Almost to border to Mexico 20 min. Away

 

[Mr King]

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I'm from. Donna Texas. Almost to border to Mexico 20 min. Away

Lol, sorry I forgot, it's 20 min using to the bridge i used to used, but Donna is in border with Mexico i forgot

( i live north side) I just moved here in April.now they made i new bridge here in Donna. I have never crossed thru that one. Saddly Mexico is a war zone.aanyway that's another story.

 

[1muttsfan]

I am up in Dallas this weekend visiting my sister

 

[speckledhen]

Quote: You could certainly PM Scott and ask him. I'm not sure he's shipping eggs, but I think he used to. He has some awesome Columbian Rocks from stock out of Canada, pretty rare.

Kathy no longer sells Delawares. I believe she is selling most of her birds and just keeping some for eggs. Sorry this conversation was awhile ago.

We are getting our goats in 2-3 days!! And got a new cat today!!

Got a Welsummer roo to but lost his fingers on his comb to the Minnesota cold!!

Poor boy, hard for them to keep those big points in frigid climates. I had some Welsummers a few years ago.

 

[Mr King]

According to my phone gps is 7 hrs 20 min. without traffic.

 

[speckledhen]

According to my phone gps is 7 hrs 20 min. without traffic.

To Dallas or??

Well, that reminds me that I did have someone drive straight through from Massachusetts to my house in Georgia to buy Delaware hatching eggs from me, God's honest truth! That's how hard it was to get good Delawares when Isaac was a young stud muffin (and frankly, it still is).

 

[Mr King]

To Dallas or??

Well, that reminds me that I did have someone drive straight through from Massachusetts to my house in Georgia to buy Delaware hatching eggs from me, God's honest truth! That's how hard it was to get good Delawares when Isaac was a young stud muffin (and frankly, it still is).

Yes from here to Dallas. And I'm sure that person had to dive that long, I thought this was different from having gamefowl but seems to be harder to find quality!

 

[speckledhen]

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I personally don't believe that Delawares will ever make it back to popularity again. I tried and tried to promote them here when Janet Holtman talked me into doing the fertility test for her years ago, pre-Isaac's group. I had some hatchery Dels that I hated and sold them and she swore to me that hers would be different. Folks were enamored with Isaac and his hens and I sold quite a few hatching eggs, then suddenly a dwarf gene popped up in the line (you never know what will happen when you combine lines and start propagating them, Janet said). So, I didn't sell from the hen I knew produced dwarfs, sold her and her daughter as layers, then found another who did, as well as producing sons who were always way too dark. To get properly colored males and females, you have to keep two different lines. Isaac is best for a pullet line. His darkly barred tail produces hens with good tail black.

Delawares are just super cool birds, very friendly, but they are attention seeking pets above all, at least the ones I had. I'd have gone nuts with a huge flock of them. Mine were smart and tended to get into trouble if they can't get out to roam or have to be locked inside too long. They unseated the back of Isaac's comb more than once, just picking at him when they were bored. He's always been too patient with those wenches. Now, the only hen I have left is the one who produces too dark sons and about 20% chicks with either hock issues or dwarfism so I don't give her eggs to anyone else, though Isaac is still fertile at 6 years old. In his prime, he kept 25 hens fertile easily.