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[ronott1]

What about Svort Hona? This is one of the gals I bought.View attachment 2856724

The eggs are small to medium and they are more normal for egg laying-- average is 250 a year.

 

[ronott1]

I got a couple of Astrolorps from a local breeder here. One turned out to be blue, but failed to thrive. People just keep breeding the same stock year after year, without bringing in 'fresh blood' and the chickens get progressively weaker by generation. Inbreeding multiplies faults while line breeding adds to good traits if done properly.
The only really good birds I got from TSC were the supposed black sex links I got the first year. One was a barred rock roo, another a cockoo marans roo, and one was Henrietta a bsl. This year the cinnamon queens were smallish, as well as the calico princess girls. The one great find was my big baby EE sold as an Ameraucana.

To get the Blue,black,splash australorps, they are bred to a blue orpington. That changes them some.

 

[silverhair67]

To get the Blue,black,splash australorps, they are bread to a blue orpington. That changes them some.

 

[silverhair67]

If my neighbors are around we will most likely do some trading, new new as you said, I'm trying to keep a small flock, I can add runs and coops if I need to,

 

[silverhair67]

new blood

 

[CSolis]

Morning Old Folks sitting here with big mug of coffee .. wet outside

Wet, wet? Try 4" yesterday and another 1.3 before dawn this morning. Heard a big crash outside so looked for fallen limbs on the roof or around the house. Nope nothing major. Then noticed from the front deck I couldn't see the "Chateau Le Chicks" in the pen where I have Bruce the Magnificent and his 9 wives. OOOO M G! Put my shoes on and went out to find that the rain had washed out around the cinder blocks that held up that 'house', and it was laying on the ground! I count hen heads as I could already see Bruce.. 1,2,3,4,5...9 phew! nobody was under the house when it hit the ground. Then it was me using a cinder block and a 4x 4 to lever the house back up where I could get runners (4 x 4's) under it so it wouldn't be directly on the ground. It was built on site and weighs a lot, so I just had to work smarter and not harder since muscle mass and back strength are not on my side.

 

[pennyJo1960]

We live and learn what works for us where we are .... Taken me 7 years to get that here..

 

[Beer can]

Tell me I'm not the only one up in the middle of the night.

Morning for me been a long time since I stayed up till 4am

 

[CSolis]

Morning for me been a long time since I stayed up till 4am

I didn't stay up that late, but after only a few hours was wide awake. Came in to see what was happening in the world.

 

[JD4570]

Things going okay down in heat-ville?

Heat-ville? Well last week we had a couple of mornings in the mid fifties but since then the wake up temperature has been in the sixties for the most part. Only had one day make it back in to the mid nineties. The farmers almanac said it's about to cool off the last part of the month then the latter half of next month it supposed to drop off precipitously.