The Wyandotte Thread

[Chickenhill]

i miss the anticipation and excitement of foaling, working with new babies, and all, but i do NOT miss having to find homes for them... i'm agonizing about just leasing out one mare right now (my first baby of 17 years old), simply to be used as a lesson horse. she needs a job and is getting into trouble because i'm not riding much anymore. i'd love to breed her, since her mother's getting older (26) but can't find a stallion i like within reasonable distances... and the friesian people down the road don't want to outcross to my Morgan girl either. (that's probably my favorite cross of all!)

handling my stallions, i have no problem breeding to other peoples' mares tho... as long as i don't have to worry about finding them homes later LOL

chickens are so much easier... hatch them out, keep the good ones, and either sell or eat the rest.

There is something about a fresian that intrigues me. A morgan cross would prove quite interesting. We use to cross the welsh on the QH for kids horses that was a fun cross.

I agree, chickens at this day and age are much easier and my ever curious mind gets to see results quickly.

 

[Texasmja]

It wasn't to bad... I had web cams in all the stalls and beepers on all their halters. Some of my friends had web cams to so we traded off watching at night so the other could sleep. The excitement kept me up more than they did! The curiosity of waiting to see the cross about killed me for all the months that dragged by waiting waiting. lol Kiss a nose and scratch a hinney for me

I have over the years of examining mares found a body change that has never failed to tell me that she will foal within 12 hours or less. I have been doing this examination for maybe 10 years now. Of course my friends thought I was crazy at first...

 

[DaphneNL]

Yeah, but I know you don't miss the SLEEPLESS nights! I have two maiden mares this year, they are NOT fun to foal out. I pray they are good to me.

Our qh mare's first delivery went pretty smooth...after 370 days of waiting. Grmbl. You don't wanna know what I looked like by then.

 

[Texasmja]

Our qh mare's first delivery went pretty smooth...after 370 days of waiting. Grmbl. You don't wanna know what I looked like by then.

Those are the best deliveries, when everything that needs to happen does so at the right time. 370 days, that's crazy, my longest was 355 days. I know what you looked like by day 370! Was she an old mare?

 

[Texasmja]

I agree, chickens at this day and age are much easier and my ever curious mind gets to see results quickly.

I agree 21 days sure beats 340 days of waiting

 

[DaphneNL]

Those are the best deliveries, when everything that needs to happen does so at the right time. 370 days, that's crazy, my longest was 355 days. I know what you looked like by day 370! Was she an old mare?

She was 7 at the time. Her filly was very very small, but she's now our biggest mare. We had a very cold winter back then. I wasn't the only one looking like a trainwreck. Mom wasn't amused she had that big belly for so long either.

 

[Texasmja]

the friesian people down the road don't want to outcross to my Morgan girl either. (that's probably my favorite cross of all!)

I have seen Morgan's crossed on Percheron. A friend of mine showed 3 she owned in dressage in Texas. And even had them inspected and they did quite well. The Morgan blood added refinement to the Perch.

 

[DMRippy]

Well, my first TEST of SLW eggs since everyone got moved and TRIMMED..... and NONE are fertile

I have another batch so I will give it one more go.....

Looking like AI is in my future.

 

[Texasmja]

Well, my first TEST of SLW eggs since everyone got moved and TRIMMED..... and NONE are fertile

I have another batch so I will give it one more go.....

Looking like AI is in my future.

I am sorry, that really sucks. Do you have another roo? Is there a university near you with a poultry dept that can maybe test his sperm?

 

[gwenirish11]

Hi all just wanted to post a picture of my Shirley! I love her!!