The Wyandotte Thread

[DMRippy]

Quote: That last one looks like it is leaking black too..... I prefer the other one too..... I am pretty sure I hatched my first one today! It was wet when I found it but it didn't look like a SLW..... it was different.

 

[Alaskan]

Now WHY can't I just stick some chicken eggs in my pockets next time I am in Germany?


I would love that porcelain color!

What you need is a golf bag! Seriously if you talk to the Agriculture Department you can find out what is necessary for importing the eggs. The Icelandics got a start here when someone was on a horse trekking trip in Iceland and was offered eggs. They helped her get the paperwork in order and she flew home with a carton of them sitting on her lap. That kind of speed probably means that the farm was already our equivalent of NPIP but it is not impossible.

IDK i actually started looking up the paperwork.... Daunting, the amount of stuff they require, and the "eggs must be cleaned and sanitized"!!!!! Really? How do you get them to hatch after that?

 

[LonelyPageTurne]

Well I'm crock potting my runt wyandotte cockerel. Gorgeous carcass. Clean white skin. HUGE testicles. But he was still significantly smaller, at 6 or 8 months (I got him older) than a 10 week old meatie.

 

[Penny Hen]

IDK i actually started looking up the paperwork.... Daunting, the amount of stuff they require, and the "eggs must be cleaned and sanitized"!!!!! Really? How do you get them to hatch after that?

It may lower the rate of hatch but people buy Trader Joe fertile eggs all the time that have been cleaned, sanitized and refrigerated and still get some to hatch.

I guess I don't find it so huge because I have raised sheep for years and the hoops you must jump to import ram semen (you cannot import fertilized ova or live sheep) make chicken eggs look easy. Sheep have to have laproscopic surgery in order to impregnate with 60 to 70% success rate. Manual insemination only has a 20% success rate in sheep unless they have improved the technique in the last eight years. You have to use hormone sponges inserted into the sheep in order to get them to cycle together so they will all be ready for the vet to do the surgery and implant the semen in the right place.

It is a real commitment like climbing Everest. I have never had the funds to do it. If I did I would want to either go with Racka's from Hungary or this tiny little sheep from Breton, France, the Oessant. It is a relative to Shetlands but smaller. So importing eggs seems more like Hiking on the Appalachian Trail to me.

 

[Alaskan]

Wow! I had no idea!

 

[PeakyBeaky]

Took a few pictures after all my chicken chores today.


Silver penciled male.





Silver penciled hen.




Some of our Pen 1 Silver hens.



A few grow out BLR boys.

 

[Joshua G]

Took a few pictures after all my chicken chores today.


Silver penciled male.





Silver penciled hen.




Some of our Pen 1 Silver hens.



A few grow out BLR boys.

Great photos!

 

[Alaskan]

@PeakyBeaky

They are all lovely, but I really like the comb on that first rooster! Nice and tight!

 

[LittleMissPurdy]

Took a few pictures after all my chicken chores today.


Silver penciled male.





Silver penciled hen.




Some of our Pen 1 Silver hens.



A few grow out BLR boys.

Beautiful!!!

Absolutely LOVE your Silver-laced!! A color of the rainbow i do not yet have

 

[PeakyBeaky]

Thanks guys!