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[Daloorashens]

Loving all the pics on here!! Fun birds and awesome eggs, too!!!

Need to post a pic of the egg collection I am getting, kind of fun colors, especially because right now I only have 2 brown egg layers (sold the other 2) and 3 green/olive egg layers... That blue orp should be any day... saw her squatting the other day.... I really like that blue color... and she is getting big and heavy and fluffy like my BO... love it!!

That story about the rooster camping is seriously cracking me up... the rooster we got from birdguy which is at my mom's house is kind of like that... he lets me kiddos pick him up and stroke his comb, and he just sits there clucking the whole time... His feathers are still growing back in, so won't post a full-body pic yet, but really liking the coppery feathering he has on his chest but not down to his shanks (he's a blue Marans) getting really excited for when the chickie girlies I have are laying and we can get some eggs!!!

And those Wheaten roos are really pretty little guys, wow!! Can't believe how much their feathering has changed.... I agree with the others, Cynthia, yours look like pullets, they're feathering is just not very boyish.. maybe I should post pics of mine again, so you can see how striking their feathers are... Also, their combs are VERY red, the wheaten turned red before the blue wheaten, but it was within a week of each other that they turned red, and that's been a couple of weeks ago, now...

 

[the-bird-man]

I also went and visited my daughter last night.  I took my grandsons two chicks.  They have named them CHI CHI who is some sort of top hat chick it was a mystery egg I was sent .  The other they named Gobble head she is a sizzle.  Really cute kids and chicks but of course I am a bit prejudice.  Kids are Phin and Thad



Thad and CHICHI

Phin and gobblehead

you have very handsome grandsons anyone having a bad year for flys? i swear we have not had flys like this in years

 

[SashaT]

Sundance, just noticing..is that a Millie D'Uccle that one of your grand children is holding? Pretty orange colored one? Going to be very pretty bird.

Whitni, do you know how long I've been trying for a pretty partridge silkie or showgirl??? Yours are beautiful.

Sasha, you are making me happy that got polish eggs..can hardly wait to see what I get, because some could be barred, or is it called cuckoo? So far, 9 are viable. Crossing fingers.

Wendy Feb.? My Ameraucana that laid today turned 6 months on the 19th..she hatched the 19th of Jan. Long wait. So, soon for yours.

Cynthia, you'll love the Polish babies. Are they LF or bantam? From what I've seen in the Polish world thus far, they call them Cuckoo. Super cute! What day are you on for incubating?

 

[SashaT]

you have very handsome grandsons

anyone having a bad year for flys? i swear we have not had flys like this in years

Bird-man, until we got rain a couple weeks ago, our fly population seemed very, very low. Now they're showing their ugly faces more frequently.

 

[sundancenbare]

Sundance, just noticing..is that a Millie D'Uccle that one of your grand children is holding? Pretty orange colored one? Going to be very pretty bird.

Whitni, do you know how long I've been trying for a pretty partridge silkie or showgirl??? Yours are beautiful.

Sasha, you are making me happy that got polish eggs..can hardly wait to see what I get, because some could be barred, or is it called cuckoo? So far, 9 are viable. Crossing fingers.

Wendy Feb.? My Ameraucana that laid today turned 6 months on the 19th..she hatched the 19th of Jan. Long wait. So, soon for yours.

I am not sure what kind of chicken my grand son has, It is some type of partridge polish. Is you Americana related to the one I got from U, I also got a blue egg today but I think it came from the EE I got from you in frb The americana has no red yet just pink

 

[sundancenbare]

you have very handsome grandsons

anyone having a bad year for flys? i swear we have not had flys like this in years

I sprinkle DE around have not a a fly problem at all

 

[sundancenbare]

I got to meet Lord Scott and Lady Diana (aka Sundancebare) tonight! What a delightful couple! Fun, spunky, and full of stories - I want to tell her stories to you all, but I guess that's not fair cuz you need to hear them straight from her

! (Ok - a few snippets - She has trained jumping horses (which I adore), and a chicken to bow, her cats are international award winners, she loves animals with remarkable appearances, her husband is a Lord in Scotland, and she used to ride her horses up the mountain by my house.) She is a true animal lover. You would never know she spent the week in the hospital, she has so much energy.

She's traveling with a gorgeous Sphynx cat. The first time I have ever seen one - it was beautiful. And three adorable little LITTLE yorkies. And three cute chickies - the pic she posted of the bantam with the bullseye spot does not show the markings - its a bullseye on the top of its head. And six chickies from me doing the shuttle. And she may have been hiding something else in there!

They were very fun.

Sundance - I have a neighbor who raises exotic snakes... They are varigated - the colors and patterns change down the length of the snake. I'll have to introduce you

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Ann we went ti Cal ranch today and guess what we bought? A cape cod style coop for Eds quail that he has decided to raise. I have created a monster and you helped

 

[RedIII]

We always seem to have flies sneaking in around here, but I've noticed that it provides more entertainment. Whenever the chickens see one, they go nuts trying to get it

They've also cut down our Box Elder bug and stink beetle population, hooray!

 

[sundancenbare]

Does anyone know anyone in Salt lake or Utah County that raises quail. The lady in Idaho has whites but Ed wants normal

 

[SashaT]

Does anyone know anyone in Salt lake or Utah County that raises quail. The lady in Idaho has whites but Ed wants normal

One of the workers at IFA in Ogden told me this past March that anyone who breeds, sells and now buys has to purchase a license from the state of Utah to do so. Just a heads-up. She said the license is around $100.