Virginia

[cubalaya]

Hey cubalaya! Everybody good?

no frostbite here and getting eggs everyday. incubator is loaded. how about you?

 

[finnfur]

no frostbite here and getting eggs everyday. incubator is loaded. how about you?

Once we got the molt of the century over we are up to 11>13 eggs daily from 14 hens/pullets.
No frostbite but lots of frozen solid outside water pans.
You still doing Dels ? I have some new Dels from Kathyinmo and going to be looking for some one to
partner with to keep the line pure and continued in VA .
There is a thread on this line here on BYC https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/777172/delawares-from-kathyinmo
Getting ready to build separate breeding pens now.

 

[MontanaDolphin]

Hey, anyone in or around Goochland have SLW? Or Frizzles? Incubated for the first time during the NYD Hatch-a-Long, had a 60% hatch rate which I think is pretty darn good for someone who's never done it before! Anyhoo, I want to add some new colors to my flock, and would like to hatch some eggs (but will purchase chicks if no eggs available!). I am also looking for turkey eggs, guinea eggs, and duck eggs (Pekin and Cayuga) to hatch. I would rather drive (within an hour's distance) and pick them up than have them shipped, so that's why I'm looking locally. I posted in the Buy/Sell/Trade section, but I've been on BYC for almost a year, and never looked there until I posted myself...so I figure there's probably lots of other BYC members who don't look, either...so I'm asking here

To make it easier to come back and see (if you choose to), here's a list of what I'm looking for:

Silver Laced Wyandotte
Frizzle (preferably golden in color)
Cayuga Duck
Pekin Duck
Domestic Turkey
Guinea

 

[pysankigirl]

I'd love some black india or Cayugas too. also looking for a couple of american buff geese

 

[cubalaya]

finn, we no longer have any delawares. they didn't work out for us here. i hope you have much success with the birds created by kathy. we don't have any black australorps right now either. concentrating on the cubalayas and asils. hatching good numbers of cubalayas and cuba grades for my project. maybe when i get my numbers down, i might get a few black aussies as they are great layers and fairly good meat birds.

 

[manaze88]

Hello, everyone....I posted a thread, but thought I would mention it here hoping some local folks might have answers or leads on some new additions for my new setup. If anyone has some suggestions, feel free to post here or there...I'll be watching both threads for a while:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/847974/new-place-ready-to-add-more-berryville-va

 

[Cknldy]

Cubalaya- I know how that goes bringing down the numbers! I usually do odd work to pay for poultry supplies at least until my newbies start laying. Dh recently had to start paying for the feed and does so grudgedly with my promise of paying it back;-) Once the October chicks started getting a bit bigger and I could tell the sex of everything I went ahead with selling a few extras just to lower #s. The Russian Orloff 9 month olds JUST started laying and dh said I better start incubating to pay for feed!

 

[Maggiesdad]

@ cuba -

My pullets are laying well but my hens have just started laying this past week... so I will start collecting soon. Gray fox made off with 5 of my best mutt egglayers, so that knocked my eating eggs way back. I'm sticking in two doz barnyard mixes in just to hear some peeping around Groundhog day.

I'm going to hold off just a bit longer on my improvement hatches.

 

[cubalaya]

hope you got the fox

 

[Maggiesdad]

Yup! LOL What does the fox say (around here) ?!!!


"Oh no!"

I was tickled pink with that outcome.