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[Chickielady]

Bard Rocks maybe plymouth Bard rocks

Barred Plymouth Rocks

White Plymouth Rocks

Black Plymouth Rocks

The Barring on them is barring, as in barring of color...it is not 'Bared"

We talk about Plymouth Barred Rocks like Peanut Butter & Jelly:

PBR

in the case of peanut butter and jelly it is a PBJ...................................

My Dad (82) still asks for a PBJ for lunch with his CS...(Chicken soup!)

I made AMAZING chicken vegie soup today...another reason why we have propane cooking.....if all else fails, we still have propane.
And the generator....
Glad to hear everyone survived, I was painting a new painting....


not done yet...still working on it...

 

[pennyJo1960]

Barred Plymouth Rocks

White Plymouth Rocks

Black Plymouth Rocks

The Barring on them is barring, as in barring of color...it is not 'Bared"

We talk about Plymouth Barred Rocks like Peanut Butter & Jelly:

PBR

in the case of peanut butter and jelly it is a PBJ...................................

My Dad (82) still asks for a PBJ for lunch with his CS...(Chicken soup!)

I made AMAZING chicken vegie soup today...another reason why we have propane cooking.....if all else fails, we still have propane.
And the generator....

giggle

going to cook dinner

 

[Chickielady]

I answered my own question sex - links lay brown wont bother getting any

huh ?
won't bother getting any what ?

OK, going to close coops, feed up, and look into this hungry man I have here who just made my recipe double ginger molasses cookies !!
He is getting so good at it, he really can do it without me.
The recipe is for regular Wheat Flour, and my recipe is for Gluten free, so there is alterations to the recipe.

And he did great!




What a sweetie pie Einstein is !!!

 

[Hinotori]

Quote:

You're paintings are always so wonderful and beautiful. I can barely do sketches well enough to even have half a guess on what the creature is.


Home grown chickens make the best soup. I've finally decided I really don't like using store bought chicken at all for soup. I'd rather have the flavor and actual meat texture from my birds. Makes for a better soup. And on the plus side, I can actually eat their breasts. Commercial chicken breast is dry with the texture of paper clay. I have a hard time swallowing it. I've been eating down the freezer and found a pack of chicken breasts that I was baking and hubby was taking for his lunch. So I thought, hey, quick chicken soup. I ended up picking out the meat and giving it to the dogs. I just had the veggies and broth.

 

[pennyJo1960]

got my Barred Plymouth Rocks giggle.. thought I might add a few sex links till I read they lay brown eggs how would I find
correct me if I have it wrong I think they are Olive egger birds? I will be doing a bit more research on them myself.
Is there anyone here in western washington that has the olive eggers?

 

[CharterChick]

Chicks should be ok I just hate running the generator for 1 thing lol

We did not loose power !
I am so amazed !!!

Winds sustained at 50-gusts to 70+....wow, hard to get a good night's sleep, and bet you are glad th boat ain't in the water!!!

There was a wave reported off the or coast that was 40ft high! The fishing opener is Saturday but we canceled already because it's supposed to be 17ft waves... No thank you! Lol

 

[junebuggena]

thank you guess I was told wrong, what do you think of the sex-link birds what color eggs do they lay

They usually lay brown, but mine lay green/blue. My main rooster was an Easter Egger, that was pure for blue egg gene.

 

[junebuggena]

got my Barred Plymouth Rocks giggle.. thought I might add a few sex links till I read they lay brown eggs how would I find
correct me if I have it wrong I think they are Olive egger birds? I will be doing a bit more research on them myself.
Is there anyone here in western washington that has the olive eggers?

Olive Eggers can be tricky to breed. The genes that control the amount of brown coating an egg gets are complicated. Usually, if a person has crossed a blue egg laying breed, with a dark brown laying breed, the resulting chicks might lay olive eggs, or they can be lighter shades of green.

 

[SeattleSelkie]

I'm exhausted!
We have had two long power outages over the past three days and my incubator is full with long-coveted eggs.

Tuesday was a car-power pole accident that took out the power pole and our entire island's electricity. Fired up the generator for the eggs (did I hear grumbling from my DH?) and then started to worry that it was going to be a long outage and we didn't have enough fuel to last. Guess we got caught a little flat footed on that one. So I bundled the incubator up and after the road was opened I got the eggs to a friend's house off-island that had power. They stayed there overnight. Picked them up yesterday morning (our power came back on in the night) and brought them home. We put away the generator and thought we would go get more fuel the next time we went into town in a few days..........after all, who has heard of two long power outages within two days of each other in mid-March??......dumb, dumb, dumb.

All was well until about 2am when the wind really started........of course I laid there in bed wide awake just praying we kept the power. I started to feel a bit smug right around 430 and, of course, out it went.....so had to hop out of bed and wrap them up with the down jacket and hot water bottle I had set aside for them. By early morning we heard the power might be off for up to 24 hours and that the nearest gas station pumps weren't working so went over to my nearest neighbor's-with-a-super-duper-generator and had to dodge tree limbs and an overflowing pond to get up his long drive. Tucked my incubator into his place and just got it home a few hours ago.

These are the most traveling eggs I have ever attempted to hatch. Fingers crossed they make it.....we are on day 16 tomorrow.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I'm exhausted!
We have had two long power outages over the past three days and my incubator is full with long-coveted eggs.

Tuesday was a car-power pole accident that took out the power pole and our entire island's electricity. Fired up the generator for the eggs (did I hear grumbling from my DH?) and then started to worry that it was going to be a long outage and we didn't have enough fuel to last. Guess we got caught a little flat footed on that one. So I bundled the incubator up and after the road was opened I got the eggs to a friend's house off-island that had power. They stayed there overnight. Picked them up yesterday morning (our power came back on in the night) and brought them home. We put away the generator and thought we would go get more fuel the next time we went into town in a few days..........after all, who has heard of two long power outages within two days of each other in mid-March??......dumb, dumb, dumb.

All was well until about 2am when the wind really started........of course I laid there in bed wide awake just praying we kept the power. I started to feel a bit smug right around 430 and, of course, out it went.....so had to hop out of bed and wrap them up with the down jacket and hot water bottle I had set aside for them. By early morning we heard the power might be off for up to 24 hours and that the nearest gas station pumps weren't working so went over to my nearest neighbor's-with-a-super-duper-generator and had to dodge tree limbs and an overflowing pond to get up his long drive. Tucked my incubator into his place and just got it home a few hours ago.

These are the most traveling eggs I have ever attempted to hatch. Fingers crossed they make it.....we are on day 16 tomorrow.

Boy now I know I don't want to have a rooster or eggs to hatch