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[Illia]

Oh, and for those curious or in the interest - In another month I'll be selling an Araucana, likely pullet but not yet 100% sure. The bird is purebred and true to type, but has a tail.


The rest of mine I'm not sure who goes and who doesn't, but the rest are all rumpless. I'm keeping the tufted ones though!!

 

[hallerlake]

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Go to the web site of whatever state you want to send to, and see what you can find. Some states like Washington ban all field grown plants (we don't have Japanese beetles yet and we don't want them, thank you very much).

 

[Sudsy Chick]

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Oh my goodness, they are adorable

I can't wait now!

A bit of sad news - we lost another egg. It was crushed - think it was the setup and how Miss Juno had to step over the roost to get to her eggs. We removed the roost and she moved her seven remaining eggs into the back corner of her coop. She was very unhappy - as was my son (who had to open the egg - the super scientist). There was a chick growing

Anyway - I have high hopes for the remaining seven eggs, here's hoping they will be as adorable as your chicks!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Yeah. It's a lot of work packing plants so they'll stay alive.

If you're not shipping from an area of listed plant pathogens, or doing it commercially there's no postal law against shipping plants out of Washington. There are California laws against shipping into CA from anywhere, and laws in Arizona, Texas, Florida, and possibly Louisiana and Alabama against shipping uninspected citrus.

Unless you have a new plant you've developed or discovered (dwarved witches brooms are a hot item, ditto naturally blue or gold evergreens) or a heritage plant that's disappeared from commerce, it's almost always cheaper, easier, and more likely to result in a live plant to order from your original nursery and have them ship it. Otherwise, ship dormant bare-rooted plants in fall or early spring, packed in barely damp excelsior or crumpled, not shredded, newspaper with a plastic bag over the roots, and ship the fastest way you can afford.

 

[Kaneke]

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all my pullets chest bumped each other, and bumped the roo too (he bumped back)

if they're all tailed, and the tails look tapered and not blunt, you MAY have lucked out and gotten all pullets

exciting !!! and thanks so much for posting these

 

[Illia]

I'm shipping bananas, who's mother came from a nursey in FL and GA, so, . . .

I'm going to try my luck to see if anyone in Washington state can take the pups (babies) without shipping troubles, but, if not, I guess I'll just watch out for what states the buyer is from.

I'm really, really hoping someone in WA will buy them though. My pups only grow to about 7 feet tall, max, and don't require as much as people may think. I'd LOVE to see more people growing homegrown bananas out there, and I was shocked and ecstatic to see someone from my own town (!) buy the first pup.

 

[SadieSue]

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Oh my goodness, they are adorable

I can't wait now!

A bit of sad news - we lost another egg. It was crushed - think it was the setup and how Miss Juno had to step over the roost to get to her eggs. We removed the roost and she moved her seven remaining eggs into the back corner of her coop. She was very unhappy - as was my son (who had to open the egg - the super scientist). There was a chick growing

Anyway - I have high hopes for the remaining seven eggs, here's hoping they will be as adorable as your chicks!

So sorry - it is sad isn't it? I'm still sorry about the 2 eggs we lost and for the fully formed chicks that failed to hatch, then there was the poor chick that died after they hatched. But I'm thrilled for the 5 we have that are happy and thriving with their mom. They are a joy to watch and I know yours are going to be just as cute. Can't wait for your babies to hatch! You're just days away now, right?

 

[Sudsy Chick]

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So sorry - it is sad isn't it? I'm still sorry about the 2 eggs we lost and for the fully formed chicks that failed to hatch, then there was the poor chick that died after they hatched. But I'm thrilled for the 5 we have that are happy and thriving with their mom. They are a joy to watch and I know yours are going to be just as cute. Can't wait for your babies to hatch! You're just days away now, right?

Yes, they should hatch Saturday - but I'll be on the lookout Friday since the last time she hatched she was a day early. So excited!

Will post pics for sure!

 

[Kaneke]

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Oh my goodness, they are adorable

I can't wait now!

A bit of sad news - we lost another egg. It was crushed - think it was the setup and how Miss Juno had to step over the roost to get to her eggs. We removed the roost and she moved her seven remaining eggs into the back corner of her coop. She was very unhappy - as was my son (who had to open the egg - the super scientist). There was a chick growing

Anyway - I have high hopes for the remaining seven eggs, here's hoping they will be as adorable as your chicks!

awwww

here's hoping ! the rest are coming REALLY SOON, and since you haven't had the unattended-eggs problem that Dana got blindsided with, the rest may all make it

I suspect that the hatchery originally selected the foundation stock they use, for as many live chicks as possible from their eggs; which means we get pretty good hatches from the eggs we get from the chicks they send that survive ... assuming good incubator management or good broodies !

yeah, Dana too got one crushed egg and one possibly-stepped-on baby chick ... I guess this is what we have to expect from the situations ...

looking forward to seeing what comes from the eggs you selected ... looks like Dana is getting both gold duckwings and silver duckwings, we'll see .... and it's looking like my roo is passing along Columbian and silver and possibly blue genes, not Dominant White (we'd have yellow chicks if he had DW)

my rusty-mahogany-red chipmunk chick grew up to be a mahogany-gold pullet; my goldy-brown chipmunk chicks turned into gold duckwings, and my mink-brown chick turned into that fancydancy roo ... none of mine looked particularly blue or gray ... so this is fun, to see what's happening

 

[ChristineR]

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What kind of care do they need? Will they grow in the house or do they need more light than that provides?