Hello all! Just settling down in front of the computer with a cup of tea! Haven't downloaded photo's yet, will do that in a few. It was soooooooo lovely to meet some of you people and put faces to names and see all the awesome birds! I'm glad we drove down. Even my girls enjoyed themselves. But two hours was enough for them. And it was a 2 hr drive down and 2 hr drive back. So a long day, but a good one all around!
We stopped at IKEA on the way home, bought some goodies and had dinner, got home and got DH to help build the goodies.
But even better, we bought a trio of bantam cochins from Sheryl Butler and I am soooooooooooo thrilled with them! I have to pick up my oldest DD at 10:00 from a b-day party and I cannot wait to show her! She has wanted to breed them forever, and we haven't had much luck with hatching them out ourselves. So we have a gorgeous black cockerel and one black pullet and one blue pullet. They have the biggest cushions I have ever seen on bantam cochins! I'm hoping our one black cochin pullet we hatched out oh 7 wks ago now will work in our breeding set up too. So far she's showing a lot of promise. Then I can start my F1's with my lavender cochin Cockerel who has been sitting around waiting to do business but I haven't had anyone good enough to pair him with. Then I'll let my oldest have them for awhile and try and grow our flock a little bit. We have a lovely mottled hen too and I'm anxious to pair her with the new guy in town. Very excited about all the possibilities!
OK, let me go play with the camera and see what I've got.