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[Chickielady]

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RieMrra meant HER side of the mountain...geeze I'd love weeds like that. They are a member of the Chinese Lantern family, and I had those in Eastern OR and they did try to take over, lots of underground roots & dying back to the ground every fall.
Funny plants, huh ?

 

[Chickielady]

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I have 2 projects with the 3 Cornish Cockerals I have ordered, one is over white rock hens, the second is over Buckeye hens, the later should produce an outstanding meat bird as the Buckeyes are so waide & broad breasted already.
So I am going to try both.
I have been watching the batch of W&BW Chicks, now juveniles and half fledged, and I seriously think everyone is wheaten

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That's OK, I have a monster flock of blues!

We will waite a few more weeks then get together on a trade out at Cheryl's I suppose. Will have her cook up the GF lava cake I can still see when I close my eyes !!!!!!

 

[Chickielady]

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a couple days old you can wing feather sex.
After that, watch their combs.
Cockeral EE will have 3 rows of bumbs on his comb, a pullet will have 1.
Wings with 2 distinct rows of feathers =pullet, One single row of wing feathers all the same length=cockeral
Outside of that, combs will swell wider & redden on cockerals.
Cockerals as a general rule, are bolder than pullets.
Hope this helps.
There are links on BYC to sex by wing feathers .

 

[Chickielady]

LOOK at this awesome recipe with Avacadoes ::: YUM>>>makes me want a margarita......

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Tomatillo-Guacamole/Detail.aspx?k=1&rcp=1
I will shop again & get seed started.
Maybe easier to buy some...I will have to look for Broody's variety seeme dto do well for her.

 

[Chickielady]

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That's a big relief!!!

I had 8 tomatillos last year. Started them in the house and then put them outside in pots at first. If the weather was to get below 45* I covered them w/ plastic so by the time they went into the ground they had nice stout stems and grew like weeds. They ended up being 4ft wide and about 3ft tall. Had so many fruits, I probably could have gotten away with just 4 plants. I left some fruits on the ground to see if they will self seed but with this weather it may be July before they do! I think the name was Aunt Molly's from Territorial Seed Co.

I am shoppin...not much else to do this drizzly day.......I also have all sorts of sunflowers & Country Romance Hollyhocks to plant indoors...and purple alysum to sow outdoors....better get my butt in gear but when DH is gone it is so nice to lay around lazy...cannot do that when he is here!

 

[hallerlake]

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a couple days old you can wing feather sex.
After that, watch their combs.
Cockeral EE will have 3 rows of bumbs on his comb, a pullet will have 1.
Wings with 2 distinct rows of feathers =pullet, One single row of wing feathers all the same length=cockeral
Outside of that, combs will swell wider & redden on cockerals.
Cockerals as a general rule, are bolder than pullets.
Hope this helps.
There are links on BYC to sex by wing feathers .

I looked. I think my little chick is a cockerel.

 

[Breshcandra]

I can't go look, my chicks are outside. And my daughter is sick.
Was trying to look at my pictures to see if I could tell.

What do you think?

To fuzzy?

 

[cheryl98117]

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I have 2 projects with the 3 Cornish Cockerals I have ordered, one is over white rock hens, the second is over Buckeye hens, the later should produce an outstanding meat bird as the Buckeyes are so waide & broad breasted already.
So I am going to try both.
I have been watching the batch of W&BW Chicks, now juveniles and half fledged, and I seriously think everyone is wheaten

.
That's OK, I have a monster flock of blues!

We will waite a few more weeks then get together on a trade out at Cheryl's I suppose. Will have her cook up the GF lava cake I can still see when I close my eyes !!!!!!http://bestsmileys.com/wink/2.gif

So the juvenile chicks taht I have out of our shared hatch, I am pretty sure are also all Wheatons. I don't see any blue in the wings or tails at all...

As for the hatch! I now have 1, 2nd gen Olive egger out!

Am I gonna be able to tell them all apart?

 

[cheryl98117]

Hey chickielady? Is it possible to hatch out a splash from the BA eggs?

2 more are zipping as I typw, 4 are pipped. The remaining eggs are rocking!

 

[broodytood]

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I have 2 projects with the 3 Cornish Cockerals I have ordered, one is over white rock hens, the second is over Buckeye hens, the later should produce an outstanding meat bird as the Buckeyes are so waide & broad breasted already.
So I am going to try both.
I have been watching the batch of W&BW Chicks, now juveniles and half fledged, and I seriously think everyone is wheaten

.
That's OK, I have a monster flock of blues!

We will waite a few more weeks then get together on a trade out at Cheryl's I suppose. Will have her cook up the GF lava cake I can still see when I close my eyes !!!!!!http://bestsmileys.com/wink/2.gif

So the juvenile chicks taht I have out of our shared hatch, I am pretty sure are also all Wheatons. I don't see any blue in the wings or tails at all...

As for the hatch! I now have 1, 2nd gen Olive egger out!

Am I gonna be able to tell them all apart?

I'd be curious about telling them apart too.