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[Zgoatlady]

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So what are the size difference in the two age's? How many month olds to 2 month olds?

Ive heard of people hatching egg they keep in the fridge you can try it. Not sure how many would hatch.

I've got 3 that are 1 month old (OE), and 14 that range from 2 - 2.5 months, the 4 orpingtons being the oldest, largest and last to feather. These orps are about the most mellow chickens I've seen, they let the smallest 2 barnevelders, which are the same size as the 3 OE, push them around! The OE's seem to be growing faster than the older batch of chicks. Of my 9 hens in another coop, the EE's grew the fastest and the Wyandottes the slowest.

Gosh I dont know Id say if it was the other way around I might try it. Do you have a crate or something that you could put the chicks in so they would stay safe and the older one's could look at them and get use to them being there?

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

Anybody know anyone with Ancona ducks?? I have a friend looking for a female Ancona to keep her male Pekin rescue company....thanks!!

 

[Zgoatlady]

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Gorgeous Roo! I wonder if that is what mine will look like when he grows up? How noisy is he and does he crow often? Neighbor with 4 dogs that run loose keeps reminding me that she does not want to hear any roosters. I told her if her dogs weren't loose, I'd have no need for roosters to protect my flock (of course I'd still need them for more chicks, but she doesn't need to know that part.)

Can you have roosters where you live? I know the neighbor when I got the goats said oh they arent staying are they? The next year when we had two more she said that goats are supose to be afraid of something so they taped it on the internet and it didnt seem to scare them. I know have lots of blackberry bush's so she cant see them. And yes I live on the out skirts of Enumclaw we can have all the animals. What she didnt know is I worked with the King County Conv. and know what I can have and not have. I told her one day that I can have over 30 goats here. She didnt say much after that. You know when you move to the country its the country.

 

[Zgoatlady]

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It annoyed me when they kept calling me an "elderly primapara" when I wasn't quite thirty yet.

29 and they said that? I think I would have slugged anytone who said that to me! I was 34, and they wrote it in prominant lettering across the top of my chart! I bled throughout most of the first trimester and was simply told "well, you are at that age when most women will experience a miscarriage." I lied to get in to maternal fetal medicine for a better ultrasound and that is when all the problems were discovered. (Placenta previa was causing the bleeding, not my age!) My grandmother was 45 when my dad was born. I was just a spring chicken comparatively!

I had Placenta Previa thats why my DS was born so early. When I was at the hospital having him a stupid nurse said oh honey your having this baby and its going to be dead when its born..

I told her to shut up and get out, He's now 20 and give me H--- with his girlfriend....

 

[RedReiner]

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hmmm... I have english birds

so does Risingstar. two people on the east coast paid the big bucks and imported. they went thru the circus act and so they are available. not the chocolates and stuff though...thats a whole nother controversy at the moment!

 

[Zgoatlady]

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Id let the breeder know what happend, some times they will send you more and not ask for so much. Every once in a while I can take some eggs if my incubator isnt full.. You should ask on here first to see if anyone has any space..
Im so sorry that happend and they didnt even call you..

 

[Zgoatlady]

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feel better

 

[broodytood]

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hmmm... I have english birds

so does Risingstar. two people on the east coast paid the big bucks and imported. they went thru the circus act and so they are available. not the chocolates and stuff though...thats a whole nother controversy at the moment!

So after I hatch these Orps, do I have to go try to find another line to breed from so I am not breeding sisters to brothers? If so who would you suggest? I'm still so new, I really don't know where to start. And the color splash is not recognized is it? Is that what BBS stands for, blue black splash, or am I way off?

 

[Zgoatlady]

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You have a right to be Negative. I wish there was something we all could do for you... Im so sorry.

 

[Zgoatlady]

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I saw it on TV. April 14 to 17. Google puyallup spring fair 2011

I dont think there are chickens there. This is a nice family fair and if you want to buy beef or pork form the FFA kids this is the place to be. I use to get Pork from a friends FFA girl but she would have to bid on it for me. I cant see the animal walking and than eat it. So what happens they send me a

picture of it..