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[broodytood]

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What is a Pyle Orpington? Googled but couldn't find.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/50801_pyle_wyandottes.jpg
Wyandotte, but it is the color red pyle.
Games come in red pyle too..it reminds me of a tuxedo...very classy

Thanks for the pics. Nice coloring!

 

[Chickielady]

You could talk to Illia about breeding red pyle Orps here, shouldn't be too difficult...she can tell you how to do it.

here is a link, scroll down to see some red pyle Cubalaya, gorgeous birds!!!

http://www.backyardpoultrymag.com/issues/2/2-3/Charles_RH_Everett.html

 

[RedReiner]

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yes BBS is blue black and splash. splash not recognized color for showing and such. which is stupid because it comes from recognized colors. it wasnt bred into the breed using a different breed. it happens in blue.
Anyway your eggs are from two different unrelated roosters and girls. I am not sure if carol marked your eggs or not. if she did when they hatch you can band them with colors, G babies getting one color, F babies getting another etc . keep track as they grow up if you like and put girls sired by Lance in the pens with boys sired by Artie and vice versa. can get complicated eh??? but not to worry, many people do allow linebreeding and it does not go horribly wrong. I personally would keep track or split the boys and girls and find another roo to put girls under and perhaps another batch of pullets to put with your roo that you keep. My hatch of the same eggs will go under my boy hoss. they are not siblings. his get will need their own roo too. and I may keep a boy from Lance or Artie to put in with Hoss pullets.

Thanks so much for the info. I think I get it. Carol didn't mark these eggs. So I'll just have to wing it.(no poultry pun intended

) Will you eventually have some of Hoss' eggs for sale? He's so handsome!!!
I need to go to the library and get a good chicken breeders book. Any suggestions?

yes I will eventually have some Hoss eggs for sale. will be after May though. boy I just looked at a poultry book on orps and its 140 bucks!!

I am still pretty new at this too, but horse and dog breeding have helped with what I know about breeding anything. at this point I have no books I can recommend...I bet Illia or some of the others might be able to.

 

[broodytood]

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Thanks so much for the info. I think I get it. Carol didn't mark these eggs. So I'll just have to wing it.(no poultry pun intended

) Will you eventually have some of Hoss' eggs for sale? He's so handsome!!!
I need to go to the library and get a good chicken breeders book. Any suggestions?

yes I will eventually have some Hoss eggs for sale. will be after May though. boy I just looked at a poultry book on orps and its 140 bucks!!

I am still pretty new at this too, but horse and dog breeding have helped with what I know about breeding anything. at this point I have no books I can recommend...I bet Illia or some of the others might be able to.

Thanks CL and RR, sounds like Illia is the go to girl. Hopefully she doesn't mind people picking her brain!

 

[RedReiner]

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that is a pretty color. there are so many cool colors I would love to see. eventually I might try the color project but for now I want to try and get the best looking standard orp that I can. I will leave the hard work on a project up to the experts lol

 

[PitterPatterPalace]

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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!

Back then, 29 was considered old for a first time mother.

I'm 29 and sure don't feel like I'm an 'advanced maternal age' patient...

 

[broodytood]

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Back then, 29 was considered old for a first time mother.

I'm 29 and sure don't feel like I'm an 'advanced maternal age' patient...

I had 4 of my 6 after the age 30. The last one was at age 36. At 42, I still don't feel old. Slower, yes, but not old.

 

[cheryl98117]

Ok I have no time to catch up yet. But just wanted to let anyone who might have been wondering about me, know that Im ok. Just evicted the juvenile W-BW Ameraucanas to my covered back deck, the itty bitties have moved up in the world as well. Are now in a nice sized crate, and are happy and healthy.

My DH had Court yesterday "for his DUI in January," and even though he has gone above and beyond the courts expectations, the judge was happy and was ready to give a positive outcome... The stand in Prosecuting attourney decided that the original deal that was made with the MAIN Prosecuter for our county, wasn't hard enough. She is trying to throw my DH in county jail for 30 days, with a minimum fine of $900.00... So now we have a 3rd extension, and are going for a deffered trial.

So yesterday was a bad day, today is much better. We are waiting to hear from the DOL, to see about my DH getting the Ignition interlock, installed into his beater car, so that I no longer have to wake up my little girl at 4AM, to drive me DH to work. Once that is installed I will no longer be working at the resteraunt. $100 a pay period is not worth the gas, or waking my 2 year old and mother up for. Was supposed to be 3-4 hours a day, but unfortunately, the owner of the resteraunt has decided that he only wants me there for an hour a day. So I'm done with that, its barely even paying for my gas to and from work...

These nicotine patches, I have found, are giving me an itchy itchy rash. So for the past two days, I have only left them on for 6-8 hours instead of the recomended 24... And Ive been doing ok. Ive found that the hardest part of quitting, is my hands being still. SO. I started knitting again! lol

Hope everyone is doing well. I will eventually get caught up. Just not sure when.

 

[Breshcandra]

just watched my chicks fight over peas. It was pretty funny.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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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....

I would be sueing a nurse....how dare she say that to you.