YO GEORGIANS! :)

[carcar80]

Oh wow, I missed a lot in my absence! Was out of power all day Thursday, then friday was hectic-back-to-work day. Glad to see you all made it out alive

The chicken coop cave Thursday....

I hear ya! I was ready to go Thursday but WORK was out of power.. Then we were slammed Friday, worked all day instead of a half!

 

[LTygress]

@LTygress YOURE GETTING SEBASTOPOLS????

YUP!
I ordered three hatching eggs last year. But the lady's son died soon after I sent payment. When she got back into town, the geese had stopped laying. I couldn't ask for my money back from someone who just lost their SON. So I told her hold on to it, and we'd see about later.

Then at the end of January, having forgotten about them, I got a call from her out of the blue asking if I still wanted them because breeding season was coming up. OF COURSE I SAID YES! They were already paid for, anyway. LOL!

She wrote me back last weekend and said the geese are indeed breeding and laying, but it's freezing up there, and she doesn't want to send me frozen eggs. She plans to hatch out the first few GOOD eggs, to make sure "no one is shooting blanks". Then she plans to send me FIVE OR SIX eggs, instead of just the three, because I waited so long for them!

I plan to have mine DNA sexed in hopes of a breeding trio, and then abmaddox will be taking the others. But I'm ALSO putting myself on a waiting list for non-APA saddle-back sebbies! I saw them on the goose forums in the Sebbie pic thread, and fell in LOVE! The lady won't take orders for goslings until March 1st, but I set my phone up to alert me FIRST THING THAT DAY, so I can get on that waiting list!

 

[LTygress]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/445537/sebastopol-geese-thread-show-your-pics/3930

Check out my first post on this page. It referenced the person who owns them, and the pic of the ones I fell in love with! So YES I'm definitely getting some sebbies this year!

 

[GAFarmGirl87]

How many do you want? And what kind?

I love so many breeds I don't really have a preference. I currently have a lot of mutts. But I want some chicks that will make good meat birds. I'm done buying poultry to eat from the store.

 

[GAFarmGirl87]

How old are Marans usually when they start laying, guys? Someone look it up for me. I'm lazy.

mine started later than the others. About 6 mos old I think.

 

[LTygress]

GAH! White silkie laid another egg today and MY dumba** bumped it and cracked it! I just covered a good portion of it with fricking wax in hopes that it will still grow and develop. But how could I be so STUPID in the meantime?!? Derp!

 

[GAFarmGirl87]

@LTygress Don't beat yourself up. It happens to the best of us.

 

[LTygress]

I know. And I've done it many times before. One of the EE chicks that abmaddox got from me was actually hatched from a shell with wax, because I got about a 1cm dent in it, too.

But the SILKIE EGGS, omg. This white silkie took forever to lay her eggs, and this is only her second one. Plus, she's darn close to show quality (thank you Garry Farms). So it's just the stress of cracking such a valuable egg (valuable to me!)

I'll get over it. Eventually. Maybe get another mini-m... err... white silkie egg.

 

[carcar80]

@LTygress - do you just throw eggs in as you get them? Jut curious.

 

[carcar80]

I love so many breeds I don't really have a preference. I currently have a lot of mutts. But I want some chicks that will make good meat birds. I'm done buying poultry to eat from the store.

I hear ya. What I have right now, I don't think would make for good meat. But they'd be mutts for sure!