Updates :)

My quail outside are starting to crow! Eggs should be very soon! :D

I sold SEVERAL of my chicks, some I hatched only to sell others, I decided to sell after my hubby got a day taken off of his weekly work hours because of the economy. I sold my remaining langshang chick, 3 of my 4 black ameraucanas (I kept the best looking one that I'm pretty sure is a roo? i hope so but if he's a hen oh well i'll just keep a roo from my other eggs). I've made a TON of money so far! I had no idea I could make that much money on chicks and birds. Wow. I most deffinatly paid for all the feed i've used so far and then some. If I keep this going they'll have paid for our incubator too! LOL! Ofcourse that's all litterally paid for but ya know what I mean...to almost profit status. :) Way better than breeding stupid rabbits that get sick with unavoidable illnesses that don't go away and breeders ignore and give to everyone elses rabbitries... I may own one as a pet again someday but NEVER ever again breed them.

I'm going to be breeding Ameraucanas in Blue Black Splash and Lavander, as well as Seramas in any color (as they produce any color they dont have fixed colors), and probably Millie Fluer Duccles and Bantam Cochins! I'm not sure in what colors yet, however I'm getting them from a wonderful breeder in California along with my serama eggs! I am soo excited! That breeder will be then getting coturnix eggs from me to test. :D Then Catawba coturnixs will be in Cally! Unlike other bird breeders I get excited when I know what state they go in. :)

There are SOO many snob breeders in Ameraucanas, it reminds me of breeders in Holland Lops! I will NEVER be one of those stuck up snobs. I enjoy educating others when they ask, and atleast in birds, it has its perks to help people, not to mention it's good for the overal well being of the breed to educate people who ask for help.

I will be getting my WHOLE flock- even my coturnixs tested for Bird Flu and all other illnesses that are testable here in a few weeks. Then I will be an offical bird/egg seller and I will know for sure my birds are healthy! :) I also learned that what I thought made sick birds so sick the only thing to do was cull them is untrue! It IS treatable unlike in rabbits! :) So that's wonderful to know as well. None of my birds have been sick, but it's good to know if it ever does happen I dont have to go out and kill all the poor babies. :)

I have like 6 coturnix chicks in the house, with more due to hatch here shortly. The one is most deffinatly a curly coturnix from a breeder who went out of business. So this bird is my only curly gene-er lol. So she will go in my experiement pen so I can keep an eye on if the breeding produces more curlies. I personally dont like the curly coturnix but there seems to be an interest in them...so I might as well breed for them on the side for others who like them.

I now have something like 5 different strains (aka lines) of coturnix quails from all over the US. Makes me so excited for the future! :D

We were working on moving, but since hubby got a day taken away from his weekly hours we had to cancel everything. sure it sucks, but what can ya do. We'll just save up MORE and wait until the economy hopefully gets better. :)

well that's all for now! :D

niki

Got the Ameraucana eggs & the Black Langshangs!

Ooh boy oh boy! 11 Ameraucana eggs in the bator as well as 7 black langshangs! This upcoming monday 6+ serama eggs are being shipped out (the swapper had a mishap that involved tripping while eggs were in her hands....lol) so she's collecting me more to send out on monday....and 6+ EE bantam eggs will be shipped out then as well from another swapper! :)

I have eggs due this sunday.... 6-8 of Henny Pennys (my coturnix hen) eggs, and 2 GC x GC crosses from my roo Wimpy Cowboy and whichever of my golden comet hens that are laying. I already have one of Wimpy Cowboys babies in the brooder his/her name is Critter. It looks just like a golden comet roo, except it's not a sexlink so it could easily be a hen :). I hope it's a hen! It's a cutie and very sweet and has a different body shape from my "pure" golden comets.

Toby my oldest golden comet chick (a roo ofcourse) is getting BIG! He's such a sweet boy too....I hope to have him replace Wimpy Cowboy. I love Wimpy Cowboy but he's an older roo and he's terrified of me, I'll probably keep him and let him free range with my other future free rangers. I haven't fully decided yet, but it's hard to decide when I don't have all the birds already.

Monday I send out $ for show quality Ameraucana black, blue and splash eggies from a breeder in washington state! :D They are beautiful birds! Then the week after $ for blue laced red wyandottes! My gosh I cannot wait!!!

My first Catawba Coturnix Quails finnally got shipped out, I consider those my offical birds from my OWN breedings....and they went for free to an FFA project! :) In Missouri I think? LOL! I wasn't able to send a lot but everyone I did send go there in great condition.....or one may have cracked I'm not sure she said none did but she only mentioned 7 and I am pretty sure I shippedout 8 lol oh well! Me and my brain!!!

Tomorrow I get to go with hubby to his rig for a few hours to watch him drill. I've always wanted to see them work because he tries to explain that stuff to me and I'm clueless it's like chinese to me....so it will be nice to actually SEE what "tripping pipe" means LOL! I'll be taking my camera :D

I'm getting some Marans x Buff Orpington crosses, some may be pure marans and pure orps too which will be neat and i requested any EEx marans crosses as well! :) They will be perfect in my future brown egg layer cross pen :D

After all of these eggs I AM DONE for a long while! I need to be lol! Or atleast I'm going to try to be! It's already going to be crazy hard because im going to need some extra brooders and brooder lamps! LOL!

Welp....nothing really more to ramble on about today :)