Showing posts with label Wyandottes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wyandottes. Show all posts

Friday, February 6, 2009

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 :)

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Got my Incubator & getting more chickens!


Soo I got my incubator! It's more awesome, and MUCH bigger than I thought i'd be! I can litterally pull the egg trays out and hide in there if I needed to ha ha ha! Theres four trays, and each can hold 100 chicken eggs! It can also hatch anything from quail to goose eggs. :) I highly doubt I'll be hatching any geese eggs unless someone asks me to, otherwise for me...no...MAYBE pilgrims someday but I doubt it.

My friend Brian now has me interested in Black East Indies ducks. He acts like he was the one that got me interested in them, but nope nope...I myself got interested in them from a picture he took of his dads! hehe! Though Brian did tell me a lil bit about them and that helped fuel my interest so I'll give him credit for that I guess ;P. They are just really pretty, black with a purple hue!
I just told a breeder I'll be sending them out mula for a half doz. Blue Laced Red Wyandotte eggs! OH my gosh I cannot wait for those! In this new incubator, as long as they ship here well I should have a decient hatch. Even if I get half, I will be over joyed! Even if I got two I'd be okay. :) If this half doz. come to me fine I'll order again to make a complete dozen BLRWs!
Also, it sounds like I'm going to be getting Black and possible split lavender standard Ameraucana hatching eggs from another BYCer! I had paid her for bantam amers because that's all I thought she had. To find out she's offering me Standards because her banties arent laying well is exciting enough but to hear some may hatch out possible split lavenders! That's so exciting it's unreal! I can't wait to hear back from her on that !:)
Tomorrow I'll get my coturnix eggs in the mail! Got my White Leghorn hatching eggs in a swap the other day and just put them in tonight :)
Clear the way! Hatchaholic who can't help herself! LOL!
*weeeeee*!