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Post by jjthornton on Oct 19, 2011 8:31:30 GMT -5
Steve,
Where do you buy packing peanuts?
Oh and you ask in the email why I didn't hatch that 16th egg, well thats a risk you run when you ship eggs to a fat man with a fryin pan.
Jeff
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Post by korfuskluckers on Oct 19, 2011 15:06:05 GMT -5
I use the medium flat rate box for up to 16 eggs. I put the bubble wrap (small size) and layer the top and bottom. I wrap the eggs in a paper towel folded into 1/3 rds and tape at both ends and in the middle. I use shavings to pack in the eggs in instead of packing peanuts. If an egg does break in transit, the sawdust keep the other eggs from getting soiled. I have many happy customers and high hatch rates using this method.
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Post by homegroanacers on Oct 19, 2011 15:12:35 GMT -5
Yep Christina does all that!! I laugh for 20 min when I opened mine!! I thought I was back in the sawmill lol When I unwraped the eggs I had enuff paper towels to use in the kitchen!  ) |
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Post by cherylcohen on Oct 19, 2011 15:53:42 GMT -5
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Post by jjthornton on Oct 20, 2011 20:53:43 GMT -5
Yea Steve i don't eat many either. LOL
I rarely sell any eggs but I ship some to folks once in awhile that have got eggs from me for years or trade eggs with somebody but I like Kristina's idea with sawdust, a reason to clean out my table saw.
Oh and Steve all these chicks have the spots on their heads but a few have a lot more color than others. I gave them differant toe marks and I want to keep track and see if there is any differance in adult color
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Post by d12chandler on Oct 23, 2011 10:29:40 GMT -5
Most of my buff babies have the dark spots on there heads. I have thought about marking them to see, just never did. Jeff that will be a nice project to see if the spoted chicks has a better buff color. I never raise chicks in early winter, if I hatch in Jan. thats good for me. The early ones don't take the heat very good. I lost the biggest part of my Jan. and Feb, birds this year. That won't happen very often, but this year it did.
Don
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Post by jjthornton on Oct 24, 2011 5:19:43 GMT -5
My original line from a lady in Idaho about 26 years ago had great adult color rarely smut in pullets tails and none in males, and head spot that were real distinct on the babies and then in about 10 years my cockbirds color, I think faded a little. Then in '96 or '97 At the Wis. state fair I bought a pair, Gr. & Res. LF that had the best color I had seen on a buff chicken, tiny bit of smut in her tail, and their type was really good. But when I crossed them on my stuff I lost some head spots but the color in the chicks, when they matured got better than what I was getting from mine. Then in the next few years of breeding it faded. A couple years ago I added a Britt trio and got lighter head spots no tail smut in pullets but excellant color, but the males are light. Right now if I don't keep my males that I'm gonna show, in the barn they will bleach out to nothing. So I have bred myself into a female line of Buffs. So I have never had any with differant head spots in the same batch but I'm gonna keep track of these birds from Steve, and see if 1 or the other will color up my males.
Durn that story got long hope Ya'll weren't busy. LOL
Jeff
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Post by lildinkem on Oct 25, 2011 9:20:20 GMT -5
Doug wrote on the ShowBirdBid site a while ago I believe, that the ones with the dark spots turn out having the best color. You may want to just single them out to themselves and see.
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Post by jjthornton on Oct 25, 2011 17:31:18 GMT -5
Yes I read what Mr. Akers wrote and I'm gonna keep track of these. I used 3 toe marks on 15 chicks 1 for really dark and distinct, 1 for exceptionaly light and then the ones that are in between I'm gonna take pics every 3 months.
I've kinda suspected for years that the darker the spots on the baby the better the adult color. I'm sure I can list all kinds of reasons that I have'nt checked before, but it's because I was to lazy. LOL
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Post by lildinkem on Oct 25, 2011 23:14:53 GMT -5
Yes I read what Mr. Akers wrote and I'm gonna keep track of these. I used 3 toe marks on 15 chicks 1 for really dark and distinct, 1 for exceptionaly light and then the ones that are in between I'm gonna take pics every 3 months. I've kinda suspected for years that the darker the spots on the baby the better the adult color. I'm sure I can list all kinds of reasons that I have'nt checked before, but it's because I was to lazy. LOL Doug's mentor is a fella by the name of Jack. Doug told me that Jack knows more then anyone he knows. I would trust what ever Doug says. I bought for $20 one heck of a nice colored Buff cock from Doug. And he already has shown his worth with a very nice rich Buff colored pullet so far. My line has lacked this full range of Buff color and has been on the lite side till now. A good read for learning the Buff color is to read every single sentence Dan Honour writes. Eventhough he is a Leghorn guy I think he and his 40 years of work proves itself as a worthwhile read. Dan sent me a link to what he recently wrote; www.aviculture-europe.nl/nummers/11E05A04.pdf |
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Post by jjthornton on Oct 27, 2011 6:36:12 GMT -5
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