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Sat, Feb 9, 08 at 20:15
| I am so excited. I have been looking for and finally found a beautful full blooded aracuna. I know I spelled that wrong, sorry. When I say he is a beauty I am not exaggerating one little bit. Some of my girls have never been around a roo. and the others its been at least two years. you should have seen them preening their feathers. It was just shameful! hee hee I can't wait for them to sit some eggs and get little chicks. I only have one or two girls laying right now. When should I have them start to sit the eggs do you all think.
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- Posted by sullicorbitt z5 MA (My Page) on Sun, Feb 10, 08 at 10:35
| CI, I am toying w/the same idea, when to load my incubator. As far as letting a hen set on them, that is another story. Unless you currently have a broody???? you need to wait for one to go broody or get an incubator. You can't make a hen sit on eggs. I'm very excited for you to have such a handsome roo, I'd love to see some pictures of him???? -Sheila |
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- Posted by chicken_ingenue 7 (My Page) on Sat, Feb 16, 08 at 18:42
| Here's a pic of my new boy. He is a real beauty! [URL=http://imageshack.us][IMG]http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/3408 /dsc01105jq8.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://imageshack.us][IMG]http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/866/ dsc01104ah4.jpg[/IMG][/URL] CI |
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- Posted by sullicorbitt z5 MA (My Page) on Sun, Feb 17, 08 at 9:10
| Ci, he is absolutely stunning! what a very handsome boy :) -Sheila |
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- Posted by chicken_ingenue 7 (My Page) on Sun, Feb 17, 08 at 18:15
| Thanks sheila, I didn't know if I did the pix so you could see it. but didn't have time to fool with it anymore. I swear i think he was posing for that pix |
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- Posted by brendan_of_bonsai 6 CO (My Page) on Sun, Feb 17, 08 at 19:38
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- Posted by chicken_ingenue 7 (My Page) on Mon, Feb 18, 08 at 17:10
| Thanks bredan. Appreciate the help with the pix. CI |
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- Posted by billc-2007 zone 9 (My Page) on Tue, Feb 19, 08 at 0:25
| That rooster looks like he will protect the hens from any varments. When I was younger, it seemed that if we left the eggs in the nest it would cause the hens to go broody when they had about 8 ot 10 eggs, but if you collect them each day, it seemed to keep their minds off nesting. You might try that after you rooster is in with the hens for a week just to make sure none of those eggs would be infertile at the beggining. Bill C |
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- Posted by chicken_ingenue 7 (My Page) on Tue, Feb 19, 08 at 18:03
| At first we didn't think he was performing his husbandly duties. Then we realized that he was just such a gentlemen with them, that they didn't hollar. L Thanks for the advice CI |
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