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Originally Posted by KMoran 

OK so the 1st picture is the pullet next to the roo... Pic 2 &3 are a possible roo... Pic 4 & 5 are of the one I think is a roo... Tell me what you think... Hatch Date April 2nd.

It does look like 2 roo's and 1 pullet, but Wyandotte's are tricky. It usually takes me until 8-12 wks to know for sure with mine. Waiting for the hackle/saddle feathers to come in is your best bet for knowing for sure.

Anybody want Olive Eggers???? I so need to get rid of some of them!!!! Hatched Easter day, still straight run.......just PM/email me! Thx!!!

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Originally Posted by WA4-Hpoultrymom 

 

It does look like 2 roo's and 1 pullet, but Wyandotte's are tricky. It usually takes me until 8-12 wks to know for sure with mine. Waiting for the hackle/saddle feathers to come in is your best bet for knowing for sure.

Yeah I am still learning so its just a guess... The Dark one was my favorite too sad... oh well just my luck I got 2 one died the one that lived is a girl and the 2 I got as friends are males... UGH... 

so our babies I have deemed look like they have Mange.... they're at the scruffy raggedy stage. Mom's one D'Uccle looks like he has been through many battles of war & should be retired. The Iowa Blue almost has all her feathers.... being born 4/11... oddly enough... We've found that our one baby Orpington is having a major bout of Slow Feather growth. The other birds have their Hackles,Chest & saddle coming in, while she just mainly has her wings still. I see lil spurts of other feathers, but no where near the same as the others... so we're going to keep her in, til her feathers come in more or she'll freeze when the other birds will roast at the lvl she'll require it to be.  --- Best idea or no?

cant wait til they're out of this "ugly duckling" stage, so I can stop thinking they're bleeding when its just the feathers popping through....lol

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Originally Posted by pettec63 

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Originally Posted by Chickielady 

Tell me what you guys think of this 'head' that was given to me.heavy concrete hanging pot, and had a round bottom so DH cut the

botton off and drilled drain holes in the sides & epoxied it to the top of our mail box monument............used to be just flat with nothing on top & needed something..........I planted creeping charlie & lobelia in the 'head' so she will have nice long hair soon........kinda looks creepy though, huh ?  

 

 

 

 

Looks like there is a dead body in the bricks with her head sticking out, huh ?

Well any kids come along & try to baseball bat this are gonna get a surprise !

 

 

It is hand cast by an artist friend of DH's youngest daughter.she has give me 2 such "heads"...this is the bigger one.

The other is just a statue, a head rising from the soil in my garden.

Occasionally I find a chicken perched on the 'head's' face as it looks up at the sky.....kinda creepy, huh ?  

Um yea!!  really creepy reminds me of a movie I watched of Medusa and the statue of her had her eyes closed just like this one, then she came alive and scared the livin beep out of me!!  Sorry, very good work on the part of the artist, but, yea, I'm not one for statues or heads!

You don't want to come to my house.

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Originally Posted by LovemyBabies 

so our babies I have deemed look like they have Mange.... they're at the scruffy raggedy stage. Mom's one D'Uccle looks like he has been through many battles of war & should be retired. The Iowa Blue almost has all her feathers.... being born 4/11... oddly enough... We've found that our one baby Orpington is having a major bout of Slow Feather growth. The other birds have their Hackles,Chest & saddle coming in, while she just mainly has her wings still. I see lil spurts of other feathers, but no where near the same as the others... so we're going to keep her in, til her feathers come in more or she'll freeze when the other birds will roast at the lvl she'll require it to be.  --- Best idea or no?

 

cant wait til they're out of this "ugly duckling" stage, so I can stop thinking they're bleeding when its just the feathers popping through....lol

My girls are all 4-5 weeks old right now and are SO ugly! Poor things can't help it but I simply can't believe how ugly and mangy they are at this stage. Kinda gross. Doesn't make me want to socialize them much!

Re: Chickieladys  head atop her mailbox:

I too, thought it looked like Medusa.  In the Movie,"  Percy Jackson and the Lightning thief -  he battled Medusa.   Her head ended up a  refrigerator.  When a bad guy  opened the door to look for a snack, her eyes suddenly opened..... that scared the crumbs out of me..  It was good tho!!

My parents' dog, Bailey has been found!! After 10 days on the run!

She was 13 blocks from my parents' house. She was in someone's backyard (not fenced) and she had dug under the deck. The guy heard her howling the last few nights and finally went out late last night and found her...brought her in, fed & watered her and then called my parents at 6am this morning. He has a chocolate lab, too!

Poor Bailey stunk to high heaven, was very tired and thirsty but glad to be home!

The best part, this hippie dude that found her didn't want a reward. He said that knowing she was home with her family was the best reward!!! :) It is good to know there are still people like that around!

Sorry for the bad pic---my mom took it with her phone. Yes, Bailey's eyes are THAT red. Poor thing probably didn't sleep for 10 days!