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post #111 of 185
6/29/12 at 1:33pm

Ya sure will post some pics when i can. Terri were those ordered eggs? Those blue partridge look so dif then when i hatched mine.

All my programs have gone out the window so now i just have a mixed backyard flock. Always looking for that one project tho. =D

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All my programs have gone out the window so now i just have a mixed backyard flock. Always looking for that one project tho. =D

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post #112 of 185
6/29/12 at 2:10pm
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Well I got something taking my eggs. Took two that were due to hatch last weekend on saturday morning. Some days i get none, some 1 or 2 and some 5 or 6. Im nursing a hen back atm, he over heated today so she has the run of my closet and gave her a nice bath to try and cool her of. She hated the bath part but once i got her dry she started eating and drinking (i think she just wanted a bath lau.gif). Since my silkes haven't been super handled and all i cant just walk up to them and pick them up, but today since she was out of commission i notice she had scabs on the bottoms of her feet, and when the girls went to bed i noticed a few of my LF have them but she is the only silkie with them.  I had a hatch a few weeks ago where 6 hatched 3 blue EE's and 3 blue silkies and out of the six only 2 EE's made it. And my Ducks are free loading. My pekin pair are about 5 months old and she still isn't laying. LOL

 

 

BUT on the good news, i my brother bought 2 pygmy goats and they are staying with us. =D I hate there names so i call them mama and mister (even tho she isn't prego. LOL). My brother named them cactus and classic BORING!!!!!!!!! Ok paragraph over. LOL

 

Oh but to add, terri, kim the partridge silkie i hatched from your eggs laid her very first egg two days ago. =D Im so happy of her. Now im just waiting for her BFF tori to start laying. 

could it be a snake taking your eggs? Sorry to hear about your hen I also lost my polish/silkie roo from the heat last week. I also have a pekin duck and she just stopped laying since the temps started to peek. Dont know what the scab on the feet is about but seems ive heard others talk about it. Ive got a dozen eggs in the bator due the 10th out of BBS pen.

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GoldBarRanch : We have a mini farm in Wittmann , AZ. .

FOR SALE:  Local Only

MINI donkey, Mini Long Horn Bull, Mini Horse,  (Silkie chickens ,eggs , chicks when avalible) (Nigerian goats, Pygmy goats when avalible )

 

WANTED : Looking to barter for a Beginners trail horse /Local only AZ

 

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ARIZONA SILKIE OWNERS : ...

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post #113 of 185
6/29/12 at 4:54pm

John, those chicks are from my Cotton and Tumbleweed. I don't know if they are blue partridge or not. They will look like Sham did and the hen you have that just layed you got from me.

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post #114 of 185
6/29/12 at 8:53pm
I dont know cause they arent taking my golf balls. I do find thrm out if thr nests. Im wondering if my buff orp roo is digging in the boxes and kicking them out but i dont see egg shells. Unknown. Ill let you know terri. I do have a hen but she has babies. I bet she would take thrm her babies are like a month old and she just adopted slash stole on of my other hens week olds. Lol i love her. She will take anything.

All my programs have gone out the window so now i just have a mixed backyard flock. Always looking for that one project tho. =D

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All my programs have gone out the window so now i just have a mixed backyard flock. Always looking for that one project tho. =D

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post #115 of 185
7/1/12 at 9:40pm

yup, she would adopt these babies I am sure. If that is the one you got from me she will be raising her own siblings. LOL

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post #116 of 185
7/2/12 at 10:27pm

No, that one is kim and she is not sitting yet. Its my dior that will take anything. So i have lost my first hen to the heat. All cause the idiot of a neighbor's daughter cant be responsible enough to care for my girls. She didn't fill there waters while i was in california over the weekend and the Blue hen i was keeping from my hatches died over the weekend. And the girl just left her there in the middle of the duck area. makes me so mad. he.gif

All my programs have gone out the window so now i just have a mixed backyard flock. Always looking for that one project tho. =D

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All my programs have gone out the window so now i just have a mixed backyard flock. Always looking for that one project tho. =D

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post #117 of 185
7/3/12 at 8:52am

Aw dang! I hope you said something to her.

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post #118 of 185
7/3/12 at 5:11pm

I did and she told me she filled them sunday morning. Which is a lie.

All my programs have gone out the window so now i just have a mixed backyard flock. Always looking for that one project tho. =D

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All my programs have gone out the window so now i just have a mixed backyard flock. Always looking for that one project tho. =D

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post #119 of 185
7/3/12 at 11:04pm

When is my silkie hen going to hatch?? I can't tell her age, heck, I don't even know if she is a hen? Anyone know how to tell. Her feathers and wattle are giving many clues....

Wife to a patient husband, Mother of two young boys, Registered Nurse for Pediatrics/IV therapy at local medical center. Also a Hunter, Dog-Lover, and occasionally a girl that likes to snuggle in a blanket, read a book, and enjoy the quiet of life :)

 

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Wife to a patient husband, Mother of two young boys, Registered Nurse for Pediatrics/IV therapy at local medical center. Also a Hunter, Dog-Lover, and occasionally a girl that likes to snuggle in a blanket, read a book, and enjoy the quiet of life :)

 

Member of American Bantam Silkie Club

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post #120 of 185
7/3/12 at 11:11pm

hatch? I can tell the dif between mine by when they start feathering out. my males have really fluffly legs before my hens. Post a pic and maybe we can help.

All my programs have gone out the window so now i just have a mixed backyard flock. Always looking for that one project tho. =D

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All my programs have gone out the window so now i just have a mixed backyard flock. Always looking for that one project tho. =D

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