Recent content by kayjuggler

You are an inspiration. I have a coop that my husband built and I have a background in art and never would have dreamed of doing what you did! Can't wait to show this to by husband. We've got work to do.........:)

Tink and friends yesterday. She has the brown tipped wings in the middle of the bunch. Tink turned out to be a bantam Salmon Faverolle....I thought none of the three eggs in the incubator hatched but, clearly my special needs hatchling was actually not a cochin afterall. That may explain...

The slurry was pretty thick....I was concerned about the chick aspirating it into it's lungs...breathing it in instead of swallowing. Actually, as soon as you add the water to the egg yolk, it will thin out initially and then start to thicken again. I would have to keep adding water. Then, I...

Update on Tink, Elvis and the crew. Tink, the cochin I helped to hatch out and force fed for about 36 hours is doing great. You can see the tiny size in the picture of them all at the feeder. Just sharing the info and the cuteness!

Chick on day 2. Chick tonight, day 5. You can see that it is smaller than it's siblings but the little critter is bouncing around with eyes bright and pushing it's siblings out of the way to get under the heatlamp. They are all columbian cochins except for one showgirl silkie. We didn't...

This could go in the hatching or emergencies section but I thought I'd put it here. This may help someone else to hear how I have helped a weak chick. The chick pipped and had zipped through more than half the circumference of the egg and then no progress for about 30 hours. I helped pull...

This is "Cuddle-butt", named by my daughter. Cochin, Silkie mix 7 months Entry: most hugable Now, this is Phoebe, center with our smartest Polish girl (we seem to loose most of our Polish to predators) in front and Marie Antoinette in the back (Cuckoo Marans). Turns out, she is more cuddly...

Quote: I love him! You could say he has quite the "comb over". LOL I now that was cheesy but I couldnt help it! Toupee' !

What a beautiful website and terrific idea. I am a Brownie Girl Scout leader and will share this with my local service unit. When she is ready to expand this beyond her home town, she has the Girl Scout organization as a perfect networking medium. I can see this concept working with any...

Chic between the paws = winning photo! Love it. Thank you for sharing.

Hey: silkie show forever sounds good to me......

Chicken Run!

Here comes the cute..... partridge silkies 2 days old. Names might be Pumpkin and Sassy buff laced polish, a few days old. Her name was Keet. She insisted on roosting outside and we must have missed retrieving her one night. columbian bantam cochin. Her name was Serafima. She was the...

Hey, I went to look and realized that all the hatched egg shells are gone. I threw them away but kept the unhatched eggs for a few extra days just to be sure we didn't have any late bloomers. Those quitters were almost entirely blue silkie eggs..wierd how they developed but didn't hatch. I...

Picked up eggs from Turtlefeathers and we had a great hatch. 24 eggs: 23 developed and put in lockdown. 17 piped and hatched, 1 died inside incubator after hatching. So, we have 16 fluffy chirpy guys and girls. Love the range of colors of the sikies. We also have two cute polish and 3...