Thanks :)
Today she was having a panic attack because she couldn't get to the nesting box to lay her egg. When I let her in she spent half an hour trying to get comfortable, but never laid an egg. Poor girl. She'll get used to laying eggs though.
Here's one picture.
(Form left to right: Lacey, ginger or ty, Gladys, Hazel, Kenisha, tzipporah)
Hazel will come when I call her name (if she wants to)!!! They all love to climb on my lap and shoes, and have earned a new nickname: The Black Friday Shoppers. So called because of their love of...
Update: The flock's looking pretty good :)
Samantha: She has decided that it's very enjoyable to try to fly from one end of the box to the other. I think she's gonna be a handful.
Thyme: Thyme is getting on my nerves! He loves to peck me, but freaks out when I reach for him. He's trying to...
Pictures of thyme, Hazel, and Tzipporah. (Apparently Hazel and Tzipporah are camera shy)
Look at Thyme's crest. Ginger's (other silkie) is smaller, and she's smaller overall.
I adopted another chick today. She's a buckeye. Right now she doesn't have a name.
She has a really bad limp, so I'm afraid to put her with the others, both for her getting trampled and I'm afraid that it could be contagious.
The chicks gave me a heart attack. I went down to see them, and they COMPLETELY panicked. I've never seen them so panicked. They were squishing themselves into the corners of their box. They finally calmed down and seem completely fine, idk what happened. They act as though nothing has happened...
Update:
So I just went to check on them and spend time with them. They're all doing good. I was holding each one of them and petting them to get them used to being held and touched. Gladys, Tzipporah, and Samantha handle it the best. Ginger was pretty good too. But as I was holding Tzipporah...
This is a thread about my little chicks from 2019.
Here's a basic bio of each chick!:
Name: Kenisha
Breed: golden comet
Sex: female
Received: march 27 (she was two weeks old at the time)
Personality: Momma bird, curious
Name: Thyme (will be Ramon if it's a mean roster, Ty if it's a nice...