ALABAMA!!

[bamadude]

@silkiesam
I dont really know what to look for in silkies either. There are silkie threads. Go to your byc search bar and type in silkie.

 

[silkiesam]

i have been looking everywhere even on here BUT she is or seems to be doing just fine now
i am sure she is thrilled to have that staple out of her mouth UGH
i felt so bad for her but i do and have to realize they peck at lots of stuff... i almost never let them
out of my site even take my eyes off them... i have been so afraid of something happening to them
they are so sweet! i will have THAT pic up too soon with pics of my babies...
the 2 girls have just starting laying eggs but she had not and i had noticed she had lost some weight...
NOW i know why she lost weight and why she wasnt laying eggs bless my baby girls little heart (mouth)
i was looking because i wasnt for sure if i HAD to give her antibiotics but i will keep checking on her and her little mouth (beak)
to make sure it is healing properly .. i have lots to learn, for sure.

 

[Jayare's Chicks]

I have 1 project that is 2 hens I hatched out last year that are Silkie/Dominicker mix. The are Dom colored with 5 toes, feathered feet. 1 has black legs and the other has yellow lags. I have them penned up with a Black Silkie Roo trying to see if I can get more of that Dominicker checkers to show up in their offspring also and try to get them to breed true.

I also hatched out about 10 Silkie/Phoenix mixes last year and they are my 2nd project. They have the Phoenix look but have black skin, legs and 5 toes. Just now starting to lay a little bit so when some of my other Silkies go broody I'm going to put whatever I have under them to see what I can hatch out.

Still trying to figure out what my mysterious coloring I have come across in some of my other Silkies I have. I don't know if they are Partridge, Paint or something else. I posted some pics of those a day or 2 ago so they are 3 pages back if anyone wants to comment on them and let me know what you think those colors are.

Jayare

 

[Tomtommom]

I have egg customers that think brown eggs are "better for you". Supermarket thinking....geez.

BamaDude -- I think on the social forums like this one, it is fine to advertise buy/sale/trade.

If buying grocery store eggs I do buy brown.. because they can't vigorously clean them like they do white eggs. But yeah, it's not white bread vs. whole wheat

 

[bamadude]

I hate grocery store eggs. I can totally taste the difference

 

[Tomtommom]

I hate grocery store eggs. I can totally taste the difference

I agree. I usually only use them for baking or scrambled eggs (with cheese and seasonings lol)

 

[dan26552]

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x2 And you can see a difference in the yolk color as well

 

[Tomtommom]

I've got officially two dozen muscovy eggs now haha

SO if you need some, Bamadude.. come on over. Now only for eating, because I don't know if they're fertile. It seems muscovy eggs aren't like chicken eggs. I don't see a bullseye and those yolks are THICK. Think custard thick. Hard to whisk haha. But they're yummy.

 

[bamadude]

That is very kind of u tomtom. If u lived closer I would surely want to taste 1. Maybe u will be getting plenty of them for hatching when I get my gangsta bator in may

 

[Alabama Jack]

I've had "farm fresh" but never my own eggs. Hopefully in three more months! We're so enjoying the girls, it's like having a newborn that is growing a year a week...

Question: Would it be cool to have a map of all the active Alabama members (general locality, not addresses)? Maybe even bordering counties from other states?