Australia - Six states..and that funny little island.

[K Spot]

hi guy's have just joined,i'm in southern vic.love the look of the little frizzle hen. barry

Howdy

and welcome to the thread!

So all 5 eggs that were under Whoopi have hatched! We have 4 dark bubbas and 1 light, so very easy to distinguish that one in Whoopi's black silks. The others just blend into her, their camo level is high

@Teila your girls are just beautiful

 

[K Spot]

Sorry for the dreadful pics. I snapped them quickly on the way out the door for work this morning

 

[Fancychooklady]

Sorry for the dreadful pics. I snapped them quickly on the way out the door for work this morning

Love seeing happy little mommas!

 

[Teila]

Morning friends

Thank you for your kind words regarding my beautiful little gals. I shared one of the pics with my Sister and she said “KiKi looks like a beautiful flower” .. she does kind of

ChristieB I am excited about your project also; can’t wait to hear the results and also hope that it is good news

Howdy lowey; welcome to BYC and also to this thread; what do you have in your flock?

Woo hoo Sam, congrats on the increased egg numbers. As I type Cilla aka Nike [Just Do It!] is announcing to all and sundry “gunna lay an egg; gunna lay an egg” so I know we are getting at least one today

K Spot no such thing as “dreadful” when you are sharing bubby pics Aaaaw, so so cute!

 

[K Spot]

Love seeing happy little mommas!

K Spot no such thing as “dreadful” when you are sharing bubby pics Aaaaw, so so cute!

Thank you

Hope I can get some better ones tonight. My little crossbreeds are sooo tiny!!

There was nearly a disaster at my place on Saturday, I'm still reeling from it a bit actually.

I let the pooches out to the toilet when I got out of bed on Saturday, I headed out into the yard as well to check on the babies. To my horror, I saw my Marans just pecking around OUTSIDE the run! My heart was in my mouth as I scanned the yard to see were Domino was; he saw her, Marans saw dog, Domino locked eyes on her and the chase was on.
He ran after her and grabbed her in his mouth, all the while I was screaming and yelling at him to drop her. Luckily I wasn't too far away from the chaos so got to Domino in less than 2 seconds. I wrestled him to the ground and got him to drop the Marans, after which she ran away and hid in the bushes.
I quickly threw him into Lou's paddock with the 2 other dogs who weren't involved (thank goodness) and went to survey the damage. I was thinking for sure she was a goner from what happened to Snitzel earlier this year

. I flushed her out of some long grass and was pleased she was at least mobile and didn't have any visible open wounds or blood.
I herded her back into the coop/run and catch her to assess her wounds; thank heavens I only found one small puncture just behind her thigh that I quickly cleaned and sprayed with Terramycin.
After cleaning her up I scouted the perimeter of the fencing and found they had dug away at the fenceline a small gap under the wire where she was able to duck under and follow the fence into Lou's paddock. I've had to put up a temporary barricade there for now until I can get something more permanent.

So little Miss Marans is one lucky girl; missing some feathers and a small wound is the best outcome I could have hoped for from a dog attack.

 

[Fancychooklady]

That was a close call.

 

[K Spot]

Definitely a close call Fancy

 

[IamSamSam]

Thank you    Hope I can get some better ones tonight.  My little crossbreeds are sooo tiny!! 

There was nearly a disaster at my place on Saturday, I'm still reeling from it a bit actually.

I let the pooches out to the toilet when I got out of bed on Saturday, I headed out into the yard as well to check on the babies.  To my horror, I saw my Marans just pecking around OUTSIDE the run!  My heart was in my mouth as I scanned the yard to see were Domino was; he saw her, Marans saw dog, Domino locked eyes on her and the chase was on.

He ran after her and grabbed her in his mouth, all the while I was screaming and yelling at him to drop her. Luckily I wasn't too far away from the chaos so got to Domino in less than 2 seconds.  I wrestled him to the ground and got him to drop the Marans, after which she ran away and hid in the bushes. 

I quickly threw him into Lou's paddock with the 2 other dogs who weren't involved (thank goodness) and went to survey the damage.  I was thinking for sure she was a goner from what happened to Snitzel earlier this year  .  I flushed her out of some long grass and was pleased she was at least mobile and didn't have any visible open wounds or blood.

I herded her back into the coop/run and catch her to assess her wounds; thank heavens I only found one small puncture just behind her thigh that I quickly cleaned and sprayed with Terramycin.  

After cleaning her up I scouted the perimeter of the fencing and found they had dug away at the fenceline a small gap under the wire where she was able to duck under and follow the fence into Lou's paddock. I've had to put up a temporary barricade there for now until I can get something more permanent.


So little Miss Marans is one lucky girl; missing some feathers and a small wound is the best outcome I could have hoped for from a dog attack. 

 

Cute fluffys and glad Miss Maran is ok.

 

[satay]

Sorry for the dreadful pics. I snapped them quickly on the way out the door for work this morning

Gratz K on a wonderful hatch

 

[K Spot]

Thank you! I can't wait to see how my home-bred babies feather out.