California - Northern

[Nikon]

A little slice of my life


This is my husband, Tom. When he gets home after work he likes to sit on the couch, open the french doors and have a snack. The girls will usually walk right in the open door. Tom is not opposed to sharing his string cheese so guess who figured that out?



If he holds it above his head she will climb on his shoulder to get at it. She has no manners....what the picture doesn't show is the three dogs, sitting patiently on the floor waiting for a treat and wondering why THAT ONE gets away with such bad behavior.

ETA her name is Della...really clever I know...but she is the sweetest funniest hen in the coop also the one who laid the egg in the egg and other anomalies.

 

[debs_flock]

A little slice of my life


This is my husband, Tom. When he gets home after work he likes to sit on the couch, open the french doors and have a snack. The girls will usually walk right in the open door. Tom is not opposed to sharing his string cheese so guess who figured that out?



If he holds it above his head she will climb on his shoulder to get at it. She has no manners....what the picture doesn't show is the three dogs, sitting patiently on the floor waiting for a treat and wondering why THAT ONE gets away with such bad behavior.

ETA her name is Della...really clever I know...but she is the sweetest funniest hen in the coop also the one who laid the egg in the egg and other anomalies.

Okay, now I'm looking forward to you getting some of my SPPR. I WANT my birds to go and live with you!

 

[zooweemama]

haha our dog and a silkie - they are both like what??

 

[tommysgirl]

Okay, now I'm looking forward to you getting some of my SPPR. I WANT my birds to go and live with you!

That is the best compliment I have had in a long time

 

[tommysgirl]

haha our dog and a silkie - they are both like what??

Love this! Our boys are so good with the birds...When they were brooding, Cyrus (the dog in my avatar) really wanted to be good but was very tempted by the noisy, rapidly moving strangers in his house. Now he is totally deferential to them. When it is multi species treat time he lets the girls have fuist go.

 

[Deerling]

A little slice of my life


This is my husband, Tom. When he gets home after work he likes to sit on the couch, open the french doors and have a snack. The girls will usually walk right in the open door. Tom is not opposed to sharing his string cheese so guess who figured that out?



If he holds it above his head she will climb on his shoulder to get at it. She has no manners....what the picture doesn't show is the three dogs, sitting patiently on the floor waiting for a treat and wondering why THAT ONE gets away with such bad behavior.

ETA her name is Della...really clever I know...but she is the sweetest funniest hen in the coop also the one who laid the egg in the egg and other anomalies.

Aw I love these pictures!! I feel so lucky my sweetheart loves the chickens, too. Sometimes he'll go get his favorite out of the coop when he gets home from work and bring her into the house. She sits on his lap while he relaxes at the computer.

I'll have to post updated pictures.
Chicks

These are a couple of juvenile paint silkies.................just picture naked necks on the SG.


The spots increase in size as they mature.

Oooh I want some of these! I love the paints and I just recently was thinking I would like some show girls. Are you selling eggs right now?

I'm also going to be getting some bantam BLRW (which I have some leads on, thanks Chickee!) and am wanting some bantam Favorolles. Anyone know a good place to get them? I am thinking eggs.

I just got such incredibly exciting news! It's a secret for now because I'm afraid of jinxing it. Hopefully I will have some very exciting photos in the near future.

What is it?! I'm so bad waiting for surprises. You have to tell us!!

I think I need to treat my chickens, I've been hearing a few sneezes. I have oxine, but not sure how I would treat 40+? I do have a sprayer (like a roundup one) that I bought to use with Oxine for spraying the brooder and that becomes a pretty fine mist, should I just spray them with that or get some actual medicine?

Cute tidbit - for some reason our weirdo Salmon Favorolle roo Balthazar seems to really love our Polish roo, Iorek. He follows him around and they're buddies. Today Balthazar was preening Iorek's mohawk and Iorek, in turn, was preening Balthazar's beard. So cute!! I wish I would have named them Legolas and Gimli.

Since we got rid of our three unfriendly bantams the remaining three have been so cute! They follow me around and will run up to me when they see me come outside. I love them so much! What sweet babies. The other chickens aren't as nice to them, so I am thinking we'll build them their own coop with a run. That's why I want to get the other bantam breeds I'm interested in now, so we know how big to make it. So if anyone has bantam BLRW and Favorolle eggs let me know!

 

[debs_flock]

Oooh I want some of these! I love the paints and I just recently was thinking I would like some show girls. Are you selling eggs right now?

I am, their laying has picked back up after a round of broodies. Paint does not breed true, it took me forever (and many hatches) before I got my first, but right now mine have been hatching out about 80%+ paints. Also, you generally breed SG to silkie, so you will get both in the same clutch. I was getting primarily SG, but one of my SG is currently raising chicks, so my numbers seemed to have dropped to around 20% SG. Numbers of course are give or take, just my impression.

I'll post a picture of my newest little paint SG.

 

[zooweemama]

I am, their laying has picked back up after a round of broodies. Paint does not breed true, it took me forever (and many hatches) before I got my first, but right now mine have been hatching out about 80%+ paints. Also, you generally breed SG to silkie, so you will get both in the same clutch. I was getting primarily SG, but one of my SG is currently raising chicks, so my numbers seemed to have dropped to around 20% SG. Numbers of course are give or take, just my impression.

I'll post a picture of my newest little paint SG.

Nooo don't post picture. Will have to have another silkie to add to my collection. I have a blue and a partridge pullet now. They are cool crayolas- you need all the colors! haha

 

[Deerling]

I am, their laying has picked back up after a round of broodies. Paint does not breed true, it took me forever (and many hatches) before I got my first, but right now mine have been hatching out about 80%+ paints. Also, you generally breed SG to silkie, so you will get both in the same clutch. I was getting primarily SG, but one of my SG is currently raising chicks, so my numbers seemed to have dropped to around 20% SG. Numbers of course are give or take, just my impression.

I'll post a picture of my newest little paint SG.

That would be great! I love a surprise. I'll pm you later. I wanted to add in to my question above that I have noticed our chicks shaking their heads, like they have water in their ears. Our silkie babies were doing it a lot, which I heard can be normal of silkies, but they're in with the ones we hatched now and I just saw one of the little chipmunks do it. Could have been a fluke, but if not what can I use to help them? I don't think they have mites, I'm wondering if everyone has upper respiratory stuff going on.

 

[debs_flock]

Quote: Silkies can have neurological issues because of the vaulted skulls, but I would mostly keep an eye on them barring any secondary symptoms. When I have a chick I suspect might be fragile in any way, I usually will give them a drop of Poly-vi-Sol (no iron) each day for a couple of days. It can't hurt and it seems to help.