California - Northern

[SilkiesForEver]

Quote: I won't force feed or water it. I'm just trying to give it the opportunity to get water and food.

Quote: That's very close. The eye liner pattern matches.

 

[casportpony]

Quote: I won't force feed or water it. I'm just trying to give it the opportunity to get water and food.

Quote: That's very close. The eye liner pattern matches.
That's fine... Is it possible that it flew into a window and stunned itself?

-Kathy

 

[PetRock]

How many is she sitting on? I usually only give a few eggs to my first timers and they are always eggs that I haven't paid money for or that I have extra of. If I were in your place and she just started sitting on them yesterday, I would only give her 8 at the most and be prepared to put them in the incubator if she deserts them. I would also go ahead and add more today if the ones that she is sitting on are fewer than 4 and only a day old. I usually don't give my broodies eggs until they have been actively broody for at least 4-5 days. I also dump them off the nest several times during the day to see if they can be distracted and not return to the proper nest. I hope that everything goes smoothly for you. I love having broody mamas with their babies!

 

[SilkiesForEver]

Quote: I won't force feed or water it. I'm just trying to give it the opportunity to get water and food.

Quote: That's very close. The eye liner pattern matches.
That's fine... Is it possible that it flew into a window and stunned itself?

-Kathy
That's what I think happened. I read this website, http://www.flap.org/find-a-bird.php, and then took back to where I found it. I set in down on the ground and it flew off into some birch trees a good distance away.

 

[casportpony]

That's what I think happened. I read this website, http://www.flap.org/find-a-bird.php, and then took back to where I found it. I set in down on the ground and it flew off into some birch trees a good distance away.

I like happy endings!

-Kathy

 

[AmyPaperlady]

It's a good thing that my daughters insist on being outside if they know the chicks are in our yard! The chicks were by the pond, and one slipped and fell in

My older daughter scooped the chick out immediately, and brought it in to be towel dried (we don't own a hair dryer, never have). Dried it off in the bathroom, with the heat light/fan on, then moved into my bedroom, where the little forced air heater is, to get the last dampness out before taking it back out to go under Frieda.

 

[SilkiesForEver]

Anyone interested in some bantams?

I have 2 black/gold OEGB pullets, not quite show quality because of their color, but 100% NOT hatchery blood. They have excellent type.

1 black Wyandotte bantam hen. Show Quality.

1 hatchery mottled Japanese bantam cockerel. Such a sweet guy! Has never showed any aggression towards me whatsoever.


Pm me if interested, and for prices. I am in Sacramento.

 

[Happy Chooks]

It's a good thing that my daughters insist on being outside if they know the chicks are in our yard! The chicks were by the pond, and one slipped and fell in

My older daughter scooped the chick out immediately, and brought it in to be towel dried (we don't own a hair dryer, never have). Dried it off in the bathroom, with the heat light/fan on, then moved into my bedroom, where the little forced air heater is, to get the last dampness out before taking it back out to go under Frieda.

Watch it for pasty butt.

 

[casportpony]

Keet update... one of them zipped out. umbilicus looks perfect!

-Kathy

 

[SilkiesForEver]

Keet update... one of them zipped out. umbilicus looks perfect!

-Kathy

Yay! I've always wanted guinea fowl. How different from chicken eggs is their incubation? Or is it the same?