California - Northern

[nordahlbunch]

Pics of my latest hatch from the incubator (13 hatched out of 30 set, 9 not fertile, couple of early deaths, couple mid-way deaths = STINKY eggs, 2 late deaths no internal pips): 2 red pyle x white or splash Old English Game Bantams 3 showgirls (naked neck silkies): black, partridge & white 7 silkies: black, dk gray, lt gray, 2 partridge, white w/black spots (?), & white 1 silkie x ?: chipmunk fuzz w/orange feet (hmmm..) Look at these crazy markings - it'll be neat to see what it will it feather out to be @chiqita who's been sneaking into the silkie pen? Any guesses? Orange feet & chipmunk strips equals silkie x ??? I love surprises.

The yellow with the cool black stripes looks just like one I just hatched a few weeks ago.

And this is him now

 

[capayvalleychick]

@ronott1 could you please describe the model Genesis that I have, to @LAChick ? I don't know enough about the different models to be able to answer her questions about it. Ron didn't have any problems with it, and he used it the most. The one time I used it, I couldn't get the humidity stable. So, I'm going to sell it.

I want to start hatching but the barn room, where my R-com is, is still too cold. I'm going to try to talk my husband into putting a shelf over the tub in the spare bathroom. Then I can heat that small space to try to get the room temperature stable and warm enough for the incubator.

If anyone has a redwood incubator (not your monster, chiquita!

) or a good cabinet hatcher, please let me know.

 

[HighStreetCoop]

My treadle feeder arrived last night. Got it all set up in "training mode" and filled last night. So this morning I didn't have to open the coop and wake everyone up at 5:30AM. There was one inquisitive "bawk" when I opened the back door for the dog, but that was all. So MISSION QUIET MORNING accomplished!

 

[TheKeeper]

I don't think the volume matters much to a rooster. If he feels like he is crowing, he seems fine. Where you are cutting a cats fingers off if you declaw. The declawing still throws me.

Its likely a blue egg. They are my project hens ( we talked about it last time you picked up eggs, but that was a while ago) . she is 1/2 silkie 1/2 cream legbar. her chicks are 1/2 silkied, 1/2 blue egg layers. Interestingly enough, in australia they have a lot of blue egg laying silkies due to some cross many years ago. You'll see people asking for only blue egg laying silkies on ads, for example. I don't think it is in their SOP , but its common there. But, that might actualy be an olive egger, my AM hen got caught in the silkie nest box last week. it looks like a LF chick.

My Sizzle lines are actauly Polish based, not cochin based. You'll noticed they are longer and mostly have walnut combs, and still have foot feathering issues. The polish blood is 5? generations back now in the chicks. and the cushions need work... and the feathers are still BIG around the face and .. sigh... one day!!

My bad, my total bad. Now I remember us talking about the colored silkie eggs. I got distracted when we caught the roos. My memory is really spotty sometimes.
If anyone, especially you, took this as me questioning the quality your lines, that is not what I meant. My apologies.
It was my ignorance and a search for information and clarification in my pointed little head.
I should have asked you first.
I love your birds & enjoy hatching eggs from your flock.

I didn't even think about frizzled polish.
I see your frizzled showgirls as having nice long necks & better head poufs than the ones mixed with cochins, I guess there are breeding challenges both ways.
What I love about your lines @chiqita is that even most of the hens have brilliant blue ear spots.
In looking at pics from other folks, that seems like a desirable trait & a significant challenge that you've succeed at.

I'll be taking lots of pics of my silkie x AM chick so I can see its growth progression.
It's already bigger than the rest so it being LF sure makes sense. Neat!

 

[ronott1]

@ronott1 could you please describe the model Genesis that I have, to @LAChick ? I don't know enough about the different models to be able to answer her questions about it. Ron didn't have any problems with it, and he used it the most. The one time I used it, I couldn't get the humidity stable. So, I'm going to sell it.

I want to start hatching but the barn room, where my R-com is, is still too cold. I'm going to try to talk my husband into putting a shelf over the tub in the spare bathroom. Then I can heat that small space to try to get the room temperature stable and warm enough for the incubator.

If anyone has a redwood incubator (not your monster, chiquita!

) or a good cabinet hatcher, please let me know.

Your Genisis is the digital version without the lcd control. It is adjusted by using switches in the bottom of the lid. It works well and humidity adjustment is the same with this model and the new style, namely adding water to the channels.

The new version has:

Top temperature control
Built in temperature and humidity display on the top.

It hatched fine last year.

 

[chiqita]

My treadle feeder arrived last night. Got it all set up in "training mode" and filled last night. So this morning I didn't have to open the coop and wake everyone up at 5:30AM. There was one inquisitive "bawk" when I opened the back door for the dog, but that was all. So MISSION QUIET MORNING accomplished!

Oh dear what is training mode? Maybe that is what im missing!

My bad, my total bad. Now I remember us talking about the colored silkie eggs. I got distracted when we caught the roos. My memory is really spotty sometimes.
If anyone, especially you, took this as me questioning the quality your lines, that is not what I meant. My apologies.
It was my ignorance and a search for information and clarification in my pointed little head.
I should have asked you first.
I love your birds & enjoy hatching eggs from your flock.

I didn't even think about frizzled polish. 
I see your frizzled showgirls as having nice long necks & better head poufs than the ones mixed with cochins, I guess there are breeding challenges both ways.
What I love about your lines @chiqita
 is that even most of the hens have brilliant blue ear spots.
In looking at pics from other folks, that seems like a desirable trait & a significant challenge that you've succeed at.

I'll be taking lots of pics of my silkie x AM chick so I can see its growth progression.
It's already bigger than the rest so it being LF sure makes sense. Neat!

Im not even sure if we talked about it this time except for the word project. I wasnt worried.

That pen each chick is different i have to start corraling breeders this week and move people. The pinkies worry me more i don't know what combo givws them but they started kadt year. Im hoping to narrow it down and switch roosters.

 

[HighStreetCoop]

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This would explain why I was still looking at Skeksis when I Googled Frizzle Showgirls! Good to know that I like something VERY specific, LOL!

 

[HighStreetCoop]

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Nothing dreadful, I promise! It just means that for the first week you prop it fully open with no treadle/lid action so they get used to eating out if it. Then you adjust it so it's partially open and the lid and treadle move a little but the lid doesn't actually close (get them used to the motion). Then you take the training bolts out, by which time they should be used to the motion and the idea of how to get to their food.

 

[TheKeeper]

This would explain why I was still looking at Skeksis when I Googled Frizzle Showgirls! Good to know that I like something VERY specific, LOL!

Yes! Some people's chicks look REALLY like vultures, especially when they're teenagers. Talk about awkward.
@chiqita 's birds have cute short beaks & more rounded heads instead of long faces & long beaks.

 

[fowlman01]

Yes! Some people's chicks look REALLY like vultures, especially when they're teenagers. Talk about awkward.
@chiqita 's birds have cute short beaks & more rounded heads instead of long faces & long beaks.

Long faces and beaks are a sign of unthrifty birds. (crow headed)

Walt