California - Northern

[Chickengirl1304]

I think my first egg may be coming from my two year old Orpington's I got!! One of the hens has been in the nest box all day and this evening.

 

[lawatt]

i have 22 eggs in the incubator, just started on sunday -- so will hopefully have some peeps in a few weeks -- marans and isbars.

 

[tommysgirl]

Zooweemama I have 10 under a broody Black Australorp, 6 Silver Penciled Wy, 2 Delaware and 1 each Del over CA Grey and Del over Chocolate Rock. Hatch Date the 25th

Your pics are stunning. I love the name Waffles. sounds very chiqitaesque !

 

[OR4-hmom]

The pigeons are at it again, the first egg is in the nest bowl. Should have the next one Friday or Saturday. I hope they do better this time.

 

[zooweemama]

Zooweemama I have 10 under a broody Black Australorp, 6 Silver Penciled Wy, 2 Delaware and 1 each Del over CA Grey and Del over Chocolate Rock. Hatch Date the 25th

Your pics are stunning. I love the name Waffles. sounds very chiqitaesque !

haha Thanks! I cannot even recall how Waffles came about. I do know we named her because we didn't know her gender and wouldn't for months. We THINK she is a she.

The pigeons are at it again, the first egg is in the nest bowl. Should have the next one Friday or Saturday. I hope they do better this time.

Yay!

i have 22 eggs in the incubator, just started on sunday -- so will hopefully have some peeps in a few weeks -- marans and isbars.

Two lovely birds- good luck on the hatch!

I think my first egg may be coming from my two year old Orpington's I got!! One of the hens has been in the nest box all day and this evening.

Congrats! Love Orps!

Sometimes I wonder what in the world I am doing! I still have the Pita Pintas plus 2 others in the house at night. A group of Bresse and Langshans are headed to the farm this weekend and then the PP group will be outside all the time. All just in time to have new babies in a brooder in the house. I am taking a hatching break after this! I just didn't want to wait a few months before trying my new hatcher/incubator.

I wasn't going to hatch until this all went down. I actually hate hatching. ...well to be accurate it's the brooding I hate. I loved my Silkies. They did such a peachy job!

Ha ha, new name!! Baboon Butt! That looks seriously itchy to me.....

Game camera!!!! Got any old baby monitors? Set them outside so you can hear the commotion.

You probably should have asked who isn't hatching right now. It may have been a shorter list.

Monitor. This is sucky!

Hi Amy,

Really sorry to hear about you loosing your Sillies - they are the sweetest birds.

I hope you can get whatever it is soon and your mix eggs hatch out. I have been wanting Sillies that lay blue eggs - so if you get any "extra" girls I wouldn't mind having one if she lays blue/green eggs. I was going to try it next year with my AMs - but if you already have some and can bear to part with one that would put me further along with that plan. I have three Silly chicks here - two Blues and one Black - not keeping them. If you "need" some pure Silkies to grow out - let me know - they are big enough the broodies are ignoring them now so they can be on their own. I think they are between 4 and 6 weeks old, by my guess. They hatched while I was gone for two weeks - so somewhere in there... I have no clues on sex though - its almost impossible to tell at that young of an age.

I also have two silly boys - they are ALSO sweet, although I don't handle them as much as I do the boy I am keeping. I will give you one if you want to make more silkied feathered birds - your crosses will all have smooth feathers but by breeding them back to the silkied feathers you can get back to the soft.. just let me know.

HUH! I had NO idea! So Silkie to CL. Take the cross that lays blue eggs and then cross is back into a Silkie?

Ha ha you are not alone I am among the crazies hatching in the winter!!

Woohoo!

 

[ChickNmamma]

Quote: If you want those silkied feathers, yes.

Silkied feathers are recessive and need two copies of the gene to show. All your crosses will have regular feathers until you cross them back again. Then about half of the chicks will have silkied feathers. You might loose other Silkie characteristics too - like the 5 toes and the black skin in the second generation. You should keep the crests if your CL were crested. Beards will be there for the first generation, but skimpier, unless your Silkies were beardless. Blue ears, black eyes - they may go away - I am not sure if they are dominant or recessive.

I do have a theory I have heard about you can help me test - Somebody somewhere said crossing a Silkie to a white/yellow skinned bird without pigment would result in the offspring getting the black skin on the opposite sex. So, when yours hatch - the boys will all have dark/black legs and the girls will all have yellow legs. Let me know if this is accurate in what you hatch - its only a theory until proven...

I don't think the CL autosexing will work on the cross - because the feather genetics from the mothers will mess with that. The Creel pattern may mess up the dark legs so they look spotty. They may also not show the lighter feathers - I don't know - because I don't know what causes the auto-sexing in the CL. Its an interesting cross - so let me know how they turn out, please?

 

[AmyPaperlady]

I think I actually may be done sawing things for the coop

Just need to make the feeder and waterer and buy feed and such--chickens on Friday or Saturday

 

[ronott1]

I think I actually may be done sawing things for the coop

Just need to make the feeder and waterer and buy feed and such--chickens on Friday or Saturday

That is very good news!

 

[Happy Chooks]

I think I actually may be done sawing things for the coop Just need to make the feeder and waterer and buy feed and such--chickens on Friday or Saturday

How exciting!e

 

[OR4-hmom]

I think I actually may be done sawing things for the coop Just need to make the feeder and waterer and buy feed and such--chickens on Friday or Saturday

Congratulations! It seems to take forever.