Consolidated Kansas

[ChooksChick]

Hawkeye, you can see some of my Silkies here.

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

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Thanks, but we still have more more stuff to move. Hopefully this weekend we will disassemble our 12x16 barn so I can put it up here. We are very close to being done with the move. I will be truly happy that I will not need to go to the old house any more. I will post a link to the video of me moving the chickens and rabbits once I upload it.

 

[OzawkieBantams]

Wow people still come here.......lmao.....ooooops can I say that...........

Got a free silkie ifn one wants it. Oh an mines better take mine its fuzzy and such. It needs to go asap. Also got five black old english banties that need to go asap along with Katys favorite birds the pigeon.
let me know they all have to go

 

[chicken danz]

I really see very little difference in the bearded versus the non-bearded silkies. Just one more little poof under the chin. Not even really noticeable. I never paid attention to mine before. They are all little fluff balls. I wasn't aware I had a silkie egg in there. I had found a nest of eggs and put them in the bator cause they were small pullet eggs and I didn't know how old they were for sure.
I have GQF incubators. I have 2 that are incubators, One that is a hatcher, and 1 that can be used in combination. Plus I have two styrofoam bators which I use when I run out of room in the spring. I usually use them for quail and pheasants because the eggs are smaller and I can get more in. I pulled 6 chicks out of the incubator this morning. The black cochins and the black silkies look very similar other than the number of toes. I may have some mixes of the two as well.
It's taken a lot of time to get good at hatching. I didn't start out that well. I just finally got the right combination going.

 

[Trish44]

IVY it was nice meeting you today & good to pick up my chickens. Hopefully we can find a way for you to get my other Ameraucana rooster to me soon. I have everybody put up & my original flock is out free-ranging now. I figured I would introduce some of them at bedtime, then maybe there won't be so much fighting. I have the BC Marans in another pen for now until it settles down some. Big Red is out there raising a fit I can hear him about the other rooster right now. I'd better go out & see what's going on.

 

[Ivywoods]

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So happy to meet you and hear you had a safe trip. Sounds like your roo is not happy with the new intruders on his territory. It might be good to wait on that new roo until you have a good way to keep them separated. After you left one of my sis's black rosecomb roos decided he didn't like that lakenvelder rooster in the cage. He ran around and around and around that cage trying to pick a fight with the bigger lakie. The lakie just kept turning his back to the little rosecomb, and I think that made the little guy even madder. That little black roo must have ran several miles around that pen today!

Hawkeye-I took a couple pics at the show yesterday just for you. There were some incredible silkies and some white crested polish in colors I didn't know they had... chocolate and khaki. I'll post the pics once I get home on my own computer later this week.

 

[Trish44]

IVY, well by the time I got out there to see what the ruckus was about it was already over. I think Big Red was just flexing his muscles for the new guy to show him he's boss. Fortunately the Marans are in a pen so he couldn't get to him. He forgot all about it in a few minutes & took his girls back out in the yard. The other hens I brought home went into the coop & stayed there. The others went in to roost & I didn't hear a big ruckus in there, so maybe they found a spot to hide in for tonight out of the way. I think they will work out the pecking order OK with just the hens.

 

[Hawkeye95]

Danz, if I ever decide to get an incubator, I'll be talking to you! Yeah, I went out and looked at bearded vs non bearded pictures-- not seeing a big diff either. But they are all just so cute.

That is so funny that you accidentally hatched silkies.

OKay, here are some pics of what I did today and then the last pic is the roof I did this weekend on the storage side. First picture is the doors I put on the nest box. They are made of treated lumber, so I can't paint them yet until they dry out. It's plywood on the inside, so I painted those. The second pic just shows them open. It's something done!

 

[Trish44]

Hawkeye, I love your coop, it's awesome! Do you want to come build me another one when you're done, ha!

 

[chicken danz]

Chocolate polish are actually a gene found in blue polish. Sometimes it is hard to tell the difference if it isn't real prominent. It really has to be bred into them.
Darin, what sex is your silkie and what color?
I got the chicken wire up on the Mandarin pen for the most part today. I still have to go around and hook the two rows of it together. Time consuming stuff! I hope tomorrow to have time to put the netting on the top. My hands are throbbing from using the stapler and pulling on the wire.
After that I went out and got on the excavator DH rented today. I love operating heavy machinery. I just ran out of time and it got dark. I dug some more on that pond I was trying to build a while back. If I owned one of those things, my entire yard would be dug up and changed.