Consolidated Kansas

[Marty1876]

Morning Chicken Danz

Morning eveyone.

 

[chicken danz]

Welcome Josie! You are pretty close to me. I live over between Waverly and Burlington a couple miles form the Nuke plant.I see you have Sabastopols. I have my Sabastopol eggs cooking away in the incubator. Tell us about yourself.
I hatched 9 new babies from various eggs this AM. I have a few others pipped. I noticed there is at least one salmon faverolle in there. I've been putting those in a separate bin as they hatch so I can save them for those of you who were wanting them. I'm trying to watch them because I need to save a cockerel for myself who will hopefully be an offspring to the one I lost. I guess there is a 50-50 chance it's his or the other roo's. At least they sex pretty early.
Chooks I didn't realize you had lavender or split Orpingtons. I'm assuming from the color of the chicks that you do. Maybe we could do a little trading. I just want a few of them, maybe 5 so I can get a breeding program going on those.
Do you have more than one rooster? I'd like to have some mixed blood. BTW Sandy did call yesterday but I missed the call and called her back and missed her. I can't get cell reception here and she always calls my cell number. If you have my home number would you give it to her please?
I sure hope it warms up today some or at least doesn't feel so cold.

 

[Ivywoods]

Hi Danz-Thanks. I put the shelf liner in last night. I can just take the lid off the trays. It seems like a lot of them hop out even with those lightweight lids I put on. They push their little heads up and go right on out. The worst thing I had happen with that was one chick hopped out of the tray, but he was hanging upside down by a cord that was still attached from his butt to the shell. I must have found him quickly because he was flapping and carrying on and did just fine once I rescued him.

Funeral services this morning for my little wheaten colored serama rooster. I had turned all but the whites loose. The little wheaten decided the warmest place to spend the night was on the ground between two goats. One must have rolled over on him because he was smashed this morning. I hated to loose him. He was so pretty. The rest of the seramas are really enjoying their new-found freedom and they are so cute to watch scratching around on the ground.

Oh, I did have another serama hatch. At first I thought it was a little black rosecomb. Now I have one silvery yellow and one black serama chick. The other egg stopped developing some time before it was ready to hatch.

Checoukan is at a show in Oklahoma. I hope she does well. I just talked to her on the phone and there are a lot of birds at that show... all bantams.

 

[chicken danz]

I'd be glad to donate another wheaten colored roo to you. I have some young ones that are coming of age. That is the red color,right?? I don't know a heck of a lot about chicken colors. I'll check but I'm pretty sure there is one out there. Maybe even a smaller boy. I kept my smallest roos in general other than keeping my original speckled male cause he is an awesome bird. I'm trying to breed for little except in whites where I just want white. Those nit wits haven't laid yet since I penned them! That's just crazy. I may have to change things around later to accommodate them if they don't get busy.
I think I have people coming to get pups today. I hope. I've been letting them out to run for a while each day around the chickens but only if I'm out there. They get carried away and I loose sight of them. Then getting them back in the pen is a major deal. They jump out while I'm trying to put another one up.
Chopper is getting way too independent and keeps making trips through the house. I am so done with wiping up duck poop! I mopped the floors with bleach water but it is hard to get up. Sure glad I don't have my new hardwood down or my other wood refinished yet.
I am thinking he has to grow really fast so he can stay outside. Having a pet duck is endearing I suppose if you have diapers for them. I really do enjoy him in the evening when I sit down to relax. He just sits on my lap and falls asleep. Well anytime I sit down with him on my lap he just sits and cuddles. It's those times in between that drive me nuts!!
So TAZ, are you hatching some peafowl eggs?

 

[JosieChick]

Welcome back to the thread then! Adorable chicks you have!! oh-- never apologize for lots of pictures-- LOVE pictures!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope Renee can tell you what you have. Never heard of Rantoul, where is that?

Thanks! Rantoul is between Ottawa and Paola and it is tiny. "Downtown" has a restaurant that is only open on the weekends, a handful of houses, a post office and a heeler mix that runs the 4 way stop signs! We are about 15 minutes from that area with about 8 acres but no development around us so I feel like we have 100!

 

[JosieChick]

Chickendanz- Glad to hear I have a neighbor! This is my first pair of sebbies and I just set my first batch of eggs last night!

I also have 2 horses, 2 pygmy/fainter goats, 4 dogs, an undisclosed number of cats, seramas, splash cochins, mille fleur/calico cochins, bbs silkies, mixed laying flock of girls and 2 brooders full of chicks!

Chooks- I am so excited for the lavender mottled

I was really hoping for one. Are the other mottled orps a black base with white mottling? I will take more pics in a few weeks when they start to feather out more. I know for a fact that one of those chicks in that bunch is an olive egger because I pulled a clean, zipped olive shell out of the incubator. I pulled 3 silkie shells out and that accounts for the silkies. Now here is the conundrum, I may have randomly set a splash cochin egg of my own by accident thinking it was a serama egg. Which means that I have yet another silkie/cochin mutt chick on top of the ones the broodies hatched out. It can't be a pure splash, it looks too dark to me. That would also explain the weird split toe color, ugh, half silkie toes, half cochin toes!!! It is the only other chick in the brooder with feathered legs, is it possible the OE is clean legged?

 

[Trish44]

Hawkeye, thanks for asking, my little hen is still wheezing. She has no other outward symptoms thus far & doesn't really seem to feel bad. She's eating & drinking, so that's good. She does seem to need a little weight on her so I've been giving her extra treats, she loves sunflower seeds.

Well my two Lakenvelder hens spent the night outside last night, I couldn't get them in with the rest & didn't feel like going back out at dark last night to find them, so they spent the night I guess under the eve again. I wish they could learn to go in with the rest of the chickens, but they seem to have their own ideas. I guess they're smart enough to get in where they're fairly safe. There is a huge honeysuckle vine covering that end of the house over the eve there. The old garage that was originally built onto the house is at the north end & the eve is not far off the ground since 3 sides of the house are built underground. The cats have always used that area for their hiding place too. The previous owners who are the ones who built the house put a fence in at the end of the house for the honeysuckle vine to grow on & you can barely see it now unless I severely cut back the vine, which I did last summer. We were getting our roof replaced & the vinyl siding put on so they needed to have the vine cut back to work there. The roof over the old garage part, which is now my storage room is only about 2 feet off the ground at the backyard. That's why the dogs can get on it from back there. Yes, it's strange to see two big puppies galloping over the roof & it sounds like a herd of elephants when they're up there from inside our office, which is adjoining that roof.

Chooks, those are some cute chicks! I didn't know you had Orpingtons either. Are they lavender ones? I may want a couple of those next year if you have them. I have enough chicks coming this year.

 

[honeycreek]

Actually, my mom has dark muscovies. She lives S. of Topeka, but I go to Lawrence about once a month. Are you wanting some eggs? She won't sell her babies, but she's been known to sell the eggs, usually only 4-6 at a time, since she has a small bunch. In full swing, she can get about 3 a day.

By dark, do you mean black or chocolate? But, yes, I would like some eggs. Prefer to do that if I can over ducklings. Only because when you hatch them, they imprint to you and are easier to handle, if needed, when older. I have four kids who all want to hold their birds! So I would be interested in some eggs. I'm happy to start with 4 to 6. That would give me hopefully 3 or more ducklings to start off with. And if she would part with another 4 to 6 the week after, I would be set. Let me know. Thanks!

 

[WichitaKidd]

Updated my post in the "What breed is this" forum with some updated pics of my "mystery chicks". I think they like having their pics taken as they were very cooperative this time around.

Here is a link: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/632429/mystery-chicks-from-atwoods#post_8517015

Hope everyone is enjoying the sunshine!

 

[Ivywoods]

Wichita- I would guess the black chick is an australorp. Different chicks from different strains of the same breed can grow at much different rates. They can also attain very different sizes. I've seen this numerous times with hatchery chicks that just never grow to the size you want them to be, but chicks from a breeder of the same variety might grow twice that size.

I have no clue about the lighter colored chick. It could be a number of things.

Danz-Thanks for the offer. I have my whites penned up in hopes of raising some more. I'll probably stick with those. One of the little roosters I have turned loose is very typey and I think I will use him for a breeder, too. I'm not sure about the other hens. I've been trying to decide which one has the best type, but all of them have a longer back than I would like. Since I turned them loose it is much easier to evaluate them. They strut and scratch and show off a lot more. I think they just were not happy where I had them before, even though it is a nice cage. I'll wait on getting any more roosters, but I might be willing to pay a premium to get a really nice, typey hen or pullet, and it wouldn't matter what color.

I bought a piece of scrap linoleum I'm going to add to my cages. I used one on the bottom tier of pens and it works so well I decided to do it on the top, even though the bottom of those cages is formica. I cut the linoleum wide so it folds up about 3" in front of the doors. It keeps the shavings in a lot better. Then when I go to clean the pen, I just fold the linoleum down and scoop everything out. Works great. The linoleum is new stuff that is very pliable. It's not brittle like the old stuff.

Danz, since I changed the shelf or drawer liner in my hatching trays now I probably won't get any splay legged chicks to take pictures of for my article. Oh, well. That's not all bad.

I better get busy. I haven't heard from Checoukan again yet. I'll bet she is busy talking and "gleaning" as much info from other breeders as she can manage.