Debbie's Silkies

[RememberTheWay]

Bahaha, yes typo I use swipe to type on my phone and it gets me in a lot of trouble

Lol- same happens to me! All I could picture was a chicken being stuffed into a wall of insulation! Too !

 

[2ndTink]

Lol- same happens to me! All I could picture was a chicken being stuffed into a wall of insulation! Too !

I was so fed up with her, I could have easily shoved her in a wall to try and quiet her down but after her isolation (without insulation involved) she was a total favorite of mine.

 

[Debbie292d]

Ahhhhhh I just saw the news about the Bobbi eggs!!! So so so excited Can’t wait to see how your hatch goes!!!! Hoping for lots of blue creams

I candled them (Day 7) just a bit ago. 13 are alive!

 

[Slothinc]

I candled them (Day 7) just a bit ago. 13 are alive!

Ahhhhhh so exciting!

 

[RememberTheWay]

I was so fed up with her, I could have easily shoved her in a wall to try and quiet her down but after her isolation (without insulation involved) she was a total favorite of mine.

To funny!!! Definitely have been there with mine at times! They can be a pack of mean girl tiny raptors definitely! Lol

 

[Debbie292d]

Update:

16 are in lockdown due the 20th.

These below are all the ones I have left from the last two batches of our own silkies; 1 week old, a few 2 weeks old, and three white ones of a small batch of eggs I bought that are almost a month old. These are the ones for sale that we'll try to peddle next weekend at the Amish flea market, with the 16 hatching two days prior. (We have a heating pad and generator.)

Two other white ones like these I'm keeping. They're in a growout pen with 11 others. Four of those I'm keeping, (white, buff, chocolate, and splash) and nine for my cousin in Minnesota. I should get a pic of them tomorrow.

 

[2ndTink]

Update:

16 are in lockdown due the 20th.

These below are all the ones I have left from the last two batches of our own silkies; 1 week old, a few 2 weeks old, and three white ones of a small batch of eggs I bought that are almost a month old. These are the ones for sale that we'll try to peddle next weekend at the Amish flea market, with the 16 hatching two days prior. (We have a heating pad and generator.)

View attachment 3864785

Two other white ones like these I'm keeping. They're in a growout pen with 11 others. Four of those I'm keeping, (white, buff, chocolate, and splash) and nine for my cousin in Minnesota. I should get a pic of them tomorrow.

What a cute fuzzy flock, I hope they sell well for you next weekend.

 

[Debbie292d]

I had to pull the splash chick from the growout pen and put it in with these in the pet pen. Hubby named that one "Chelsea Chicken" because she is the leader for getting the rest of them in the hutch at night. He says she goes in there and says, "Hi, I'm Chelsea Chicken, welcoming you into the hutch. Come hither, Come hither."

Well, she's the leader all right and when I raised the front of the pen this morning so they could come out get some grass, she led them all to the house. I think she was trying to find us. A couple of hens pecked her. She's fine but she's too tame and too brave, so need to keep her safe. At least for a few hours.

Chelsea Chicken

When we first let them out, Blueboy, the yard monitor rooster, was keeping an eye on them. Once she took off, he just gave up I guess.

 

[Debbie292d]

So I learned something about fake broody hens.

If a hen is getting battered by a rooster, as in head pecking, and too much breeding, the hen can feign being broody, complete with fluffing up and putting their wings out while slowly walking around going cluck, cluck, cluck.

Marsha particularly has been the best actor. When it went on for over a week in broody jail, and then a second hen went broody who just got off being broody, I started wondering. I took Piper (rooster) out of the pen, put the hens all back in there, and voila, they weren't broody anymore. Just like magic!

So, Blueboy (blue silkie rooster) has wanted in there so bad he's got a path worn around the outside of the pen. It's his turn now. The ladies are happy as they're all non-broody with him, and it's been about 24 hours.

Piper, well, we'll give him a while to get used to free-ranging and see if he can find his place as he's pretty ticked off. He's pacing the front of the pen, wanting back in. I suppose those hens are laughing.

In other news, we had to move the pet pen to a less windy location. I meant to put them all in the laundry basket while hubby moved it, but he just lifted it and let them go. That was fun! Most came to the basket and got in. The others, I made hubby chase them down.

 

[2ndTink]

So I learned something about fake broody hens.

If a hen is getting battered by a rooster, as in head pecking, and too much breeding, the hen can feign being broody, complete with fluffing up and putting their wings out while slowly walking around going cluck, cluck, cluck.

Marsha particularly has been the best actor. When it went on for over a week in broody jail, and then a second hen went broody who just got off being broody, I started wondering. I took Piper (rooster) out of the pen, put the hens all back in there, and voila, they weren't broody anymore. Just like magic!

So, Blueboy (blue silkie rooster) has wanted in there so bad he's got a path worn around the outside of the pen. It's his turn now. The ladies are happy as they're all non-broody with him, and it's been about 24 hours.

Piper, well, we'll give him a while to get used to free-ranging and see if he can find his place as he's pretty ticked off. He's pacing the front of the pen, wanting back in. I suppose those hens are laughing.

In other news, we had to move the pet pen to a less windy location. I meant to put them all in the laundry basket while hubby moved it, but he just lifted it and let them go. That was fun! Most came to the basket and got in. The others, I made hubby chase them down.


View attachment 3866429

Oh wow, smart girls, good catch on that. I bet Blue Boy is super happy.

Hehe, your laundry basket story