Debbie's Silkies

[Debbie292d]

On September 21, 2025, we should have a few dozen fuzzy butts running around. The plan is to have the inevitable broodies I'll have at the time raise them.

71 eggs set just before noon today. Yes, I have had a rule about keeping no chicks after July 1. The reason was so that any chicks I kept would be around 5 months old when the snow hits.

Now that we've got another coop and fancier growout pens, we've got more capabilities. Thus, I decided to hatch these out and keep them to grow out and sell in the spring when chicks are in their highest demand. If anyone happens to want chicks between then and spring, I'd sell. I may keep some though. 24 of these are from @2ndTink She's got some beautiful silkies too, so we'll see what we get and go from there!

 

[Debbie292d]

Remember when your parents told you to eat all of your vegetables so you'd grow big and strong?

Our ducks have been free-ranging and apparently have been eating too many vegetables and bugs, as they came up limping the other day.

They are angry today as we're not letting them out until they finish their plates. There's Poultry Cell in their water bucket, and nutritional yeast mixed in their Kalmbach's Flock Maker crumbles in both feeders. We float some frozen peas too so at least they get a little bit of their "vegetables."

 

[N F C]

Remember when your parents told you to eat all of your vegetables so you'd grow big and strong?

Our ducks have been free-ranging and apparently have been eating too many vegetables and bugs, as they came up limping the other day.

They are angry today as we're not letting them out until they finish their plates. There's Poultry Cell in their water bucket, and nutritional yeast mixed in their Kalmbach's Flock Maker crumbles in both feeders. We float some frozen peas too so at least they get a little bit of their "vegetables."

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Uh oh, beware of angry ducks

Hope they're better asap!

 

[2ndTink]

I have had a rule

love this

 

[Debbie292d]

love this

It's gone. Another rule tossed!

There are no more self-made rules like that anymore!

 

[Debbie292d]

I'm babysitting my son's dog, Xena, a mini-dachshund. She's been here before and thought young silkies were fuzzy toys. I won't let her around the smaller ones, but she's good around the older ones.

Today she wanted to come into the growout pen. One walked right up to her, and they touched noses. Then she came in and they scampered.




But they all were looking at her coming out of their hutch. I suppose they were wondering what kind of chicken that is.

 

[2ndTink]

I'm babysitting my son's dog, Xena, a mini-dachshund. She's been here before and thought young silkies were fuzzy toys. I won't let her around the smaller ones, but she's good around the older ones.

Today she wanted to come into the growout pen. One walked right up to her, and they touched noses. Then she came in and they scampered.

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But they all were looking at her coming out of their hutch. I suppose they were wondering what kind of chicken that is.

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That's an odd chicken for sure

 

[TwoCrows]

I'm babysitting my son's dog, Xena, a mini-dachshund. She's been here before and thought young silkies were fuzzy toys. I won't let her around the smaller ones, but she's good around the older ones.

Today she wanted to come into the growout pen. One walked right up to her, and they touched noses. Then she came in and they scampered.

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But they all were looking at her coming out of their hutch. I suppose they were wondering what kind of chicken that is.

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Xena, the new Doxylorp! (Combination Dachshund and Australorp.) Very cute Debbie!

 

[niazai_thechickenlife]

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I've got quite a bit of incubating going on as I've been buying exhibition/show quality eggs plus hatching my own.


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2025 Breeding Pens:
MB, Winnie, Ember, and Marsha is somewhere in there
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Mocha, Charlotte, and a couple of black hens
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Lester the lemon cuckoo, Carol, Tina, and Tanja.
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Buddie - cuckoo roo, Katie - cuckoo, and Bridgett - blue
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Outside breeder pen, Missie the grey moorehead partridge, Petra the white supposedly paint, Patty the paint, and Wyatt the white roo.
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Lester is considered lemon not buff???
There's so many different colours, it confuses me lol.

 

[Debbie292d]

Lester is considered lemon not buff???
There's so many different colours, it confuses me lol.

Lester is a lemon.



Carol is a buff. She molted and now is burnt orange. I will get a new picture of her.