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[Sanna]

Sanna - how about "Splenda" for the silkie? or Glinda (the good witch from Wizard of Oz - I think)

Beautiful birds!
I would go with Bianca for the gorgeous orpington and Misty for the little silkie girl...

More name options....
For the orp...
Alainn- Irish for beautiful
Bonnie-british or irish for pretty
For the Silkie...
Mulan- Disney's Asian girl who wanted to be a Samurai
MengMeng- Chinese for misty

The Silkie needs a name like Foo Foo!!

I once had a cockerel named FluFlu.

BTW Sanna, you have some gorgeous birds - did you hatch them yourself.?

Thank you! I hatched some of these birds. Blackie Chan & Big Bertha I purchased as chicks. The splash pullet, along with 2 other black pullets, are their daughters. Those 3 girls are the only ones I've hatched from my own eggs. They're my first generation "homebred"! lol The Jubilees I also purchased as chicks Lucked out big time because they both turned out as pullets!
The Silkies are from shipped eggs. So I can't really take any credit for any of them.

 

[Sanna]

Sanna, you have the most beautiful animals

Especially the silkies.

Thank you! I work for a non-profit rescue farm, I also live here, so there are many critters for me to photograph. The chickens are mine, as are the cats I post pictures of, the rest belong to the farm.

 

[smccuen]

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Despite the frigid temperatures my two Pekin ducks laid a dozen beautiful white eggs this week on the floating duck house. [/QUOTE Beautiful set up for them! I can see why they want to raise a clutch there! Please add pictures of the family when they hatch!

Oh, there won't be any hatchlings until I get a drake for these ducks.

 

[chickendreams24]

Ok well firstly @forgetful I too am sorry about the horse, but I love your birds. Where did you get your silver laced wyandottes? I would love to hear more about the strain. We have 5(4 pullets and a cockeral) and to be honest I'm a little under-whelmed. I'm trying to be patient but their eggs started out smaller than my silkies first eggs they're larger now but very narrow. We have also had problems with our cockeral being aggressive oddly almost all his aggression is at me the flock keeper. I've never given him reason. We got them from a local breeder who had stunning birds but I think they're just from hatchery stock maybe a couple generations back. I love the look but they're also kinda bullies in the mixed flock we keep. I would love to find a tamer, more docile, more friendly strain.

Also to everyone I'm loving the kitty pics and the rescue stories. It is so true that they rescue us. We have five indoor cats(its a lot I know, but you would never know that we have that many walking in our house) and all five of them are rescued/rehabbed ferals/or semi-ferals. Four of the five were hand-raised bottle babies. One from three weeks, a brother and sister pair from three and a half weeks, and newest little edition from last summer, Luna, who I got at a day old when her Mom and whole litter were killed after getting hit by a lawn mower. They are the best cats. If you have the time and the patience I would recommend befriending and gaining the trust of a feral. So often cats labeled feral never make it out of shelters, people think they're unpredictable and mean. Lol tell me this face is mean...any of them

(Playing in paper after hatching eggs came in the mail)

And doesn't this last one just make you shake in your boots? This is Luna the day I got her. Shaking and completely silent for over 24 hours after the accident. They couldn't bring themselves to kill her and begged me to try, but they never thought to try to warm her up with a light or by holding her. I'm not afraid to say that after checking her for injuries the little shocked ice cold baby went straight in my bra. Ya should have seen the look on their faces.

So thank you all for rescuing and keep it up

 

[drumstick diva]

Actually I think we would have loved to see the expression on YOUR face after tucking her in - ICE COLD! You are a very nice person to take them in. Does the black cat have a bad left eye? Maybe it's just the photo but, looks "cloudy."

 

[Sanna]

We have five indoor cats(its a lot I know, but you would never know that we have that many walking in our house) and all five of them are rescued/rehabbed ferals/or semi-ferals.


(Playing in paper after hatching eggs came in the mail)

I'm glad I'm not the only one with 5 kitties!!

Mine are also rescues.

LOVE that little kitten!

 

[Birdrain92]

I'm glad I'm not the only one with 5 kitties!!

Mine are also rescues.

LOVE that little kitten!

I have 3 adult cats, amazing hunters and 3 kittens. The kittens are trying to mouse but so far they are not that great.

 

[forgetful]

Ok well firstly @forgetful I too am sorry about the horse, but I love your birds. Where did you get your silver laced wyandottes? I would love to hear more about the strain. We have 5(4 pullets and a cockeral) and to be honest I'm a little under-whelmed. I'm trying to be patient but their eggs started out smaller than my silkies first eggs they're larger now but very narrow. We have also had problems with our cockeral being aggressive oddly almost all his aggression is at me the flock keeper. I've never given him reason. We got them from a local breeder who had stunning birds but I think they're just from hatchery stock maybe a couple generations back. I love the look but they're also kinda bullies in the mixed flock we keep. I would love to find a tamer, more docile, more friendly strain.

I found mine quite by accident from a local breeder. She advertised on Craigslist and I was extremely surprised by the quality. My birds aren't jump in my lap friendly, but they will eat treats from my hand and I've never had any issues with the cockerel whatsoever. He enjoys crowing as soon as you step outside into his view, but as long as he isn't threatening I have no issue with it. Did your local breeder have any aggression issues in her breeder stock? If so I would definitely look for a different strain, but perhaps she has a new generation of breeders that could offer more docile birds. As for eggs, if I had calm, gentle, good looking birds, that would be something I wouldn't mind working on. My pullets take the longest time to start laying (10 months) but the egg size is decent and I like their type and color. I'm willing to sacrifice point of lay for all the other attributes

 

[chickendreams24]

@drumstick diva
Yes that is Phantom we got him at three weeks(possibly 2.5) after his feral mother abandoned him BC he was ill. His eyes were so badly infected that chunks of tissue came out. He is my miracle baby I got up all through the night and fed him every half hour for the first week we had him and he was still less than two tenths of a pound. He was so sick and tiny we didn't think he would make it at all, or that he would be completely blind. He is the uncle(literally) of the two long haired tabbies. We were never able to find the rest of the litter and she was a beautiful tortie, that we were taming. She brought us her litter of four after her milk dried up, she was ill and severely under weight at the time. We doesed her with pills and turkey drippings(cooked a whole turkey-freezer burned for the feral cats we cared for) and saved her and raised the litter, two of whom found their family with us after someone backed out of adopting them.

@Sanna
Me too. Luna is not so small as that picture any more she's quite q long spotted beauty but I love that picture I called her my baby bird in a nest after it. As a kitten she was the spitting image of a bobcat kitten and we wondered for a while. Lol she's a terror but also very sweet. She also helped me when my 15 year old cat, Cassie, was diagnosed with cancer and had to be put down, Luna was two weeks old. She'll never be Cassie of course but she helped me to realize that I was still needed and loved and she definitely has some of Cassie's inherent sweetness.

@forgetful
I agree eggs can be worked on. And the strain I have would make wonderful dp birds if they layed better the cockeral is about 12-15# and some of the pullets(all nearing a year now about 8-9, maybe ten months) are probably ten#. Originally we were planning to work with them as I have two darker pullets and two lighter pullets(the cockeral is also lighter) but now the cockeral is on his last chance before he goes in a pot. I would love to find a nice strain and be able to try them again sometime. Do you sell hatching eggs?

I don't know much about the breeder it was also on craigslist, but my DH2B knew him, I saw his stock they were stunning and healthy. I don't think that he cared much about temperment though it seemed as though they were permanently in their coop, but I'm not sure about that. The coop was clean and he was able to house several roos together. That is one thing I'll say for my cockeral he is nice with the other roos I have, and great with the hens, if only he would stop the aggression.

 

[forgetful]

@forgetful
I agree eggs can be worked on. And the strain I have would make wonderful dp birds if they layed better the cockeral is about 12-15# and some of the pullets(all nearing a year now about 8-9, maybe ten months) are probably ten#. Originally we were planning to work with them as I have two darker pullets and two lighter pullets(the cockeral is also lighter) but now the cockeral is on his last chance before he goes in a pot. I would love to find a nice strain and be able to try them again sometime. Do you sell hatching eggs?

I don't know much about the breeder it was also on craigslist, but my DH2B knew him, I saw his stock they were stunning and healthy. I don't think that he cared much about temperment though it seemed as though they were permanently in their coop, but I'm not sure about that. The coop was clean and he was able to house several roos together. That is one thing I'll say for my cockeral he is nice with the other roos I have, and great with the hens, if only he would stop the aggression.

My birds weigh slightly less than yours I believe. I last weighed them about two months ago and the cockerel was pushing 10 lbs and the pullet 8 lbs. They were about 7 months old. It's crazy how big a bird can look and how much they actually weigh. I would have sworn that my cockerel was at least 12 lbs. Has your cockerel always displayed the aggression, or was it a recent development? My male also does fine with other males. We kept a full brother with him until they were 8 months old, and they were two peas in a pod.

Yes I do sell eggs, but only locally for now. I am focusing on breeding this year and looking into NPIP certification for next spring. There are things I'd like to see improved upon in the next generation before I start shipping out eggs, plus I'd like to hold onto more pullets for this years hatch to increase egg numbers. I had 5 birds I was hopeful of and narrowed it down to just the pair. Id like to have a quad next year.