From egg to chick!

[ElfenLied89]

Well heck, this is just another sign that you NEED Grinch! He carries one silkie gene and all the pretty colors! He likely carries a blue egg gene copy too.

I would love to take in Grinch. And whoever you ship with him for company. Try to keep it at 5. Lmao. Oh and look at my next post. Snape and his gf.

 

[ElfenLied89]

Snape has himself a gf! And here are some flock photos! Last chicken pic is Atropos in the daytime munching lettuce. And a bonus pic of Olivia's egg. She took a breather yesterday. I get 5 eggs a week give or take. Still waiting on the other freeloaders to start giving me eggs. Then the younger ones in about 2 months. Still haven't found a home for my spare roosters. I do know I want to keep Kithara. The others are free to go do whatever. Except turn into food.

 

[fluffycrow]

Snape has himself a gf! And here are some flock photos! Last chicken pic is Atropos in the daytime munching lettuce. And a bonus pic of Olivia's egg. She took a breather yesterday. I get 5 eggs a week give or take. Still waiting on the other freeloaders to start giving me eggs. Then the younger ones in about 2 months. Still haven't found a home for my spare roosters. I do know I want to keep Kithara. The others are free to go do whatever. Except turn into food.

That's the laying girl, isn't it? Wonderful, they're creating their group! Here's to lots of cute moments together, and maybe even her going broody and raising a family!

 

[2ndTink]

I was thinking Atropos was black!?! She's blue!
Ok, colors then, black x Blue = 50/50 black and blues, splash x Blue = 50/50 splash and blue or blue x Blue = 50% blue, 25% black, 25% splash plus maybe some leakage since she has some, and who knows what other surprises!

 

[SwampPrincessChick]

Snape has himself a gf! And here are some flock photos! Last chicken pic is Atropos in the daytime munching lettuce. And a bonus pic of Olivia's egg. She took a breather yesterday. I get 5 eggs a week give or take. Still waiting on the other freeloaders to start giving me eggs. Then the younger ones in about 2 months. Still haven't found a home for my spare roosters. I do know I want to keep Kithara. The others are free to go do whatever. Except turn into food.

Which one is Snape? Sorry, I'm not caught up with these chickens! They are beautiful, though!

 

[SwampPrincessChick]

That's the laying girl, isn't it? Wonderful, they're creating their group! Here's to lots of cute moments together, and maybe even her going broody and raising a family!

I've always wanted one of my hens to go broody and successfully raise their own chicks, I think it would be really interesting. But all of my broodies have broke after a few days. Orpingtons are said to be very broody, but unfortunately mine isn't.

 

[fluffycrow]

Which one is Snape? Sorry, I'm not caught up with these chickens! They are beautiful, though!

Snape is the Big black cockerel. Hook is the Crested, silkie mix cockerel with the crossbeak

 

[SwampPrincessChick]

Snape is the Big black cockerel. Hook is the Crested, silkie mix cockerel with the crossbeak

Okay, thank you! Both of them are very good-looking!

 

[tlcmurphy]

 

[fluffycrow]

Same. For the first four years of chicken keeping, I wasn't all that aware of broodiness, and it was not something that I really wanted to have happen. After that point, I became very much interested in having one of my birds go broody, and for 7 years I tried many different things, all with no success. Then Cruella came along. You all know who Cruella is at this point, I can't stop talking about her! She went broody almost a month or less after laying her first egg. That time she was unsuccessful, amd broke after 14 days (her eggs were on day 8 or 9). In her next attempt, she was successful, and with a little bit of help from me, she hatched three Tsouloufati chicks. I love this bird to pieces. Maybe weird, but the first time I saw Cruella, I knew she was destined to do something big, and boy was I underestimating her

. I remember you have an OEGB male, couldn't you get one or two females? They'd make a fine breeding flock, and the females should go broody for sure! Hatchery LFs tend to loose their instincts, as is the case with my Tsouloufates