grannys gone and done it

[Wishing4Wings]

Why in the world would anybody want to breed two fugly chckens to make an even fuglier chicken?

enola, you should tell us how you really feel.

 

[rIrs roost]

I used to love summer when I lived in the NW. Living in NC and IN has ruined it for me. I shorted myself on the snow, meant a month as I do love a good snow and that beautiful peacefulness and softness. I remember our first year in NC (coastal....Cherry Point), woke up one morning to the news schools were closed due to snow. ....got all excited, ran to look out the front door and stated to laugh. ..the grass was poking out of this "big snow". For someone who grew up in a place where it was not uncommon to put a plow in front of each bus (to be fair there were only 4bus routes in our valley) rather than have a snow day....and it snowed in feet, not fractions on inches. ....it was a bit unreal.

Yeah I was born here and I think I should've been born in Alaska. I've been a north carolinian all my life and I even laugh at us when a great big snow supposed to hit 2inches . I drove a Ford Taurus in that 16 inches and people stuck in ditches in 4wheel drives with chains on there tires

 

[napdognewfie]

Oh he's adorable!

 

[Wishing4Wings]

This is a good thread because it has pictures!

sizzle, frizzle, and frazzle???

 

[rIrs roost]

I can't remember the specifics. I thought there was a lethal gene involved a frizzle to frizzle cross. CRS strikes again! The silkie genes eliminate the tiny "hooks" that create the webbing of a regular feather and it makes it look more like fur. That's what I thought your chick's feathers looked like, furry (silkie) and curved (frizzle). Another thing to consider, if she hasn't had her juvenile molt, she may end up looking completely different in a few months. I had a Serama chick with weird flippy feathers, but he molted them and was normal smooth feathered. He was split for silkie feathers, though, so I always thought that had something to do with it. crazy split feathers on the chick still a little rough adult plumage was normal

Wishing this is a pretty chicken!

 

[TwoCrows]

Frizzles are on my "just gotta have" list. Nice birds Wishing4Wings!

 

[Granny Hatchet]

great form ! if i had a serama looking like that you can bet i would still have him.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Leyla, I would try the corrid. sounds just like mine were. I used 1 1/2 teaspoon per gallon of water for 5 days I think it was. they were bones. they are putting the weight back on fast but i have been cooking for them. tons of eggs with oats and cornmeal then what ever i had extra, greens, chicken strips.

 

[rIrs roost]

Frizzles are on my "just gotta have" list.  Nice birds Wishing4Wings! 

Frizzles are on my "just gotta have" list.  Nice birds Wishing4Wings! 

oh yeah. I'll definitely be looking for at least one of these now! My better half has no idea she's created a monster. We were just headed to tsc and she said (hey,wanna get some chicks?) It's her fault right?

 

[Mutt Farm]

I've never seen more than one at a time, but our neighbor to the north said he watched a mother raise up some pups on our property one year. My question was: WHYYYYYYYYYYYYY??????

The one I saw was way WAY too close for comfort. I was only a few car lengths away from it. I was in the edge of the woods and it rounded the corner of my fence and we both froze. It's gotten a pullet since then.

your chocolate boy is

So are the chickens! I never thought about coyotes being in your area at all or anywhere east. Thought is was a desert south thing. Through BYC, I read they're everywhere. The coyotes are really bad here in So Cal. Fearless and brazen. Not uncommon to see them walking up my road or stalking my fence or occasionally walking down my drive. They run through subdivisons, eat cats, jump fences and eat dogs right in the middle of town. Just last week, a 3 year old girl was mauled on a playground. They hide in the bushes and will grab a small dog out for a leash walk. It's the drought I think. No water = no rats or rabbits to eat.