Congrats, COF!! Mine are going to be a while yet, but boy are they pretty! (THANK YOU, Walli!)
I had a sad event earlier today -- not as tragic as it might have been, and not as terrifying as I first thought, but still pretty awful and it made me mad. Went out to the barn this morning to feed and in the grow-out pen, one of my beautiful white silkies from RBF was off in a corner by herself, huddled in a ball. When I approached her, she started twisting and flopping in the most alarming manner and my first thought was "Oh God, Marek's." Which would have been catastrophic. Except instead of hyper-extending, she was twisting her neck around and burying her head under her body. Then I saw blood. Got her out of there fast and yep, my danged buff brahmas which have chased the silkies in circles since I penned them together, had punctured one of her eyes. So the buffs are exiled into another (smaller, HA!) pen since they can't play nice and poor little One-Eye is inside with me, recovering nicely and she'll be fine, although I'm still mad about it. She's still pretty rattled, poor thing, and I think it's going to be a long time before she doesn't try to hide her head and practically crawl under herself whenever anything frightens her, but she's healthy and VERY pretty and should hopefully have a very long and happy life with me, even one-eyed.
Bratty brahmas! I certainly didn't expect them to be aggressive and they're not to the coronations (who they know they can't push around) but to the littler ones they were bullies.
I just love the coloring on the exchequers and have been determined to get some for -- well, for as long as I've had chickens 
