Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[rbaker0345]

It has to be Popeye, you can make her a little sailor suit and get her a corn cob pipe.....

 

[tazcat70]

Yep, she needs a name. Something that will let her know she is still beautiful!

 

[tazcat70]

Can you explain the frizzle gene to me? Does it have to have 2 copies to present?
I thought that it was no copies = smooth, 1 copy = frizzle, 2 copies = frazzled (really messed up)

 

[cluckitall]

Can you explain the frizzle gene to me? Does it have to have 2 copies to present?
I thought that it was no copies = smooth, 1 copy = frizzle, 2 copies = frazzled (really messed up)

Yep that's exactly right. You want to breed frizzle to smooth.

What I want to know is how they made frizzled cochins! Is the frizzle gene a naturally recurring recessive, or did they introduce it to the cochins by crossing to a different breed? I wonders, I do...

And lol! I'm loving the name suggestions. Although I think she wants something horribly girly like Anastasia or something. But the sailor suit image is priceless!

 

[tazcat70]

OK. Good to know, someone was saying that their smooths carry the frizzle gene and I was unsure.

 

[rbaker0345]

I have seen some silkie people who actually do stuff like that. Dress them up and put diapers on them and stuff that chickens shouldn't have to endure.

 

[flocksalot]

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.

Those injured ones worm their way in. Harvey my one eyed turkey is living out her broody time in the comfort of our basement. We don't always lock her cage back up. She came up for breakfast, went to the door, arked, pooped on the rug, and promptly went back down to her 5 eggs. And all because she was injured when she was a little one, I have a soft spot for her. So I cleaned the rug and smiled because my husband would blow a gasket if he saw her walking across the wood floor. I love that Harvey girl. She's so sweet.

 

[cluckitall]

Of course you have to NAME HER !!!!!:

Hee! I actually try not to name my birds -- I try not to name creatures I may eat eventually -- but I'd have to be on the brink of starvation to eat a silkie! The other factor is sheer numbers. I'm horrible at names; I couldn't possibly remember that many! A few have gotten names whether I liked it or not: Mrs. Whatsit, my secret Santa EE mix hen, and Fat Elvis, Loretta, and Wynnona, the barred cochin trio, which was not at ALL what I had in mind for them! But there it is And my anacona hen, who is simply "Annie Coney". She likes to fly up and sit on my head any time I stand still in the coop. So far I've resisted on the others!

 

[Sahwithchicks]

Did you say frizzled cochin?

My black snowball

 

[Herducks]

Did you say frizzled cochin?

My black snowball