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[pbjmaker]

After sending text via my 16 year old to my son - he SWORE he never touched my camera cord. Then he didn't come home last night (18 and pays us rent - not much I can do) so I couldn't interogate him. So when I got home just a bit ago I had to go put his ferret back - it had escaped the cage_ and LO AND BEHOLD on his bedroom floor was MY camera cord!

So here are some of the pics I took yesterday

enjoy!

The boys relaxing:

The puppies almost 2 weeks old now:

Ia. Blue pullet with some decent silvering:

Mother/Daughter: (I just liked this picture

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HIdden object picture:

HOLY COW! I actually got 10 eggs yesterday!

Size perspective for Big Blu Emu and one of his girls (the one ducked down by him is the other roo)

Tiny EE roo ( but still a sweetie - in fact he gets under my feet all the time)

 

[sammileah]

they all look wonderful. i like the mother daughter pic and hide and seek. had a dalmation that did that.
tell me how dear and loving your teenage sons are so i'm not freaking out about the moulthy sneaky lieing pita that my oldest is turning into. you can lie if you need too. lol.

 

[FlashPointFarm]

If anyone wants to join EIPA and can make it to the "Chickens in the Backyard" program at the Indian Creek Nature Center in Cedar Rapids, I've offered to host the EIPA table as well as help with Liz and Dusty with the County Line Hatchery table.

The presentation is Sunday 02/06 at 2pm at the Indian Creek Nature Center.

Patricia Foreman, Author of City Chicks, will be the guest speaker on implementing chickens and gardening. She will be speaking live via SKYPE from her home on the East Coast. Following will be a demonstration on wonderful portable fencing by Premier1 folks.

Note that the theme of this workshop is essentially meshing backyard chickens with gardening. Portable lightweight fencing makes this very feasible.

There will be door prizes, including 2 - $25 gift certificates for County Line Hatchery.

 

[Tiramisu]

Eric, I had a question about the Orloff's feathers. They seem to be coming in a bit weird, like at the ends the feathers are not staying together and up a bit..almost like frizzles, but not to that extent though.

 

[pbjmaker]

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How old is he? Besides grades we never had a lot of "problems" with our son. He is rather eccentric too. You have heard the phrase that someone "thinks outside the box"? Well he can't even find the box.

It's just recently he has become inconsiderate and pigheaded.

ETA: only have the one 18 year (soon to be 19) old son. The other two are a 20 year old daughter and 16 year old daughter.

 

[mrandmrschicken]

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Yes, it's normal. They stick out for awhile. No, they will not frizzle. It's just a thing that goes along with them, some do and some don't, most do.

 

[mrandmrschicken]

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How old is he? Besides grades we never had a lot of "problems" with our son. He is rather eccentric too. You have heard the phrase that someone "thinks outside the box"? Well he can't even find the box.

It's just recently he has become inconsiderate and pigheaded.

ETA: only have the one 18 year (soon to be 19) old son. The other two are a 20 year old daughter and 16 year old daughter.

Wonderful pics Steph! Really great. Who is Mother and which is daughter? If I were to hazaed a guess... biggest comb and wattles go to mama?
I had no idea you had kids that old. I recall you talking about your son but I honestly thought you were joking. Were you married at age 7? By the way, those rainbow plants grow wild in the Keys!

 

[Tiramisu]

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Yes, it's normal. They stick out for awhile. No, they will not frizzle. It's just a thing that goes along with them, some do and some don't, most do.

Ok, i was just wondering because the feathers didn't look right. I thought maybe some how we messed them up while incubating them lol.
The ia blues are in a new pen and i guess jerrit is going to build a "breeding pen" for the buttercups sometime. Also i noticed today, i put the crate in for the buttercups by the cage door, and the blues slept on it last night and some of the poops were bloody. :\\ so if there is bloody poops tomorrow i guess we are going to have to treat for cocci. Or if there is something else they could have, they act fine though. The poops are solid too, not runny or anything and beside the little blood look normal.

 

[pbjmaker]

Eric - the mama is my cuckoo maran and the daughter is a product of crossing her with my BC maran (Tank RIP). They created sex-linked chicks. All the boys were barred and all the girls were solid black. As they grew out (the girls) they developed the copper in the neck like a true BC maran. I have three of them. They lay the darker brown eggs in the above picture. Not super dark, but not super light either. Mom has fairly light colored eggs so my Tank couldn't make them very dark.
Cuckoo is the main boss hen of the whole flock and barely tolerates me. She will be 4 this summer.

Oh and I was 5 when I started having kids...

 

[mrandmrschicken]

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Yes, it's normal. They stick out for awhile. No, they will not frizzle. It's just a thing that goes along with them, some do and some don't, most do.

Ok, i was just wondering because the feathers didn't look right. I thought maybe some how we messed them up while incubating them lol.
The ia blues are in a new pen and i guess jerrit is going to build a "breeding pen" for the buttercups sometime. Also i noticed today, i put the crate in for the buttercups by the cage door, and the blues slept on it last night and some of the poops were bloody. :\\ so if there is bloody poops tomorrow i guess we are going to have to treat for cocci. Or if there is something else they could have, they act fine though. The poops are solid too, not runny or anything and beside the little blood look normal.

Those could be cecal poo. Just wait and look for more. Also, also, search amd check out the chicken poop chart here on BYC first.

In case you have never seen this, this is a baby pic of the Buttercup girls.