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[Faraday40]

Any idea what color the lighter laced orp will end up being? Looks white or yellow currently in the pic, but J already no how much a chick changes color in time.

Yes. Chicks change color a lot in their 1st 4 months.
Here are some pics of GG's chicks (hatched in spring). They all started out light colored with faint to dark chipmunk lines.

From GG's eggs, I've seen Blue-Buff Columbian, Buff Colombian, silver laced, blue silver laced, and partial blue silver laced.

Buff:
Cupcake looks like a Buff Colombian Orpington. She was sort of light yellow at hatch with a faint chipmunk stripe. She just keeps looking better with age. I believe either the lav orp or blk/lav split orp was her daddy.

(The orp & the serama looked like twins & were kept together. Even today, Cupcake prefers her bantam buddies over any chickens her size.)

Silver Laced:
When the laced orp roo & GG make offspring they tend to be white with some blue lacing. (In the group hatch pic, she's the one on far left.)

4/5 weeks & 6 wks



The blue silver laced chick on the far right (from the group hatch pic) grew to look like this:
8wks


Note: I believe there's a high chance of lacing since the birds were separated when I was collecting these eggs. (However, if my kids got lazy when walking the hens back (instead of carrying them) a roo could have taken liberties.



My spring chicks are also still changing and in the middle of their awkward stage, but I hope you can imagine what they'll look like when all filled out.

 

[Faraday40]

Here's Cookie (the Bantam Menace) otherwise nicknamed "Cookie Monster" when broody:

She's got 23 chicks with her in the brooder, 2 chicks still drying in the incubator, + 3 eggs with hatching status unknown.

 

[Faraday40]

Not chicken related....

A funny share about my 8 yr old son:
DD's friend is sleeping over. DS now has an older, pretty, unrelated girl in the house whom he feels he must impress! He doesn't know really know why, and he certainly doesn't know how - but the effort was made.

While the teen girls were playing a computer game in the family room, DS sits next to them on the other computer to show off the programming mod he's been writing. Yes, he actually tried to impress a girl with his awesome programming, video game, & computer skills! She was polite and listened to him go on & on about all the various command functions..... then her focus went back to the girls' current game.

(Honestly, our 8 yr old has surpassed me in such things, so he must ask DH - an electrical engineer with 28+ years of computer networking / IT experience - if he wants advice.)

Oh but it didn't end there! DS liked the attention of the girls, so he then began to exhibit his great math skills by reciting his knowledge of numbers like...tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousands, Hundred thousands, Millions, Billions, Trillions, Quadrillions, Quintillion, Sextillion, Septillion, Octillion, Nonillion, Decillion, Undecillion, Duodecillion, Tredecillion - as high as he knows today. Did I ever mention that he REALLY loves math? His sister helped him out by giving him some multiplication problems to go solve as well as addition & subtraction problems using positive & negative integers. It kept him busy for a while & gave the girls short breaks while DS went off to solve them.

DD's friend may have been mildly impressed because all her little brothers do is hit each other with stuff. LOL

Anyway, DH & I enjoyed the entertainment. We decided to put our little one to bed on a high note ....... before DS attempted to impress her with feats of strength, silly dancing, or belching. It also gave the girls a little time to play by themselves without all the little brother interruptions.

BOYS!?!

 

[Molpet]

Not chicken related....

A funny share about my 8 yr old son:
DD's friend is sleeping over. DS now has an older, pretty, unrelated girl in the house whom he feels he must impress! He doesn't know really know why, and he certainly doesn't know how - but the effort was made.

While the teen girls were playing a computer game in the family room, DS sits next to them on the other computer to show off the programming mod he's been writing. Yes, he actually tried to impress a girl with his awesome programming, video game, & computer skills! She was polite and listened to him go on & on about all the various command functions..... then her focus went back to the girls' current game.

(Honestly, our 8 yr old has surpassed me in such things, so he must ask DH - an electrical engineer with 28+ years of computer networking / IT experience - if he wants advice.)

Oh but it didn't end there! DS liked the attention of the girls, so he then began to exhibit his great math skills by reciting his knowledge of numbers like...tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousands, Hundred thousands, Millions, Billions, Trillions, Quadrillions, Quintillion, Sextillion, Septillion, Octillion, Nonillion, Decillion, Undecillion, Duodecillion, Tredecillion - as high as he knows today. Did I ever mention that he REALLY loves math? His sister helped him out by giving him some multiplication problems to go solve as well as addition & subtraction problems using positive & negative integers. It kept him busy for a while & gave the girls short breaks while DS went off to solve them.

DD's friend may have been mildly impressed because all her little brothers do is hit each other with stuff. LOL

Anyway, DH & I enjoyed the entertainment. We decided to put our little one to bed on a high note ....... before DS attempted to impress her with feats of strength, silly dancing, or belching. It also gave the girls a little time to play by themselves without all the little brother interruptions.

BOYS!?!

 

[Faraday40]

My poor flock not only has to deal with the heat.... but some of the neighbors are going overboard with fireworks right now. (My old dog already peed inside. There's no way he's going outside tonight!) I think it's the nearby apartments walking to the end of the road and shooting toward the "open space" = our backyards. Hopefully it will just be a couple nights - and not weeks like last year! Last year was the worst because there were 2 nights when we were woken up by fireworks at 2-3am.

I love watching the big fireworks & we make a point to take the kids every year. I don't even mind people shooting them off in their own backyards. (Preferably before 10:30pm) I really only dislike all the frightened animals & loud booms after bedtime.

 

[cavemanrich]

Just one of my 3 dogs gets quite nervous of fireworks and thunder storms. I never checked my chickens' reaction to fireworks though. I of course do not shoot fireworks.
I have better things to spend money on.

 

[Molpet]

At least it's not dry and have to worry about fires.. the hot muggy weather and mosquitoes seem to be keeping the number of fireworks down out here. The first year I had turkeys, they kept trying to fly away and when locked up kept bashing into the coop . Thought I was going to have injuries but they survived.
The last 2 years the birds have not been bothered.

 

[Molpet]

well today I tried to look under the Barred cx mixed hen that went broody yesterday... I was lucky to keep my hand. The worst chicken hen yet. She hit the same spot half a dz times, just missed a vein Lucky 13 th broody chicken hen this year now has the taste of human blood .. a real throwback to dinosaurs
I guess she can keep whatever she has. Sure not going to try and break her ... Not going to try and give her different eggs or chicks, even in the middle of the night

I took the nest out of the igloo dog house. That white cx mix hen in there kept breaking her eggs and the started ones didn't hatch. she has been sitting since 5/26.. I think she gave up.. she has been out of the house since 8 amToo hot to be sitting anyway. yesterday A blk hen only had 3/7 try to hatch. One was shrink wrapped around the head all day and I helped it out, of course it was dead this morning. Another pipped and started to zip and it was dead too. She does have one blk that made it. Could be out of "Dinner'
Just too hot I think

 

[Faraday40]

Hope everyone had a great July 4th.

Macy got a ponytail & pedicure with red & blue painted nails. LOL

Our usual celebrations fizzzled from the heat. Instead of the parade & fireworks we just went to visit my dad. Nice but in a different way.

 

[Faraday40]

well today I tried to look under the Barred cx mixed hen that went broody yesterday... I was lucky to keep my hand. The worst chicken hen yet. She hit the same spot half a dz times, just missed a vein Lucky 13 th broody chicken hen this year now has the taste of human blood .. a real throwback to dinosaurs
I guess she can keep whatever she has. Sure not going to try and break her ... Not going to try and give her different eggs or chicks, even in the middle of the night

I took the nest out of the igloo dog house. That white cx mix hen in there kept breaking her eggs and the started ones didn't hatch. she has been sitting since 5/26.. I think she gave up.. she has been out of the house since 8 amToo hot to be sitting anyway. yesterday A blk hen only had 3/7 try to hatch. One was shrink wrapped around the head all day and I helped it out, of course it was dead this morning. Another pipped and started to zip and it was dead too. She does have one blk that made it. Could be out of "Dinner'
Just too hot I think

Wow! Never had a mean hen like that. Mine mostly grumble at me & only halfheartedly peck when I'm really messing with their eggs - like candling by the 8th or 9th egg. I guess you'll need thick work gloves if you want to candle that nest!

My current turkeys are 2 weeks now:

@chickendreams24 Do you have any recent pics of your turkeys? Do you think its a pair?