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[bradselig]

Aww. I will have plenty next spring. Blue, Black, white, splash, and hopefully more partridge.


Nora, our spitter, spits on us during monthly herd health. Symphony our multicolored girl is preggers and hormonal and is now spitting too.
Hopefully you can fill all these winter orders. I am not hatching until spring. I am going to let my frequent broodies do the hatching. I don't trust my incubator. It has temp holding issues.

Haha. I only have a few partridge left, but will have a few more next week. Should be getting all the new silkies next Friday!

 

[minmin1258]

Brad, that would be great!!! I live nearly two hours south of wheeling but it better than trying to drive all the way to Timbuktu Indiana...lol. Thx. You will hav t let me know the scheduling so can meet you. Oooooo I'm so excited!!! Yippeeee I might get silkies I might get silkies...lil

 

[bradselig]

The snow inspired me to whip up some buckwheat pancakes and let me tell you, they were awful. We all have bad days, I guess...
I spent the entire morning making pancakes for the chickens. Waste not, want not. Happy snow day, Chooks!

-Mother2Hens-
Thank you, he is disturbingly pretty and yes, a Partridge Cochin bantam. My friend purchased 3 different sets of chicks from CL. I believe he was from the oldest set of "pullets", which all turned into roos.

He DOES not like the snow.

Wow, I'm loving the partridge cochin!

Took a few pics of the tolbunt and younger legbars today while changing water.

I was trying to get a picture of the frizzle hen, but she kept moving. She is a bad example of a tolbunt, but I'll see what I can do with her.

Another of my tolbunt roo

Legbar pair

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

Wow, I'm loving the partridge cochin!

Took a few pics of the tolbunt and younger legbars today while changing water.

I was trying to get a picture of the frizzle hen, but she kept moving. She is a bad example of a tolbunt, but I'll see what I can do with her.

Another of my tolbunt roo

Legbar pair

It is hard to see the frizzle hen, she blends inwith the snow lol! Nice looking chickens

 

[Kiniska]

Wow, I'm loving the partridge cochin!

Took a few pics of the tolbunt and younger legbars today while changing water.

I was trying to get a picture of the frizzle hen, but she kept moving. She is a bad example of a tolbunt, but I'll see what I can do with her.

Another of my tolbunt roo

Nice birds. Love the colors.

Legbar pair

Wow, I would meet you in Indy to swap for some chicks from those beauties. I think Indy is halfway

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Well, on the topic of Brad's Silkies, here's my little Margie from him, snuggled up with my beloved Frou-Frou.

We don't have any snow here, but a few of the girls are still not coming out of the coop. Boy, are they in for a rough time this winter if just the chill in the air has them hiding in the coop!

 

[Leahs Mom]

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I don't have one either. (one of brad's birds). So don't feel left out. Maybe we need a therapy group.

 

[HouseKat]

Good news - We got our first egg yesterday! Pics here: https://plus.google.com/108504528764462877739/posts/X9fT14W4iw1
Bad news - Our rooster has finally figured out how to crow and he wants everyone to know about it. Time to find him a new home...

 

[Kiniska]

I don't have one either. (one of brad's birds).  So don't feel left out.  Maybe we need a therapy group.  

Love it! We should start our own thread. " People who don't have any of Brad's birds and wish they did"

 

[kabhyper1]

Okay guys, I have a problem. One of my Wyandottes, Jules, was showing some vent distress tonight. she had her down dropped like she was passing stool and her vent was red and pulsating. I brought her inside and gave her a warm epsom salt bath. I cleaned her fluff since it was kinda matted and her abdomen felt squishy and swollen. I checked her vent and didn't feel an egg or anything else. I blow dried her off and dusted her butt with DE, and decided with our very cold temps to let her sleep inside in a doggy kennel. I gave her water with drench, poly vi sol and ACV in it, some chick starter ( which they all got switched to last week, with free choice oyster shell) a hard boiled egg, shell and all smashed up with DE sprinkled on it, and some spinach leaves. She ate a bunch of the egg and some food. She has a good appetite, and her stool looks normal. I heard a bit of wheezing, and when I brought her in initially, a bit of fluid came out of her beak. I think I may have squeezed her crop in the process of bringing her in. She wasn't loving it. Anyway, I went and checked on her a little while ago and she was standing in egg yolk and whites. I found a small piece of soft egg shell also. Not the whole thing though. Will she pass that? She acts like she feels better, and her abdominal swelling went down quite a bit. Her coloring is great, and has been. I changed her bedding and turned out the light for the night. She did plenty of talking to me about it too after she passed it. lol.

My Jules with the boys. (Gus has disposed of some of her back feathers.)