@jchny2000 i thought all of the females looked at the least 2 years of age but it can be difficult to gauge, just because she acts scared doesn't mean she's not of age. My hen was like that her first year, this year not so much but then again? ?
Super cool on the pen progress and eggs! Look forward to those pics!
@atrueb00 regarding the silkie egg sales, mine get bought up (all bantam eggs) once i advertised to folks how great they are for use as hardboiled for little kids, in salads or as mini deviled egg appetizers. Now they request them. You giving them free should have been treated as a sample...lol..then hook them!!
Disturbing this morning i awoke to my little possible blue egg laying frizzle/silkie cross that recently hatched...well it disappeared! I have looked all morning and no signs of it. The large GQF brooder is in the garage on a very large wooden lid that is partially covering the large wooden adult silkie pen. All i can think of is it slipped through the feeder hole and fell through the netting that covers the remaining silkie pen and they killed and ate it. No signs of it. I used a flashlight looking around things, but would expect it to be frantically chirping. Its not cold enough to have killed it for just being away from heat for several hours????? I can't stop looking for it though, just freaking me out!
Better news: i did wake up to another hatched partridge silkie. I have 4 blue eggs left and 4 silkie eggs in the bator yet to hatch but one of those silkie eggs is cracked from me dropping the lid on it, its still developing though. While looking for the wee chick i did find that my last spring blue silkie is now broody!! When i kicked her out of the nest box thinking maybe the chick lucked out and slipped under her, nope, but heck she's sitting on more blue eggs and silkie eggs!! Not letting them range and not having suitable outdoor pen for them yet is not helping avoid broodies! Leaving for FL in a week and i hate to think how many she's going to end up with!!
Everyone else is good. No turkey eggs yet that ive seen. Girls cut back on laying again...got 4 eggs yesterday!?! Granted i have at least 7 dozen i need to take to the hair salon to sell but i thought things would improve.