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[ellymayRans]

Other muscovies ($20/ea) Mostly black pied but other colors available
More muscovies ($12-15 ea, females less expensive)

Super crazy rare sounding peafowl in Illinois. 
Peas $75/ea 3 of each gender. Owner cannot care for anymore. 
$100/ea peas Blue and white both
Two adorable crele bantam roosters. 
Brown egg-layers $12/ea

In this post the "white" is not a white but a female Black Shoulder.

$100/ea peas Blue and white both

I love seeing all the CL adds though. Thanks for sharing!
Just helping with misrepresented for those that may be interested.

 

[Faraday40]

I'm finally an Aunt! My little brother (34) had their first baby girl!
1/6 Meet little Emrie June (named after our great great grandfather Emory)

Congrats to you & the parents. I really like this pic too. There's something about the color choices, props, angle & focus that just make it feel so innocent & almost vintage. It's so much better than the mug shot photography the hospitals would send you home with years ago.

 

[Andrew10]

Thaknks@jchny2000I'm looking for a NHR rooster either as a chick in mid Apr or as a chick in mid feb thanks for the help everyone

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

@pipdzipdnreadytogo  [COLOR=8B4513]~ I've been meaning to thank you for the horse info! You had posted the links when I was caring for Frieda, so I went back to the page later. I also found good info from Univ of Minnesota's and Univ of Colorado's veterinary schools. They both said a horse needs a coat if it's outside and the temps are lower than 5-10 degrees.[/COLOR]
[COLOR=8B4513]Also, I may have asked before, but did you hatch all of your adorable cochin chicks? How did that project come about?[/COLOR]

Interesting how there are so many different answers out there for the same question! Not knowing a thing about horses, I just looked at the first few links that popped up when I googled it. I've no idea how accurate any of it is.

Yup, those babies are from Donna and Roscoe, my adorable Red Silkied Cochin bantam pair. The experiment kind of came about as an after thought, but it's been fun! They're 3 weeks old today and I think it's pretty obvious at this point which is male and which is female, and so far it's looking like--gasp--all those old wives' tales have about a 50-50 shot of predicting them correctly! I'm still getting suggestions for new tests (the page got featured on the home page, so it's getting a lot of attention right now), so I may be adding some more, especially later on since I'm expecting more chicks in March.

Hey all,

The job searching, subbing, and writing has taken a lot of my time lately and I just haven't been on much. Production is still in the tank as last years chicks continue to surprise me with early molts. Last week one of the Delaware hens looked like a drowned rat, this week the last NH is slogging around looking like a NN.

God bless that leghorn though, she just doesn't stop. And one of the BO pullets I rescued started laying this week as well, so that's good.

Lost a SS hen last week to some mysterious ailment i'll never know. The dog needed out around 3 a.m. and while standing on the porch I heard something odd from the coop, went out and everything seemed in order, checked the next boxes, and there laid the SS hen. She had to have just expired. Rigor hadn't set in yet. No trauma I could find. Abdomen felt normal. Nothing out of the ordinary, not a feather out of place.

Waiting for the local places to have chicks in stock. Planning on adding some EE to the mix and to even out the age of the flock. Eventually I'd like to get into a 6/6 add/cull rotation, culling birds going into their third winter if production is slowing.

Also, we're expecting our first child in May. So there's that.

Adding stress to the under-employed aspect of life...

Does your dog frequently go out at that time of night? Maybe your hen heard the dog, got spooked, and flew into a wall or something? I've had birds die of freak accidents like that before, always comes as a shock.

Congrats on your first child, though, and fingers crossed for your job search!

Pondering downsizing more. With the concussion, I'm having a lot of difficulty getting around and performing maintenance on the house--let alone the coop or spending time with the birds. Having to keep them in the run all the time (DH wants grass, and we've had issues with predators) so the turkeys are especially miserable. Love my birds, but I don't like seeing them unhappy, and I'm too tired to argue. If interested in turkeys or chickens, please PM. I will see what I can swing.

Best of luck, and sending you good thoughts! It's not much, but it's all I can do.

I'm finally an Aunt! My little brother (34) had their first baby girl!
1/6 Meet little Emrie June (named after our great great grandfather Emory)

Ah, welcome to aunthood, that joyous state where you can give your niece grand ideas, loud toys, and candy, and then send her home to her parents. Not that I've done any of that with my niece and nephew... much.

 

[tmarsh83]

Does your dog frequently go out at that time of night? Maybe your hen heard the dog, got spooked, and flew into a wall or something? I've had birds die of freak accidents like that before, always comes as a shock.

Congrats on your first child, though, and fingers crossed for your job search!

We weren't any closer than 50 yards. For that to have happened she would have had to actually hit something, and that I never heard. Just her flapping. And she was IN the next box, to have ended up there, it would have been a million to one shot. Something freakish seems to have happened, but I don't think that was it.

 

[good2016]

So far so good. Our silkie seems to be back to normal for now. I'm hoping with what I've learned here and some diet changes we can keep this from happening again. My daughters are so happy, she is their favorite too.

 

[ellymayRans]

Congrats to you & the parents.  I really like this pic too.  There's something about the color choices, props, angle & focus that just make it feel so innocent & almost vintage.  It's so much better than the mug shot photography the hospitals would send you home with years ago.

Thanks. She's just beautiful!

The photographer is a close friend/model/photographer and is amazing at them all!

She really does it all but that is her passion.

I can't begin to express how excited I am to have a niece! Having 4 boys myself everyone in my family was dying for that little girl!

 

[Faraday40]

Ah, welcome to aunthood, that joyous state where you can give your niece grand ideas, loud toys, and candy, and then send her home to her parents.

Not that I've done any of that with my niece and nephew... much.

You're too funny!

.... but it's all true! Lot's of joy comes with being an aunt

 

[HoosierSilkie]

Hi all, I am new to BYC. I'm in southern IN (Bedford/Bloomington area) and I'm hoping to make contact with silkie breeders! I'm new to having my own chickens, but I was raised on a farm and had them growing up. We had 3 silkie hens and a rooster, but a dog ripped the door off our coop and killed my little hens. My poor Roo is lonely.

We got them as day-old hatchlings last spring and my 3yr old daughter is heartbroken over it. The breeder we got them from doesn't currently have any hens available. Does anyone know of reputable breeders in southern Indiana?

 

[Indyshent]

$1 hens Barnevelders and white Rocks
Hens Java, 2 Bresse, and Crested Cream Legbar all 4/$10
Plucker
Coop w/ nine hens

Still no NHR rooster.