June 6th Merrimack NH Chicken Swap !

[shay20]

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[carey34]

OMG too many cute freaky chicks (and I mean the chicken chicks not the ones who own hen hehe). This might cause me to have to stay home, we all know how I have to carry around freaky chick for an hour or two. I have to behave this weekend I really really do.

 

[gypsy2621]

I went out earlier( ugh much earlier) and was checking my older chicks and I noticed I have a pair of Pure White Silkies ( I am doing the Happy Dance )
finally a silkie HEN!!! seems all I get are boys lol.
these 2 will be going into a pen of their own for pure whites.
and the evilness begins !!! eeekkkk.

I am still waiting to see if the white crested black polish is hen or roo. I am so hoping its another hen( its supposed to be anyways)

 

[Poyo'sMama]

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Well, I've stood by & waited for my Golden Sebright to drop an egg (poor thing, looks painful, like a hard poop) & then snatched it away from her...running inside~I've got one, I've got one!!!
Anyone who has Sebrights will understand, getting an egg from them is like pulling teeth.
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Yeah just as hard as getting D"Uccles to pop out an egg, its party time when they finally do LOL.

It is! I do a little dance ~ I'm glad no one can see me except the chickens...

 

[firedove]

long shot, but does anyone have or know of someone who has cuckoo Silkies? I saw one in a genetics book and they are just way too adorable! Even a barred silkie would probably be just as cute.

Gypsy, from the same book your buff with the funny necklace looks like what they call a "Gold Top" in England. It's a sexlink created by mating a white silkie roo over a light sussex hen. They are also known as "cluckers" or "clockers" because they are known to be constantly broody and will "sit around the clock." Has the color, the slight poofy crown, etc...

 

[gypsy2621]

Poyo'sMama :

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Yeah just as hard as getting D"Uccles to pop out an egg, its party time when they finally do LOL.

It is! I do a little dance ~ I'm glad no one can see me except the chickens...​

LOL another insomniac, and here Fire Dove and I were thinking we were the only ones. good to see someone else doesnt sleep much either.

Its funny how certain breeds take forever to start laying and others start way young.
the little chicken I posted earlier isnt even barely 6 months old and already broody. I dont get it.

 

[gypsy2621]

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Oh thats a cute name, I like it, and yes she is broody and around 6 months old. whats weird is some of the red stars are over a year old and they could care less.
the OEGB hen thats sitting with her is almost 7 years old, and such a sweet little hen, well untill that one tried to sit the nest with her lol. between the 2 of them they were sitting on 11 eggs lol. 8 of which are full sized hen eggs. cracks me up.

 

[Poyo'sMama]

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It is! I do a little dance ~ I'm glad no one can see me except the chickens...

LOL another insomniac, and here Fire Dove and I were thinking we were the only ones. good to see someone else doesnt sleep much either.

Its funny how certain breeds take forever to start laying and others start way young.
the little chicken I posted earlier isnt even barely 6 months old and already broody. I dont get it.

Nah, I just go to bed early and the chicks (the dogs & the cats) wake me up to be fed!!
I sleep like the dead...even thru thunderstorms~LOL.

I don't get it either, I had some of my std. chickens lay at 8 months & my Welsummer X couldn't wait to get her warm little butt on some eggs, kept laying them & complaining everytime I went in the coop, at 6 months. My Sebright was almost a year old, now I'm lucky to get 2 eggs a week from her...Brat!!

 

[firedove]

My D'Uccle took a long time to start laying but now she lays nearly every day like clockwork. Even now while she is brooding eggs she still lays a new egg every day!

 

[Poyo'sMama]

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Oh thats a cute name, I like it, and yes she is broody and around 6 months old. whats weird is some of the red stars are over a year old and they could care less.
the OEGB hen thats sitting with her is almost 7 years old, and such a sweet little hen, well untill that one tried to sit the nest with her lol. between the 2 of them they were sitting on 11 eggs lol. 8 of which are full sized hen eggs. cracks me up.

I've got an Astralorp hen & a French Maran hen sharing a nest of about 25 eggs...one gets up & does her thing & the other stays, they're sharing the hatching duties!!
The OEGB must be so funny trying to get on that egg...LOL.
Like a pigeon sitting on a ostrich egg