Minnesota!

[FoxyChicken]

My other pic did not show up so here it is..

Poor sweet little thing.... It's so hard, especially when they're so young...

 

[Minniechickmama]

One of my EE's from you is black, bearded and feather footed too. Do you think she might lay an olive egg?? Ooooh, that would be so neat! They were checking out the nests this morning while one of my RSL's was in there, so maybe it will happen soon.

I've got one hen left to molt and she just started dropping a bunch of feathers in the last couple of days. My SLW seems like she should be done dropping feathers by now, she's been molting for what seems like weeks but she still dropping some too. She's much farther along though with the new growth. Hopefully it will stay somewhat mild until they all get through it.

I think yours are about the same age as this one who just started laying, so I bet she will be giving you some soon. I would bet she lays a green egg, but could be closer to blue too. You should find out soon, I hope, anyway. Yours and mine are probably sisters then. The only way they could have feathered feet are with the Marans hen, a Blue EE that has a beard and feathered feet or a buff and blue hen with feathered feet, but I doubt it is her and is likely one of the other two that is the mother. The Blue bearded, feather footed hen I have lays a huge olive egg and has since she was a pullet.

 

[Coffee 1st]

It felt SO GOOD outside today!!! I got the roof finished on the end I failed to last year. It was just a small section that needed some finagling to get that last rafter on. Now that that is done, tomorrow the end will have the wire removed and siding put up in its stead. I have to finish enclosing the pen I currently have my WLR older birds, but it will probably end up being a pen for something else over winter as the coop is too high for them to keep jumping up and down from. Maybe some males will be housed there or a few I want to make Easter Eggers from? I gotta go do inventory and see where everyone will be assigned this year. Then there is cleaning and picking up what is left laying around after finally having to replace all the waterers with rubber pans or heated dog bowls until I run something else through the place with a heated line. I have got to get that done this year. The timer is all set and working to come on about 4:30am and turn off at 9am, the on at again around 4:00pm and off about 9:30pm. No sense in running them all day long and paying for that unnecessary expense. I need to clean all the nest boxes good and get them adjusted to a little lower height for how I will be arranging pens this year. The work here never ends. If it did, I don't know what the heck I would do with myself.
I went knitting tonight with a group of ladies, we meet at a bar called The Guilty Goose. The group is called the Goose Skein Knitters. Did you know a flock of geese flying in formation is called a skein? As well as a wrapped 'roll' of yarn is called a skein? So, it was a clever name. We drink and knit. LOL I don't drink much, a beer in two hours, because I drive there. I am not much for drinking anyway, any more. I wish they had food there though, but just frozen pizza (

). It is nice to get out one night a week when I can though. Somehow, chickens come up in the conversation somewhere. I don't know how that happens!

i dont think i could keep up with you if i tried... busy busy busy...

 

[scandiafowl]

Pullet. and I love the "How to pick up chicks" photo! Where did you see that at?

The tshirt can be found at Tractor Supply, at least at the one in Saint Croix Falls in Wiscosin. I'm tempted, but my Locally Laid tshirts are in the mail.

 

[scandiafowl]

 Poor sweet little thing.... It's so hard, especially when they're so young... 

Just sad, isn't it. I hope whatever ails her passes.

 

[scandiafowl]

Speaking of molting, we didn't have much of that this year. I expect to see feathers fly next year.
Is there a rhyme and reason to a chicken molt? Or on their own time?

 

[FoxyChicken]

I think yours are about the same age as this one who just started laying, so I bet she will be giving you some soon. I would bet she lays a green egg, but could be closer to blue too. You should find out soon, I hope, anyway. Yours and mine are probably sisters then. The only way they could have feathered feet are with the Marans hen, a Blue EE that has a beard and feathered feet or a buff and blue hen with feathered feet, but I doubt it is her and is likely one of the other two that is the mother. The Blue bearded, feather footed hen I have lays a huge olive egg and has since she was a pullet.

Thanks for the intel! I do remember that the three EE eggs you sent were each a different color. One was darker with speckles (looked just like the Welsummer eggs), one was blueish/greenish (don't quite remember...) and the other was light brown. Unfortunately I don't know who hatched out of which egg, and I don't remember which color didn't hatch. I will just keep patiently waiting.....

 

[FoxyChicken]

Speaking of molting, we didn't have much of that this year. I expect to see feathers fly next year.
Is there a rhyme and reason to a chicken molt? Or on their own time?

My 2 RSL's didn't really molt last year, but I think everyone else did. Now this year everyone has or is molting, except for my pullets of course.
How old are yours? Do you keep lights on for them?

 

[scandiafowl]

My 2 RSL's didn't really molt last year, but I think everyone else did. Now this year everyone has or is molting, except for my pullets of course.
How old are yours? Do you keep lights on for them?

Most hatched in the May- June time frame. We have a timer set up for light at 0600 and goes off at 2100. Our alpha rooster starts crowing at 0400 *sigh*

 

[FoxyChicken]

Most hatched in the May- June time frame. We have a timer set up for light at 0600 and goes off at 2100. Our alpha rooster starts crowing at 0400 *sigh*

Oh they probably won't molt this year then. Pullets don't generally molt their first fall, but somebody on here (maybe it was Minnie?) said they had some pullets molting this year.