My extended "family" *picture heavy*

[Mrs MIA]

More cuteness...

We had two more Mille Fleur d'Uccle babies hatch this afternoon.

And here's (finally) some good photos of my one Red Dorking roo, Lucas...

 

[snowydiamonds]

Guess who, Tori, just out of the ugly stage...

 

[Mrs MIA]

Oh why do they have to go through that ugly phase?!? LOL!

 

[snowydiamonds]

To steal our hearts, so ugly, they're cute...I think the two black ones are girls and the two grey ones, boys but I could be wrong

 

[shelleyd2008]

Tori, I think you need to add Golden Lakenvelders to your list of breeds

I need a source for eggs!!

 

[shelleyd2008]

Mrs. AK-Bird-Brain :

And BTW... if you have chicks that you have hatched from me, please feel free to post photos here.

Do button chicks count??

 

[snowydiamonds]

Tori, you did not send me silkie eggs...I have a scree scree falcon or hawk in my house...

is that their crow?!?

The two grey are males and more than likely one of the black ones is a male but bottom of the ladder guy. Only one lil girl, the one in the middle in the above pic and she's a sweetie. I'm going to separate them as those teenage boys are doing the kung fu moves to determine who's top of the ladder guy and upsetting her.

What do you do w/extra boys? They are WAY to close to my heart to eat and my adult kids would never forgive me if I even mentioned this out loud! Guess they could be given aways as house pets? Or kept in a "boys home" coop until I've got more girls?

Added: They think pressure cooked salmon is way better than their commercial feed! Now they are throwing their feed out and looking for salmon...

 

[Mrs MIA]

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Um... yes, they're silkies.

When they start learning to crow, they sound like they're being choked. We have one roo named Kazoo, for that very reason.

You could try to rehome them, or give them a bachelor pad. If you only have one girl, you'll only want one boy in there with her. I'm sure then you'll be hatching more as soon as they're old enough, right?

That's a good idea about the salmon. I could cook up some of the freezer burned stuff for them. We usually give it to the neighbor's sled dogs, but if the chickens will eat it, I'm all for stretching the feed bill!!!

Well, I'm not getting the 1502... yet. We're still trying, but they want $300-$400 just to ship it up here.

Too much. I need to find someone that already has one up here.

 

[Cracker]

Tori, I don't think that I can get that 1502 in my suitcase on my next trip

 

[snowydiamonds]

Well, it looks like I won't be getting a son of Tyson's this year...
went out to the coop to move some birds around and make room for the two silkie boys and the EE chicks I think are also boys and discovered one of my three Mille Fleur D'Uccles has grown a tall comb over night! He should be crowing in a week or so...now where to put them??? I'm switching over to bantams much more quickly than I thought I would

Yes, I'll be building up the Silkies, too, so I can't win for losing Cannot, just cannot have only one flock!!! Impossible! At least for now...so the big question on the LF is how many will I end up w/and I do know I'll be butchering soon, to build up the body type I want, possibly tomorrow or Sunday:/

Had a GREAT dream last night, there were TWO big insulated buildings in the yard waiting for me to fill w/birds...best dream I've ever had! Wish the dream had included the money to feed those flocks, too! I keep eye-ing your GORGOUS Red Dorking...may be ready whenever you are in the future