Nevadans?

[chicharomirinda]

I don't know how old they are but I'm pretty certain the last three are pullets and the first one is probably a pullet as well. By 16 weeks a silkie should be pretty easy to sex

oh, I hope you're right. they are 16 weeks--will be 17 weeks on Wednesday. The photos are a few weeks old. I should take some updated ones. the confirmed roo is quite a bit larger than the other 4 even though he started out the smallest.

 

[aubreynoramarie]

I don't know how old they are but I'm pretty certain the last three are pullets and the first one is probably a pullet as well. By 16 weeks a silkie should be pretty easy to sex

Ehhhh just looked at neck feathers on the first one... Possible boy but it's really hard to say with hatchery stock silkies. The second would be easier with a body shot because the wattle size doesn't look suspicious. I feel like my silkie and showgirl Roos usually will have streamers sprouting by that age

 

[americanvalkyrie]

cool egg! Kim will love that.
that's what i've been thinking re: silkie genders. we'll see how it turns out. good idea putting the eggs in the photo with the harvest. I'll have to take another photo tomorrow. My garden has been doing okay. that is by my standards! i have some jalapenos and the purple peppers I got from you producing a few. my bell peppers are not doing well with the extreme heat. tomatoes are doing ok. most are rather small but that's okay. i have several small wonder spaghetti squash growing and one sugar pumpkin. various summer squash are doing pretty good. My broccoli bolted so I just fed the plants to the chicken. cabbage didn't amount to much so I've been picking off the leaves and feeding the chickens. So I'm thinking of just doing fall crops of those next year and not spring. It just got too hot. my spinach didn't do well either. I guess I don't have the right spot for it yet. one spot was too shady and the other too sunny. the snow peas did well so I should have planted more of those. next spring I will plant a lot. My kids love those. My redbor kale is doing well. It's so pretty. I planted bush beans and the plants are small but did blossom so we'll see.

My sugar pumpkins and small wonder squash are still blooming, but it's starting to get pretty late in the season to start new fruits. You never know, though... I've heard the forecast is for heat and drought until Halloween. So that will give new squash a chance to ripen. I have at least 15 pumpkins of varying sizes, and most of them are getting pretty orange right now. At least 20 small wonder squash, and they're starting to get a little of that maize color with the green. The corn ears are fat and in the milk stage, but I think I want to let them dry to use for flour, so I can take pictures of how pretty it is! And those pole beans I got from Sheryl? If she offered them to the seed companies, I don't know if they'd be featured in catalogs. They grow too well, are too vigorous, and produce too much food. The seed companies want you to keep buying seed each year, not grow so much food that you can save seed forever. My bush beans have one more harvest coming within a week or so, then I'm going to pull them up and see if I can keep the ground moist enough in late August for another batch of spinach.

Today, Russ and I went through my Ball book of home preserving and chose what we're going to do with our extra food. I was interested in a zucchini relish and zucchini dill spears. And a multi-veggie sweet pickle. The thought of letting this food go to waste just makes me ill!

 

[chicharomirinda]

They were 14 weeks old in these photos. I can take some new photos tomorrow but here's a body shot of the 2nd one.







Glad your garden is doing well, Missy. should be fun for you to try some new recipes for preserves. I have about 5 small wonder squash. I think that's pretty good for me for my first go around with those.

 

[sherylreno]

Good Morning! Sorry I haven't been on for a while been very busy finishing up with Boomtown and getting everything together for GSR.

Missy, my chickens are still laying good atm. I have one who hasn't laid an egg since July 30th. I believe it's due to the heat. July 31st and August 2nd the girls only laid 2 eggs on those days otherwise, I get 4 to 5 eggs a day from 7 layers.

Aubrey, that's a fantastic purple colored egg you have there. I wonder if it's from the same one that laid the grey egg last month?

Everyone's chickens are so pretty. I still have 3 molting atm and it's taking them forever.

Elizabeth, Monique sat in the nest box for 10 weeks before she broke herself from being broody. I thought she never would come out of it. Sylvia was almost the same way but she only lasted 8 weeks.

Ron, I'm so sorry to hear about your roo. Most people would keep that roo because he's the best protector of the flock when it comes to predators. He will die for his girls if something came after them.

 

[aubreynoramarie]

First thing I did this morning when I woke up was ran outside to go check on bedbug. I was prepared for the worst. It she is up walking around and generally being adorable little wobbly I'll admit but looking good. I do love her and her funny looking five toed feeties. Now I need a name for that cute lil silkie mutt!

 

[tolipgirl]

Lol that's awesome! This is another good one:

Haha, it is so funny how brave roosters are!

 

[aubreynoramarie]

Proud mama and babies Mama and Bedbug Millie and Banana Pants. Check out those bell bottoms!

 

[NevadaRon]

Those chicks are soooo adorable! Th "bell bottoms" are awesome!

I love that purple egg - I hope it isn't a fluke. That would be so cool to get a steady supply of them!

Did you open your giant egg yet Elizabeth? I'm just wondering if it was a double or triple. Most of my really big eggs have been single yolk, which I find strange!

My bell pepper plants look awful. It's just been way too hot for them I think. Onions, potatoes, corn and squash all look awesome though.

Yellow zucchini:

 

[chicharomirinda]

yep, the big egg was a double yolker. I cooked it up last night for hubby to take to work in a breakfast burrito this morning.

those chicks are adorable, aubrey! glad everything worked out.

I hope your job transition goes well, sheryl

nice looking yellow zucchini, Ron. I cooked up our zucchini and patty pan for lunch today. yummy!

boy, is it hot and looking like we're in for more this week. ugh! I need it a little cooler.