NY chicken lover!!!!

[Henicillin]

Today is a day for homemade soup and biscuits! I tried a new biscuit recipe using yogurt instead of shortening.

Welcome bubbapain!

Ooh, that sounds good! How did they turn out?

Welcome from the wilds of East Nassau, bubbapain!

 

[Henicillin]

Mom and the peeps.

 

[Lynzi777]

So Cute! Very nice looking hen too! What is that you have on her?

 

[Henicillin]

So Cute! Very nice looking hen too! What is that you have on her?

Thanks! She's a little hatchery Buff Orpington, and is a sweetie. She has a hen saddle on, because up until last weekend I had three overly enthusiastic and clumsy young roos. The saddles protect their backs from the boys. The worst offender has been removed, and the other two are good to the hens, so the ladies shouldn't require saddles for much longer. One of our BYC members makes them. I tell people that it's a symptom of my chicken craziness that I put little coats on them.

One of my Facebook friends has named her. The happy little family is now Gladys and the Peeps.

 

[Lynzi777]

Thanks! She's a little hatchery Buff Orpington, and is a sweetie. She has a hen saddle on, because up until last weekend I had three overly enthusiastic and clumsy young roos. The saddles protect their backs from the boys. The worst offender has been removed, and the other two are good to the hens, so the ladies shouldn't require saddles for much longer.

I see! Well it looks like she's a good mama. I have a BO mix (roo was a black sex link) and I'm dying to see what she (if she is a she) ends up looking like because I notice when she stretches out her wings, the tips have some black spots on them.

 

[vmdanielsen]

Thanks! She's a little hatchery Buff Orpington, and is a sweetie. She has a hen saddle on, because up until last weekend I had three overly enthusiastic and clumsy young roos. The saddles protect their backs from the boys. The worst offender has been removed, and the other two are good to the hens, so the ladies shouldn't require saddles for much longer. One of our BYC members makes them. I tell people that it's a symptom of my chicken craziness that I put little coats on them.

One of my Facebook friends has named her. The happy little family is now Gladys and the Peeps.

Gladys and the peeps

 

[happycountryhens]

Welcome Bubbapain!

 

[Henicillin]

I must be nuts. I just set four eggs under my other broody Buff Orp, because she looks so pitiful in her little makeshift nest (well, deep depression dug into the litter, at any rate) next to Gladys and the Peeps that I feel bad for the goofy thing. She carefully tucked all four of them under herself and settled down with happy little clucks. So, if those four make it, and the seven my BLRW is on all survive, counting the Peeps I'll have added fifteen chickens to the mix. Hatching is definitely addicting! Of course, odds are that half of them are roos, and so won't be permanent residents, especially now that I have someone who will happily take them off my hands.

Here's a closeup of the Peeps, just because they're cute and I love the little wing feathers they're sporting.

 

[pharmchickrnmom]

OOO Hen--what adorable pics of mama and the babies! I have a silkie sitting on 2 eggs. I am hoping they hatch.

Lockdown on friday for the 9 silkie eggs in the bator. So far all is looking good. I think I suffer from the same disease as hen. I already have two brooder boxes full of babies (34 in fact) and the bator full and 2 under a broody. I am not an addict, I am not an addict....

Loving all this rain for my well and my lawn but its holding up getting the coop done. I am hoping we can get quite a bit done this weekend. My surprise coop is being delivered by my daughter and her boyfriend tomorrow and I cant wait to see it. It will be for my breeding quad of silkies (which are still in the brooder box and I am hoping they are mostly girls!). I will take pics and post them when I get it. So excited! Its my mothers day gift so happy mothers day to me!!!

I would like to thank all of you for your thoughts and prayers during the last week. The funeral for little Rylan was yesterday and it was very sad. Now the truly hard part for his mom and brother begins. Thanks again for letting me share.

 

[java girl 2]

hey featherz, you said that you are making a pen for them and I was wondering if you need fencing for them? I have old 1 inch chicken wire fencing you can use if you would like some of it this week!!

Another one of my brain dead chicks (LOL) got out today and I have no idea how. Mamas must have taken them out when I didn't notice as everytime I checked they were staying in the coop. So I had to drag complaining mama back out in the rain to cluck chick out. grrr.

And now I think one of my production reds is eggbound. She's complaining loudly in a cage in the sunroom.