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[Ksane]

Yes...the Blue Columbian Wyandotte ...two pipped. A Cochin has zipped. Another Buckeye is pipped and chirping and the earlier pip is now zipped. A Columbian Wyandotte has zipped. Hoping all pop soon.
Note to self...set eggs in the morning if you don't want to sit up all night checking on babies hatching.

You're so lucky to have a Cochin hatching tonight It sounds like they're moving right along, here's hoping.

sorry, I only post when I have a question. I'm a lurker.

I have 4 standard hens in my backyard flock that are a year old and 3 silkies that have just started laying. I have not been able to merge the flocks successfully. idk if it's because it stresses me too much to watch them establish a pecking order and I just give up or if my standards really are just MEAN! Now that the silkies are squatting it's worse. They range together but do not stay together at night.

Is there any hope of combining them peacefully? We're adding on to our coop tomorrow, to accommodate the silkies, but I think we'll have fencing between the current coop and the add on so I know they're safe.

Thanks in advance for you help.






CindyMichelle-
Silkies often times can't be integrated. I got lucky mixing 2 layer yards today because there were so many and they're all adult bossy hens. I've tried in the past to integrate smaller or more submissive birds and it didn't work. I tend to keep my Silkies only with other Silkies unless it's a real bossy Silkie hen who might work with other Bantams. They're gentle and so much more passivbe than other breeds, they seldom stand a chance against the typical standard sized hen. So it's not your bigger girls fault and it's nothing you did wrong. Silkies just need to be with other Silkies.
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[CindyMichelle3]

Thank you for your response! I guess we'll continue to keep them separate. I really wish they could all live together happily ever after, but when it gets right down to it, I want all my birds to be safe.

 

[shelbydog]

Yes...the Blue Columbian Wyandotte ...two pipped. A Cochin has zipped. Another Buckeye is pipped and chirping and the earlier pip is now zipped. A Columbian Wyandotte has zipped. Hoping all pop soon.
Note to self...set eggs in the morning if you don't want to sit up all night checking on babies hatching.

It's so awesome my Wyandottes are hatching. Hint hint. LOL.

My 'Dottie' I got from you is such a good girl. I think there is a broody in her.

Speaking of SLW, there was 3 hens at the Coweta auction and there were super nice sized hens. I wouldn't having some like that.

 

[shelbydog]

Here's my cochin cockeral that was supposed to be a langshans pullet. As they have gotten older I think I mistakenly picked out more than 1 cochin by mistake. I'll have to take pics of them for you guys.

 

[greenbeetle]

This might be a genetics question but, if you have a Maran hen and breed her with a non maran rooster, would the offspring lay chocolate eggs, or if you had a maran rooster and mated it with a non maran hen, whould the offspring lay chocolate eggs. Just curious. Thanks

 

[shelbydog]

I'm almost afraid to mention this, but being the time of year it is....has anyone started talking about POOPS yet?

@muesky

@mjgigax

@jcatblum

I keep asking too. I don't want to miss this year. I have foot races the first and 3rd Saturdays in May. And we have to keep in mind Cherokee birds is having an event on May 10.

 

[shelbydog]

Is anyone going to the chicken show in Norman on April 5th? Roger and I will be going to see how Carl's birds show.

I think I'll go. That's easy drive for me.
@Poco Pollo Trip for grandkids???
@Kyzmette ??

 

[miohippus]

a photo of our new chicks


cochin ?^

silkie^

mille fleur d'uccle

 

[Kassaundra]

Here's my cochin cockeral that was supposed to be a langshans pullet. As they have gotten older I think I mistakenly picked out more than 1 cochin by mistake. I'll have to take pics of them for you guys.

That is a cochin? I always think of them as shorter, like bowling balls w/ legs you can't see, like the hairy thing on the Addams Family. Am I thinking of a different breed?

 

[artsyrobin]

New nest box, FIL's was the victim of a hit and run, so he was going to throw it away- and all i saw was NESTBOX