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[Kassaundra]

I'm thinking boy mainly because of the wattle growth. He's a Frizzle though-Sizzle and Frizzle are soooo confusing. If I hadn't hatched out 10 and got each kind I'd have never been able to tell the difference. Frizzles are crinkled regular feathers and Sizzles are crinkled Silkie feathers. I'd have been money my Blue Partridge Sizzle was a girl and she had the audacity to crow! It's hard to tell on the "izzles".
I was a good teen with wild and troubled parents lol I feel bad for most teens nowadays also. They don't have the mental capacity or self-knowledge to tell someone they need help, they're confused or hurt. Nobody taught them how to deal with emotions or other people. So what they learn comes from their troubled friends. It's hard to love teenagers, but they need it more than any other age group. When you get them alone and get them talking they're different people. And they're kind and want to be good and want to help. It takes huge efforts to *get them alone away from their friends and get them talking though. 90% of people won't stop for a dog hit by a car, they're certainly not going to put forth effort towards a kid who's acting like a punk and mouthing off because he's scared.

Same here

 

[Firefly89]

Quote: Best guess for age is 3.5ish months. Those pics aren't super current but I have only had them (looked at my calendar) 6 weeks. The smaller chicks that I got with them I was told were about 5 weeks and they *might have been 2 weeks. I was told maddie was 2 months when i got them. I think it was more likely that they didn't keep track to know the ages.

When do the silkies/sizzles/frizzles usually start crowing? I don't know what I will do with maddie if she's a he I can only have one roo, and thats pushing it.

 

[Kyzmette]

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I'm in total agreement. The majority of people who think that kids are in trouble all the time are that way because of the TV they watch or the music they listen to, probably come from fairly stable homes. They may *think* their household is crazy, but most kids think they have it rough even when they don't. Kids who have healthy home lives have parents or parent figures who talk to them about the difference between reality and TV, who encourage them and accept them and inspire them, so they won't have to find their encouragement at a drinking party, their acceptance in mediocrity, and their inspiration from their own anger.

 

[subhanalah]

I am so excited, I just have to share! Of the 3 rescue girls I picked up about a month ago I am now getting 2 eggs a day. They are 2 cochin hens and a sizzle "pullet". I was told the pullet was only about 2months old and she acts pretty roo-ish but there hasnt been any crowing and yesterday I found one of the eggs had a black feather stuck to it. Shes the only black one, is it possible she just went in the nest box to sit or did she lay that egg??? All 3 had all sorts of bugs when I brought them home, the hens hardly had any feathers, and one of them had a huge gaping very infected wound on her back and several other sores on her body. I didn't think she was going to make it. All were underweight and not real active, they came with 2 chicks that didn't make it But the three are fat and sassy now. The older hens are very cautious but coming around, the sizzle would follow me in the house if I would let her! The wound on the one hen is slowly but surely healing and feathers are growing back. I only got 2 eggs the first week, then the healthiest hen started laying more frequently and I was soon getting an egg from her almost daily, so I have been thrilled to see 2 eggs every day for the last few days! Im still not sure if the sizzle is a boy or girl or who is laying the extra egg but I am hoping my girl on the mend is laying because she is feeling better! e

This is maddie the sizzle! He or she?

Thanks! I thought the feathers were too "feather-like" if that makes sense! But maddie does have tufts silkie fluff on her back and between feathers, maybe just down i guess?... its weird but getting fluffier. 5 toes on one foot. My best guest is he or she is a terrible mismatch of different things. The lady I got them from talked about her project pens and had a LOT of frizzled critters.... I have heard about getting poor quality if you breed a frizzled roo to a frizzled hen. I prefer smooth feathered but these poor peeps got to me....

I thought it looked like a frxfr, but I'm not very well versed. I DO have a solution to your who's laying what egg problem though. you have a date with three bottles of food coloring and three beautiful chicken butts.

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I'm in total agreement. The majority of people who think that kids are in trouble all the time are that way because of the TV they watch or the music they listen to, probably come from fairly stable homes. They may *think* their household is crazy, but most kids think they have it rough even when they don't. Kids who have healthy home lives have parents or parent figures who talk to them about the difference between reality and TV, who encourage them and accept them and inspire them, so they won't have to find their encouragement at a drinking party, their acceptance in mediocrity, and their inspiration from their own anger.

I think another huge problem we have is that people don't realize that the way they act is how their kids are going to act. If you have an attitude and think you're better than everyone else and no one else is important, your kids are going to act that way. It doesn't matter what you say to your kids, they are just going to do what you do. If you want them to be patient, empathetic, forgiving and thoughtful, you need to be that way towards them as well as everyone else.

 

[Chickenfan4life]

Quote: A-MEN!

 

[ashtree]

Best guess for age is 3.5ish months. Those pics aren't super current but I have only had them (looked at my calendar) 6 weeks. The smaller chicks that I got with them I was told were about 5 weeks and they *might have been 2 weeks. I was told maddie was 2 months when i got them. I think it was more likely that they didn't keep track to know the ages.

When do the silkies/sizzles/frizzles usually start crowing? I don't know what I will do with maddie if she's a he I can only have one roo, and thats pushing it

She is so tiny for 3.5 months. I would be really surprised if she's that old, but you did say she was not healthy when you got her right? My sizzles aren't even 3 months old and they are twice her size. As for the initial egg, I think 3.5 months is still young to lay. But, if she is that old then I would guess pullet, so maybe????

Its hard to sex her not knowing how long she has been breeding frizzled silkies. If its 1st generation (which Im kinda thinking its 1st or 2nd) and she really is 3.5 months old I wouldn't hesitate to say pullet, but after the first few generations it gets harder.

 

[Chickenfan4life]

The girls amaze me, with how resilient they are! My polish hen, Einsteina, has a crest covered in mud, so I had to clean her up, today, and I noticed how good chickens are with the weather.
I know that when it's stormy, I plop myself down at my desk and draw/write/surf the interwebs. Screw the bad weather!

But the girls get up, like clockwork, and go about their day!

I have chickens for role-models. I keep telling myself that my chickens do more in a day than I do!

 

[Nuggetirl]

Quote: I think another huge problem we have is that people don't realize that the way they act is how their kids are going to act. If you have an attitude and think you're better than everyone else and no one else is important, your kids are going to act that way.
It doesn't matter what you say to your kids, they are just going to do what you do. If you want them to be patient, empathetic, forgiving and thoughtful, you need to be that way towards them as well as everyone else.
THIS ^
You can tell your kids all day long to respect people, but if you don't SHOW them, they will act like you. And it's a problem. Kids start fights on facebook, then delete their half and show their parents who then race to the school to tell the principal so that the other kid gets in trouble...at school. My mom was constantly telling parents that A)obivous your kid isn't blameless, why did they delete everything they said back and B) she is not the facebook police! What did these kids learn? mommy and daddy are going to go to the school and try to defend them when they do stupid stuff. If I pulled that kind of crap (which hey, let's be honest. I tried. ONCE) my mother didn't hesitate to make me delete whatever social media I was on, or whatever "friend" was trying to bully me. Ugh. I'm going to go before I rant more.

 

[huntseat]

Facebook and mean tweets...don't get me started!

 

[subhanalah]

Facebook and mean tweets...don't get me started!

there's quite a bit of bullying here on BYC too...by adults. Shameful.