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[subhanalah]

@ashtree
Can you take a look at @Nuggetirl's cochins?

 

[ashtree]

you mean like....THESE

all the sleepy chickies.

This is Gwen. At least I *hope* it's a Gwen. She's very dominant to the other two....

And little Scooter. Scooter is already the favorite. Even my husband loves Scooter. Scooter may be a boy or girl - if girl then YAY if boy... well then Gwen just better hope she stays a "Gwen" because Scooter stays!

How old are they? Maybe I missed the post saying that.
Edited: I just saw almost 6 weeks. Thats a cockerel with the red. But if I had to guess on the silkie Id say pullet so far. So young still tho. But my pullet silkies have good head feathering early on.

 

[subhanalah]

How old are they? Maybe I missed the post saying that. 
Edited: I just saw almost 6 weeks.  Thats a cockerel with the red. But if I had to guess on the silkie Id say pullet so far. So young still tho. But my pullet silkies have good head feathering early on. 

the cochins hatched on May 1. The silkier hatched Almost 11 weeks ago. We question it because the comb is rather wide at this point. It was a runt/preemie due to incubator/temperature issues during hatch.

@Nuggetirl
Sorry it's a cockerel, you can come pick out a pullet or another silkie if you want. That means I got 3/4 cockerels out of my bantam cochin hatch.

 

[ashtree]

the cochins hatched on May 1. The silkier hatched Almost 11 weeks ago. We question it because the comb is rather wide at this point. It was a runt/preemie due to incubator/temperature issues during hatch.

@Nuggetirl
Sorry it's a cockerel, you can come pick out a pullet or another silkie if you want. That means I got 3/4 cockerels out of my bantam cochin hatch.

Side shots of the silkie would help and maybe full body. 11 weeks and usually streamers are developing. Also watch for rooster like behavior, I avoid tall chicks like the plague! There are some silkies that remain a mystery until they crow/lay eggs, I can NEVER guess on the non beardeds! I spend a lot of time trying to gender guess silkies. The last batch of silkies I got from my breeder I managed all 3 pullets. I spend a long time picking them out

Edited to add, if anyone thinks that cochin might be a pullet please speak up! Im not trying to take over the thread here

Anyone see the lavender silkies in Piedmont on craigslist?

I know they won't last long, but I have to finish the new coop first and get this bumble foot girl all better.

 

[Chickenfan4life]

Looking at my old posts on BYC makes me wanna go back in time and strangle myself...

........

I've especially come a ways in understanding dogs in particular. (Plzzzzz don't look at my first few rants about my family's dogs, you will not like them

).

Any-a-ways, my help has been enlisted--my mom's friend's daughter has a dog that has plenty of behavioral issues, and me, having taken the past few years to study the canine behavior and training, was naturally put up to the task of training her dog--a lhaso apso X Dachsund. Wish me luck!

 

[Chickenfan4life]

I learned most everything I know from this amazing woman, Barbara Linden, a dog trainer in Claremore. She gave me a free course of classes for my adopted dog, Suka, because we're friends.

 

[artsyrobin]

i think i am making headway with the little roo, nightly towel wrapping for laptime- no girls around, and he is settling down, occasional nips- i thin he is easily excitable, so he may need solitary confinement for awhile

 

[Loriemarler]

i think i am making headway with the little roo, nightly towel wrapping for laptime- no girls around, and he is settling down, occasional nips- i thin he is easily excitable, so he may need solitary confinement for awhile

There's the pretty boy. I am glad you are making headway with him.

 

[subhanalah]

Can I show off pictures of my first cockerel to reach this age? Lol.
He's a handsome fella, I think.

 

[NanaKat]

Can I show off pictures of my first cockerel to reach this age? Lol.
He's a handsome fella, I think.

A very handsome cockerel indeed!