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[sjarvis00]

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Baking them doesn't add the lbs!

I'm sure I will have to try each of them! I plan to bring the extra's here to work so hopefully that will help!

i have my Great Great Grand Mothers recipe for Sour Creme Sugar Cookies (german heritage) and my Great Grandmothers recipe for Choc. Chip (French Canadian heritage) if you would like to try them sometime..

 

[NanaKat]

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I'm a sucker for large fowl. Just bought the Columbian Wyandottes that Carl and Stephanie posted. I already have two of their lovely CWs and now have more! No room in the inn for bantams. My Australorp, BSL, EE and Delawares are laying more than a dozen eggs a day...nice big brown eggs.

they are laying decent and picking up steam quickly and all have been fertile, so as they start to come out of teh brooders the chicks are yours too if you want them. They will be htaching for teh next three weeks.
Edited to note it is the Columbians laying well and fertile. Will have the first ones of fall hatching in a few days.

I can start a growout area in the barn. Roger has decided to knock out the wall on the east inside the barn to expand the hen room for me so we can incorporate a window for the water cooler. This will double the size of the henroom. I can put up a half-wall with a door to divide the inside into two separate areas. One side for the hens and one side for an inside growout area. So, yes, I'd love to acquire some of the hatchlings...Shoot me a PM on price when they are ready.

 

[faerielady]

My daughter has "supposedly" been practicing her cello after school... James is usually asleep, so she is supposed to be taking it to the craft room. Except today I got to go home early and she wasn't practicing when I got here... so I asked her to go practice since James is already up. Her cello was soooooo far out of tune. I asked her when she last practiced and she said WEEKS AGO...

she says she doesn't need to practice at home because she practices at school. I said NO WAY CHILD... 30 minutes, every day, and now she gets to record it.

heck James wouldn't notice, he's a Marine and it's an "approved sound" so he just sleeps through it when it does happen!

ARGH.

Why do children have to be so frustrating?!?

 

[Ksane]

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NanaKat, you say 'hen room'. Do you keep all your roos together in another area? I'm going to keep my Silkie boys in a bachelor pen but they grew up together. Does anyone keep unrelated roos together away from the girls? If so, does it tend to work well? I'd love to try that if someone's made it work. It'd be gentle breeds, that should help. I'd sure like my hens to be able to live in peace without getting jumped on all the time by a roo.

 

[NanaKat]

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i am so glad! since all of them are at least part cochin, they should be real friendly with more handling- so what names did they come up with...? hows the little roo doing?

hey coral- check this little face out- your little silkie chick is a pullet....
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o155/rgortonart/2011 chickens/staypuff/file-22.jpg

That is a great stink-eye! What a cool bird!
I'm trying to imagine how to paint or draw Silkie feathers?????

When I taught art classes at the hs, shade in your areas lightly and use a sharp edge of an eraser to "draw" in the contrast feathers. I have a lion's mane I drew that way and the wrinkles and hair of an old woman's portrait...I'll see If I can get a clear photo of the technique.

 

[nnbreeder]

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It's their job and most are vey, very good at it. LOL

 

[Ksane]

Here's the 6 month old LF Cochin pair I got from MJ, the little girl is a super sweetheart! The male is way sweet, too, but the little girl just seems to melt when you hold her. I talked to MJ about placing the male, he's going to be very large and he's really pretty. I'm not going to breed the 2. But if the whole Bachelor Pen might work for unrelated boys I might be able to keep him!

Here's my poor little hatchery Silkie boy, 'Sweet Babbo'. He's the smallest one and doesn't even have black skin. What he lacks in looks he makes up for in personality. My husband is mean, he calls him Baboon Boy

One of my 11 wk old LF Cochin pullets, Carlyle:

My husband's favorite Cochin that we hatched. Her name is Kevin. My husband bragged how "Kevin" was the manliest one and was going to be the toughest rooster. Kevin turned out to be the biggest gentlest hen:

And even sadder looking than my Sweet Babbo.....is my molting Ringneck Dove . Molting birds are so attractive. NOT.

 

[NanaKat]

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The black bug and the tanish gray one together in the picture are blister bugs...chickens won't eat them. The blister bug is a voracious eater...they dessimated my fall potatoes overnight! They are sneaky also...when you try to catch one it will fall to the ground in between the plants. I try to catch into a cup and then squash them on the ground...their juices can cause blisters on some people's skin. so be careful.
The last bug you thought was a stink bug is a good bug...it's an Artillery bug. Eats others bugs and can "bite you" so don't handle it.

 

[BetsyOK]

I often keep as many as a dozen silkie roos together. As long as there are no hens present, they do just fine, working as a "family" sort of group with a definite leader, who even makes that sweet clucking noise to the others to direct them to a special delicacy. I often have hens in separate large growout cages in the same place (my little greenhouse), and as long as no hen is loose with the boys, they're OK. I introduce two or three at a time when putting new ones with them. They'll jocky for position, but soon settle down into a definite, calm pecking order. Silkie roos can get pretty rough, as can all poultry, but this works well for me.

 

[Ksane]

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You've given me hope! There's so many beautiful roosters around and it just seems daunting to build a separate yard for each of them if they're unrelated. I'll keep my Silkie boys together with just each other and make another yard for other roosters. I'm betting this Cochin boy I got from MJ would even mix in fine in the Silkie boys yard now. Why didn't I think of this before????