Adorable! Combines two of my favorite C words, cats and chickens. Now if you just had some children in there my favorite Cs would be completeWell it took awhile but here they are "Hens and Kittens"
The Black Star hen is still laying in with the kittens, the Welsumer hen got booted by a Cuckoo Maran and now one of the free ranger Black Star hens thinks she wants a nest box of her own too. This place is like " One flew over the Cuckoo's nest" these days.
Well it took awhile but here they are "Hens and Kittens"
Yes! She laid a beautiful green/blue egg - here's my basket with White Leghorn, Silkie and Smokey's EE egg for today. Oh how I missed those beautiful green/blue eggs.
I'm still waiting for the 4 Lavender Orpingtons to lay their beautiful brown eggs.
But I'm worried that she is going broody again- after getting in/out of the nest box several times she finally hid down in the corner of the coop to lay the egg and was tossing shavings on her back to cover herself up. When I went back out to gather eggs I just took it out from underneath her because she was sitting on it and keeping it warm. She stayed still as I petted her and she continued to toss shavings on her back as she walked away from where she had laid the egg.
Oh, no! I don't need any more chicks right now!
Congrats on the babies! Pics please! Yes, Smokey is the only one I have that has gone broody and now she's acting like she wants to do it again.Quote:
Are you talking about Smokey? and boy do i look forward to some EE eggs course they are just 7 weeks so i have a while to wait, but just had to share I went out to give my lil bantam cochin Lil Elaine some fresh food and water as not to disturb her for the next few days because her 2 eggs are due to hatch Monday well I heard peeping and looked and both eggs have pipped and one is zipping so we are going to have chicks early again...Do like I do bobbieschicks, I only give them a few eggs to hatch that way we don't get over run, and extra roos go into the freezer. and broodys are happy!
I don't know. I'm looking at my current flock and trying to decide what to do. Which of the new roosters will be rehomed and whether to keep any. I'm not sure if the AM Smokey hatched is a pullet or roo, and I may not know for another 12+ weeks. It's looking like pullet for now so that's good. Of the other 2 10 week old EE/WL mixes, one is definitely a roo and the other possibly a pullet. But I'm very disappointed my two Wellies are Roos so I may get some more wellie eggs and try again for pullets. If I do I will only get half a dozen so she's not sitting on too many. She did a great job last time. I miss her eggs when they aren't around. They're so pretty. My experience with hatching silkies was I had 30+ shipped silkie eggs to hatch and ended up with only 3 chicks. My pullet Topsy and rooster Davy are still here. The other rooster died over Christmas vacation. They are very cute. My son wants more silkies. I would like to have a few. I got them to hatch out to be broodies. Of course that was before we found one was a rooster.
