Pipd's Peeps!

[Crazy Maizie]

Angry soccer ball chicken Poor Rebel, I hope his feelings weren't too hurt!

As a word of warning... That sounds suspiciously like early broody behavior I'd brace yourself for a future broody busting for Ivy!

Poor Rebel can't hardly catch a break.

And, yes, I've already thought this is a precursor. Just my luck.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Here's hoping she snaps out of it quickly for you if she really is going that way!

I'm down to just two broodies at this point, but I heard one of the Cochin bantam girls (possibly Ivy? but just as likely not because there are like 3 that are almost identical ) clucking like she's getting ready to go broody now. I only have one broody jail at the moment because of all the peeps occupying pens that would otherwise serve as broody jails, so I can only bust them one at a time.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Picture of the day 46! I just think it's so funny how Wyatt goes from round puff to fuzzy traffic cone when he crows

For reference, this is a picture from last fall I think, but this is how he's shaped when he's not crowing.

 

[NagemTX]

Epp lost the thread there for a few days!

It's been heck for the last few weeks! After Beryl we've had nothing but rain, heavy rain for two weeks! My pens are a mud pit now. They held up till a day ago. Have not been able to clean up much after Beryl because of all this.

Any way. Update on some of the grow outs that are making it! Some of Dusty's off spring are interesting.

The half white and half black partial laced?

The goldish chick I thought would be gold and blue turned out like this...

This very neat silver and black hen!

Both the silvery gray chicks kinda look blue silver columbian.

And a curious Crevecoeur!

And the mud pit in the front of the pen! Yuck!

 

[Crazy Maizie]

Epp lost the thread there for a few days!

It's been heck for the last few weeks! After Beryl we've had nothing but rain, heavy rain for two weeks! My pens are a mud pit now. They held up till a day ago. Have not been able to clean up much after Beryl because of all this.

Any way. Update on some of the grow outs that are making it! Some of Dusty's off spring are interesting.

The half white and half black partial laced?
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The goldish chick I thought would be gold and blue turned out like this...
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This very neat silver and black hen!
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Both the silvery gray chicks kinda look blue silver columbian.

And a curious Crevecoeur!
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And the mud pit in the front of the pen! Yuck!

Nice birds. I love the looks of the black and white laced one. So unique!
The mud doesn't look like much fun though. I've been using horse pellets this year in the duck run. It's helped quite a bit when it gets rainy.

 

[NagemTX]

Nice birds. I love the looks of the black and white laced one. So unique!
The mud doesn't look like much fun though. I've been using horse pellets this year in the duck run. It's helped quite a bit when it gets rainy.

I have a bale of straw but it got wet and started molding and now has ants in it.

Also had surprise hatch from the bantam pen like a few days after Beryl! Godzila hatched them. Three days later she turned on the two light colored chicks so they are inside in a tote. My silver Phoenix girl Star is an amazing hen. When Zilla is being an absent minded mom she takes over till Zilla gets back on track. I left the two black ones with her and now there's a third the D'uccle hen hatched that Zilla has taken for her own. They are doing good tho so not removing them.

Moved the LF Silver Ameraucana out to the Lavender Ameraucana pen. No issues there either. All of my pens are mixed up now because of the storm and the dog attack. Fence is kinda fixed now so the pens can get let out now thank goodness! Only two pens at a time tho. Bantams everyday because their pen is in the worst shape now from the rain.

I'll be adding shavings I have on hand to their pen tomorrow and I may pick up more. I don't want to do the pelet stuff because they might eat it. Will look at straw bales again but I'm going to start getting pea gravel on Monday. The rain should be over then.

 

[Crazy Maizie]

I have a bale of straw but it got wet and started molding and now has ants in it.

Also had surprise hatch from the bantam pen like a few days after Beryl! Godzila hatched them. Three days later she turned on the two light colored chicks so they are inside in a tote. My silver Phoenix girl Star is an amazing hen. When Zilla is being an absent minded mom she takes over till Zilla gets back on track. I left the two black ones with her and now there's a third the D'uccle hen hatched that Zilla has taken for her own. They are doing good tho so not removing them.

Moved the LF Silver Ameraucana out to the Lavender Ameraucana pen. No issues there either. All of my pens are mixed up now because of the storm and the dog attack. Fence is kinda fixed now so the pens can get let out now thank goodness! Only two pens at a time tho. Bantams everyday because their pen is in the worst shape now from the rain.

I'll be adding shavings I have on hand to their pen tomorrow and I may pick up more. I don't want to do the pelet stuff because they might eat it. Will look at straw bales again but I'm going to start getting pea gravel on Monday. The rain should be over then.

I thought mine might eat the pellets, but they don't. You just got to do what works for you. I agree that straw becomes a mess in mud. Do you have any unused pallets? You could put them down in the meantime.
A surprise hatch sound like fun.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Epp lost the thread there for a few days!

It's been heck for the last few weeks! After Beryl we've had nothing but rain, heavy rain for two weeks! My pens are a mud pit now. They held up till a day ago. Have not been able to clean up much after Beryl because of all this.

Any way. Update on some of the grow outs that are making it! Some of Dusty's off spring are interesting.

The half white and half black partial laced?
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The goldish chick I thought would be gold and blue turned out like this...
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This very neat silver and black hen!
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Both the silvery gray chicks kinda look blue silver columbian.

And a curious Crevecoeur!
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And the mud pit in the front of the pen! Yuck!

Welcome back! Beautiful birds, too! Ugh, the mud, though. That's what it was like here for a bit, dreadful. Hope it dries up for you soon with the rain moving on!

That one silver and black hen is beautiful, almost yellow-tinged! Is she part Phoenix? She reminds me a bit of my one Birchen Marans hen, Mavis, who had yellow-tinged hackles. Hens can't be gold-silver split like roosters can, so I'd always just assumed she was silver-based and the yellowish color came from her mother's mahogany gene. But I do recall that your Golden Phoenixes seemed to have other genes at play that made them Golden other than just the gold-silver split that is typical of other golden varieties.

I thought mine might eat the pellets, but they don't. You just got to do what works for you. I agree that straw becomes a mess in mud. Do you have any unused pallets? You could put them down in the meantime.

Yeah, I was afraid mine would eat them as well, especially because mine are on a pelletized diet as well, but I only ever saw them pick them up once or twice and then spit them right back out.

But I imagine the gravel would work just as well, too! I keep wanting to try that Chip Drop thing to get wood chips for our mud, but every time we actually need them, something else has come up so there's nowhere available for them to be dropped off.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Picture of the day today, day 47, is a close up of lovely Freia

And our runner up... Pete apparently wanted in on the close-up action, too.

 

[NagemTX]

I thought mine might eat the pellets, but they don't. You just got to do what works for you. I agree that straw becomes a mess in mud. Do you have any unused pallets? You could put them down in the meantime.
A surprise hatch sound like fun.

Might be able to get a pallet on Monday from work. Only having a mustang car to transport stuff makes it really hard to get bigger things!