Pipd's Peeps!

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Little feather dusters... Hehe They're growing up fast!

They are growing so fast, aren't they? Feather dusters, I like that. I keep thinking they look like they're running around in pants too big for them with all their leg feathering coming in!

The keets look just like mine.  Thank goodness hubbie only brought home 2.  I read on one of the sites about them just flopping down and going to sleep with the legs stretched out.If I hadn't read that I would have probably thought one of them was dead.  

The pics of the babies are adoreable.  They are growing by leaps and bounds.  Their little tail feathers must grow over night.  I remember when they didn't have any tail feathers now look at them.  Yes Marge had that derp look on her face in that picture.    Thanks so much for sharing the pics with us.  I love looking at them.

I think I have the stomach flu.  This is only the second time I've been up all day.  My fever has finally broke and I'm feeling better but my stomach feels really queasey.

Haha, yeah, I had 7 at once, I believe, when those pictures were taken. Then when they were older, my mom brought home 2 more from a swap meet. No self control, I tell ya! I hadn't read about the 'rubber chicken' move before they hatched, so I had a few startling moments walking in and seeing them like that before I realized it had to be normal!

With school keeping me away a lot during the week, it seems like the babies change from one time to the next time I see them! I guess the benefit to Silkies, though, is that they stay fuzzy even as they get bigger!


Hope you feel better soon! Yuck! :/ Hopefully I'll have 3-week pictures of the babies tomorrow to post. Chickies are the best medicine, right?

 

[pattyhen]

The silkies stay fuzz balls for life that is the joy of having them. I didn't get to feed mine yesterday so I'm looking forward to seeing them today. I missed the little buggers. My husband fed them and he had to ask 50 questions on how many food bowls and how many boiled eggs for their treats.

Looking forward to their 3 week picture sesson. I know your busy with school and everything just whenever you have the time.

I feel like I have come back to the land of the living. I'm glad it was a 24 hour bug that I had and that was long enough.

 

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No worries, I had to take pictures today either way. The babies are 3 weeks old today!! e

Bennie (who blinked! )

Indigo

Marka

Winter

Now that I'm backing off on whether Indi is a boy or not, I'm noticing a pinkish tinge to Bennie's comb already. Boy number 2 of the set?

"How can you tell?"

I've also noticed a lot of chest bumping going on between Bennie and Winter, so I have my eye on Winty as well...

"Who, me?"

But, pretty much, I'm just sitting back and enjoying my babies no matter if they're boys or girls.

Mama takes such good care of them. Here she is showing Bennie some spilled feed.

Every time Mama chirps, all of the babies come running to see what she's got for them! Indi got distracted by me taking pictures, though.

Indi has such a sweet face!

Winter? Err, not so much.

Getting a drink together. I had to put the waterer on bricks because the babies and Mama were kicking so much bedding into it that they didn't have any water at the end of the day!

Winter, Marka, and Bennie having a preening session. Taking care of new feathers is a lot of hard work... There's Winty giving me looks again.

And I would have gotten more pictures, but a storm was rolling in.

 

[pattyhen]

Gorgeous pics of the little ones and Marge. So now they've moved up to the elevated water bowl. Pine everywhere I know. I'm thinking that look that Winter has sure looks like a little boy to me. He already has that rooster stance and that guarded look on his face. Their all just as cute as they can be. We got the storm too a little while ago. We had gust to 60 miles an hour. It didn't last long it moved threw fast.

Thanks so much for posting their pics. Give them all a hug from me.

 

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Yeah, I'm thinking so, too. BUT, I'm going to wait before saying 100% that any of them are boys or girls. It does look more and more like Reuby's going to have some boys to teach the trade to, though! I had to give them hugs tonight because I was counting them for bed and lifted Mama up to see all four of them, and the three light-colored babies were all lined up and looking so cute I just couldn't resist! Indi always sleeps under Mama's butt fluff, though, so I can never reach him without really shaking up the party.


We got a bit of a storm with a lot of gusting. Nothing too major, but we did have a casualty to it. I know that everyone here who has seen my ranting and raving about this relatively recent arrival from last year will be just as upset as I am to see this (especially you, @shadow rabbit10), but...

The crappy shade cover went down in the storm. This was as propped up as I could get it at this point, because literally each edge except that closest one is detached from the corners, and the corners are detached from the center, and the tarp part of it is pretty much shredded at this point.

Rest in pieces. March 21, 2015 to March 31, 2016.

 

[shadow rabbit10]

Oh no! How tragic! You should have a memorial service... It served you bravely. I'm sure you'll miss ranting about it...

 

[pattyhen]

If they still have these shade covers in the store where you bought it you ought to tape this picture to the box. It sure didn't last long did it.

That is so cute that Indi always gets the under the tail and the rest are up front togeather. Indi is always peeking out from the tail end in the pics. I'm glad they stayed safe in the coop.

I worried about my ducks they were all out in the yard when the winds come through about 4:30 yesterday. They did fine and nobody got blown away. The yard looks like a swamp again and they are enjoying every mud puddle.

Have a nice day and hug the babies for me.

 

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Oh no! How tragic! You should have a memorial service... It served you bravely. I'm sure you'll miss ranting about it... 

Haha, oh, how I will miss fighting with it after every single storm, or rain shower, or slight breeze. I'm devastated.

If they still have these shade covers in the store where you bought it you ought to tape this picture to the box.  It sure didn't last long did it.  

That is so cute that Indi always gets the under the tail and the rest are up front togeather.  Indi is always peeking out from the tail end in the pics.  I'm glad they stayed safe in the coop.  

I worried about my ducks they were all out in the yard when the winds come through about 4:30 yesterday.  They did fine and nobody got blown away.  The yard looks like a swamp again and they are enjoying every mud puddle.

Have a nice day and hug the babies for me. 

It did last longer than I thought after the first time it collapsed, though, so there's that!

Ugh, it's swampy again here, too! Can't believe how much MUD chickens and Guineas and ducks can make! On the plus side, the outside ducks are super happy with their swamp. Trudi grabbed a giant huge worm out of the mud a couple days ago and she and Malcolm were fighting over it. The thing was practically the same size as them!!




Speaking of duckies, guess who laid her first actually solid egg today!! e We ordered the Nekton stuff for her, but we didn't even get notice that it had shipped until Monday or Tuesday! I forgot to give it to her the day it arrived, but she's gotten it for three days now (not including today), and I guess that's all it took! I'm totally impressed with this stuff! Crashie, meanwhile, is playing innocent.

"Wasn't me." Except there's no one else in that cage, so...

 

[pattyhen]

I know I don't like wrestling with the patio umbrella everytime the wind blows hard. I've fished it out of the neighbors yard several times.

I'm glad the ducks got to play in the mud and share a worm.

Wow I'm happy that the Nekton worked and Crash laid her first egg. I know it worked with my chicken that I gave it to and I always reccomended it. You need to save her little egg she worked hard to get that.

How the babies doing today? My keets have graduated to a bigger food bowl and a plastic water jug. I did have lids for their food and water but they were emptying them out constantly. They grow overnight. Pretty soon they will be going to a bigger cage and perches. i've read they will jump out of the brooder around 2 weeks old so I have to keep them contained for a while.


Have a great day. Thanks for sharing Crashie's pic she is gorgeous..

 

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The babies had a lot of complaints about the weather today. Actually, so did I! But the wind would pick up and I think snow was blowing in their window every once in a while, because they'd get noisy off and on all day. It was colder than they've experienced, though, and that was their first look at snow--all of this in April, no less! Thank goodness none of it stuck!! Mama kept them nice and warm when they needed it, and she's got them all snuggled underneath her for the night now. I could just see Winty's head sticking out from under her because he had stretched out.

I was thinking about blowing out Crashie's egg to keep... I've only ever done it with one other egg, but it wasn't difficult at all. I can keep it with the egg she hatched out of.