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[Cluckcluck1215]

Don't worry, pipd.ive done the same thing, many times. glad you found her.
Cressie looks great!

 

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Oh, yes, Cressy is absolutely gorgeous! Pictures don't do her justice!




Well, Elly's crop has gone down a little overnight and is much softer this morning. Things are moving a little at least! She does NOT like crop massages, I think because she's molting and has a lot of pin feathers, poor baby. It can't be comfortable, but it needs to be done.

I was holding and loving on her and she was being such a stinker! She's always had this thing for teeth, so every time I smiled at her I had to hold her back to keep her from pecking my teeth. I think she does it on purpose, making me smile so she can go for the teeth! She kept being all cute, too, and tilting her head at me. Sorry, honey, I don't care how cute you are--no teeth for you!

I grabbed a couple pictures of her with my cell phone while I was at it. They aren't great, but I wanted to share regardless. Here she is being a ham during cuddle time:

And looking up at me once I put her back in her pen. She is really hungry right now, but she can't eat much until her crop starts emptying again, so she does a lot of begging like this. ARGH, don't give me that look! It's for your own good!

Also, I let the three silkied Cochins into the flock today to finish integrating. Such a feisty set of little birds! There have only been a couple scuffles, and they're staying out of everyone's way, so I think they're good to go. They're so excited to have so much more room! It's just too stinkin' cute!! I have a few pictures of them as well.

Donna, who is such a sassy little thing! She's already chased off the two young Silkie girls and sasses them every time she sees them.

Up on the favorite grape vine. Yep, Donna's going around like she owns the place already.

Cordelia, the little stinker! She gets so excited and goes buzzing through the air like a fuzzy hummingbird!

This face!!

She was on the move so much that most of her pictures were of her in action.

Here they are at the 'big girl' feed pan. Such serious faces!

Three fuzzy butts! ACK, they are too cute!! (Left to right, this is Cordelia, Roscoe, and Donna.)

 

[Cluckcluck1215]

Haha!
Elly is absolutely beautiful, even if she is molting.some of mine are worse, tailless, back featherless, Ect.
The silkcochis(that's what they are!) ar so pretty.Donna is so pretty on the grape vine!ACK THE LITTLE FLUFFER BUTTERS!LOL.Cordelia the face!

 

[pattyhen]

Elly is so precious. I hope she gets to feeling better. I have a sick banty cochan hen. She's been moulting and I noticed her in the corner of the coop not coming to eat her breakfast. I've brought her in and she is sleeping in a shoe box now with blankets. She can't stand up now and she won't eat or drink. I keep trying to get her to eat something and I've gotten her to take a couple of drinks of electrolite water. I'm afraid I'm going to lose her. She is one of the older chickens that we have.

Your cochins are beautiful. Love their silkie feathers. You can tell by their pics they have cute personalities. Thanks so much for sharing the pics with us.

 

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Haha!
Elly is absolutely beautiful, even if she is molting.some of mine are worse, tailless, back featherless, Ect.
The silkcochis(that's what they are!) ar so pretty.Donna is so pretty on the grape vine!ACK THE LITTLE FLUFFER BUTTERS!LOL.Cordelia the face!

Oh, yes, there are worse molters out there! I had a Barred Rock hen who would literally drop all of her feathers except on her head and wings at once. Poor thing was naked every time she molted!

They're CUTE, that's what they are! I actually have heard of Silkie x Cochin mixes being called 'Silcochins', so I just stick with silkied Cochins with these little birdies.

Elly is so precious.  I hope she gets to feeling better.  I have  a sick banty cochan hen.  She's been moulting and I noticed her in the corner of the coop not coming to eat her breakfast.  I've brought her in and she is sleeping in a shoe box now with blankets.  She can't stand up now and she won't eat or drink.  I keep trying to get her to eat something and I've gotten her to take a couple of drinks of electrolite water.  I'm afraid I'm going to lose her.  She is one of the older chickens that we have.  

Your cochins are beautiful.  Love their silkie feathers.  You can tell by their pics they have cute personalities.   Thanks so much for sharing the pics with us.

Oh, I'm sorry to hear that, Pattyhen! Have you tried soaking some feed and putting it in a syringe to feed her? That's what I have had to do with birds that won't eat, just to get some food in them! Also, try scrambling or boiling eggs and mashing them up, sometimes they go for that.








Elly is doing a bit better, and will hopefully be back to herself by the weekend. Her crop shrinks a little every day. Poor baby is HUNGRY. Tomorrow, I'm going to switch her over to Nystatin and see if that clears up her crop a bit better. Nice thing about that treatment, though, is that she can actually have a little to eat with it, so that should make her happy!

I had some homework dumped on me abruptly and couldn't go out this afternoon, so my mom went out and fixed up the two 'rooster hutches' and moved them onto the deck for the winter. Ben will be living in one full time, and Umru in the other while the silkied Cochins are getting used to flock life. I don't know if I mentioned this, but he had been trying to fight with them through the fence, so I decided it was safer to separate him for now since he is GIGANTIC and they are so teeny tiny. Anyway, he and Ben are now in predator-safe pens, so they're set for the winter if I need them to be separate that long. All I have left to do to prep the flock for the winter is get some tarps or something to cover a couple walls of the deck.

While working on winterizing a bit today, after I had finished my homework of course, my mom and I plugged a couple spots where mice have been getting into the coop. I moved some things around and checked the dirt floor in the one part of the coop for mice nests to make sure they were gone before it was blocked up, because I definitely didn't want to trap mice in the coop with the girls! Well I found a nest in the dirt floor of the coop, and it was filled with little baby mice. I felt terrible for it, but the girls got them. They would have died either way, I suppose, because the nest was destroyed, but... ARGH, I can't help it, they were babies! Actually, Indigo, Winter, and Marka found them first and were scared of them, so Mabel pretty much came in and ate them all herself.

 

[Cluckcluck1215]

Oh, yes, there are worse molters out there! I had a Barred Rock hen who would literally drop all of her feathers except on her head and wings at once. Poor thing was naked every time she molted!

They're CUTE, that's what they are! I actually have heard of Silkie x Cochin mixes being called 'Silcochins', so I just stick with silkied Cochins with these little birdies.
Oh, I'm sorry to hear that, Pattyhen! Have you tried soaking some feed and putting it in a syringe to feed her? That's what I have had to do with birds that won't eat, just to get some food in them! Also, try scrambling or boiling eggs and mashing them up, sometimes they go for that.








Elly is doing a bit better, and will hopefully be back to herself by the weekend. Her crop shrinks a little every day. Poor baby is HUNGRY. Tomorrow, I'm going to switch her over to Nystatin and see if that clears up her crop a bit better. Nice thing about that treatment, though, is that she can actually have a little to eat with it, so that should make her happy!

I had some homework dumped on me abruptly and couldn't go out this afternoon, so my mom went out and fixed up the two 'rooster hutches' and moved them onto the deck for the winter. Ben will be living in one full time, and Umru in the other while the silkied Cochins are getting used to flock life. I don't know if I mentioned this, but he had been trying to fight with them through the fence, so I decided it was safer to separate him for now since he is GIGANTIC and they are so teeny tiny. Anyway, he and Ben are now in predator-safe pens, so they're set for the winter if I need them to be separate that long. All I have left to do to prep the flock for the winter is get some tarps or something to cover a couple walls of the deck.

While working on winterizing a bit today, after I had finished my homework of course, my mom and I plugged a couple spots where mice have been getting into the coop. I moved some things around and checked the dirt floor in the one part of the coop for mice nests to make sure they were gone before it was blocked up, because I definitely didn't want to trap mice in the coop with the girls! Well I found a nest in the dirt floor of the coop, and it was filled with little baby mice. I felt terrible for it, but the girls got them. They would have died either way, I suppose, because the nest was destroyed, but... ARGH, I can't help it, they were babies! Actually, Indigo, Winter, and Marka found them first and were scared of them, so Mabel pretty much came in and ate them all herself.

Brownie has no tail I'm laughing so hard .

YESSSSSSSSSSS


Awwww poor little mice!
Ugh *hack cough* Mabel *cough* Eww!

 

[pattyhen]

I hope that Elly continues to get better. Goldie has been eatting oatmeal and drinking her electrolite water. She's still not walking. I am just wondering if she somehow hurt her back. It's always just a guessing game because they can't tell us whats wrong.

The pinkie mice are the best kind. My chickens will gobble them up.

I hope you don't get a bunch of homework for the weekend and have a nice evening.

 

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Brownie has no tail I'm laughing so hard .

YESSSSSSSSSSS


Awwww poor little mice!
Ugh *hack cough* Mabel *cough* Eww!

Haha, poor thing! Poppy and Roha are tailless right now, too! And then there's Ihi, with just one tail feather left. She always carries it straight up in the air, too, such a goof.

I hope that Elly continues to get better.  Goldie has been eatting oatmeal and drinking her electrolite water.  She's still not walking.  I am just wondering if she somehow hurt her back.  It's always just a guessing game because they can't tell us whats wrong.  

The pinkie mice are the best kind.  My chickens will gobble them up.  

I hope you don't get a bunch of homework for the weekend and have  a nice evening.  

Glad to hear Goldie is eating! It is tough trying to figure it out. :/ Keeping my fingers crossed her!

Elly has been doing just fabulously, especially since I've been able to give her food again. Poor baby is HUNGRY! Here's another cell phone picture, but I thought it was cute. She was looking for food, not pictures. Actually, she tried to eat the lens right before I snapped this. (Don't mind the background, my room is a total mess right now from having so many chickens in there!)

I'm trying to get all my homework done before the weekend because the Central Indiana Poultry Show is on Saturday, and I want to go! Not showing or anything, just looking at all the pretty birds. So hopefully I can finish my Physics homework tomorrow and have it out of the way--the rest of it isn't due until late next week, so I'm not as concerned about doing it yet.

 

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Had fun today at the Central Indiana Poultry Show, drooling at all the pretty birds there! There was a Blue Silver Ameraucana cockerel that I almost died over, he was so gorgeous! And pretty much all of the Old English Game Bantams were so incredibly tiny and SO CUTE!! I nearly came home with some, but decided it was for the best not to get any more birds right now. My problem is not chicken math, but the opposite--I'm too stingy with myself. Then again, that probably isn't a bad thing.

When I got home, it was so nice that I decided to take some pictures of the girls. Then it occurred to me that tomorrow is picture day for the youngins, so I took their 5-month pictures a day early while I was at it. I didn't realize it until I was uploading them, but all the pictures I took (besides those of the youngsters, obviously) were of silkie-feathered birds in my flock. Oops?

Anyway, here is Indigo, looking fabulous:

A portrait of little miss Donna:

And a portrait of sweet little Cordelia:

Cordelia says, "I ain't so sweet!" ...But she is just beyond adorable!

Donna on a log. She was sassing me, I guess, because I caught her with her mouth open.

Miss Marka I gave her a 'hair cut' a couple days ago, so she actually has eyes now.

Roscoe being a MAN

And the babies! In alphabetical order...

Callette:

Cazzie:

Endymion:

Flury:

Izzy:

Lydda:

Rooska:

And Umru the Giant, who is *so* happy to be in a hutch right now.

Just a few more. Rooska thought she'd have a nice nap in the leaves:

Izzy and her cute cheeks

Flury doing her 'ballerina pose'. The floofiness!!

And finally, Cazzie being cute.

Elly's doing better every day. I can tell because she's getting harder to get medicine into, the brat. I hope Goldie's doing better, too, Pattyhen! Any updates?

 

[pattyhen]

Glad you had a good time at the poultry show. I wish it was closer to us I would have loved to have went.

Loved the pics. They are so gorgeous. I was ohhhing and ahhhing as I looked at those cute mugs.

I'm glad Izzy is getting better. The stronger they get the more they fight that medicene and that is a good thing. I think.

Goldie is still hanging in there. She will occassionally stand but she is not able to walk. Her color is good she drinks and only eats her food when I put water on it. Yesterday I put some epson salts compresses on her feet and legs and she enjoyed it.

Enjoy your day and thanks so much for sharing the pics.