Pipd's Peeps!

[pattyhen]

The pics are great I can't say it enough they are growing so fast. They are getting so poofy and filling out so much and then there is Umru.

Poor baby looks so bald along side all those beautiful chicks. Then she hid and you couldn't find her. That is such a scarey feeling not knowing where their at. I'm so glad you found her and she was ok.

They look like show chickens their so pretty. That hatchery has got some good quality chickens.

The crowersss were so cute. I love those little baby crows. Ben and Winter are gorgeous boys.

Thanks so much for sharing their pics I really enjoy looking at them. I also looked at your 100 pictures. You certainly matched up the topics with the pics.

Have a great day we just had a thunderstorm and I think it's about over for now.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Oh, I know, I was so terrified that I had left Umru outside! I would never have forgiven myself if something had happened to her out there! Then I found her and was pretty much giving myself a face-palm for not noticing sooner. Ugh!

They are growing into lovely young birds already, aren't they? I've had mentioned to me before that some of my Meyer girls look pretty good for hatchery birds. Not that I need anything more than pretty yard birds to love on. I'm especially liking my Dorking girls and pretty little Rooska. Those three are the cuddlers of the group. They're so precious!

I think the next time I get chicks, though, I may look into more of a heritage breeder source for them. I would really like to get my hands on a few breeds and varieties, like Colored Dorkings, Silver Ameraucanas, Dutch bantams, stuff that I can't get through Meyer. Granted, that will likely mean me having to get shipped chicks (shudder) or trying to hatch from shipped eggs, as well as having a lot more roosters than I'll know what to do with, but... I think it'll be a worthwhile experience and it's the direction I'd like to go in the future.



We're supposed to have some strong storms this afternoon, so I don't think the babies are going outside today. I may have mentioned before (only about a billion times), but I'm terrified of storms. I was pretty much prepping for the worst this morning, moving things away from dead trees that might fall and making sure the girls' food was in nice, sheltered areas where they could have access to it while hiding away from the weather. Now if I could just calm down the jitters I have going on over it...

Oh, and She Who Sleeps Standing Up has joined the Broody Brigade with Lady Wyandotte. Poppy may be getting set to switch sides on me, too. Their forces are growing...

 

[Cluckcluck1215]

Oh, I know, I was so terrified that I had left Umru outside! I would never have forgiven myself if something had happened to her out there! Then I found her and was pretty much giving myself a face-palm for not noticing sooner. Ugh!

They are growing into lovely young birds already, aren't they? I've had mentioned to me before that some of my Meyer girls look pretty good for hatchery birds. Not that I need anything more than pretty yard birds to love on. I'm especially liking my Dorking girls and pretty little Rooska. Those three are the cuddlers of the group. They're so precious!

I think the next time I get chicks, though, I may look into more of a heritage breeder source for them. I would really like to get my hands on a few breeds and varieties, like Colored Dorkings, Silver Ameraucanas, Dutch bantams, stuff that I can't get through Meyer. Granted, that will likely mean me having to get shipped chicks (shudder) or trying to hatch from shipped eggs, as well as having a lot more roosters than I'll know what to do with, but... I think it'll be a worthwhile experience and it's the direction I'd like to go in the future.



We're supposed to have some strong storms this afternoon, so I don't think the babies are going outside today. I may have mentioned before (only about a billion times), but I'm terrified of storms. I was pretty much prepping for the worst this morning, moving things away from dead trees that might fall and making sure the girls' food was in nice, sheltered areas where they could have access to it while hiding away from the weather. Now if I could just calm down the jitters I have going on over it...

Oh, and She Who Sleeps Standing Up has joined the Broody Brigade with Lady Wyandotte. Poppy may be getting set to switch sides on me, too. Their forces are growing...

Poor umru!nooooo broodys!its rain here to

 

[pattyhen]

I would love to have some dutch bantams. We had a pair several years ago and a hawk got both of them. My husband helped a friend move and he found a lady selling them in Ark. They are not very common around here at all. They are so tiny and cute.

We just got slammed by the second storm today. Lots of wind, rain and thunder. The sky turned an awful shade of yellow but we don't have any tornado warnings thank goodness. Stay safe and have a great evening. Hug the babies for me.

 

[Cluckcluck1215]

I would love to have some dutch bantams.  We had a pair several years ago and a hawk got both of them.  My husband helped a friend move and he found a lady selling them in Ark.  They are not very common around here at all.  They are so tiny and cute.

We just got slammed by the second storm today.  Lots of wind, rain and thunder.  The sky turned an awful shade of yellow but we don't have any tornado warnings thank goodness.  Stay safe and have a great evening.  Hug the babies for me.  

Gee,yesterday we had some bad thunder storms too,but not as bad as you!

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Hope everyone's okay out there! Our big, ugly storm turned out not to be so bad after all, so we essentially just got a lot of rain and thunder and lightning. I've heard just south of us it got pretty bad, though.

Dutch bantams have been one of my favorite breeds since I laid eyes on them in pictures online. I can't get over the Cream Light Brown varieties of them. Such precious little birds, too! I saw them for the first time in person last fall, as if I already didn't find them completely adorable! I'll have them some day, hopefully.



I had a bit of a shock yesterday! I had the chicks outside in the pen that Marge and her babies were in, and fenced off a small part of their area for Crash, too. I sat with them for a while, then decided I'd see how they did outside on their own. I got up, closed and latched the door, and turned around--to find a dog standing right there along the fence, watching Crash! This is not the first time that this dog has come over from across the street. Its owner stays at our neighbor's house every once in a while, and evidently they believe they can just let their dog run loose. I don't think the dog is any danger to people, but it's just way too interested in my birds. I'm a little bit afraid to leave the chicks out on their own now, and afraid for my girls already out there... :/ Wish our neighbors would educate their guests about letting their dogs run loose.

 

[pattyhen]

I'm glad you were out there when the dog showed up. It's no telling what he would have done if you hadn't been out there.

Our dutch bantams were millie fleur colored. They were so cute they looked like toy chickens. I think the seramas are suppose to be the smallest chickens but I can't imagine a chicken being smaller then the dutch.

Have a great day.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

The babies had a party today! Oh, but I don't mean a planned out, watermelon-cake party like what Crashie had a few weeks ago. I mean the kind of party that naughty chicks have when they knock down the cover over their brooder and fly out while I'm not home.



My room looked like a barn. They had shredded some loose paper towels and Q-tips (and hopefully hadn't eaten too much of them...). There were peck marks in the roll of paper towels like they had started to eat it. They knocked over the box I had used to take them outside when they were much smaller and spread the shavings from it all over. There was poop EVERYWHERE (shudder)! And the babies were happily carpet bathing around their mess when I opened the door to find them.

On the plus side, they didn't poop on my bed. There were dusty chick prints on my sheet, but no poop. Gotta think positively.



I had harp this morning, which is why they were left up there instead of going outside. Today, they are 6 weeks old, so they will start going outside all day on their own while I'm home. They would have been out this morning, but I wasn't here, and with that dog roaming around I didn't want to take the chance of putting them out while I wasn't here. They're going outside now, as soon as I get the pen ready for them. Hopefully also they will have pictures taken today, but being that the pen they're going to is like a jungle, I can't make any guarantees on finding them in there for pictures.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

After a long day of major cleanup work to get the place ready for the chicks, I'm exhausted! It wasn't a whole lot of work (moving some fence, lugging out some chicken wire panels, cleaning the coop thoroughly, etc.), but between the heat, humidity, and mosquitoes, it was draining. But I did get a few pictures tonight before packing the babies up and bringing them in for the night. Here they are at 6 weeks old!

Callette:

Cazzie:

Donnie boy:

Endymion (don't mind my toes in the corner. Apparently, I didn't get them out of the way as much as I thought I did.)

Flury:

Izzy with her usual expression

Lydda:

Rooska:

And Umru, getting more feathers bit by bit:

I think they had a blast in their little jungle! There was a point when I checked on them and couldn't even see them in there!! This picture doesn't show how thick it is, really. I'm going to have to get in there and mow it down a bit if I want to get back there with them!

And here's what I get if I crouch down. Bunch'a silly babies!

Flury floofy-poof was being a real ham today. Seriously, look how floofy!!

Here she is all stretched out in my lap. She does this thing where she sits down in my lap and all her floof spreads out. I call it her puddle-mode.

And for some reason she was really angry-looking while stretching her foot out like a ballerina.

Here is Cazzie looking at something:

Callette. She looks so fat in this picture, but it was just because her belly feathers were fluffed out.

And to finish off, Rooska in my lap. Oh, my heart has melted.

 

[pattyhen]

I see they had a moms not home so let's party. The little stinkers I bet they had a blast while it lasted.

It doesn't seem possible they are 6 weeks old already. They are beautiful chicks except for poor Umru but she is coming along with her feathers. I love the little legs on the dorkings. Do you have a leader yet? The dare devil of them all and the instagater.

Thanks so much for sharing their pics with us I really enjoy watching them grow.

Have a great day.