Roos Oh no!!!!

[ChikkiDoodleRoo]

She's beautiful! I'm happy you got an egg. I have a showgirl/cream legbar that I am 1) hoping is a pullet and 2) hoping lays blue eggs. Just waiting for her/him to grow a bit more.

Yes, that's Honey in a tutu. I saw this list a while back that was Never Have I Ever, chicken version. I had only not done 2 things, dress a chicken up and name a chicken after a family member. So I dressed a chicken up. That picture was for St. Patrick's Day. I dressed her up for Valentine's day too. I think her 'hair' looks super 80's. She's unfortunately frazzled, so her feathers fall out really easy. She currently looks like a plucked chicken.
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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! I cannot, I just can't, please post more pictures if you have the time @Mylied . I have never seen something so adorable and hilarious hahahaha . The last picture reminds me of the chicken in my Avi hahahahahaha .

She laid another egg this morning!! So I bring her in when it rains or when it gets too hot because its just her right now (still searching for her future flock, haven't decided which breeds I want yet) as her REAL coop isn't done yet. Anyway, she stays in our guest bathroom bathtub I lined it with a tarp and put shavings on it and then put a perch for her to roost on.....so I go in there this morning to bring her outside like I do every morning and I do not see her. My heart sank.....I start calling her....no response (thats so unusual for her as she always responds when I say her name).....then I was like "Ok, its a freaking bathroom, not the Taj Mahal,,,,its not like she vanished".....so I keep looking EVERYWHERE and I STILL don't see her, now I start to panic , Finally I turn around and I see something laying in the shavings bag (I was changing the shavings out the night before and forgot to put the big bag away) and its not moving.....it's my girl. I lift the piece of plastic that was poking out and sure enough she had laid an egg in the shavings bag!!!!!!

So I wanted to ask you a question. When I found her in there she was definitely sitting on the egg. I tried getting her off of it and she just went limp on it not wanting to move. So here is my question, I have heard of pullets going broody young, but I hear its pretty rare....do you think she is trying to go broody? Also, I felt bad picking her up and bringing her outside away from her egg, but at the same time I know it isn't good for her to sit on an egg, thats A: not fertile and B: it will make her lose weight so its just a waste and hard on her for an egg that isn't even fertile. Still I feel so bad tearing her away lol .

 

[ChikkiDoodleRoo]

Right now I have one rooster in the house in a xtra large dog crate until I can build him his own area.

I also have one rooster out there with 2 girls. There are 4 more girls that will be integrated eventually. I chose which rooster to leave with the girls after lots of observation. He is bigger and they can go high and he doesn't. He is rather calm and is not rough with them. He isn't pulling feathers, today I watched him grab one of them but he let go and did not hold them by the neck. He isnt all over them. Hopefully it stays this way because I really like him.

Here he is with his girls

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Wow, what a beauty!! Your babies look so happy and healthy too!!

 

[llombardo]

Wow, what a beauty!! Your babies look so happy and healthy too!!

Wow, what a beauty!! Your babies look so happy and healthy too!!

They really are. I will do my best to keep it that way too. He is a big boy. It works because they go high and he don't, not sure if it's a choice or not.

Here is a better picture of him. I really like him.the girls really like him too.

 

[CannedMonster]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! I cannot, I just can't, please post more pictures if you have the time @Mylied . I have never seen something so adorable and hilarious hahahaha . The last picture reminds me of the chicken in my Avi hahahahahaha .

She laid another egg this morning!! So I bring her in when it rains or when it gets too hot because its just her right now (still searching for her future flock, haven't decided which breeds I want yet) as her REAL coop isn't done yet. Anyway, she stays in our guest bathroom bathtub I lined it with a tarp and put shavings on it and then put a perch for her to roost on.....so I go in there this morning to bring her outside like I do every morning and I do not see her. My heart sank.....I start calling her....no response (thats so unusual for her as she always responds when I say her name).....then I was like "Ok, its a freaking bathroom, not the Taj Mahal,,,,its not like she vanished".....so I keep looking EVERYWHERE and I STILL don't see her, now I start to panic , Finally I turn around and I see something laying in the shavings bag (I was changing the shavings out the night before and forgot to put the big bag away) and its not moving.....it's my girl. I lift the piece of plastic that was poking out and sure enough she had laid an egg in the shavings bag!!!!!!

So I wanted to ask you a question. When I found her in there she was definitely sitting on the egg. I tried getting her off of it and she just went limp on it not wanting to move. So here is my question, I have heard of pullets going broody young, but I hear its pretty rare....do you think she is trying to go broody? Also, I felt bad picking her up and bringing her outside away from her egg, but at the same time I know it isn't good for her to sit on an egg, thats A: not fertile and B: it will make her lose weight so its just a waste and hard on her for an egg that isn't even fertile. Still I feel so bad tearing her away lol .

I know it feels bad taking her egg from her.
But like you said, it’s not fertilized and she could lose weight, etc.
I have friends whose broody hens have gone to extremes and suffered quite a bit and one even killed herself by raising 3 clutches of chicks in such quick succession that she starved herself.
My friend couldn’t find her because she had hidden her nest.

Please don’t feel I’m saying this to scare you but to just help you see that breaking a broody (not that Little One is broody) is unpleasant but necessary so they don’t harm themselves.

That’s adorable that she was in the shavings bag
She sounds like such a character.

Hopefully you can find some gentle breeds to be her companion flock mates.

 

[Mylied]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! I cannot, I just can't, please post more pictures if you have the time @Mylied . I have never seen something so adorable and hilarious hahahaha . The last picture reminds me of the chicken in my Avi hahahahahaha .

She laid another egg this morning!! So I bring her in when it rains or when it gets too hot because its just her right now (still searching for her future flock, haven't decided which breeds I want yet) as her REAL coop isn't done yet. Anyway, she stays in our guest bathroom bathtub I lined it with a tarp and put shavings on it and then put a perch for her to roost on.....so I go in there this morning to bring her outside like I do every morning and I do not see her. My heart sank.....I start calling her....no response (thats so unusual for her as she always responds when I say her name).....then I was like "Ok, its a freaking bathroom, not the Taj Mahal,,,,its not like she vanished".....so I keep looking EVERYWHERE and I STILL don't see her, now I start to panic , Finally I turn around and I see something laying in the shavings bag (I was changing the shavings out the night before and forgot to put the big bag away) and its not moving.....it's my girl. I lift the piece of plastic that was poking out and sure enough she had laid an egg in the shavings bag!!!!!!

So I wanted to ask you a question. When I found her in there she was definitely sitting on the egg. I tried getting her off of it and she just went limp on it not wanting to move. So here is my question, I have heard of pullets going broody young, but I hear its pretty rare....do you think she is trying to go broody? Also, I felt bad picking her up and bringing her outside away from her egg, but at the same time I know it isn't good for her to sit on an egg, thats A: not fertile and B: it will make her lose weight so its just a waste and hard on her for an egg that isn't even fertile. Still I feel so bad tearing her away lol .

That's all the dress up pics I have right now.

As for broodiness, I don't think it is. She would kick up a fuss if she was broody. They just act a little weird right before, during, and after laying an egg. They make little clucky cluck sounds and poof up a lot when they are broody, even off the egg. You are right to take the egg away though, broody or not. Silkies do like to sit, sit, sit. I have three little bantams sitting right now.

 

[CannedMonster]

OMGGGGGGGG she is gorgeous!!!!!! Wow, the coloring does remind me of the patches my girl has on her breast area . Thank you so much lovely, her name was Valentina because she was born on Valentines Day , but I didn't think it suited her so I started calling her Little One. She was so small just like her daddy (a silkie boy) and she started responding to it so it stuck!! Also, please feel free to post more pictures, I LOVE seeing them . You seem like such a kind soul (I can tell by how you talk about your babies) and your little one Emily looks so happy and healthy too!!

Well thank you so much for your kind words! You are a sweetheart.
Don’t you just love showing off your birds? I sure do.
I have 17 chickens: 5 adult hens and 12 “teenagers” that are 4 months old.
I also have 6 chicks that are 4 days old and I’m getting 7 more next week!

Are Little Ones’ eggs green or blue?
I love how each hens eggs are a different shade and unique to her.

Oh my Silkie! I love her so much. She’s my only chicken that will let me just pick her up.
She has a fantastic personality!
She is always foraging and very busy.
She doesn’t take any foolishness from anyone lol.
She was raised with a bantam Cochin cockerel as well as 6 standard sized Naked Necks (3 cockerels and 3 pullets).
Those NN boys were rowdy! I think that’s why Silkie is so tough.
Sadly, we had to put down one pullet at 4 weeks because she had an impacted crop and was slowly starving to death
But Agatha & Emily are fine and growing well. I think they’ll start laying within the next month or so.

Here’s Silkie:

And this is Agatha. She and Emily are always together.

I have 3 cockerels: Frodo is a bantam Cochin and Angus and Loki are NN.
Frodo:

Here’s Angus: I just love his colors! He gets more handsome all the time. He even has slate blue/gray legs.

And this is Loki, AKA my Bubelah!
He is such a good boy. No aggression at all. As a chick, he would call for me when I left the garage.