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[speckledhen]

That Silkie is downright scary! An evil ragmop!

 

[Cetawin]

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No no it is "eeeeeevil"

 

[Bassleg]

I bet he has 666 on his head!!!

 

[kathyinmo]

SEEEEEEEEEEEEE, I warned ya!

He da daddy of the Silkie babies, too.

Amy, I caught that in your last post. I turned to my husband and said, "Is today Monday? Or is it Sunday?"

So, I will plan to ship them to you on Tuesday. Tomorrow I am shipping Delaware chicks to Nicole. Hey, Amy, do you want a few Delaware chicks, too?

 

[NellaBean]

Yeah, I would probably run in fear from him too.

So yesterday I moved everyone but my big white leghorn/giant hen who has been sitting in a cat litterbox in the coop. She has been sitting a while and is doing fine and is safe at night....and i was short 1 brooder, so i left her in there. Tonight i decided to finally candle her eggs so i could pull anythat were clears or blood rings. I start pulling eggs out and found a really funny looking one.

What a cute egg! LOL


Cetawin, here are pix of your girl. As you can see she is just bigger than a bantam but has long legs. In the second pic, that is a silchin (silkie/cochin) in front of her, a young bantam cochin rooster to the left. She is a weird looking bird. She nearly died as a day old chick. Major pasty butt and was too small to eat the crumble so slowly starved until i figured out what the problem was. i think it stunted her growth. So now she is a long legged small standard. Goofy goofy bird. She is still finishing her molt and looks funkier than usual.

AHEM, look closely in the background there......see that tan and black rooster fighting through the fence of my tractor. THERE IS YOUR BOY. He is such a little monster. You should have seen him kung fu kick my big blue wheaten ameracauna across the yard today when he was bothering my white leghorn girl. It was kind of funny....white leghorn girl was sparring with one of my silver laced cochin boys....blue wheaten ameracauna came over and drop kicked him out of the way and then danced at the leghorn girl...then your boy ran over and kung fu kicked him away. That leghorn had more boys fighting over her than she knew what to do with.

 

[kathyinmo]

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OMG ! ! What kinda egg is that? Fuzzy eggs? How unique is that!

How many eggs is she sitting on?

 

[NellaBean]

Some sort of cochin mix....or pure cochin....it has feathered legs.....and it came out of a brown or tan egg. That's all i got! LOL. I don't even know how many eggs are under her. I put 16 eggs under my silkie and big rir/cochin broody tonight. The BIG girl got 9 olive eggs and 1 white egg....and the silkie got 5 lighter olive eggs and 1 white egg. I may move another 1 from the silkie to the big hen tomorrow. She is huge and fluffy and should be able to cover plenty and i don't have 100% fertility these days.

I actually need 1 more broody.......this hen with the single baby had staggered eggs....i need to pull them in a day or two and give them to another hen. I wonder if i could convince one of my other hens to go broody, LOL.

Like my new title? Welcome to BroodyLand. LOL

 

[kathyinmo]

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Now, THIS is broodyland...... (from Dipsy Doodle Doo)

 

[Serrin]

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Oh geeezeees!! I don't know. How old are they? Can ya post a couple of pictures of them? Gawds! Denny is gonna have a conniption!

Of course, I could always protest my innocence and surprise that I didn't know you were going to include a couple of packing peanuts!!

 

[NellaBean]

Frizzled naked necks? That's what I call Uglyland, LOL. Sorry guys

I'm so proud of my girl! this is one of the young hens....33 weeks old. So she went broody around 29 weeks, since i kept taking her eggs away at first. She is a BIG girl and hopefully will do a good job. She was very angry about me taking her baby and the other eggs, even only temporarily.

Amy, go for the packing peanut route. Sounds good to me!