Silkie saga

[2ndTink]

I've got a box of chocolates!!! They are about 2 weeks younger than the ones I hatched, the one is bigger than the other two but still a good bit smaller than mine. The littlest one is half the size of mine, just a little thing. I have them blocked into the brooder box and the heat lamp on. It's 55 and breezy out today and spitting rain. I'll let them settle in for a few days and then see how the "big" chicks treat them.

I think they'll be named the following Norse names, the little bitty will be Fray, the middle one Freya, and the biggest Fryg. Subject to change...

 

[2ndTink]

I've finally gotten a few more chicks named all my pullets and "I really hope they are pullets" have been named

Skeetwood Mac



Svanhild


Sylvi





Storm



Revna "Revvy"



Lumi

 

[TwoCrows]

I've got a box of chocolates!!! They are about 2 weeks younger than the ones I hatched, the one is bigger than the other two but still a good bit smaller than mine. The littlest one is half the size of mine, just a little thing. I have them blocked into the brooder box and the heat lamp on. It's 55 and breezy out today and spitting rain. I'll let them settle in for a few days and then see how the "big" chicks treat them.

I think they'll be named the following Norse names, the little bitty will be Fray, the middle one Freya, and the biggest Fryg. Subject to change...
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Aww...cutie pies! ❤ I bet you are egg-cited! Hopefully they mix in well with the others, they are pretty close in age so maybe the main flock won't notice? Love the Norse names!

I've finally gotten a few more chicks named all my pullets and "I really hope they are pullets" have been named

Skeetwood Mac
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Svanhild
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Sylvi
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Storm
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Revna "Revvy"
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Lumi
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Love Skeetwood Mac! Storm is a very pretty color, look at that face and expression!! Super adorable!! Very nice names for all of them, along with being super duper cute!! ❤❤

Thanks for sharing all your babies, enjoy the new chicks!!

 

[2ndTink]

Two of the choc

Aww...cutie pies! ❤ I bet you are egg-cited! Hopefully they mix in well with the others, they are pretty close in age so maybe the main flock won't notice? Love the Norse names!

Love Skeetwood Mac! Storm is a very pretty color, look at that face and expression!! Super adorable!! Very nice names for all of them, along with being super duper cute!! ❤❤

Thanks for sharing all your babies, enjoy the new chicks!!

They should be even more adorable in a few weeks once they have more fluff, I'm egg-cited for sure! They're hanging out under the heat lamp so they must be needing the extra warmth, it's been steady in the mid 50s all day. The others are pulled up sleeping but I don't see any shivering so I think they are doing just fine. It's a little breezy, not bad yet but tomorrow is supposed to be worse.

I'm going to be posting Nu and Heavy for sale, they're so cute, but I won't be using them for breeding and unless I build more coops, I'm completely out of space. The two breeding / grow out pens I'll be getting won't work for the winter, they only have a back on the one side.

There's a wonderful lady who is taking the chicks with the gimpy legs, she already has some special needs chickens and she's mentioned recently that she wants silkies, so I think this will be good. Huge relief for me, they are still healthy, just won't be able to get up the ramp to the coops I have.

 

[TwoCrows]

Two of the choc
They should be even more adorable in a few weeks once they have more fluff, I'm egg-cited for sure! They're hanging out under the heat lamp so they must be needing the extra warmth, it's been steady in the mid 50s all day. The others are pulled up sleeping but I don't see any shivering so I think they are doing just fine. It's a little breezy, not bad yet but tomorrow is supposed to be worse.

I'm going to be posting Nu and Heavy for sale, they're so cute, but I won't be using them for breeding and unless I build more coops, I'm completely out of space. The two breeding / grow out pens I'll be getting won't work for the winter, they only have a back on the one side.

There's a wonderful lady who is taking the chicks with the gimpy legs, she already has some special needs chickens and she's mentioned recently that she wants silkies, so I think this will be good. Huge relief for me, they are still healthy, just won't be able to get up the ramp to the coops I have.

I'm sure your babies are just fine! They should toughen up soon too.

Oh no....not Nu!! I wish I've closer to you, I'd take Nu in a heartbeat! Such a handsome boy! ❤ But yes, I get it, there is never enough space! I friend of mine recently wanted me to take 2 of her boys and their harems, and I told her I just don't have the room! But I'd MAKE room for Nu!

Oh that's fabulous you found someone that can take the gimpys, sounds like a perfect home being that she knows how to care for disabled birds. Perfect home!

Glad you are enjoying your new babies, I can't wait to see them feather out and mature!! ❤

Have a fabulous evening!

 

[2ndTink]

I'm sure your babies are just fine! They should toughen up soon too.

Oh no....not Nu!! I wish I've closer to you, I'd take Nu in a heartbeat! Such a handsome boy! ❤ But yes, I get it, there is never enough space! I friend of mine recently wanted me to take 2 of her boys and their harems, and I told her I just don't have the room! But I'd MAKE room for Nu!

Oh that's fabulous you found someone that can take the gimpys, sounds like a perfect home being that she knows how to care for disabled birds. Perfect home!

Glad you are enjoying your new babies, I can't wait to see them feather out and mature!! ❤

Have a fabulous evening!

I know he's so ridiculously adorable, I'll miss his cuteness. I would absolutely give you Nu if we could make it happen! I don't like the hard choices that come with having chickens (or any animal) but if they can find good homes with their own ladies will be great. Let's just say there are much cheaper cockerels out there for sale and even for free in our area (none as cute as mine of course) so these aren't gonna be someone's cheap chicken and pastry. If they don't sell I won't be sad at all, but I'll have to get creative at finding a coop for them. Or some of the baby silkies might have to stay living on the porch

 

[TwoCrows]

I know he's so ridiculously adorable, I'll miss his cuteness. I would absolutely give you Nu if we could make it happen! I don't like the hard choices that come with having chickens (or any animal) but if they can find good homes with their own ladies will be great. Let's just say there are much cheaper cockerels out there for sale and even for free in our area (none as cute as mine of course) so these aren't gonna be someone's cheap chicken and pastry. If they don't sell I won't be sad at all, but I'll have to get creative at finding a coop for them. Or some of the baby silkies might have to stay living on the porch

I totally understand! When you are mixing, matching, hatching and breeding, you have no choice but to rehome birds. I had a breeding program going with my Bobwhite Quail, breeding and hatching like crazy but I too had to sell the extras if I was going to keep breeding. I hatched hundreds of quail, I just couldn't stop! It's tough to watch them go but it does free up space! Chickens are easier to rehome though, my Vets assistant the Vet Tech takes my extras although she's been hiding from me now for quite some time. I wonder why?

How are the new babies this morning?

 

[2ndTink]

I totally understand! When you are mixing, matching, hatching and breeding, you have no choice but to rehome birds. I had a breeding program going with my Bobwhite Quail, breeding and hatching like crazy but I too had to sell the extras if I was going to keep breeding. I hatched hundreds of quail, I just couldn't stop! It's tough to watch them go but it does free up space! Chickens are easier to rehome though, my Vets assistant the Vet Tech takes my extras although she's been hiding from me now for quite some time. I wonder why?

How are the new babies this morning?

That's hilarious, maybe now she's so busy pairing, hatching, raising, and rehoming her own quail now that she doesn't have time to talk to anyone anymore

The babies are doing great! I put one of the smallest chicks from my hatch in with them for awhile this morning while I was out watching them, it still dwarfed the chocolates, but they immediately started earing, drinking, and dust bathing together it was super cute! I took the big chick out and it ran around then started trying to get back into the brooder box with the babies again

The progression went from, who elected me baby sitter? I am grumpy



Oh look, food!


Ooh, a perch and sip


Scrub a dub bath time with my little buds


Itty bitty Fray was puddled out under the heat lamp like one of those choco-melts she's so tiny.


Chonkers tried to let them out, he was tapping the chicken wire and pulling in different spots like he was trying to figure out the right combination that would unlock the brooder.


Svanhild had cold feet so she happily used me as a foot warmer, Chonkers was absolutely convinced that there must be food involved and he was rather upset he couldn't find any. She hung out on my hand all fluffed out for at least 5 minutes, her feet got really nice and toasty!



I held all three chocolates, Frygg the biggest, settled down and took a little nap, Freya relaxed a little and looked around, but little Fray is a fighter and wanted nothing to do with me.

 

[TwoCrows]

That's hilarious, maybe now she's so busy pairing, hatching, raising, and rehoming her own quail now that she doesn't have time to talk to anyone anymore

The babies are doing great! I put one of the smallest chicks from my hatch in with them for awhile this morning while I was out watching them, it still dwarfed the chocolates, but they immediately started earing, drinking, and dust bathing together it was super cute! I took the big chick out and it ran around then started trying to get back into the brooder box with the babies again

The progression went from, who elected me baby sitter? I am grumpy
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Oh look, food!
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Ooh, a perch and sip
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Scrub a dub bath time with my little buds
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Itty bitty Fray was puddled out under the heat lamp like one of those choco-melts she's so tiny.
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Chonkers tried to let them out, he was tapping the chicken wire and pulling in different spots like he was trying to figure out the right combination that would unlock the brooder.
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Svanhild had cold feet so she happily used me as a foot warmer, Chonkers was absolutely convinced that there must be food involved and he was rather upset he couldn't find any. She hung out on my hand all fluffed out for at least 5 minutes, her feet got really nice and toasty!
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I held all three chocolates, Frygg the biggest, settled down and took a little nap, Freya relaxed a little and looked around, but little Fray is a fighter and wanted nothing to do with me.

Cuteness overload, just all of them!! How do you stand all this adorableness?! ❤ I love how you described what was going on for each photo! Svanhild is positively adorable, warming his feet and posing too!! Chonkers will figure out the combination to that wire eventually. Super cutie pies, all of them, thanks for sharing!!

 

[2ndTink]

I don't know what JetPack will fully grow into, but he's a bit... awkward looking. That face. he's just kinda goofy looking now I'm wondering if that is a face shape I want to carry on. But his mannerisms are so adorable