Silkie thread!

[ScaredOfShadows]

Awwwwww!!!! aren't they precious! Congrats to you and the new mommies!

 

[Hawkeye95]

OKay, my camera is charged and I was able to upload my wet cockerel pictures! hehee!!

This is him all toweled off a bit and I just started to blow dry him (below)

Okay-- here is the MONEY SHOT!!

(below) This is his clean butt-fluff-- no more poop balls, and that's after I hacked into it.

And this is him about half-way blown out with the hair dryer... (below)

Okay.. so here's

that this works!! How many days do I need to wait??? I'm anxious to incubate some more eggs!!!

 

[peepblessed]

My first time hatching eggs...such a great experience!
My baby silkies...three to the left are a week old and four to the right are just a few days old. My last hatched started yesterday with 4 down and 7 to go. Have three great mommas taking care of the babies...so happy and so proud of my girls.

My first hatch...


My second hatch...

Precious treasure!

 

[BarnGoddess01]

Okay.. so here's

that this works!! How many days do I need to wait??? I'm anxious to incubate some more eggs!!!

3 days should do the trick if he's getting the job done.

 

[ScaredOfShadows]

Hawkeye, give him a few days to get to feeling manly again after that bath, and start collecting eggs. I'd say today is Wed. so wait and start collecting Sat. or Sun. and set a week worth of eggs the following Fri. Sat.

 

[sager:)silkies]

Precious treasure!

very cute indeed

 

[peepblessed]

OKay, my camera is charged and I was able to upload my wet cockerel pictures! hehee!!

This is him all toweled off a bit and I just started to blow dry him (below)

Okay-- here is the MONEY SHOT!!

(below) This is his clean butt-fluff-- no more poop balls, and that's after I hacked into it.

And this is him about half-way blown out with the hair dryer... (below)

Okay.. so here's

that this works!! How many days do I need to wait??? I'm anxious to incubate some more eggs!!!

Great pictures!

According to this http://www2.ca.uky.edu/afspoultry-files/pubs/Anatomy_Female_reproductive.pdf it takes about 25 - 26 hours to make an egg from start to finish. Amazing!

 

[sager:)silkies]

did urs enjoy the bath i know mine doo

 

[Hawkeye95]

Thank you all for the great advice!! Okay, I'll collect eggs starting on Sunday just to be sure he's back to feeling like himself. I had him inside here for about 5 hours after his blow dry to make sure he was dry all the way thru. He exploded with fluff after that last partial shot I took. I really should take another picture of him now-- it's FUNNY! It's like he tripled his width! hehee! I'm surprised how much more fluff showed up in the last few hours.

Sager-- at fist, he freaked out when I put him in the sink with the water. He splashed and tried to get out. After a while, he relaxed and just let me soap him up and massage his feathers. I really worked on his rear area a LOT. He didn't seem to mind that at all...

Anyway, when I got to the blow drying with the hair dryer, he was just standing on my counter and he just rotated around and even lifted up his wings so I could blow dry under them. He was really enjoying it. He'd realized by then I wasn't going to kill him. He was talking and crowing by the time I was done. He's such a sweetie!!

 

[drumstick diva]

Your pictures are priceless. I've never seen a soaking wet silkie - it looks like he dissolved in the water. What a major difference all blown out and a SILKIE again. Sure sounds like he enjoyed the dryer. Wish you had shot a video.