Silkie thread!

[FirstTimeClucky]

This hot humid weather is killing me I get up in the morning at 7 and start.tending to all my chickens. before I can do errands I have to take a shower and in the evening I start all over again tending my chickens and have to take another shower after being outside for an hour or.two. Most of my chickens are.bantums with feathers feet. There is plenty of shade and cover where they are kept. But sometimes I have to fill there water several times.a.day. I love all my chickens but sometimes it's very taxing to take care of them in the August heat and humidity in the south.
Here are pics of my Silkies.
Bearded Blue
Smaller Bearded white
Large Bearded white
Silver back
Bearded buff
Painted sizzle 1
Painted sizzle 2
Bearded Partridge

Well, it looks like all of your effort is paying off, because they're beautiful! Do you show them? I've never seen a sizzle before.

It's pretty hot and steamy up here in Canada right now as well. It's hard to get motivated to do anything. I have a whole menagerie of animals and birds to look after every day. Sometimes it seems like hard work, especially since some (my Silkie chicks and coturnix quails) have to be checked on frequently. But I enjoy my animals very much, and there are days when I wouldn't have gotten out of bed if I didn't have to look after them. I have a disability and some days I have pain, and it's hard to do anything. But my zoo gives me a purpose and they keep me company, even though some days it feels like the chores will never end!

 

[sue25]

Well, it looks like all of your effort is paying off, because they're beautiful! Do you show them? I've never seen a sizzle before.
I have not shown Silkies yet but these are all SQ birds. By next Fall I hope.to be showing. In the spring I will see what I get from some of these parings.
It's pretty hot and steamy up here in Canada right now as well. It's hard to get motivated to do anything. I have a whole menagerie of animals and birds to look after every day. Sometimes it seems like hard work, especially since some (my Silkie chicks and coturnix quails) have to be checked on frequently. But I enjoy my animals very much, and there are days when I wouldn't have gotten out of bed if I didn't have to look after them. I have a disability and some days I have pain, and it's hard to do anything. But my zoo gives me a purpose and they keep me company, even though some days it feels like the chores will never end!

Sometimes I feel the same way sorry for your pain but I also have severe pain at times. It hard to get up sometimes especially if I don't sleep well at night because of pain so I understand where your coming from.
I also have some hatchery birds and I love them too.

 

[sue25]

@sue25 - it's so hard to resist handling chicks their first day home, isn't it? LOVE your black chicks. We just lost our 6-yr-old Black hen to ovarian tumor -- she was our spunkiest funniest smartest littlest hen. I've heard others share that their Black ones seem to have an extra spunky personality about them. Look forward to more pics.

Sorry for your loss. Sounds like you loved her very much. Do you have others?

 

[Hinotori]

8 week old pullet. She's going to have a huge crest like her older sister.

 

[Hinotori]

I need help with 3 volcano themed names for white silkies. I already have Ashes, Pumice, and Lahar.

The partridge have their own theme even if I don't usually name the girls.

 

[sue25]

There are several active volcanoes in the world Like Mt Cleveland in Alaska. And Mt Erebus in Antarctica also Volcan in Mexico. You could use those names.

 

[Hinotori]

I think one is going to get named Tuff. It's a type of volcanic rock.

This is the view we have when I walk half a mile down the road to where the trees open.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

I think one is going to get named Tuff. It's a type of volcanic rock.

This is the view we have when I walk half a mile down the road to where the trees open.
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Beautiful! We were just out your way about a month ago for my brothers wedding. The volcanos or there are stunning. We took a drive up from Portland to check out Mt Saint Helens before heading down to Bend for the wedding (on Mt Batchelor)

 

[NNYchick]

I am wondering what everyone does when they have too many rosters. I have tried rehoming without much luck. Right not it looks like out of 12, 5 are going to be roosters, 3 are pullets and 4 are still up in the air. My husband is in the process of building our covered run that is predator proof and will winterized, it will be 8'W by 16"L. I had planed on doing one end sand with feeder, nest boxes and an XXL igloo dog house and the other end deep litter for them to dig and forage as in the winter we get a lot of snow and cold temps so from Nov-Apr they will probably be inside the winterized run, but if I have too can I divided it into 2 8x8 pens and put roosters on one side and hens on the other. I know it is not the most ideal for them or me but any ideas we are going to be going into winter soon enough and just not sure what to do.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

I am wondering what everyone does when they have too many rosters. I have tried rehoming without much luck. Right not it looks like out of 12, 5 are going to be roosters, 3 are pullets and 4 are still up in the air. My husband is in the process of building our covered run that is predator proof and will winterized, it will be 8'W by 16"L. I had planed on doing one end sand with feeder, nest boxes and an XXL igloo dog house and the other end deep litter for them to dig and forage as in the winter we get a lot of snow and cold temps so from Nov-Apr they will probably be inside the winterized run, but if I have too can I divided it into 2 8x8 pens and put roosters on one side and hens on the other. I know it is not the most ideal for them or me but any ideas we are going to be going into winter soon enough and just not sure what to do.

I have extra roos too. If they're lucky, they find homes but even cute roos are hard to home. My extras will become soup. Not ideal but pretty much the only choice since we can't afford to keep a flock of roos.