Silkie thread!

[Suzierd]

Wow beautiful little Roo! Cute babies too.

 

[RockerHen]

I let my babies free range by themselves for the first time. They did so good! They spent most of the day hanging out by our Anatolian Shepherd. Smart babies!




In other news, 3 of my silkie hens are broody. One is on 4 turkey eggs, one is on 6 (or 7, I can't remember) assorted LF eggs, and one is on a single LF egg. I have 3 other wyandotte crosses that are broody. And I was 'gifted' with 20 leghorn pullet chicks yesterday (they were 25 cent a piece at TSC!) Oh, spring. You always bring me lots of surprises, mainly in the form of a flood of chicks

 

[heirloomorps]

We have a few Silkies trying to go broody also. One of our greys has been trying for a month and we kept taking her eggs. She is still sitting so she now has 5 eggs under her. Hopefully she will be a good broody now!

 

[TheCrazyClucker]

Our White Silkie, Isabel, is CRAZY broody. She'll sit on guinea eggs, turkey eggs, swan eggs, chicken eggs (of course ), duck eggs, quail eggs, pretty much any egg you put under her.

 

[SilkieRose]

Hi all!! I must share glamor shots of my babies!! Just turned 3 months

 

[TheCrazyClucker]

So cute! In the brooder we have partridge, white, black, buff, and paint.

 

[heirloomorps]

So cute! In the brooder we have partridge, white, black, buff, and paint.

That is a good color mix. We have buff, black and just one white... She looks a little out of place!

 

[TheCrazyClucker]

Quote: Oh, and Splash too. She looks like a baby robin lol

 

[heirloomorps]

Our most promising young pullet just won her first show! She is only 5 months.

http://t.co/Xnr7KCSXcR

That's a link as I can't add the image on my phone, lol

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

Our most promising young pullet just won her first show! She is only 5 months.

http://t.co/Xnr7KCSXcR

That's a link as I can't add the image on my phone, lol

What a beauty, she certainly deserved that first place ribbon!

I'm loving all of these chick pics! One of my girls has been trying to go broody for about a month, she's plucked herself a blade spot and everything. But, I've got orders for hatching eggs and I want to fill my own bator so I've been very diligent in removing the eggs. If she's still broody by the time the bator chicks hatch I'll give her some chicks. I'm just hoping she'll keep laying so I can get everyones eggs to them. With only 3 girls laying, I need every egg I can get! But they've been laying everyday, bless their hearts. In a few more days I'll have enough eggs to start the bator. I'm going for 21, that should yield a good number of chickies (I hope)!