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moomoodiddy said:
mid life crisis coop oh my lord i can only imagine
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I love the chandelier and pictures
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I have professional pics of toulouse, ice, and nori I am going to hang in my coop when we move!
 
One of my babies (they'll be 2 months next week) in our new flower garden next to the silkie pen. This little chick has the cutest little face! His/her crest is growing straight up. Most of the others are developing flatter bonnet 'dos, but not this kid. One chick has a heavily pinned crest that flops over to one side, giving him quite a 'windblown' look. The thing is with these chicks is that they're SO SLOW to feather out their feet. When I first got mine I was afraid they'd have skimpy foot feathering, as they had bare toes for a while, but it finally came in in earnest around three months. I know these guys will have to get it eventually, they had heavy 'foot fluff' as hatchlings. They're going through a bare middle toe period right now, but they're starting to get 'sprouts' all down the toe, so they won't be bare long. I've integrated them with my adult flock (it's very warm here in SC now), and it went very nicely. No fighting, they were accepted as part of the flock almost immediately. At night they snuggle up under the wings of the cockerel and the pullets
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(the hens trying to be broody on nothing in there don't take too kindly to that, however)

 
RockerHen said:
One of my babies (they'll be 2 months next week) in our new flower garden next to the silkie pen. This little chick has the cutest little face! His/her crest is growing straight up. Most of the others are developing flatter bonnet 'dos, but not this kid. One chick has a heavily pinned crest that flops over to one side, giving him quite a 'windblown' look. The thing is with these chicks is that they're SO SLOW to feather out their feet. When I first got mine I was afraid they'd have skimpy foot feathering, as they had bare toes for a while, but it finally came in in earnest around three months. I know these guys will have to get it eventually, they had heavy 'foot fluff' as hatchlings. They're going through a bare middle toe period right now, but they're starting to get 'sprouts' all down the toe, so they won't be bare long. I've integrated them with my adult flock (it's very warm here in SC now), and it went very nicely. No fighting, they were accepted as part of the flock almost immediately. At night they snuggle up under the wings of the cockerel and the pullets
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(the hens trying to be broody on nothing in there don't take too kindly to that, however)

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Oh my goodness! You are so right! This baby has one of the cutest Silkie faces I've seen! Love love love it!
 
and we have veining people! Not one of nori's eggs, but still! It's the little one my friend gave me from her black roo and white hen! I will need a black hen for my project anyway so fingers crossed a little pullet hatches! The other 3 older eggs in the bator don't look as good now that I see one that is viable
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The oldest one, 12 days, has some darker matter floating around the yolk but no veining, more like it's bad, and it doesn't really look like chick. Should I throw it out? I don't want it to explode and contaminate the others. The one with veining is on day 4, the other ones are days 5 and 6. Neither of them has any veining and she had been away from my roo for almost 3 weeks so I didn't really expect them to be fertile.
 

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