Silkie thread!

[jessicaroo]

This is my favorite: https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/my-mid-life-crisis-coop

That was hilarious and cool!

 

[countrygirl74]

The whole gang

One of my babies (they'll be 2 months next week) in our new flower garden next to the silkie pen.

I agree - cutest little silkie face!

 

[Suzierd]

[quote name="Sanna"

Can you post us a link to the thread? I have a gazillion pictures I can post.
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https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/764716/lots-of-silkies/10#post_10898890

 

[Sanna]

I love the chandelier and pictures

I have professional pics of toulouse, ice, and nori I am going to hang in my coop when we move!

That is something I would do too! lol
I want one of those coops and I don't have mid-life crisis yet.

Maybe I'm starting early...??



Quote: Thanks. I will post pictures later today.

 

[cubbysan]

Oh, that would be very helpful. Please send photos. We haven't built a coop yet either. My husband is a carpenter and Im gathering ideas for him. We will take bits and pieces of what we like and build our own custom creation.

My husband is a carpenter too. I showed him the mid-life crisis coop and told him that is what I wanted. He thought about it for about 2 - 3 weeks and surprised me with this:


https://www.backyardchickens.com/g/...eg&setName=&urlSlug=new-member-in-kansas-city

We most of the material is refurbished. We have stores near us called Restore that people donate their old or extra cabinets, wood, flooring, windows, lighting. He made the shingles from a job he did, it was old panelling or beadboard the owner had up. A lot of it is actually brand new - like the roofing shingles. We also have a chandler inside and he painted a blue sky with clouds in the ceiling. The outside pen is PVC tubing. Originally we had netting over it, but it wasn't predator proof. Now we have hardware cloth. We are originally from the New England, so he wanted to bring a New England style coop to the midwest,

 

[Sanna]

I am going to die!!

My blue hen Iris and her 3 foster children were just on the news.

Channel 8 news invited us to bring a couple of animals to their station, so our boss ended up taking Sassy the pony and one of my Silkies & her chicks. So exciting.

I just watched the news clip...too bad there's something wrong with the broadcasting because there was no volume.

Need to call Comcast, this has been happening with several channels lately...
BUT MY CHICKENS WERE ON TV!!!

(Sorry, had to share. lol)

 

[jsp28504]

I am going to die!!

My blue hen Iris and her 3 foster children were just on the news.

Channel 8 news invited us to bring a couple of animals to their station, so our boss ended up taking Sassy the pony and one of my Silkies & her chicks. So exciting.

I just watched the news clip...too bad there's something wrong with the broadcasting because there was no volume.

Need to call Comcast, this has been happening with several channels lately...
BUT MY CHICKENS WERE ON TV!!!

(Sorry, had to share. lol)

That is awesome Sanna! Congrats!

 

[RustyHen]

My husband is a carpenter too. I showed him the mid-life crisis coop and told him that is what I wanted. He thought about it for about 2 - 3 weeks and surprised me with this:


https://www.backyardchickens.com/g/...eg&setName=&urlSlug=new-member-in-kansas-city

We most of the material is refurbished. We have stores near us called Restore that people donate their old or extra cabinets, wood, flooring, windows, lighting. He made the shingles from a job he did, it was old panelling or beadboard the owner had up. A lot of it is actually brand new - like the roofing shingles. We also have a chandler inside and he painted a blue sky with clouds in the ceiling. The outside pen is PVC tubing. Originally we had netting over it, but it wasn't predator proof. Now we have hardware cloth. We are originally from the New England, so he wanted to bring a New England style coop to the midwest,

Very pretty and well thought out!

 

[peepblessed]

My silkies seem to accept other silkies immediately, but Nori my hen is a bully when it comes to other breeds

such a little terror!
3 months next week =) and she still is covered in pins. She feels like a porcupine!

She is fabulous for 3 months!

I had posted a while back on this thread that I wanted Silkies, and now I finally got some! I picked out 1 from a Tractor Supply Assorted Bantam bin and 3 more from another Tractor Supply.
Here's a picture of one:

Very cute!!

This is my favorite: https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/my-mid-life-crisis-coop

OMG! I loved this story. Just emailed it to my husband.

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

(the hens trying to be broody on nothing in there don't take too kindly to that, however)

Priceless chick!

We just candled our Catdance eggs. 17 are nicely developing (including Lav, yay!!) but 13 never started. Still, I am happy with 17 if all 17 babies hatch!

Wonderful!!

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

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.

I would toss them. Glad you have something though!

That is something I would do too! lol
I want one of those coops and I don't have mid-life crisis yet.

Maybe I'm starting early...??

I'm starting late but better late than never!

My husband is a carpenter too. I showed him the mid-life crisis coop and told him that is what I wanted. He thought about it for about 2 - 3 weeks and surprised me with this:


https://www.backyardchickens.com/g/...eg&setName=&urlSlug=new-member-in-kansas-city

We most of the material is refurbished. We have stores near us called Restore that people donate their old or extra cabinets, wood, flooring, windows, lighting. He made the shingles from a job he did, it was old panelling or beadboard the owner had up. A lot of it is actually brand new - like the roofing shingles. We also have a chandler inside and he painted a blue sky with clouds in the ceiling. The outside pen is PVC tubing. Originally we had netting over it, but it wasn't predator proof. Now we have hardware cloth. We are originally from the New England, so he wanted to bring a New England style coop to the midwest,

This is just awesome! What a guy!!

 

[blipit007]

Both of those hen houses are extreme bad azz! Love it. Matt (my husband) would laugh at me... but why wouldn't you want something cute in your yard rather then just a box? I was looking at the coops on Chicken Saloon. Those are not bad. Any thoughts? For $500. Would cost almost as much in the end to build one I think.

Sanna! Thats so cool! Im going to look online for it.