Silkie thread!

[Fancychooklady]

A funny thing happened last night.
We decided it was time to give the kids a bath since they're going in their new coop tomorrow.
They should have gone out last weekend, but two weekends of rain messed up those plans and set construction back.
Anyway, I was pulling each one out and handing them one by one to my wife behind me, where she placed them in a plastic tub to stage for washing and I got to the last one, who we have thought was a rooster.
He knew something was up because he was the last one in the brooder and he was sitting on the perch.
All of a sudden he let out a crow which startled all of us including him.
My Wife was in the other room and yelled out 'what was that!? to which I said that I thought he crowed.
About that time he did again two more times and The other kids looked startled and we both got a good laugh.
They aren't but about 9 weeks old and I didn't think a silkie rooster that age could crow yet, but I don't know since this is our first go around.
One thing's for sure, I don't think he fully understood what he had just done based on the way he looked after he did it.
It was sort of a did that just come out of me? look, lol

Oh and on the sleeping subject, although there's a perch in the brooder, they all sleep in a pile and a not too carefully arranged one at that.
The first time we saw them like that we had a momentary reaction of uh oh, what's wrong with them?
15 Minutes later they were running around like crazy people.

He's just an early bloomer, I've only had one little guy crow that young. They make me laugh when they first start to crow, lookin on the ground as if they might have just coughed a frog up.

 

[silkie2001]

A funny thing happened last night.
We decided it was time to give the kids a bath since they're going in their new coop tomorrow.
They should have gone out last weekend, but two weekends of rain messed up those plans and set construction back.
Anyway, I was pulling each one out and handing them one by one to my wife behind me, where she placed them in a plastic tub to stage for washing and I got to the last one, who we have thought was a rooster.
He knew something was up because he was the last one in the brooder and he was sitting on the perch.
All of a sudden he let out a crow which startled all of us including him.
My Wife was in the other room and yelled out 'what was that!? to which I said that I thought he crowed.
About that time he did again two more times and The other kids looked startled and we both got a good laugh.
They aren't but about 9 weeks old and I didn't think a silkie rooster that age could crow yet, but I don't know since this is our first go around.
One thing's for sure, I don't think he fully understood what he had just done based on the way he looked after he did it.
It was sort of a did that just come out of me? look, lol

Oh and on the sleeping subject, although there's a perch in the brooder, they all sleep in a pile and a not too carefully arranged one at that.
The first time we saw them like that we had a momentary reaction of uh oh, what's wrong with them?
15 Minutes later they were running around like crazy people.

Hahahaha

 

[Nevaschickens]

My new babies! 1 black and 2 splash. Only three days old. The breeder was Tropical Chickes. She's amazing!

 

[wvchix]

That's so good how close did they get to her

The chicks were still in their cage so they were protected but they were only inches from her. I'm hoping to bring her in to see them everyday so that she'll be familiar with them. She'll also be going into a brand new coop with them so I'm hoping that will help.

 

[wvchix]

A funny thing happened last night.
We decided it was time to give the kids a bath since they're going in their new coop tomorrow.
They should have gone out last weekend, but two weekends of rain messed up those plans and set construction back.
Anyway, I was pulling each one out and handing them one by one to my wife behind me, where she placed them in a plastic tub to stage for washing and I got to the last one, who we have thought was a rooster.
He knew something was up because he was the last one in the brooder and he was sitting on the perch.
All of a sudden he let out a crow which startled all of us including him.
My Wife was in the other room and yelled out 'what was that!? to which I said that I thought he crowed.
About that time he did again two more times and The other kids looked startled and we both got a good laugh.
They aren't but about 9 weeks old and I didn't think a silkie rooster that age could crow yet, but I don't know since this is our first go around.
One thing's for sure, I don't think he fully understood what he had just done based on the way he looked after he did it.
It was sort of a did that just come out of me? look, lol

Oh and on the sleeping subject, although there's a perch in the brooder, they all sleep in a pile and a not too carefully arranged one at that.
The first time we saw them like that we had a momentary reaction of uh oh, what's wrong with them?
15 Minutes later they were running around like crazy people.

Would you mind sharing a picture of your new coop?

 

[Half Moon Ranch]

Would you mind sharing a picture of your new coop?

It's not quite complete, but here it is as of yesterday.
I got the wire on the door this evening and will be hanging it tomorrow.

 

[Half Moon Ranch]

Ok, sorry, but I'm trying to learn to use a smartphone and apparently I did something wrong. Let me try a different method of posting the pics and I'll get back to you with that.

 

[wvchix]

Ok, sorry, but I'm trying to learn to use a smartphone and apparently I did something wrong. Let me try a different method of posting the pics and I'll get back to you with that.

ok

 

[Half Moon Ranch]

It's embarrassing when a phone is smarter than it's owner!

 

[wvchix]

It's embarrassing when a phone is smarter than it's owner!

This looks great! Did you have a plan for this?