Silkie thread!

[Sonoran Silkies]

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The Canadian system of weights and measures is much easier!!

Only if you understand metrics to the standpoint of KNOWING what X degrees feels like or how heavy X kilos is to actually lift. I can calculate the numbers, but don't KNOW their meaning like I do lbs and ounces and degrees Fahreinheit.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: I would say yes, a grey, and I offer the name "Votive" for consideration

 

[peepblessed]

Just imagine if chickens had teeth. We would all be here discussing whose silkie had the show winningest smile, and the frowned upon method of braces for adjusting crooked silkie teeth...

This wouldn't be so funny if it wasn't based in truth!

One of my chick has one side of her skull completely bare. Is it something I should worry about? I haven't seen any pecking so I don't think that would be the cause. It's just weird!
here are some pics:

I had a chick that hatched with a bald spot on it's forehead. It never grew feathers there but didn't show at all when the crest feathers came in to hide it.

I would say yes, a grey, and I offer the name "Votive" for consideration

What a great name!

 

[BarnGoddess01]

Quote:
The Canadian system of weights and measures is much easier!!

Only if you understand metrics to the standpoint of KNOWING what X degrees feels like or how heavy X kilos is to actually lift. I can calculate the numbers, but don't KNOW their meaning like I do lbs and ounces and degrees Fahrenheit.

Yes, it was a bit of a challenge to get used to the metric system when it was first introduced. My parents still think in Fahrenheit and gripe about Celsius temperatures. Means nothing to them.

I was on the cusp; in school when Canada made the decision to change. Originally learned inches and feet but got switched over to centimetres and metres before my brain was completely hardened off. But the nicest thing about metric, all in factors of 10. 1 cc = 1 ml. That part makes even the most math-challenged of us (myself counted among them!) some what able to follow along.

(I'm betting aoxa is young, younger than I am, at any rate. I'm betting she grew up knowing only metric. So it makes perfect sense to her.)

I have yet to weigh my Silkies. We are entered in our first show at the end of the month so weighing will happen with their baths.

(Thankfully, my scale does weights both ways!!!!)

 

[LaPetiteFarmer]

I hope the crest will cover it like yours! Every times I have a new batch something is wrong with at least one chick (in that case it's not that bad). Is it pretty normal? or is it just bad luck?

 

[aoxa]

Yes, it was a bit of a challenge to get used to the metric system when it was first introduced. My parents still think in Fahrenheit and gripe about Celsius temperatures. Means nothing to them.    I was on the cusp; in school when Canada made the decision to change. Originally learned inches and feet but got switched over to centimetres and metres before my brain was completely hardened off. But the nicest thing about metric, all in factors of 10. 1 cc = 1 ml. That part makes even the most math-challenged of us (myself counted among them!) some what able to follow along.   (I'm betting aoxa is young, younger than I am, at any rate. I'm betting she grew up knowing only metric. So it makes perfect sense to her.)

I have yet to weigh my Silkies. We are entered in our first show at the end of the month so weighing will happen with their baths.  (Thankfully, my scale does weights both ways!!!!)

I am young - unless you are a teenager who considers mid-twenties old. Never remember anything other than metric. Miles makes absolutely no sense to me. I only think about Fahrenheit in incubator and thermometer measurements, and inches? Forget it.

 

[LaPetiteFarmer]

Me too I understand metrics much better than Fahrenheit which it's normal coming from the world world lol. It took me a while (and I still struggle with oz, lb, inches, feet, etc...)
BTW Aoxa sounds Basque Are you originally from there?

 

[aoxa]

BTW Aoxa sounds Basque Are you originally from there?

What do you mean? I'm from Atlantic Canada. I don't speak any other language, but a good portion of where we live is French.

I've never heard that I sound Basque, and not quite sure what that means. I had to google it

 

[LaPetiteFarmer]

Aoxa it's actually a traditional dish (veal) from there. That is why I ask

. And there are quite a few of french who migrated to Canada

 

[flower]

I wonder if your signature of aoxa is the cause of poulettes reasoning thoughts of Basque heritage. We do have areas here in the SW that were settles by Basque sheepherders. I like their cooking especially the cheese.