South Carolina

[huckleberryfarm]

Yes, I'm a girl...Susanne! We have a laying flock of Easter Eggers (about 50), Ameraucanas, Araucanas, Dominiques, Light and Buff Brahmas, Partridge Rock, and LF Cochins. I also have some frizzled cochins, silkied bantam cochins, sizzles, seramas, gobs of silkies. I'm about to separate my Wheaten Marans, B/B/S Marans, B/B/S Ameraucanas for breeding. I have 3 gorgeous lav silkies that are 12 weeks old so I have awhile until they are ready to breed but they look great! I'm hoping to add Wheaten Ameraucanas and Lav Ameraucanas into the breeding. My Wheaten Marans are by far the friendliest chickens I have. More than the other color Marans. I'm a Chickaholic. What can I say? It's just awesome!

Forgot about my Columbian Rocks and my Olive Eggers! They're not laying yet so I just missed them! Sorry, little ones!

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

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Contacts? Was I supposed to socialize?

I did chat at some BYCers

But was too nervous to stand where other silkie people were gathered talking.

I walked around more than anything looking at other birds, checking mine several times, going outside, back inside, back outside......over and over

I will get to that part......I hope.

Maybe I won't be so nervous at the one in March.

I did not even think I would place anywhere. I just wanted to get the birds seen and see if anyone else saw faults I did.

BTW - my fav splash roo has things I am not happy with...and the one that seems pretty good did place above my fave. Which confirms what I thought......although 2 months apart in age, I still prefer my fave's basic type over the other....but the fave holds his wings loose & has (to me) too many hard feathers in his tail & also not as nice of a comb as the other one that placed over him

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

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So...........that is like.......... a lot of breeds and a LOT of chickens!

OOOOOOOO Wheaten Marans! That can go on my wish list.........along with lav Ameraucanas, Araucanas, some of those rumpless things from Amy, some more OEGBs from Joy, and whatever else I can scribble down........

I don't have lav silkie chicks yet..........I have had a lav roo for awhile...not show quality - But should be OK for breeder stock. Just put him in for breeding in Dec & now the hen quit laying.

I am going to remove her. Don't want him to wear her out

Only with 1 because no other black is old enough yet

 

[Joycats]

LOL Kimberly - the "rumpless things" are the aracauna's (I believe). They lay blue/green eggs. I forgot about my olive eggers too. I always leave somebody out, that's why I quit trying to count my birds. It's impossible. And YES, you were supposed to socialize!

That's never a problem for me. A building full of chicken people .... I love talking chicken. Sounds like heaven to me. Oh I have some black silkie hens and I want lavender silkies - just in case you need a hen or two for that lavender roo. My hens are young and haven't started laying yet but they should be ready anytime.

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

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Joy - Amy has the rumpless ones - I just couldn't remember which 'cauna they are

My other black silkies.........one I will be showing again so no boy for her....my other two are babies still..........about 3-4 months old. None of mine ever lay before 8-9 months old.
I trimmed the one I took that did not place and put her back with him for now. Trimmed him too!

I played with chicken butt

She has a small crest so I want to see if she will have babies with small crests too, or if they will be puffball heads

Once I get over this darn cold I am going to hit ya up and come visit ----- I will have to sneak out LOL cause he knows I will come home with birds especially with Nicole wanting a couple other varieties of OEGs.


Speaking of colds, I need to take meds and crash for a bit.

Coffee has worn off

I was not sick until yesterday morning at 4am! Dunno how I woke up with a cold!

 

[Junkmanme]

For my Upstate S.C. Friends....

I have a little "story" for ya...

I HOPE you find it "entertaining".....

My Father, who was born near Mills Springs, Polk County, NC in 1913, lost his Father to T.B. when Dad was 5 yrs. old. His Mother subsequently married a widower who lived near Campobello, SC. Later on...during W.W. II, Dad was a POW of the Japanese after the "Fall of Bataan" in the Philippines. Family didn't know whether he was Dead or Alive until the end of the War.

After the War, he and a Step-Brother re-built the little rented house that Grandma was raising her two youngest in. (It was owned by a Cousin/Uncle.) And Dad went back to work here in New Mexico where I was born. He was successful in his work and finally in 1958 he paid CASH for a NEW Cadillac, which we drove to visit family in THAT area.

Grandma was still living in that OLD house....and had a bunch of chickens running around out back. Dad sat on the back porch, chewing tobacco, and just generally ENJOYING the ENTIRE "Home Surroundings" AND the people of the area. I was a boy of 10 and sat listening....for it wasn't my place to speak unless spoken to. I was FREE to do as I pleased as long as I "cleared it" with Dad first.

A "banty" rooster came strutting by the back porch just as Dad spit tobacco juice....which hit the rooster in the eye. Well, to make a long story short....that tobacco juice killed that rooster. Grandma was UPSET and gave my Dad a "tongue-lickin' ".

He said, "Aw Hell, Ma...Don't you worry yoreself none about it a bit......I'll BUY YOU a whole darn FLOCK of Chickens !!! That's one of the funniest things I've ever seen !!! " and he was laughing hard....It WAS funny !!!
He DID buy her a whole BUNCH of Chickens ...and NEW APPLIANCES, HEATER...clothes...and other things. (I'm sure he left her some CASH also...he always did. )

Folks were still VERY POOR in that area in 1958....the South hadn't really "recovered" from the devastation of the Civil War one-hundred years before.

It's better NOW...compared to other places.

just a story about chickens....and how I SAW some "things" as a boy.

Don't feel bad for the "banty rooster"....it was just "one of those things".

-Junkmanme-

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

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I have a good imagination and while reading your story, I saw it play out! That was funny! Banty killed by tobacco juice to the eye! OMG I bet it was not funny, really, but well, my brain needs a nap and tends to get silly when it is tired. In my mind I saw the little roo jumping straight up, squawking and flapping!

Your dad sounds like a great man. Many adults now forget about parents or the home place when they marry/move away/"make it".

There is just something relaxing about the country...especially in the South

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

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I don't have any of those......... I am sure someone around this state does........not sure how close to you though!
I am in Spartanburg county myself

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

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[Junkmanme]

ChickyChickyBaby,

Your are insightful. To say that my Father was a GREAT MAN is a reflection of your natural vision...no matter how it may be "understated". He was a Sergeant who was held in "respect and awe" by Generals. A GOOD MAN. An excellent Father.

But...I gotta admit...he had a "perverse" Sense of Humor. (But, I think, MOST of the Survivors of WW 2 Japanese Prison Camps HAD that "perverse" Sense of Humor. I have Many "stories" about that experience...which most people wouldn't believe or wish to hear.)

Yep. You're RIGHT! A VERY FINE MAN.

I hope most of you can understand such a story.

-Junkmanme-