South Carolina

[RedBugPoultry]

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Moonchild, how is PumPum doing? I am finding out that my heaviest crested polish are the least aggressive/docile and tend to get less food. This is causing them to be the ones coming down with cocci or maybe worms as they end up picking up a lot of their food from the outskirts of the feeder off the ground. PumPum is a heavy crested little girl. Hope she is doing OK today.

 

[RedBugPoultry]

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I wish you were closer too! I am getting some really pretty Coral Blues in this batch and I think a brown or two. I love to see what color come out in each hatch!

I got up at the break of dawn this morning to check on this big guinea hatch. I was so worried for my silkies as they were hatching when I went to bed. Well, this morning there were 4 little silkies in the middle of about 40 keets, doing just fine. I have already taken a batch out to the brooder with the silkies in the mass. There is one black silkie and 3 what look to be partridge. Fortunately the guinea hatch looks to be split. About 40 hatched last night and this morning and the other tray of 30 is just piping. I plan to go out later and split the silkies off from the keets as the keets are just too energetic for the chicks.

On the other side of the plantation, my bigger silkies are loving their new pen/kennels. Everyone is settling in nicely. I just hope I have enough shade for the big one in front until the sun moves around. After 12:30 they are in pretty much complete shade but until then I worry.

 

[RedBugPoultry]

Jackie B. :

You need MORE?!!!! You crazy.

I need more. Scarlet is not taking no for an answer to get out of the nest box. I think I need a couple guineas. My ticks and yellow jackets are absurd.

Come on down! I will fix you up!

 

[emptynester]

It's fun looking and hearing about everyone's favorite chickens. With individual personalities and more colors than a 64 count box of Crayolas, there should be a warning such as " Attention! Chickens are like Potatoe chips - you can't have just 1 ( flock)" As I was just outside taking pictures to update the chicken baby book, I know who always draws my attention. This buff/ blue cochin cross is simply named Big Bo Blue. Oh, I know you are looking at him and sayin', " DeeAnn, he is more buff than blue" and that is a fact, now. However, when he was little ( ok, little-er as he is only 4 months old) there was only the slightest amount of buff about his head and chest and shoulders. As time goes on, he keeps changing. I'm looking forward to seeing what he ends up looking like, as already he is twice as fluffy as everyone else and when I go to pick him up, I feel like I'm hunting through a feather pillow trying to find a body

 

[Jackie B.]

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Come on down! I will fix you up!

You need to move closer to me. I need another enabler ebsides Amy

 

[RedBugPoultry]

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He is getting beautiful!!!! He must have parenting lines from one of your buffs!

 

[RedBugPoultry]

Jackie B. :

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Come on down! I will fix you up!

You need to move closer to me. I need another enabler ebsides Amy

I love enabling!! But I really do not think I could move this mass of poultry!!! or my husband!

 

[emptynester]

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I never would have thought of that!

 

[RedBugPoultry]

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I never would have thought of that!

They had the best body feathers and legs of any birds here! Now they are there!

 

[emptynester]

RedBug, here is an updated picture of " Eagle Eye" - the chick in my avatar. I love watching them grow!