South Carolina

[WestKnollAmy]

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OMG! Even better! I would love it if I could get a silver or silver splash!
I like to have different colors and breed from that. It makes hatching so much more fun. I get so bored with the same colors. That is why I may have pens of certain colors but shake it up a bit with others that are of unusual coloring.

I think it was too hot for much breeding the past 6 weeks. Now that it is cooler I am seeing my ducks go at it again. Of course, they seem a bit more frisky with cold pool water, too!

 

[Southern Bee Lady]

I have a lot of silkie chicks for sale and I *might* have a few girls too. I need to decide what to do with the black lav/splits in my lav pen. I don't need them.

OMG! I just may have to make a trip to Greenwood. Do you have pics of what you have for sale?

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[monkeemakr]

Well, that's no problem, I really just got them because the grandkids wanted colored eggs, but they are sure pretty little chickens, and they were cheap!!! LOL

 

[Southern Bee Lady]

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Do the birds have to b tested in order to bring them to NC?

I am NPIP but the form that you send in does not even ask for that info.
I doubt that anyone will be checking but I did not want to take a chance. (If it was anything like my luck with roosters this year, there would be 6 people checking that day.

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[huckleberryfarm]

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I have a lot of silkie chicks for sale and I *might* have a few girls too. I need to decide what to do with the black lav/splits in my lav pen. I don't need them.

If a split black is bred to a straight black what would u get?

A black split may or may not carry the lavender gene. The only way to know if to breed it with a lavender and if a baby is lavender, it carries the lavender gene. Bred to black would give you black or at least black-looking.

 

[huckleberryfarm]

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This may have already been answered but I haven't been through every post yet. Those are definitely EE.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

I spent the day cleaning the brooder room....... again.
Since we put some roos in the freezer I was able to move around a lot of birds, put most of my Ameraucanas in a grow out tractor (mostly pullets! Yes!), let the Guinea keets have a big brooder to themselves now (can't really call them keets when they are singing like crazy!) and put my Mottled bantam Cochins out in a tractor, too.

I can actually see the floor in my brooder room again!

And I thought it was great that I got all the chicks off the floor....NOT! It wasn't long after I had the floor done that those white bantam Cochin chicks flew out of their brooder and started playing with the broom and riding on my shoes.

I was hoping they would not notice the new brooder tank didn't have a screen top.

However, it is so nice to be down to 4 brooders and less than 100 chicks in the brooder room.

It isn't as cool today as it has been. It got hot after lunch! I am about to go out, dump pools and play in the water with the ducks. They love to be sprayed with the hose and push each other out of the way so they can get sprayed. I suppose I could set the sprinkler on again but someone always winds up laying on it and not letting anyone else have fun. The Muscovy are the worst! They love to lay on the sprinkler and only move enough to snap at the water themselves. I usually try to keep them away but they are water babies!

 

[pinkwindsong]

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*** for those who have not been to Amy's she is not kidding or exaggerating, she has that many chicks in her brooder.. you walk in and go WOW

its amazing and while your there the next amazing thing is everyone gets along including the cats and chickens and ducks as well.. roosters walking around each other.. and there is harmony.. really cool to visit..

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[pinkwindsong]

Twin gave me another pretty little white egg.. I added a couple straw next boxes too to see if the other girls like hay better... I also moved the Polish up with everyone else ( they are within their own run inside the big run.. ) lots of beeping and peeping at first. but everyone seams happy..
its a happy chicken day....

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[CarolinaChickenKeeper]

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Nikky,
I only had 4 to hatch from your eggs but they are fabulous babies! Today is their first day outside in a little pen. I had to hold them and cuddle a bit before they would go explore but they soon forgot all about me and are having a blast playing and eating grass.
They are all totally gorgeous! I think I have 2 boys and 2 girls. Two appear to be black, one looks like it will be blue (I have been fooled before though) and the other seems fawn/white. Nice, upright kids! And very tame and friendly. They groom my face for me and are bad to pinch my nose and eyes but it is fun to snuggle them while I can.
I am sure someone else would have gotten a better hatch but I am not too great with hatching duck eggs. I keep learning though.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

Nikky or Nikki? I didn't think my eggs were due to hatch?!?!