South Carolina

[Lroach711]

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Very nice - that would be great for call ducks. Not sure how you could do the pond. Just keep in mind that it will need to be emptied and cleaned pretty often. I've yet to find a pump that can handle duck water.

Yeah...that's my main issue with how to do the pond. I'd like it to have a drain in the bottom with pipe running out of the coop..but then it seems that it'd have to be up on some sort of platform..hmmmm..

 

[KrisH]

Coral Blue Guineas

 

[emptynester]

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they sure are pretty!

 

[KrisH]

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they sure are pretty!

Pretty NOISY too

 

[emptynester]

For those of you who were talking about the FB page this morning, the page has now been given to me to moderate. Hopefully it will help it go back to a nice place for just us chicken lovers

 

[dixiebeast]

Ok I posted this pics last night but I think it lost in all the discussion of the FB page...I want to know as I have no grown BLRW( these look more splash) hens to compare to if they look close to laying? I think thier combs and wattles are looking suspicious and they have no nest boxes in with my banties they can fit in...I need to move them to my big gal flock soon!!

 

[KrisH]

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In my unexperienced opinion, Very close.

RobertH

 

[dixiebeast]

Thanks Robert...I hope so!
Maybe some others will give their opinions!! Looks like they will ring in the new year in a new coop when I add them to the laying flock! My roo is a BLRW so I am excited!

 

[Patsy29332]

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Well, come on! I'm here every day now.

White is an off switch for color. You don't really know what is hiding underneath the white. You could get just about anything... especially if you don't know the history of your whites. You should be getting eggs. The only color silkie that takes longer than that are my buffs. My whites generally start laying at 6 months. If you start getting eggs, you have a rooster and NONE are fertile (and your silkies have a lot of fluff around their vent), then you might consider a trim. But I wouldn't mess with it until then. Just my opinion!

Thanks Susanne! Me and Dixiebeast (my DD Samantha) want to come maybe after everyone gets past the holiday...if I don't slip up there before by myself...LOL...You are somewhere just up the street from me...I am in Shoals Junction (Donalds mailing address). I have been to your website and...by the way...your colorful chicken row housing is what I pictured having eventually! Sooo cute! And back to subject...I do not know the family history on the silkies. I have a very pretty white with no other coloring bleeding thru with the most vividly teal colored ears with teal tinted beak and legs...even the toenails are teal tinged. Samantha got me a white roo as good from one of her friends. The black male was hers she passed down to me and he has just a wee bit of red lightly dusted on him. So beind a great daughter Samantha IS she also got me a hen (pullet) to match him from her same friend. So...my white hen (pullet) came from the jockey lot from an outside table with the woman that said I had to pluck her to mate and said she was show quality...you can say anything but Sapphire is really a good looker and her teal coloring all over is really great in my unknowledgeable opinion. And the Black roo came from the jockey lot also from a person thats not a regular dealer. They all live hapily together in a tractor right now. OMG...just realized I am rambling on about my chickens...they laugh at me at work...I've only had chickens since about July...LOLOL

Hope I didn't bore everyone...sorry!

 

[Patsy29332]

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I left the facebook group...one guy just kept putting too much junk on there that I got sick of reading..

I may be leaving it too, the cockfighting thing is just too much. Now I'm afraid to advertise any of my birds on there knowing there are cockfighters on that might buy. I detest that "hobby".

I agree... I had joined that page but rarely go on FB anymore. I did have to post some just because I have an evil streak when it comes to fighting chickens or dogs...I just pray the dimwit doesn't show up here...I love my BYC family! ALL YOU GUYS ARE GREAT!