Texas

[Roosting Robin]

[/IMG] My 5 week old silkies at that awkward stage!

 

[Brookshire11]

My Silkie roo went to his new home last night! She has always wanted a Silkie so I know he'll be spoiled. He'll have a LOT of ladies his age

 

[Roosting Robin]

My Silkie roo went to his new home last night! She has always wanted a Silkie so I know he'll be spoiled. He'll have a LOT of ladies his age

How old was he when you knew he was a Roo? I am afraid all 4 of mine will end up being Roos!

 

[losttexan]

My real-world friends don't understand my excitement, but I know the folks here do. My RIR's (Ros) first egg! 20 weeks exactly.

 

[Brookshire11]

How old was he when you knew he was a Roo? I am afraid all 4 of mine will end up being Roos!

Ummm....I've known for a few weeks. I got some outside opinions but his comb and waddle development compared to my other Silkie was just exponential. Before 9 weeks he had a red/purple comb and waddles, where my white silkie STILL has absolutely nothing! He didn't crow, but going off behavior (he was more of the leader out of the pair) and his comb/waddle development, I'm 99% sure.
That was him at only 8 weeks. Brought them in from a storm, hence the Mohawk lol
Don't be discouraged though, most silkies hard notoriously hard to sex before 12 weeks. Especially the more well bred birds. Mine was a hatchery boy

*edited to correct sloppy spelling...lol

 

[Brookshire11]

My real-world friends don't understand my excitement, but I know the folks here do. My RIR's (Ros) first egg! 20 weeks exactly.

CONGRATS!

Mine are 17 weeks. Getting close!

 

[SlipsWife]

My real-world friends don't understand my excitement, but I know the folks here do. My RIR's (Ros) first egg! 20 weeks exactly.

Congrats!!! I still get excited when I go out and find eggs and we've been getting eggs for almost a year!

 

[magpiesing]

Good day folks

Hope everyone got that much needed rain...but not too much. We got at least 4 inches, probably more. My rain gauge blew over so not sure, but my dog's bowl was full to overflow and that's 4in.
Had to do some emergency prep before the storm hit last night at midnight was down staking the tomato plants...good thing, green bean plants are on the ground, but squash, tomatoes and peppers made it ok,

At 2am the storm was intense. Raining torrents. DH checked on the chickens and found a major leak in the roof. Birds were getting wet. One hen was sitting on the roost with water running off her head and down her face, she was right below the leak. He moved each of them to a different roost so they could sleep dry. Had water standing inside where it had run past the bulkhead. Glad we didn't clean out the coop yesterday and my deep litter was working so well, but it is so wet we'll be starting over and taking it back to dirt with new shavings ASAP. All were ok this morning just didn't get to go out until 10:30 today.

On the bright side...FIL garden looks great...all the beans ,peas and okra have come up and he has some water standing on one end, but no damage.
Chickens will have all kinds of new stuff in their yard to scratch thru and their mulberry limb is touching the ground so they can eat the leaves and berries w/o haveing to jump.

Glad to hear Howard is a hero!
Hope Mr. Nino is well and things are improving for him.

Take care ...Magpie

 

[tiedyemommy]

Over night, we got a little over 7" of rain. Much needed, glorious rain...and today's temperatures won't get out of the 60's.

As someone who prefers cooler temps, this pleases me on many levels. I know a lot of folks look forward to the scorching hell that is Texas Summer...but I don't mind this chill day one bit. In fact, I wouldn't mind a bit more mellow weather before the Summer heat sets in.

 

[tiedyemommy]

My real-world friends don't understand my excitement, but I know the folks here do. My RIR's (Ros) first egg! 20 weeks exactly.

Congratulations! Our Ladies are approximately 13wks (give or take)...looking forward to when they start laying.