The 7th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-A-Long!

[Penny Hen]

She's very pretty! She's not splash but a cross between dominant white and black which gives you white with black leakage. Some people refer to this coloring as "paint".

My Sapphire girl, Tizzy, is a cross between a dominant white Leghorn and a Cream Legbar so she has both black leakage and pale lemon leakage. It is hard to get the lemon to photograph though.

 

[Happy Chooks]

My faverolles came today, and she included extras!

Yay!

 

[BantyChooks]

My faverolles came today, and she included extras!
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Awesome! :yiipchick

 

[GitaBooks]

And I have just that. Here is my mix marans, plus, I do have the pure blue copper marans, but I want to keep them separated to keep them pure.

Here is the splash OE boy, about a month ago. That is a Blue Copper Marans beside him.



Here is the mix blue marans. I will let him breed her.

Those are beautiful birds!

My faverolles came today, and she included extras!

Congrats! Yes!

 

[GitaBooks]

So up to two chicks more to come!!!

Yeah!

Just ordered 8 F2 olive egger eggs for his hatch! I am so excited to have some nice olive eggers!

That's awesome. I'm going to have to give some olive eggers a try some time.

I inherited a Chihuahua from my grandmother. I'm not a "little dog" person to begin with and a 9 year old Chihuahua is not my thing. But I didn't figure that I'd find a good home for a 9 year old dog, so I kept her. She is also food aggressive and will take on my German Shepherd, so I have to separate them for eating. She was not potty trained either, she frequently had accidents in my grandmothers house because she would forget to take her out. (my grandmother has dementia) With some work on my part, she is now completely potty trained..........I crate her when I leave the house and she will now even bark when she wants to go out.

Never in my life will I voluntarily get a Chihuahua. Too much little dog syndrome. The only things she has going for her is that she is a good rider in the car.

I know, little dogs can be hard. What you are doing is wonderful though. Sometimes we take in animals and care for them not because we wanted the animal but to help another person. We're almost always willing to pet-sit for friends, even if their dogs tried to kill our chickens (that is why Dominator, my favorite rooster, is missing part of his tail).

I gotcha please don't think I'm judging. I see now why you have it. Sadly we will probably be in the same boat in a few years as we are the only ones that would take my Grandma's too. They almost sound like the same dog. My Grandma's had to be tied for the first year or two of her life because she would run down the center of the road. My mother and I moved in for four years to take care of my Grandma(has mild dementia) and my Grandpa(has Alzheimer's). She also has frequent accidents in the house and they had to completely lock her out of the dining room or she will just go in and use it as her personal toilet. I was able to save her from being tied any time she was outside while living there I trained her to come when called and stay near. I also trained her to sit and lie down. My Grandma's dementia is not so severe that she forgets to take her out, just that she doesnt want to. My Grandma also has the older mindset that food aggression is normal in dogs and can't be trained out of them. It's sad how dogs turn out in some cases where people don't try to work with them. It's bad enough that my mother has a yorkie and lives with us. My Grandma's chihuahua is sweet when she wants to be and she adores me because I command her respect but I would never want one. I have a sheltie and she's the smallest I can ever see owning and she's a wonderful mix of big and little dog. Originally I wanted a shepherd but we didn't have the room. Good luck with the chihuahua and your little Japanese bantam. How's she doing today?

Yes, we pet-sit dogs and it is so hard to see how frustrated and confused the poor guys are when they first come. The owners often did not do proper research and so the dogs may have obsessive issues or too much energy. If we have them more then a few days they tend to settle down though.

Huh...thought I had 15 hens. 17 eggs from the girls today, guess I have more than I thought. LOL

They enjoyed their dinner in the coop today as it was snowing this am, scratched up all the bedding and fluffed nicely.



2 more days until lockdown for my silver quail. Can't wait for hatch this weekend!

All these delicious photos of silver ams and what not, I will not look at ebay...I will not...brb.

Silver quail! I can't wait for pics!

Ooo, 5 days until Muscovy set - anyone hatching 'scovies?

I sure wish. I hope to see some hatching ducklings on here though.

I was collecting silkie eggs and thinking HMMMMM maybe just a few in the bator LOL but no I am gonna start collecting in about a week

I've got a silkie egg in the incubator (or else under my broody hen. I can't tell the silkie eggs apart from the silkie mixes). Some chicks are due to hatch on the 21 of February and then for the few days after (some eggs were set a couple days late). I'm so excited!!

A little more than half of them are pullets and haven't started laying yet, I expect them to start very soon, but the others are 1-4years old. I think one issue might be the coop windows don't face the sun and I don't light the coops. Also when weather gets a tad warmer I need to do full coop clean outs and dust them all for mites/lice as well. The other day I got 6 eggs but 3 were frozen.

I've gotten frozen eggs too. I'll post pictures in a minute to show you what a half eaten frozen egg looks like. It really does look hard-boiled.

We got 17 eggs yesterday but tossed three BC they were dirty and we have been getting a dozen plus a day, from 20 laying pullets(hens in May) and DH2B had a clumsy moment and stepped on one layed outside the nest box. Which he denied until I showed him the evidence stuck to the bottom of his boot. Lol

We also have a buff Orpington that is thinking about going broody. Hoping she holds off for a bit. Can't remember if she is the one that thought about it last fall or if it was our other buff Orpington

Yep, I've got dirty eggs also. When the weather keeps warming up and then freezing a lot of mud can be made. The nest boxes need cleaned.

May have given away a bantam pullet today, but it was still a good day. My 7 week old cockerel started to crow today! Too bad I didn't have my phone on me at the time. It was the cutest little crow, so wussy!

When my banties started crowing, I thought they were dying. It was hilarious to see!!!

 

[IHeartPoultry]

My faverolles came today, and she included extras! e e e e e e

: YAY! I've always liked the faverolles!

Baby fluff butt updates. The runt is doing great... Even if she just POOPED in my lap!!

the others are growing good But I'm watching 1 carefully because it had bad pasty butt. I cleaned but due to the cord couldn't get it all or risk bleeding. Aww look. You can see the size difference very well here in last picture. Pip Squeak vs the others.

tiny little girl.

I'm so glad she's doing well. It's so hard to see a sickly little one

My Sapphire girl, Tizzy, is a cross between a dominant white Leghorn and a Cream Legbar so she has both black leakage and pale lemon leakage. It is hard to get the lemon to photograph though.

Wow! So pretty! Really, very unique!

 

[aplynn]

I've got a silkie egg in the incubator (or else under my broody hen. I can't tell the silkie eggs apart from the silkie mixes). Some chicks are due to hatch on the 21 of February and then for the few days after (some eggs were set a couple days late). I'm so excited!!

I love my silkies they are so funny


This one is my Rita she has such a big personality. She thinks she is a big chicken though and tries to hang with the big girls. They dont mind her being there but don't let her rooster catch her or he'll let her know whats up.

This girl is my cuddle bug, she would rather be walking around in my arms than to be doing really anything else

Here is the big (shhhhh don't tell him but he is not very big) Man. His name is Big Man. He has little man syndrome. He tries to tussle with my GIANT RIR roo.

And this is the BIG RIR that my silkie likes to tease, he is lucky that Big Red has a TON of patients for a rooster. This chicken is so big and just kind of like to strut and dance. He goes through life without a care in the world just wants to be talked to and once in a while he likes to have his neck massaged LOL

 

[jGchicks]

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[jGchicks]

I'm in!

 

[aplynn]

I'm in!

welcome