The Fraggles

[sean_wonder]

sean_wonder here is that "puppy pile" I was talking about. there is 25+ bantam and bantam mutt chickies in that picture and of course Gimpy Mama the black all the way right. That by the way is her spot always that is here place when scratch and meal meal worms or tomatoes or lettuce or what ever is the treat dijour. She always gets her pinch right there. She earned it look at the mob she is raising!!
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I love this!!

Sorry for being absent folks, but we had their 2 week photo shoot yesterday and my goodness they're twice the size they started at! Will make a post sometime today for y'all. My dad built me a lid for the brooder so that they stopped jumping right out of it. I heard a soft "clang" this morning when Chickie hit her head, as she's still getting used to the lid and jumping just a little too high to dominate her sisters (I was wrong, Chickie is definitely head hen), but I'm sure they'll figure it out. Every time I put my hand in now, all the chicks race to it. Treats really work! I need to start getting them used to me touching their back so may offer a meal worm or two when I pet their backs. Anyway, they're all getting huge and more and more different every day. They've gotten so playful though I've taken to sleeping in the basement instead. Every night I leave out their baby cake and their lincoln log + zip tie roost and bury a mealworm or two in their grit, and yet they still decide to play with each other instead. I suppose the found mealworm initiates a noisy food run, but... gah, oh well. They've taken over my room. I give up. Pictures to come.

 

[drumstick diva]

How did she taste Bob??

 

[BY Bob]

How did she taste Bob??

Is that meant for me?

 

[sean_wonder]

Is that meant for me?

I am equally confused haha

 

[sean_wonder]

Congrats on your new flock! First time I’ve seen silkied EE’s.

Thank you! Yeah, Silkied EE's seem to be pretty far and few between in the chicken community. I've seen only four or five of them as adults in MPC pictures... can't wait to see what they'll look like!

Crap, still gotta post those pictures...

 

[jsr5]

I have some cochin mamma with silkie roo babies they are sooo increadibly silky cuddly feeling. Just amazingly so. I have some EE/americana americauna not sure really exactly. if they could have that silky feel it would be amazing. Poor things would be petted raw. Hope thats what you get with yours. Mine are hollering at me now they want out and it's going to rain all day so I'm not letting them out my silkies are not smart enough to stay out of the rain and it's too cool for them to be wet to the bone. I"ll take em a special snack of cabbage and green pepper cores and stuff later.

 

[BY Bob]

I have some cochin mamma with silkie roo babies they are sooo increadibly silky cuddly feeling. Just amazingly so. I have some EE/americana americauna not sure really exactly. if they could have that silky feel it would be amazing. Poor things would be petted raw. Hope thats what you get with yours. Mine are hollering at me now they want out and it's going to rain all day so I'm not letting them out my silkies are not smart enough to stay out of the rain and it's too cool for them to be wet to the bone. I"ll take em a special snack of cabbage and green pepper cores and stuff later.

Mine don't mind rain at all either

 

[sean_wonder]

Mine don't mind rain at all either
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Bahaha, look at her!! Strutting around like a wet rat!

 

[BY Bob]

Bahaha, look at her!! Strutting around like a wet rat!

Soaked to the bone. Each of them seem to have different levels of water repellent in their feathers. Lily is much more "duck-like". It takes a lot to soak her. Patsy is less repellent and Hattie seems to have none at all.

 

[sean_wonder]

Soaked to the bone. Each of them seem to have different levels of water repellent in their feathers. Lily is much more "duck-like". It takes a lot to soak her. Patsy is less repellent and Hattie seems to have none at all.

I love how she looks so tiny despite being so poofy when dry! I washed some marker off their heads and I think it was Cheryl but she just threw herself into the water. The poor gal was soaked to the skin (thankfully we had the sense to keep the water lukewarm.) We immediately took a low, cool hair dryer to her and once she got puffy cuddled her in a soft towel right next to our skin. Once the chaos was over, we couldn't stop giggling about how strange and small she'd looked.