The Fricken Chicken story!

[BY Bob]

It's been busy here, with good and bad! I have showgirl eggs hatching Sunday. We just put in a pool! I made the huge decision to downsize my flocks. I only kept one EE, 2 langshan, and the 2 fayoumis, from the adolescent group. I took the rest of the young chicken to the auction and sold them. I still have 4 of my original hens, Ruby, Blondie, Goldie and Big Bertha. My sebright hen, Trouble either got ate or is going to show up with a flock of chicks soon. It really hurt when she wasn't there to go in the coop like normal. No trace of her or feather. I still have some of my shipped egg chicks. 2 mosaics, silver spitzhauben, 1 BLRW, 1 barbezieux and my deathlayer. I gave my mom the CCL cockerel and the maran pullet, from that group. Since she has marans and EE. She sold her entire flock of MF d'uccle and all her OEGB, and got cuckoo maran pullets and a couple EE. He will make her a nice cockerel for some pretty olive eggers. Of course, I figured a buddy would be good to help him adjust. All in all it's been good here. My silkies are looking really nice. I'm going to expand their run into the center run. I'm hoping to get at least one little showgirl to add to my silkies. They should be from paint colors! So I'm excited for the 11th! I'm only keeping the showgirls from them. There is 11 going strong in there! I'll sell the rest of them if they are not showgirls, soon after they hatch!

Wow! Many changes for sure. You have been busy.

 

[Mmanist]

Scored another window for my new coop! I think it's 24x36! Was $125, marked down to $60.

 

[BY Bob]

Scored another window for my new coop! I think it's 24x36! Was $125, marked down to $60.
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Great find!

 

[Mmanist]

My shipped showgirl eggs are hatching! I have one silkie chick who hatched early! Rest are pipped!

 

[BY Bob]

My shipped showgirl eggs are hatching! I have one silkie chick who hatched early! Rest are pipped! View attachment 2754047

So exciting!

 

[Mmanist]

Out of ten eggs, with one left to hatch. I only got one showgirl

 

[HappyClucker7]

Out of ten eggs, with one left to hatch. I only got one showgirl View attachment 2754637View attachment 2754638View attachment 2754639

Sorry you only got one. She is super cute though!

 

[Egg Snatcher]

Out of ten eggs, with one left to hatch. I only got one showgirl View attachment 2754637View attachment 2754638View attachment 2754639

She doesn't have black skin. Dose she got 5 toes?

 

[Mmanist]

She doesn't have black skin. Dose she got 5 toes?

She has patchy black skin. And yes 5 toes.

 

[Mmanist]

I do like these 2 blacks but I'm not impressed with these chicks overall. I had one hatch with the tips of its toes missing. Another one hatched has web/fused what ever you call it toes. So I'm not sure if I even want to keep the ones with regular toes. Makes me wonder what kind of mutants these come out of? oh well.. I really don't have much into them. So I'll sell them as pet quality. Lol keep the single showgirl and work on it lol