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[bamadude]

Silkie mind control?

Hey if you saw it live...u would surely high 5 the silkie. He is a bad machine

 

[Amberjem]

My wife has a very very ambitious silkie that appears to have figured out how to breed with LF buff brahma hens. Dang thats gonna be a strange cross

 

[chickadoodles]

CC I like the way you did the building on blocks. I will definetly show DH this weekend. Thank you!

I also love the garden areas with your chicken picker on it. That is pretty awesome!

Beercan That incubator looks fantastic!

Vehve Your bunny pen really looks great!

 

[Puddin Fluff]

My wife has a very very ambitious silkie that appears to have figured out how to breed with LF buff brahma hens. Dang thats gonna be a strange cross

You have got to incubate some of those! Just for scientific reasons!

 

[tntchix]

x2

 

[Wisher1000]

Well, I decided to do an inventory of my birds. To my surprise, I have exactly 100!

Now, that is counting many that, according to chicken math, I should not be counting, like the chicks in the brooders, and the extra cockerels. I have only 19 adults, the rest are this spring's babies.

The problem is, I hatched a bunch with the intention of selling them, but they are the first chicks I have raised off these parents and I want to see how they grow out. I just can't seem to bring myself to offer them for sale because there are some very interesting colors in that bunch and I know they would be the first to go.

I am running out of coop space and the incubator is full........ ut oh!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Sell off your obvious culls to make temporary space. Like those that aren't particularly robust or growing slowly.
Then start building a grow out pen.
You need to grow them out to see how they mature.

 

[drumstick diva]

Bama I think your silkie roo just sneaks up when they are napping - sly devil. I sure hope the babies DON'T have that horrible(walnut) tumor on their heads

 

[vehve]

Here's how the bunny pen folds into storage size. The hut itself can be taken apart too, but it's a bit of a project, and I might assemble it again in a couple of weeks, so I won't take that apart now. But if I do unscrew the eight screws keeping it together, the whole package will be about 4 inches thick.

Assembled:


Broken down:


And as you can guess from the picture, Hilma moved into her real pen today.


I scored big with the hinges and locks, all of them together only set us back about 15 euros.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Speaking of silkies and brahmas. The coop fairy has a pair of Brahma/silkie/serama crosses. I'm sure the brahma were bantams though.