UPDATED-PICS-Yeehaw I can join the Hatching Craze I have an Incubator

[YooHwa]

Congrats!!!!

I can see you watching chick-hatch tv all night long

 

[Kat's Silly Chickens]

Maybe!!! I'm on BYC more since I started this hatch craze, but it's my project according to MOM.
I just can't go too crazy...

Am I there yet???

 

[Kat's Silly Chickens]

I have a new Mille Fleur D'Uccle

it hatched a little bit ago. It's now in the process of drying.
Do you think I'll be able to sneak it out with the 2 silkies chicks and their adopted mom tomorrow evening when I put the chickens up for the night.
I have cage in the coop for Bar-b and the chicks, I can have them stay in the cage for a day or 2 til it gets use to being with it's new mom.
Any input will help...

 

[Kat's Silly Chickens]

My Mille Fleur is so tiny compared to the 2 Silkies when they hatched, I never thought a chicken could be so small. When we got the Barred Rocks and Cochins at a day old they were even twice the size of this Mille Fleur.
I'm going to take it out with the Silkie chicks and Bar-b their adopted mom this evening. I talk to it every time I go into the bathroom, it is so attentive when I talk. The Mille Fleur are going to be my special little pet chickens, where the Barred Rocks are my larger pets. Dad most likely won't let me keep a roo if I hatch out 1 (because of our 'I hate roosters' next-door neighbor), but I can keep at least 2 hens.
I'll get my outside flock up to nearly a dozen... Watch!!!

 

[Kat's Silly Chickens]

Here is my 1st live Mille Fleur D'Uccle, it hatched

last night in incubator. I just put it out with Bar-b and the Silkie chicks that are 1 week old...

1 day old...

 

[Kat's Silly Chickens]

Well I went out this morning to let my chickens (since I take care of the whole flock of them) out and check on my baby Mille Fleur D'Uccle. Everything's fine, Bar-b got up off the nest to be let out of her nighttime nest cage and Peepers (as mom calls it) just sat there squawking at Bar-b, it wanted it's warm blanket back. I told Bar-b she had to stay with the baby for no less than 24 hours from the time I took it out to her nest. She boohoo'd and sat back on the nest.

I really want these Mille Fleur to survive, I'd like at least 6 hens to balance my outside flock to an even dozen. 2 Barred Rocks, 2 Partridge Cochin, 2 Silkie, and 6 Mille Fluer D'Uccle, I figure 6 D'uccle is only equal to 3 LF...

Dad said only hens tho, (that next-door neighbor needs to grow up and get over his childhood hate of roosters

), no roosters until he gets over it or MOVES (Please Move, Please Move, Please Move

) I can hope can't I...

If I could find a quiet rooster I could have 1...

as long as it didn't crow...

 

[pdsavage]

Cute chickie,how many more to hatch?

 

[galanie]

hehe I have a neighbor that swears up and down he'll HATE it if I have a rooster because he's convinced it'll wake him up at 5am (now where would he get an idea like that?

)
But he knows I'm hatching eggs and have some males. I bet he'll be ok till the first time he gets awakened by one. But this is the guy with his own recording studio that brags about having double sheet rocked the inside walls of his house for soundproofing. I hope it works

 

[Kat's Silly Chickens]

5 Mille Fleur 1 silkie of the 1st dozen, I lost 1 chick and 2 eggs went bad b4 I got the incubator, of that 1st doz.
I have 4 Sultan & 4 BT Buff Jap Bantam X Sultan cross all in the incubator also. Mom's hoping for some hens out of that group.

I can go get more eggs to hatch out, but I have to take all roos and any hens (Mille Fleur) over the 4-6 I want to keep back to Mallary. I can also get Silkie eggs but have to take back any hatchlings over 2 hens we are going to keep. The extra chicks are to help restock her flock. The cold snap we had she lost some of her flock (Mille Fleur). She has many colors of Silkies and most of the chicks could be odd-cross colors.
If I knew I had some takers of the Silkie Roo/Hen pairs I'd sell them. But it would have to be here in TX, I won't ship adolescents thru the mail. Also, it's just hard to auction them when I don't know their color crosses.
I'll keep up on the hatchings in this post.
Kat M.

 

[Kat's Silly Chickens]

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There's a guy breeding quieter roos in the Dallas area, I think Mallary said he is using Serama or Sumatra and another 2 breeds to accomplish this rooster.

We live outside city limits on .87 acre, that no longer has a housing committee and the ordinances/regulations expired 5 years after the last parcel of land sold. That was more than 5 years ago. This guy might have moved in right when the ordinances expired, but still uses that as a means to force my 65 y/o dad to refuse roo here. Heck my parents moved in here over 22 yrs ago and had 2 horses at that time. They were exempt of the no farm animals rules then, and are still exempt of it.

If I can squeeze in a rooster, and keep it quiet by keeping it in the coop til 9am and putting them in by dark, then I don't see why I can't have a roo in the outside coop. Heck it's nearly 200 feet from the back of our house and farther than that from his house.

I wonder if Mille Fleur D'Uccle roos are quieter than Silkie roos?