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[TurtlePowerTrav]

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She is 8. She was too scared to see Santa - that's why she didn't want them to wake her.

Although, her twin brother was positive "Santa" is really mom, and the lil' bugger snuck out of bed around 1:00 to catch mom in the act. Bah Humbug!

You got any recent pics of your teen birds? Still trying to figure out if girls?

 

[itsren]

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LOL! That's funny, because today my husband told me I must have set our incubators to the wrong temperature - again - because we have not-so-little combs developing on at least 5 of the 8 new chicks.

I'm not exactly sure what temp I'm supposed to set the bators at to hatch girls.

 

[itsren]

You got any recent pics of your teen birds? Still trying to figure out if girls?

We took Cocoa and Rocha to auction. Let me tell you, that was a sad day! We lost all the personality out of our teen flock when we lost them.

They looked very boy and had pointed saddle feathers coming in, so we were pretty sure they were boys.

I'll need to get new pictures of Blackie and Latte. We are still thinking Latte *might* be a girl, but we are still not positive. Blackie - I still think is probably a boy, but there are days I wonder because his saddle feathers are not as pointed as Cocoa and Rocha's were.

I miss my confident little Cocoa and Rocha. Blackie and Latte are extremely shy and skittish. It's driving me crazy. I don't know what to do to help them stand up for themselves a little better. They seem so lost without the other two, and the big girls are not being very accepting of them. They won't come to us like Cocoa and Rocha would. They make "chicken chase" quite the ordeal. Blackie protects Latte, but even he's pretty scared of the big girls, too. Cocoa and Rocha - they'd walk right up to the big girls and start pecking away at them. It was quite funny to see smaller birds going after my big girls.

 

[TerrorBird]

Me too. Spiders must die. You'd LOVE this blog post about spiders if you're as fearful of them as I am: CAVEAT: THERE'S BAD LANGUAGE. BAD BAD LANGUAGE. Even I can get past most of it and still see how hilarious it is...that's rare.
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/03/spiders-are-scary-its-okay-to-be-afraid.html

This blog is great. I especially love the stories about the simple dog.

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

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I saw you took them to auction,

. With knowing that they were "Fudgeletts" and the barring, they were sex-linked by the barring. When a barred hen has a non-barred rooster over her, she will pass the barring gene to all her male offspring. That is how I know my remaining chick from broody is a boy, blue barred Orp/Rock mix. He is with my DW's Silkies since my broody got taken by a hawk last Friday.

 

[Slinglings]

I haven't posted pictures of my four new girls yet. Here is Cocoa:




Halle:



Rosie:



and Skye:

 

[itsren]

I hope everyone had a great holiday. I have lots of reading to do now that things have finally settled down.

We had my mom here for a week. It was good to see her. She's a lot less independent than she was when we moved her down to Oregon last May. That took me by surprise. It was a little difficult to accept. I'm not sure if she's really going downhill that quickly, or if she's just starting to act like the others that she lives with in the Continuing Care Retirement Center.

The birthday party went great. The kids loved doing science experiments and were begging to do more than I had planned.

Blackie and Latte are currently housed in a "walled" off section (hardware cloth wall) of the big girls coop. It seems to stay pretty warm in there with 5 birds in the coop. That's good. I feel bad for Blackie and Latte because their section of the coop doesn't have access to the pop door, so they have to wait for me to get them out each morning. The big girls are going out the door as soon as it is light, but I'm not getting out there that early.
Drama and Caunnie gave us a late Christmas present... they started laying again the day after Christmas!

I was shocked to find three eggs in the nest box yesterday morning. Happy to see an olive egg again, after so long of just a RIR brown egg each day.

The 8 chicks are growing like weeds. We are trying to hold them each day to get them used to being held. I used to hold Cocoa and Rocha a lot more than Blackie and Latte, and it is showing in Blackie and Latte's attitude toward being picked up, so we're trying to get better at it with these littles. Even DH has stepped up to chicken holding each day. I have my favorite - I really hope she's a she... so far, so good - she has the smallest comb of them all. She's an OE. Her name is "Snow" as in Snow White because she had the cutest white eyebrows, a light face, and very white wingtips for a while. If I can ever figure out how to get a picture off my phone, I'll post it here.

 

[itsren]

I haven't posted pictures of my four new girls yet. Here is Cocoa:

Very pretty girls!

Cocoa's a BCM? Hmmmm. I have 2-week-old BCM chicks that look like they are going to have combs a lot bigger than that. BUMMER! I'm glad you posted this picture. At least I know what to look for.

A couple of my BCM chicks have combs so big, they look like they need a nose job!

 

[itsren]

I saw you took them to auction,

. With knowing that they were "Fudgeletts" and the barring, they were sex-linked by the barring. When a barred hen has a non-barred rooster over her, she will pass the barring gene to all her male offspring. That is how I know my remaining chick from broody is a boy, blue barred Orp/Rock mix. He is with my DW's Silkies since my broody got taken by a hawk last Friday.

So do you agree then that we called it correctly and Cocoa and Rocha were boys?

Oh no about your broody. That's terrible. I'm so sorry!

 

[Slinglings]

Quote: Yes, she is supposed to be a BCM.