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[Stumpfarmer]

My Mother's Day hatch babies are 4 weeks old as of yesterday.  I am loving my little birds!  My 4 English Orps are also adorable and friendly.  We have one boy who would rather just perch on your shoulder all day.  I can see that being awkward in a few months.

Just thought I'd share a couple favorite photos of my littles -

The Seramas -
My #1 Boy (snipped for redundancy)

#1 Boy looks to be Porcelien; I do love that color!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Well, time to replenish supplies; the last couple of feet from a 50ft roll of 5ft wide 1" poultry mesh I bought in late November was just pressed into use as a safety net for my favorite clematis, sheep having one serious limit as lawn-care devices.

 

[Sudsy Chick]

#4 - The Princess - Quite the pretty little lady. Very sweet and posed nicely for me. I'm looking forward to seeing how she feathers out.

The princess is my fav =) she is so pretty!

 

[BerrytangleFarm]

It's been suggested that Orpingtons would be a good flock to keep/breed. Are there personality differences between the colors? Anyone think the BLRWs would be good, too? I love the look of those, but I'm looking for a flock that will lay good eating eggs in addition to hatching eggs.

 

[StarryEyzz]

My Mother's Day hatch babies are 4 weeks old as of yesterday. I am loving my little birds! My 4 English Orps are also adorable and friendly. We have one boy who would rather just perch on your shoulder all day. I can see that being awkward in a few months.

Just thought I'd share a couple favorite photos of my littles -

The Seramas -
My #1 Boy - very confident and has taken over the role of King in the brooder





#4 - The Princess - Quite the pretty little lady. Very sweet and posed nicely for me. I'm looking forward to seeing how she feathers out.

ALL are cute, but these two are my faves. Look at that comb on your little guy!!!! And Princess sure looks like a Princess. Look forward to seeing them as they grow.

 

[itsren]

Yeah, they do great cure, although bacon and ham are off my menu, possibly forever, at least until I fugure out why they make me sick to my tum and also achy in my joints.
My BIL's family's been doing business with Home Meats since they opened, or at least since before said BIL was born. We've had no complaints (except for the first-time buyer's shock that cows are not all Tbones nor pigs all chops and bacon) since we started doing all our custom beef with them, even though there's an inconvenience factor for distance.

You too? I had allergy testing done a few weeks back and was absolutely shocked that I was "highly allergic" to pork. Really?!!! I didn't know people could be allergic to meat! This weekend I had canadian bacon and pineapple pizza... without the canadian bacon. It's just not the same.

 

[itsren]

SadieSue... your little bird "The Princess" is beautiful! Very appropriately named.

 

[itsren]

Here is a couple interior pictures. What do you think?

Awesome coop!

We bought a coop this weekend and tried to get our girls to walk up the ladder. That was a joke. At 8 weeks old, I don't think it's going to happen. They were sliding down between the rungs. My husband said the ladder must have been built for full-grown birds. I think he plans to build a new ladder that is long and L-shaped so the birds can walk up it.

 

[SadieSue]

Some awful camera photos of the Silkies who at 4 weeks are definitely entering their "awkward" stage. It is so difficult to wrangle chickens and a camera at the same time. I'm going to have to find the tripod next time. Cuties all though. The Lavender in particular chirps happily when held. My daughter who is presently in Italy saw the photos on Facebook and has named the Lavender "Lucille" because of the head poof. Hope poor Lucille is a girl now...
Blue from blue/splash egg


Blue from Paint egg -


"Lucille"


Partridge from Paint egg -


My beautiful Porcelain - (please be a girl!)


And finally, my black -

 

[itsren]

Ugh. I know all about those branches, our back tree still has some. The bulk of them have come down since the ice storm, but there's still a couple left. It's about an 80' tall tree and my DH climbed to the top of it to cut out the damaged branches, but hurt himself and had to come down before he could get the ones that fell and caught on lower branches. We really don't want to pay someone to do it either.

They're being pretty good about it. They're going to take the trees down. I hadn't noticed, because the trees are so tall, but I guess the top half of both trees are dead. They said they'll start with the one that has the widow maker that's hanging out over our back yard. They noticed that the other tree has a widow maker hanging over our yard, too - but it is hanging behind our shed and the likelihood of my kids playing back there is pretty slim. It's dark back there under the shade cover and my kids don't like that. They're afraid of spiders. I'll be honest. I won't miss these 2 birch trees. I'm forever weeding baby birch trees out of my garden beds and the trees are just too overgrown. The neighbor said they've owned the house 37 years so the trees are older than that. I took a horticulture class once and the arborist that taught part of it said birch trees are considered 25 year trees. These trees must be ancient in the birch tree world.