Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[JustJohn]

Kristi here is your new baby silkie!

cute chicks

The silkie doesn't look anything like the partridge silkie at the children's museum right now.

Another 7 eggs in the brinsea for the 4K kids this morning at school. I agreed to do something with whatever hatches after they live at the school for a while. I must be crazy. Anyone need a chicken!?!?

 

[kristip]

If my friend has too may roos, she may take one or two off your hands JJ! what kinds are in the incubator? The olive eggers from you are getting some cool colors.

I dont have a current pic of mine, but this is the one my friend took ( with the polish that was not born with a poof but is growing a little one in)

THe silkie does not look partridge but blue or possibly black. Rare chance of dark splash.... Still really cute. We had two hatch from our birds and gave on to a friend and Carol took the other and I heard it from my kids...they love their silkies... so this might save the day!

 

[irishrovr]

cute chicks

The silkie doesn't look anything like the partridge silkie at the children's museum right now.

Another 7 eggs in the brinsea for the 4K kids this morning at school. I agreed to do something with whatever hatches after they live at the school for a while. I must be crazy. Anyone need a chicken!?!?

Sure! I need another excuse to go down to visit my daughter!

 

[1muttsfan]

Thought you neighbors might want to hear about this-

Pullorum testing certification class in Escanaba, MI on May 18th
Class is free, you can register after the class is over as a tester for $20, good for 3 years
Preregistration is required

Contact Andrea Sorensen
[email protected] (possibly royalfeathers without the hyphen)
715-923-0410

 

[Bigfamily4me]

The little silkie is not black. Look at the leg feathering. You are probably right JJ (it really CAN happen!) about not being partridge. But my blue partridge looked blue for a looong time. Then it started getting brown in. My blue partridge is the one who went missing.

 

[cuties]

cute chicks

The silkie doesn't look anything like the partridge silkie at the children's museum right now.

Another 7 eggs in the brinsea for the 4K kids this morning at school.  I agreed to do something with whatever hatches after they live at the school for a while.  I must be crazy.  Anyone need a chicken!?!?

Are they more silkie? If not any idea what they are??

 

[Terri O]

Hey Folks! OMG--I had lots of fun when the kids got here! First they were digging...then they we playing with the dogs, then my DD bounced with them on the trampoline. Before I knew it they were playing in the puddle....oh yes--you guessed it! They were soon undressed and SWIMMING IN THE PUDDLE

. Now they are bathed and on the couch watching a story before a nap. I have MUCH to scrapbook this weekend! And now I will try to get them to take a nap!




Oh yes...I had my sweatshirt and jacket on for the whole time! Kids are so hot blooded! Sound like they are NOT sleeping upstairs...Later peeps! TO

 

[jvls1942]

good aft, just came in from outside,, I finished building both pen doors.. all I have to do is attach them to the pen.. No rush, going to be nasty weather for the next week..

I am not about to agree to disagree about the skunk.. despite you who doubt me and tell me that it was another animal,, I know what I know.. You believers that think skunks do not kill poultry are just mis informed,, on the other hand,, I am being called a liar..

for those of you who do not have access to the International Wildlife Encyclopedia, I have a few lines to quote..

skunks are of the family Mustelidae along with the badger,weasel, mink and otter...

they feed on insects such as beetles, crickets, grasshopers and caterpillars.

they will also take mice, frogs, eggs, small birds,and crayfish,, and occasionally cause damage by entering poultry runs, killing the birds and taking their eggs..

ref page 2163 and 2164...

I do know what the heII I am talking about..

.......jiminwisc......

 

[otonoh]

afternoon all,

hope all is well, cute chick pictures.
Terri O it sure must be warmer down south, we still have ice in our puddles

Kristip, don't you just love the ugly chick phase. When my first chicks reached that stage, I thought I am gonna have some ugly chickens,

Luckily they grow out of it fast

The girls are doing well, They aren't cheeping much, found the food and water. They don't seem to be huddling at all.
The second time around, I am a lot less worried. I am giving them save a chick for about a week, just to make sure they are all healthy. Maxine my chow who adopted 3 cats is very interested in the chicks. I let her see them but can't go near them. She has a high prey drive but responds to rebuke.


better go outside and enjoy our half hour of sun. Hopefully the coop is melted and I can put up their sun shade this weekend.

David

 

[vickiw]

good aft, just came in from outside,, I finished building both pen doors.. all I have to do is attach them to the pen.. No rush, going to be nasty weather for the next week..

I am not about to agree to disagree about the skunk.. despite you who doubt me and tell me that it was another animal,, I know what I know.. You believers that think skunks do not kill poultry are just mis informed,, on the other hand,, I am being called a liar..

for those of you who do not have access to the International Wildlife Encyclopedia, I have a few lines to quote..

skunks are of the family Mustelidae along with the badger,weasel, mink and otter...

they feed on insects such as beetles, crickets, grasshopers and caterpillars.

they will also take mice, frogs, eggs, small birds,and crayfish,, and occasionally cause damage by entering poultry runs, killing the birds and taking their eggs..

ref page 2163 and 2164...

I do know what the heII I am talking about..

.......jiminwisc......

Hi Jim~ at the risk of ruffling OTHERS feathers, my neighbor lost a chicken to a skunk last summer. (Best we could figure the dumb broody wouldn't move) I didn't think it strange, at least not up here. Especially in the spring, skunks will go after about anything that moves. Maybe because the pickins are slimmer???? Anyway, I was raised in Michigan and was always taught that by my farm raised dad that skunks will go after any baby critter, eggs and will kill a chicken if they can especially if they have young to feed.
Ok, I'm ducking now, sooooooo.....FIRE!!!!