YO GEORGIANS! :)

[LTygress]

Just smiling at you!!!!! I'm glad our silkies are beloved in many places!!!!!!

Before moving on to the pictures, here's what has happened in the past year or so.

MOST of the eggs you shipped to me, actually hatched. A broody hatched some, my incubator hatched some. But I ended up with serious predator problems. Namely, a snake. The babies kept disappearing, but I never knew where. I thought maybe they wandered UNDER the sheet-metal side to the pen, and got out. Other times I would find one dead, and another missing. After a few months, I finally saw the snake itself. I beat the crap out of him as he left the pen and went into the woods. I didn't think he would come back.

Well he did. But the next time he came back, he ate a FAKE egg (actually, a fricking GOLFBALL that I use as a fake egg in the nests) and couldn't get back out of the pen. Unlike a normal egg, he couldn't crack the shell to collapse his own body to squeeze out of the pen. So he was stuck, and couldn't get away. I had my nephew grab a shovel, and... off with his head. Then my gross nephew squeezes his body and runs it up the length of the body to push the golf ball back out to prove that it was indeed a GOLFBALL that he had eaten.

ANYWAY, as luck would have it, two silkies somehow survived all of that. And by pure chance, the two silkies ended up being a loud crowing rooster, and a soft-chatty hen. Somehow I ended up with a mated pair out of 14 eggs, and 12 of those dying somehow. And here they are.




The hen laying an egg after bath time, while warming back up in my bedroom.

 

[RoboDuck]

The madness is getting worse. I just submitted an order request for a pair of Cotton Patch Geese. I may have to seek therapy.


Hey ABMADDOX!!!!! I hope you're ready to share a sunrise over a glass of orange juice Sunday morning. GA did tell you that we would be there at the crack of dawn, right?

 

[LTygress]

The madness is getting worse. I just submitted an order request for a pair of Cotton Patch Geese. I may have to seek therapy.

OMG! WHERE FROM!?!?

 

[RoboDuck]

http://worthitfarms.jigsy.com I keep finding places that are this close to my house, I am going to go broke.

 

[RoboDuck]

I found it through the BST forum.... https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/746123/cotton-patch-goslings

 

[GAMarans]

I have a friend wanting a couple of BLRW (started), if you end up getting any.

I've got a couple in the incubator.

 

[LTygress]

The only problem with Cotton Patch geese, is their price. It can be the same with the sebastopols that abmaddox and I are getting, but I paid for some of the hatching eggs last year, and just found another auction for them while I happened to have the money available.

 

[GAMarans]

The only problem with Cotton Patch geese, is their price. It can be the same with the sebastopols that abmaddox and I are getting, but I paid for some of the hatching eggs last year, and just found another auction for them while I happened to have the money available.

That may be a problem for starting but it is a tempting feature for after they mature and he can try to get some of that money for himself ... eggs and goslings, anyone??

 

[RoboDuck]

Yep. $110 for the pair at 1 to 3 days old. Then they go up from there to over a hundred bucks each. So I will be going for the 1 to 3 day old goslings. I prefer that anyway to get the better imprint.

 

[LTygress]

That may be a problem for starting but it is a tempting feature for after they mature and he can try to get some of that money for himself ... eggs and goslings, anyone??

Very true. I may trade some sebbies for a cotton patch or two next year when BOTH of us have geese that are breeding.