This Just In!

its confirmed...RACER IS A ROOSTER!

Silkies are growing up!

My babies are growing up so fast. Heres a few recent photos, Sorry they are not the best... Ill work on getting some better ones up soon. The ladies now spend 24 hours outside, free to enjoy the sun and all the grasshoppers they can catch. Everynight at 7:15 one by one they climb the ladder and I Shut the door. Such good babies!

Chick update, day... I forget what day but man they're getting big!

Feel free to click the photos for a larger view. They are starting to go through their ugly stage, Loosing their down and getting their real Silkie fluff in. Cant wait to see what colors they eventually turn out to be!

My have they grown!

at two weeks of age they have exploded in size and I can barely hold one in my hand at a time, just look at the difference in the photos in the previous post! Wow amaizing, they all have wing, tail and feet feathers now!

Babies first day out.

Hey BOY those aren't strawberries!

More Hatchings! And a suprise...

Yesterday when I got home from work, I expected to find 5 new silkies in the incubator. But to my surprise there was 6 and the sixth was white! This brought my total to 7. We moved the chicks to their new home ( Brooder ) and watched as Henrietta, examined her new brothers and sisters. Remember this is the first time shes ever seen a chick, shes been all alone for 3 days ! She wasn't very happy at first, but now they're all getting along. Eating, Pooping, drinking, peeping, and sleeping. Just how they're suppose too. The colorings of these 7 are, 1 partridge, 1 white, 1 black, 4 grey/splash/silver somethings. This was until last night... at around 7 a new partridge was born. (pictured above). You see that giant lump on her head? well turns out its not a lump, its what is called a vaulted skull. A priced accessory among many silkie collectors. What this means is that when shes older she should have a much larger "poof" on her head than the others. :) I woke up this morning to find, 2 more babies with her as well. They were still wet so I don't know there colorings yet. This brings my total to 10 babies now! Whatever am I going to do! :)

Chicken Egg update

The hatch date for batch one of my silkie chicken eggs is tommorow! Cross your fingers and lets hope for the best! The first batch (9 eggs) has been moved from the incubator into a hatcher I made them this week ( sorry no photo yet ) . The second batch (21 eggs) will remain in the hatcher for another few days, until their incubator day 18 where they will no longer be turned daily and the humidity will be increased. I will post updates if there is any news.

Egg arrival

Got home from work yesterday and found my eggies waiting on me! I had been so excited all week. The incubator was stable and waiting... Opened the box..... the pictures speak for themselves. Only 9 eggs survive of the 20.... and those aren't in great shape. Im not very hopeful at all...