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Sorry for the lack of activity on my end, y'all. Not much going on over here with the birds, just me running around like a loon trying to get all sorts of non-chicken-related things done! I did move Opal and her babies to a ground-level pen with a bit more space for everyone to grow in, maybe I...

There's just something about the shape of Rosecomb bantams 😍 Dusty, ugh, I'm still so heartbroken for you about him! :hugs He was such a handsome guy! Fortunately for me, it wasn't the feed store mislabeling them that had me confused on the breeds of chickens my family started with...

Very occasionally. Unfortunately, when they're still young and growing, it's hard to tell when they're actually too skinny versus their normal skinniness for their age. You should be able to feel the keel bone to an extent regardless, but it feels kind of sharp when they are underweight, if that...

Yeah, I feel like a single-combed Rosecomb is the most likely answer, personally. I know all three of those breeds and varieties (editing, I mean the Sebright, OEGB, and Blue Rosecomb, of course!) would be fairly common in a TSC bantam bin mix, so it's pretty likely they could have been...

It is possible! Blue Dutch bantams are pretty rare from my understanding! It's not unheard of for hatchery OEGBs to have incorrect earlobe color, though, and there are also Blue Rosecomb bantams that look similar and that sometimes throw single-combed individuals like her... 🤔 So she's kind of a...

I agree, I really don't think even if I had gone out to their coop earlier last evening that I could have done anything to prevent her passing. Such a shame, though. I had forgotten that she was a June 2023 baby, so she wasn't even a year old yet. 😢 She's been given a proper send off now. :hugs...

Not wanting to skip posts from the previous page, here. I'd love to follow along with that project if you did! :love Yay on the hens!! :yesss: Any ideas what colors they are? Definitely share pictures if you do get them! I wonder about that as well. When people message me for my CL ads...

:hugs :hugs :hugs Sorry for the post and run. That was tough. So soon after we'd just been talking about such things, too. Ugh, I'm still feeling teary over losing my Judy booty. Her absolute beauty, that glorious fluff butt, and complete with the textbook Cochin attitude I've come to adore...

Heartbroken. I'm closing up coops right now and realized that Wyatt's flock was still outside and not acting right. Went into their coop to find our Judy Booty lying freshly dead by the roost. No injuries or anything, not sure what happened, but (unpleasant imagery). I'm so shocked and...

Of course, happy to help! :hugs Oh goodness, I worry about that so much! I wanted to hatch from Peanut Butter when I hatch from Gwenyth because I worry about that a lot, but of course PB has decided to have the earliest annual molt ever so no eggs from her any time soon :th I suppose I hadn't...

Get yourself a couple flat pavers to put the waterers up on, that should at least help with that! I'm sorry you're dealing with so much heat already, though. That's got to be tough even without peeps to worry about! Seems to be, yes! I haven't seen any signs of eggs being stolen or anything...

Just a few more random pictures from today. Roxy was so pleased to get back out into the flock after her leave of absence inside! She immediately went into a dust bath in her little reintegration space. 🤭 Sumi and her beautiful plumage 😍 She was upset when I took this picture because I had...

Yeah, and it's probably best that I focus on the BBS anyway. I don't want to spread myself too thin and I really want to preserve them and breed them well. I've seen way too many people get into way too many projects only to drop them after a year or two because it takes a long time to really...

One more post, but no picture because I forgot to grab my phone before going in there... Looks like Roxanne is back to 100%. No prolapse this morning, appetite back to normal, and she seems to be pooping normally. Yay! 😁 I'm keeping her in just a little longer to make sure of that last criteria...

A check in with the babies! Blue mama is a protective lady. She doesn't outright attack me, but she gets very angry when I reach in there and pokes at my hand sometimes, too. 🤭 Even when she does, she's super gentle about it. :love Splash mama giving pecking lessons to her five 🥰 They're way...

Haha, no worries on the typo, it happens to us all ;) I do have a few more pictures of the broodies and their babies from the past couple days. I didn't even realize I hadn't checked in in so long!! :th I'll get them uploaded after this post. 😁 Hey, long time no see!! :frow Good to hear that...

That's my thought as well. The only symptom any of them have for deficiency is that Bella either doesn't lay at all or doesn't lay much, but there should be other symptoms like leg issues if she was truly deficient and that's what was causing that. I don't know. 🤔 I never got around to making a...

To be honest, I'm not sure. 🤔 I've been looking into this a bit today because three of that batch are not as fluffy, and looking at them, they seem to have kind of stunted, brittle down on them. They're the same size, roughly, as the fluffier ones, just not fluffy. It's almost as if they didn't...

I don't have any pictures yet, but I peeked under our two broodies in the mixed flock here at lunch time. The Splash girl has at least three external pips under her, I didn't look any further so as not to disturb them. The Blue girl has 3 babies out, what looked like a Blue and 2 Splashes 🥰 Her...

Somebody stop the ride, I'm ready to get off :th I spent yesterday checking on the outer coop every hour to hour and a half, trying to catch whatever the egg thief is in the act. Well, around 6:30, I went out and as I was walking past the coop (the pens are on the other side of it from the...