I did that with a few of my other hens who have extremely fluffy butts! I noticed when the Roo was breeding them I couldn’t see his vent or the ladies!
Did a trim and I found the old boy spent less time groping around. Looks rather rude but did the job (yes I did feel like a pervert peeking at...
Awwww CC is adorable! And a frizzle, to boot, I didn’t realize the silkie feathering could be frizzled until Clyde was hatched here. I noted his neck feathers were curled up - I tell people he sat on the electric fencing 😆
And the other day I noted my two white silkie is also frizzle - I have...
Debbie did I tell you I shoved a couple silkie babies under my horrible evil broody love-bug Georgie Girl?
Do you know how hard it is to find chicks here at Christmas?! 😊
She is a natural mama. Would have preferred she waited until summer to go broody…. It’s hard in this cold with wee babies!
I have a Sweeter Heater and all my ladies take turns under it during the day. I wish I could afford another one or two. It’s just miserable for the older ladies in the winter.
Getting cold here for a few days also, last week I started moving everyone into the Hen Houses at night. But the youngsters just didn’t get the memo to go in there and roost at night. I have haul their fluffy butts in there every night!
It’s odd that Mocha just takes the beating, how strange...
My young cockerel Bert seems to just glory in terrorizing my two silkies Henny and Marty. Tonight he chased Henny into the stall I was filling water buckets in, he didn’t know I was in there - Henny ran to me she knew I was there - so I trapped him I. There to catch him but like a ninja chicken...