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Babs has a baby!

By hellymisscloud, in Chickens, Eggs and Hatching

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http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/19853_turken_baby.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php%3Fid%3D144572&usg=__B723F8pHthEqKjtqzA9wWwCUoNo=&h=480&w=640&sz=17&hl=en&start=6&um=1&tbnid=C2jeEbnw8ducUM:&tbnh=103&tbnw=137&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dturkens%2Bchicks%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-GB:official%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1

 

Oh! my goodness! :shock:

that IS a long link :?

 

well, it still might work.....there is a nice big piccy of a baby NN here with very similar colouring to yours :D

 

edited to say..... :oops: Doh! the link shrinks once submitted :roll:

and scroll down for a lovely big picture :D

 

Tara x

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Nelly it is :D and ED thinks she might actually be a Scots Dumpy! (the chick that is, not ED)

 

we very nearly got rumbled this afternoon... aunty mostin and uncle shaunw were visiting the new chicks and OH said: "has that one got hairy legs? :shock::evil: " (he hates silikies). YS said "I think it's a silkie (daggers from me) quickly retracted and said - oh no, it can't be." Mostin and i daren't look at each other, YD grinning at me from behind her father, shaunw admirably quiet....i quickly changed the subject.... I'm doomed, aren't i?

 

Silkie now has a name too: Ushta (don't ask :roll: )

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Nelly it is :D and ED thinks she might actually be a Scots Dumpy! (the chick that is, not ED)

 

we very nearly got rumbled this afternoon... aunty mostin and uncle shaunw were visiting the new chicks and OH said: "has that one got hairy legs? :shock::evil: " (he hates silikies). YS said "I think it's a silkie (daggers from me) quickly retracted and said - oh no, it can't be." Mostin and i daren't look at each other, YD grinning at me from behind her father, shaunw admirably quiet....i quickly changed the subject.... I'm doomed, aren't i?

 

Silkie now has a name too: Ushta (don't ask :roll: )

 

It was so funny, how he didn't pick up on such a moment of charged silence I'll never know :lol: . The moment passed though and I think little Ushta will remain secret for a while longer :anxious: .

 

I can happily report that all the chicks are just as cute as they claim to be in the photos, in fact more so :lol: . Babs is being a super mum, and they all look such a happy little troop. I am especially jealous of the baby aracaunas, little violet bundles of fluff that they are. It's a good job Laurie was keeping count or one might have snook out in my pocket :lol: .

 

Mind you, thinking about it, babs might have had my hand off if I'd tried that :think::lol: .

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the man who raged at me for the additional cube that accidentally ended up in the garden is now the man who takes his breakfast out to sit at the table he's set up next to the babies. :roll: the man is in love. He gets to them first to give them their live mealworms and spent all day - literally ALL DAY - last Sunday sitting next to them and watching them run about, eat meal worms, and snuggle down with Babs.

 

He also whispers baby-talk to the new girls. Crikey, would've thunk it? :shock:

 

not only might he notice the pink eglu - he's making space for it and he can't wait for the next lot of babies to hatch in it! (as long as the chickies all go off to live with aunty mostin and aunty HEN)

 

he still don't like silkies much though (and I'm still denying all knowledge :whistle: )

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oh my goodness, it gets worse....

I casually commented that I think Nessie and Nellie may turn out to be Hamish and Dougal after all and I got a tirade of 'wishing them ill' and the 'poor little chooks' and I'm just wanting them for the pot :shock:

 

Yes, that's what you all know about me, isn't it? I'm not in it for the chook love, I'm in it for the pot. I'm clearly a very mean person.

 

So Nessie and Nellie are NOT Hamish and Dougal and Fleur isn't looking very butch AT ALL, and they will continue not to be any of these things until the first time they crow :roll:

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:angel: Excuse me? Who? Me? :angel: I wasn't even here :angel: Must have been Mostin.

 

Oh I see, I turn my back for a couple of days and I get all the blame :roll::lol: .

 

Its very easy for your family to be in denial Laurie, I heard of someone who wouldn't post pictures of her suspected cockerel on omlet for weeks because she couldn't face the truth, can't remember who that was now though :whistle::oops: .

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7 weeks since we posted this news - hellymisscloud, the lurker and I - and the update is that we have crowing!

 

Our darlling little Lav Araucana, Basil, has either got a very sore throat or is practicing his crowing...over and over and over :shock:

 

Mostin is not only the best chook integrator in the world but she manages to keep and bloomin' enormous Bill as quiet and meek as a lamb. I, however, am a failure as my cockerels just want to knock 7 bells out of each other when they're no bigger than bananas and then tell all the world about it! :doh:

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