Smart Feeder - Light sensor values

[docsquid]

Well, it had to happen. Gwladys, our frizzle silkie, has been sleeping alone for a few months now. It didn't matter in the summer, but in the winter, she will be very cold all alone in the Eglu with the other six in the Cube. So....at the National Show, I managed to get a couple of beautiful little blue splash silkies as company for her.

 

My plan to introduce them gradually was completely undone by them flying over the divider, and I thought it would be chaos, but actually the big girls simply ignore them, and once the egg laying is over for the day (not many at the moment anyway!), I just shut them out of the run and let the little new ones feed. And they are sleeping with Gwladys and all of them are staying nice and warm!

 

Here they are...

Sioned (foreground) and Sian (background)

 

Sian

 

And a gratuitous picture of Gwladys, who's been with me for 15 months

[Cheeky Chooky]

Oh my...they are gorgeous!

[jackian]

What a lovely surprise those photos were,, they are just such lovely bundles of fluff ..Gorgious

[docsquid]

Thank you! I keep referring to their fur, rather than feathers, because that is what it looks like!

[Tweety]

They are beautiful - congratulations!

[Cooks]

Totally gorgeous!! Very pretty indeed

[chick wiggle]

Awww gorgeous little bundles of fluff

[JanTheDiver]

They are lovely!

[Chortle Chook]

WOW they've got me

[Space Chick]

It was love at first sight when docsquid saw them Having seen them in person I know what beautiful girls they are

[Redwing]

They are beautiful, it was lovely to see Docsquid treat herself as she so rarely does

 

Oddly though I seemed to have acquired a blue splash Silkie cockerel

[ClaireG]

They are gorgeous

[Space Chick]

 

Oddly though I seemed to have acquired a blue splash Silkie cockerel

 

I wonder how that happened

[mollyripkim]

Wow what lovely photos, they are beautiful girls.

[sparkysmum]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh, so lovely. You must be very

[Chortle Chook]

They are beautiful, it was lovely to see Docsquid treat herself as she so rarely does

 

Oddly though I seemed to have acquired a blue splash Silkie cockerel

Might that blue splash Silkie cockerel generate some blue splash or blue female chooks in the summer?

[docsquid]

A quick update on this. Just over 3 weeks on, and they are fully integrated. Sioned and Gwladys bicker away all day, but it is very good natured grumbling, and Gwladys has blossomed since she got her own small flock to look after.

 

The silkies (all three) rarely come out of the WIR, but the new girls can hold their own at the feeders. They are all sleeping together nicely in the Eglu and Gwladys now has two lovely little hot-water chooks to keep her warm.

 

So overall, this was a very successful venture. Let's hope they actually lay some eggs in the Spring

[Chortle Chook]

I'm so pleased it has all worked out for you Everyone says Silkies are not very good layers, but mine lay all through the winter. They stop when they get all broody in the summer but that's when my other chooks are laying so all in all I do well for breaky with my Silkies

[fluffy chick]

Mine don't lay during the winter and I haven't had any for a few weeks. They lay pretty well in the summer and are much easier to 'break' out of being broody than the pekins. My cochin are still laying though fingers crossed for all winter

 

lovely pics!