Silky Chick rasied along with Jidori Hen chick.. They had a Jidori Rooster chick brother till Tuesday or so but that adventurous little bird must have wandered off too far from the mother hen and gotten eaten by the cute dog or a street cat... The Owl Meet (ふくろうの会) people told me the Jidori are fighting birds so that rooster would have ended up as somebody's meal after getting big enough to cause havoc in the yard anyway. But still it would have been nice to see a happy full grown rooster for a while...
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Miyazaki Jidori heirloom hen chick Silky brooding hen mother.. The chick's sister was dead, looked a bit flattened, in the corner the other morning. This one seems to be doing ok though.. This hen chick hatched a few days, maybe a week, after the other one..

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The mother hen and the three chicks are anxious to get out of their safe night box in the morning. I try to get them started on feed as soon as they get out.. Especially since the younger of the two hens brooding in that same box tends to abandon the eggs for a bit every morning. I hope the immobile, veteran brooder "Plum" always as the same eggs under her but views of the eggs in the open don't have my hopes up too high... There's another hen in a back corner of the big night cage that just went broody. I'll put some fertlizied (spermed) eggs under her tomorrow.. That way I'll know to leave big brownish eggs for 21 days or so and keep taking the newer smaller whitish eggs added to her burden by the other Silkies... Eventually the situations will arise where I can partition off a broody hen and have her hatch a few Silky eggs from another population.. Or maybe LaBuBu the Silky chick is a rooster (probably, at the high temperature that hatched Seven the Turkey at the same time..) and will get along with Pear the old roooster and I can just assume LaBuBu is fertizing at least half the eggs.. We'll see...

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The Heirloom breed Miyazaki Jidori rooster is most outgoing!! And a quick grower too!! He goes farthest from the mother hen and jumps around into adventures.. He's probably the most likely to be picked off by a cat, hopefull warning the others: that's probably supposed to be the male role anyway, the Swedish anthropologist Mom character in _Market Forces_ (by the _Altered Carbon_ SciFi writer) got me thinking along those lines...

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The place where I get the fertilized (spermed!?!??) Jidori eggs might need another rooster. This cute little guy might have somewhere to go other than people's stomachs when he gets big enough to be a fertilzing risk with the Silkies.. Though I am interested to see a few hybrid Silky/Jidori birds.. Especially if their eggs are easy to distinguish so I can let people know if they are getting a prized (for whatever reason) Silky egg or another kind...

One dream could be developing a breed that is well suited to small-yard free-range while providing enough eggs for people to be content, people with kids or some reason to need a lot of eggs for the number of chickens they feed...

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From October 30th, but it's fascinating to see how quickly the Miyazaki JiDori Heirloom breed rooster develops... He seems much quicker and pro-active than the hens, both the 地鶏Jidori hen chick (gold-colored and big compared) and the Silky 烏骨鶏Ukokkei chick (rooster or hen nobody knows for a while with Silkies)。。

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One morning 2 or 3 chicks made their way through the wire mesh and out of the cage and were out on their own. Lucky no cats were about. The hen was all anxious and pacing inside, probably disturbing her 2 peer hens in there brooding eggs. After a busy day it's easy to forget about adjusting the mesh overlaps so the chicks can't fit through the holes. You're just glad you remembered to close up the cages at all.. Eventually some sort of more sage-like system will have to come about, like a dog that can be trusted not to eat the chicks, or a nested fencing situation.

Now that I think of it, the egg-farmer that put his dog in the chicken cages at night probably only did it for big cages with 80 adult birds. I'll have to ask him. If Maron gets knocked up I'll have to be intensive about having the puppies hanging out with chicks a lot.. Maybe I can still train Maron to live with chicks??

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Chicks ❤️ love ❤️ maggots.

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A Taoist guy from China was telling me how Silkies are like Medicine and are worth so much more than other chickens (even heirloom varieties) that are just meat. I mentioned how much slower the Silkies are to mature and start laying eggs. And he said that's why they are so much better, like it had something to do with them being so much slower to mature. The smallest whitest chick in these photos is a Silky. The other two are Miyazaki Jidori heirloom chicks. The striped chick was hatched by the hen along with the Silky chick. The more yellowish plain chick was hatched in an incubator. The silky chick is noticeably less agile. I've seen the Silky tumble over it's own feet. The Silky eggs placed under the hen were from the hens in my yard and some of the eggs may be a bit in-bred by now... So I'm not sure how representative this Silky chick is for comparison with the Jidori Chicks from one flock.. But it's a start, I guess..

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