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gently caress i love chickens lol. we don't deserve them
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nankeen posted:gently caress i love chickens lol. we don't deserve them gently caress 
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Jun 2, 2019 10:43
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Week three class photos will be up later today...as soon as I convince my babies to stop testing their wings all the time and going on A D V E N T U R E S. The good news is that most of them can get back into the brooder after escaping. The bad news is that sometimes they can't and I have to go check on them every few hours to make sure someone hasn't gotten lost in the great wilderness that is The Spare Bedroom. Our kitten, Oz, is very helpful when it comes to finding lost chickies. He's very curious about them, but not old enough to see them as food, and they're basically the same size as one another so as soon as he finds one he just sits beside it and stares at it. He looks very sweet, the chicky looks terrified -- it's wonderful. my cat is norris fucked around with this message at 13:21 on Jun 2, 2019 |
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Jun 2, 2019 12:37
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nankeen posted:gently caress i love chickens lol. we don't deserve them I never would have imagined I would come to love chickens so much before I started keeping them, but I adore those fluffy butts so much 
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Jun 2, 2019 12:44
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CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:They definitely are. Also the girls are very butch and can grow spurs and even sickle feathers sometimes. God dammit Zilla has a couple tailfeathers that look like they want to arc downward. I hope she doesn't get savage.
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nankeen posted:flawless snipe apocalypse guinea now
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Omg they're so wonderful it physically hurts 
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Jun 3, 2019 11:52
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Jun 3, 2019 15:26
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nankeen posted:i didn't know they were that broody! do they make good mothers? Some moreso than others. When I had chickens, we had a few silkie hens, and while all three could get pretty broody, one in particular was a super-mom.
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Jun 4, 2019 14:26
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My chickens have zero chill lately when I just want to get a nice picture of them. A short video, they can just barely do. https://i.imgur.com/OAr6dx7.mp4
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Jun 4, 2019 15:02
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^^^  ^^^A little late this week, apologies! Life happens, etc. The chicks were moved into another room this week. Did you know that 50% of the world's dust comes from growing chickies? It's true, I've lived it. Week One: https://imgur.com/a/htMFny7 Week Two: https://imgur.com/a/vRzi4rS And now, week three-point-five...terrible lighting and terrible posing all around. It's also impossible to capture how much they've grown since hatching, they're like four times the weight these days! And a million times the dust and noise.   Guess who has an extra toe!   The flash doesn't do her any good. She's a beautiful sleek black little thing!    Poor little cross-beaked thing. She's still so runty. Still fierce, though!  fine, don't look at me, see if i care     They're becoming so pretty!
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Jun 6, 2019 23:38
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 My Tenerence is growing up!
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I kinda miss that awkward 1/4ths size hosed up feathers look, but at the same time I'm still looking forward to when my girls become proper chonky fatasses.
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Jun 7, 2019 04:28
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5er posted:My chickens have zero chill lately when I just want to get a nice picture of them. A short video, they can just barely do. A word of caution: that wire fencing you have is chicken wire and can be destroyed by a sufficiently motivated predator animal. Most recommend using hardware cloth for trying to create a barrier between the coop and potential predators.
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CountFosco posted:A word of caution: that wire fencing you have is chicken wire and can be destroyed by a sufficiently motivated predator animal. Most recommend using hardware cloth for trying to create a barrier between the coop and potential predators. that's not just for keeping them out? hey mcin: did your pal give you silkie eggs because if not, that extra toe is definitely from my lot
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There MIGHT be some silkie genes running through my coworker's eggs, but it's very doubtful, as the silkie she has is incredibly meek and has no girlfriends on account of the flock's bigger roo. I think that's a pretty clear indicator of your flock.
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ISA Browns seem to be the biggest jerk chickens I've ever kept, outside normal pecking order stuff.
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Butternut and Xehanort were on a stroll together outside the brooder box this morning. I'm not sure what they were looking for, but it was the cutest thing. I think Xehanort might be a rooster, so if that proves true, this was like a couple of toddlers holding hands and pretending to be boyfriend and girlfriend because that's what the adults do and I can't stand how sweet and cute it was. this was cuter in my head but i can't go back now i spent the time
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Jun 8, 2019 12:27
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CountFosco posted:A word of caution: that wire fencing you have is chicken wire and can be destroyed by a sufficiently motivated predator animal. Most recommend using hardware cloth for trying to create a barrier between the coop and potential predators. That's not their coop. Hardware cloth lines their coop. That wire's just there to keep the little fuckers from going under the porch.
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Jun 8, 2019 23:24
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There's been an incubator running in a corner of the staff canteen for the past 20 days (I gave my boss some hatching eggs), and a couple of the more precocious ones have started pipping. There should be a few chicks out already by the time I get in tomorrow morning.
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Jun 11, 2019 19:35
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5er posted:That's not their coop. Hardware cloth lines their coop. That wire's just there to keep the little fuckers from going under the porch. Awesome! Glad to hear they're safe.
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Jun 12, 2019 20:44
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Bad news so far. Out of 8 eggs, we have 1 successful (and very vocal) Ancona hatch. A couple of other eggs seem to have pipped, but given up overnight. There's a possibility of a couple of extras tonight, but I'm doubtful.
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Jun 12, 2019 22:53
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 C'mon, babies! Hatch!
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Jun 13, 2019 02:09
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Sounds like a new office pet to me. Come onn other eggs!
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Jun 13, 2019 02:44
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CountFosco posted:Awesome! Glad to hear they're safe. We do our best! I know chickens are overall usually considered with contempt, like average disposable livestock, but each of these birds has a distinct personality emerging, and I jokingly-not-jokingly refer to them as my daughters. I'm super concerned about their safety, and happiness, as much as these brain-stem driven little dinosaur fucks can be. edit: we've had them evicted to the coop for three weeks now. In the first week it took them a couple days before they would go topside to the house without having to put them up there ourselves, and only as of the past few days have they been properly roosting the whole night. Thank goodness, because it was gross seeing them run down the stairs to the run, legs caked in the poo poo they slept on. 5er fucked around with this message at 14:00 on Jun 13, 2019 |
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Jun 13, 2019 13:54
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Looks like Lorelai has gone broody again. I swear these sussies will brood at the slightest provocation. Good news for us, though, because it means we can now order a dozen fertilized Orpington eggs and see if she'll hatch them.
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Jun 13, 2019 16:17
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I'm thinking of putting a webcam in my run just so I can watch my chickens doing chicken things more often - anybody have any suggestions for a good model? Don't need much other than a nice image and the ability to stream it. I have electricity out there and it should be able to reach my wifi.
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Jun 13, 2019 17:15
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Sounds like a new office pet to me. It turns out they were just being lazy. 5 hatched out of 8. 3 White Leghorns, 2 Anconas. 
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Welp, our source for Orpington eggs doesn't have any this year. There's a farmer nearby who had Orp/* crosses, but had run out by the time we got in touch. She also has a bunch of Silver Wyandotte eggs, though... Seriously look at how pretty those are!
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Well, this is embarrassing. I went to refill the feed last Saturday, and saw that the empty laundry basket I'd put on top of the feed bin was coated in sawdust. On closer inspection, the sawdust was zillions of swarming mites. I don't know how they got in, but the prolonged rains over the past couple weeks have forced a lot of insects to flee indoors--like, my workplace had an infestation of millipedes, and everyone I know is telling me that the summer has brought on a plague of carpenter ants. None of the chickens have mites, and fortunately, they didn't get to my house rabbit. I can't identify them, but I suppose they were grain mites. I coated half the room in bleach spray and coop cleaner, but I ended up throwing the bin out anyway and reorganizing the room with more compact and space-saving containers for my animal feed. Still a lousy way to spend a Saturday. Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 18:56 on Jun 13, 2019 |
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Soylent Yellow posted:It turns out they were just being lazy. 5 hatched out of 8. 3 White Leghorns, 2 Anconas. I've often heard Velvet Sparrow mention they'll take a breather after pipping (literally, cuz they're breathing air through the hole  ) and figured that's what happened. Glad to see that's the case!
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I have 9 broody hens. I'm going to break being a vegetarian to eat them if they keep this up. E: And a broody duck. Her babies aren't even two months old yet but WE MUST SIT ON THE EGGS.
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My pack of cluckfaces, settling in for the night. (lol at my raw phone uploads being so loving huge but I just can't be bothered to open yet another program to properly scale my stupid vanity pet pictures)
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It's happening  Lorelai is now brooding 14 eggs -- 13 Silver-Laced Wyandottes and one Lavender Orpington/SLW cross (I really, really hope that last one hatches, it would be the perfect chicken). I checked in a few hours after we gave her the eggs and she's already pulled most of them under her, and next time she gets up to get a drink I'm going to see if I can extract the fake eggs and unfertilized eggs her sister has been laying just to make sure there's room for them all under her. Any excess chickens will probably be going to the in-laws, since my partner's mom (a) lives on a farm and thus can have as many chickens (and, in particular, as many roosters) as she's willing to put up with and (b) absolutely loving loves SLWs. If she won't take all of them, well, we have a lot of chicken curry recipes. Thursday three weeks hence is marked on my calendar as EGG TIME.
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Jun 14, 2019 02:39
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5er posted:My pack of cluckfaces, settling in for the night. Put an 'h' on the end of the image url. code:
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ToxicFrog posted:It's happening Best of luck!!
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 Sleepypeeps. I think I have 4 or 5 roosters. Maybe you can help me judge when I next post class photos!
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