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Sordas Volantyr posted:Roses are red / Chefs work in kitchens Morrow said that he wasn’t going to “let the birds down”, “even if I had to drive up to Auckland and feed them myself while looking for homes for them.” They've found homes for 700 of them so far. 
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Nov 10, 2019 10:42
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what a hero 
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Nov 10, 2019 10:55
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spookygonk posted:Morrow said that he wasn’t going to “let the birds down”, “even if I had to drive up to Auckland and feed them myself while looking for homes for them.” Wow that's a ton of pots to fill. Good on him for helping out tho
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Nov 10, 2019 15:17
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We lost Uranus yesterday. She was looking lethargic on Saturday, so we took her into the house and did all the things we usually do for a sick chicken. I held off on euthanizing her because she seemed to rally a bit on Sunday morning, but a couple hours later she stopped breathing. Her symptoms were consistent with ascites, but I think she may have eaten something toxic while foraging. This one hit us pretty hard. We've had pullets and lost them, but Uranus is part of the original flock we got the first winter after we moved into our house.
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Nov 11, 2019 16:19
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Halloween Jack posted:We lost Uranus yesterday.
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Nov 11, 2019 19:41
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Two years and 3-4 months. Too young!
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Nov 11, 2019 20:00
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Thinking of your family and flock, Jack. You were a good family to Uranus who lived a happy life.
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Nov 11, 2019 21:45
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What do you mean you lost MY anus? I'm sorry I'm sorry I had to. in all seriousness condolences, that always sucks about pets.
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Nov 11, 2019 22:51
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Oh, many jokes were had over the years. I thought maybe it was a bad idea, but we were running out of planets.
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Nov 11, 2019 23:09
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I'm very sorry about Uranus.  My girls are very active layers now. 9 eggs since Friday! All perfect and creamy and brown. Tomorrow's breakfast is decided!
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Nov 12, 2019 02:27
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Question for my fellow posters where it is now cold. How much warmer than the outside air is your coops? Mine is ventilated but not drafty but has been tracking the outside temperature even at night with the door shut. My coop is a little big for the amount of chickens I have now and I'm worried that it might be an issue as we get further into winter. This is my first winter with my hens and I don't know if I'm being overly parinoid.
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Nov 12, 2019 02:35
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Source4Leko posted:Question for my fellow posters where it is now cold. How much warmer than the outside air is your coops? Mine is ventilated but not drafty but has been tracking the outside temperature even at night with the door shut. My coop is a little big for the amount of chickens I have now and I'm worried that it might be an issue as we get further into winter. This is my first winter with my hens and I don't know if I'm being overly parinoid. That all depends on where in the world you are, and what kind of birds you have. We have (&had) RIR, BR, Polish crested, and misc. mutts in New Jersey, and our coop provides nothing but shelter from wind and rain. The temperature is the same as outside. In the first year I was paranoid too, and gave them a heat lamp, and then a space heater (set on really low). This didn't really make a difference. It only got the electricity bill up, and made me paranoid about starting a fire. So now I don't do anything and they're all fine. The only thing I do have is a heated drinker to prevent it from freezing. But as I said, if you're raising Fayoumis in Greenland you may have to give them a little extra heat.
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Nov 12, 2019 19:39
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Lawson posted:That all depends on where in the world you are, and what kind of birds you have. We have (&had) RIR, BR, Polish crested, and misc. mutts in New Jersey, and our coop provides nothing but shelter from wind and rain. The temperature is the same as outside. In the first year I was paranoid too, and gave them a heat lamp, and then a space heater (set on really low). This didn't really make a difference. It only got the electricity bill up, and made me paranoid about starting a fire. So now I don't do anything and they're all fine. The only thing I do have is a heated drinker to prevent it from freezing. But as I said, if you're raising Fayoumis in Greenland you may have to give them a little extra heat. Chicago, so not quite Greenland but it feels close enough in the mornings. I have barred rocks, a buff Orpington, a buff bhrama(without feathered legs for some reason) and white Cochin, and a Rhode island red. All are allegedly at least somewhat cold hardy birds and I have a heated waterer and an overbuilt coop. I think I'm just being paranoid but I would feel awful if I woke up to a bunch of frostbitten birds.
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Nov 12, 2019 21:00
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Source4Leko posted:Chicago, so not quite Greenland but it feels close enough in the mornings. I have barred rocks, a buff Orpington, a buff bhrama(without feathered legs for some reason) and white Cochin, and a Rhode island red. All are allegedly at least somewhat cold hardy birds and I have a heated waterer and an overbuilt coop. I think I'm just being paranoid but I would feel awful if I woke up to a bunch of frostbitten birds. Chickens are incredibly good at turning corn into heat. We're in Minneapolis, so we get pretty brutal winters too, and we've never had a bird freeze. We did bring them inside for a couple nights during the polar vortex last year but that was for our own sake so we didn't have to go outside to check on them. We mostly have to worry about keeping their water unfrozen and food accessible. That and keeping the coop clean and as dry as possible - some days ours don't really have any interest in leaving the coop, so they just stand there and poo poo all day so it gets nastier faster, but other than that, there's not much to worry about. They're very well-insulated little creatures.
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Nov 12, 2019 21:18
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my cat is norris posted:My girls are very active layers now. 9 eggs since Friday! All perfect and creamy and brown. Tomorrow's breakfast is decided! Fucks sake. Zilla's my only layer right now. The other three don't even have significant combs or wattles yet. Zilla's such a loving bully too. She's especially hard on Ella, always chasing her off food as a priority. Resources aren't a problem, they've always got access to food. I've even been setting feeding sources far apart so Ella has lower odds of getting hosed with when trying to eat, but Zilla will drop everything and gently caress with Ella if she sees her poking at a pile of food. I wonder if Zilla being a monumental butch rear end in a top hat is discouraging development in the other hens.
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Nov 13, 2019 02:11
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the look of judgement
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Nov 13, 2019 14:11
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hope and vaseline posted:the look of judgement
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Nov 13, 2019 14:21
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Rip_Van_Winkle posted:Chickens are incredibly good at turning corn into heat. We're in Minneapolis, so we get pretty brutal winters too, and we've never had a bird freeze. We did bring them inside for a couple nights during the polar vortex last year but that was for our own sake so we didn't have to go outside to check on them. We mostly have to worry about keeping their water unfrozen and food accessible. That and keeping the coop clean and as dry as possible - some days ours don't really have any interest in leaving the coop, so they just stand there and poo poo all day so it gets nastier faster, but other than that, there's not much to worry about. They're very well-insulated little creatures. The important thing is to check their wattles and combs. Their breath is warm and moist, and if it condenses on their skin it can lead to frostbite there. If they have relatively small wattles/combs they will probably be fine
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Nov 13, 2019 18:47
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DarkHorse posted:The important thing is to check their wattles and combs. Their breath is warm and moist, and if it condenses on their skin it can lead to frostbite there. If they have relatively small wattles/combs they will probably be fine Frostbite is distressing for sure, and try what you can do to avoid it -- but even so, it's not the end of the world, and in a while your frostbitten birds will be fine. Our first rooster was not right for our climate, a modern game bantam with a pretty big comb. Here's my frostbite story from upthread: Lawson posted:He'll probably shake his head a lot, and I'd expect that some of the points will fall off. Eventually he'll be fine. It took our rooster maybe a couple of months until his comb was fully healed -- without sharp points. It stinks to watch him and not be able to do much, but the best you can do is to not let it happen again. Aside, because I didn't know this when I got that rooster: of the modern game bantams you may see at a show, many have their comb and wattles cropped (dubbed?). So there's that. They're OK w/o comb/wattles, it's just the process of getting there that's upsetting.
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Nov 13, 2019 20:49
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Lawson posted:of the modern game bantams you may see at a show, many have their comb and wattles cropped (dubbed?). OK so it's dubbing. And don't anybody read into it that I'm OK with this.
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Nov 13, 2019 20:53
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finally gave in to terrorist demands and planted some shrubs for the quail, hopefully the landlord won't mind the quail are noticeably happier under the shrubs even though they provide zero cover at this point  i live to serve them
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Nov 17, 2019 09:41
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https://twitter.com/foxfeather/status/1196499610027614211
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Nov 18, 2019 19:59
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shells are pip  when it comes to hatching, every time is like the very first time
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Nov 20, 2019 02:15
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fauna posted:shells are pip I'm thinking of doing a "Duckling Don'ts" post. Is this the appropriate thread or should I start a new one?
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Nov 20, 2019 03:30
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Everyone posted:I'm thinking of doing a "Duckling Don'ts" post. Is this the appropriate thread or should I start a new one?
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Nov 20, 2019 04:11
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fauna posted:absolutely, chickens are in the title but it's been a multipurpose poultry thread for years. (tbh ducklings are welcome in any thread, no matter how off-topic) I don't know. I might still make it its own thread just because it's easier for people to search for a thread than for a post within a thread. Also, I'd probably make it a Duckling Dos and Don'ts but my contribution will be some Don'ts. That way other people will more firsthand knowledge can contribute to it. I want it to be a helpful resource for people going "I found/bought/was given a baby duckling/gosling/whatever, please tell me how to not kill it!"
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Nov 20, 2019 08:53
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Everyone posted:I don't know. I might still make it its own thread just because it's easier for people to search for a thread than for a post within a thread. Also, I'd probably make it a Duckling Dos and Don'ts but my contribution will be some Don'ts. That way other people will more firsthand knowledge can contribute to it. I want it to be a helpful resource for people going "I found/bought/was given a baby duckling/gosling/whatever, please tell me how to not kill it!" It's probably fine to do both.
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Nov 20, 2019 20:55
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Quail babies??!
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Nov 20, 2019 23:26
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my cat is norris posted:Quail babies??! from the shell colours i think i have three hot chips and a frida quailo, which is wonderful. and they are all 100% pure undiluted red-headed felafel
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Nov 20, 2019 23:49
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Awesome!
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Nov 21, 2019 01:12
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Nov 21, 2019 12:23
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the three hot chip babies were born first and they're all as golden as spring daffodils  frida's child is taking their time so of course i'm fretting, i hope that one survives and is the natural colour so i can tell them apart from the otherssoon i'll be in a position to start teaching people irl about keeping quail. i think they have a lot of potential as pets for people who can't have chickens for whatever reason, especially limited space/mobility. most poultry people seem to go through a mild-to-moderate hoarder phase as a general learning thing, and there was a while where i had like seventy (this was on land), but now i know they are far more rewarding emotionally (as pets) when you just have a small flock and get to know them as individuals. hatching only a few eggs at a time is an important part of that process, both for you and for the quail
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Nov 21, 2019 13:00
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i ended up with a nice diversity of birds just by dealing with a diversity of breeders. felafel and moon unit (rip) were bred for personality, hot chip and lilly pilly (rip) were bred for meat and egg quality, and frida quailo wasn't selectively bred by anything but fate and i also think comes from some weird ancient talking japanese songbird line. and i will never forget poor sweet pavlova (rip), who was bred exclusively for purity of whiteness, her whole line being brown-and-white tuxedos progressively inbred further and further to eliminate all specks of brown, and who did not know instinctively like the others how to scratch for her own grain and ended up dying from eating too much dirt
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Nov 21, 2019 13:05
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Thank you for sharing so much info on quail. I might be interested as it fits our home situation from what I can tell. One major question though, how are they with cold weather? I live in New England and while I'm coastal it's not as bad as like, middle of nowhere Maine, we still have pretty rough winters.
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Nov 21, 2019 13:34
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That Works posted:Thank you for sharing so much info on quail. I might be interested as it fits our home situation from what I can tell.  quail are fantastic, but i try to show both sides of the quail experience (the joy and the sorrow) to emphasise that they're not the perfect pet for everybody, emotionally/psychologically speakingas for the cold, i've never lost a quail to cold and i've kept them in places where night temperatures would occasionally dip below freezing, but unfortunately don't really know much about new england winters. australian desert winters are very dry and very frosty, without snow, and most of the time they would sleep on the bare ground, it was mostly only when it rained that they slept in the waterproof nesting area. they seem to be pretty tolerant of cold. so i think if you buy locally bred birds, they'll do fine as long as you make sure part of their enclosure is waterproof and lined with soft warm nesting materials for the very bad nights
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Nov 21, 2019 14:01
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quail bebbes, awwwww
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Nov 21, 2019 14:24
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How specifically are quail as pets compared to chickens? Are they as messy/loud?
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Nov 21, 2019 14:34
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fauna posted:i'm glad someone is reading it and i'm not just whitenoising into the void You are not. I can't have quails where I am, but your posts about them make me wish I could.
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Nov 21, 2019 15:40
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fauna posted:i'm glad someone is reading it and i'm not just whitenoising into the void I am reading all of your quail posts as the girlfriend and I are looking at raising our own next summer. 
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