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I’m pretty bummed today. We were out of town last night and my mom was chicken-sitting. Rose must have flipped her food bowl over one of her chicks and Mom found its little dead body this morning. I feel so guilty.  I may never leave home again.Also our little assisted hatch chick didn’t make it. Most everyone else is fine and growing, so I should focus on the good news but it’s hard today.
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Joburg posted:I’m pretty bummed today.  it's so sad to lose them. they've evolved to die at the slightest provocation at that age, for the benefit of the rest of the ecosystem, but there's nothing more heartbreaking than that moment when you find the tragic little corpse, especially when it's something so stupid and preventable that caused it. it was nobody's fault! i've started believing in reincarnation for my own emotional wellbeing. your deceased chicks will be reborn as emus, and run across the desert on their long long legs for 10-20 years, being fascinated by very simple things.
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i took the chicks out again today and the little jerks really want to be on the sidewalk, picking at my potted plants, instead of the freshly mowed patch of weeds and grass  luckily they are scared of my corn broom so with lots of shooing they did go in the lawn. mostly.  they were scared of some quail that came in the yard, and scared of doves that flew overhead, but a sparrow landed nearby and Izzie the head chick charged it immediately also we have a pair of rooster quail that have been here the last couple nights and they did not care that i got very close (thru the window) to peep them 
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Jun 1, 2021 02:30
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city of glompton, your chix (domestic and wild) are sublime
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Jun 1, 2021 02:42
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thank you  it is really charming experiencing the quail becoming used to our presence a couple pairs of them have decided it is ok to come in the yard when we are outside 
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Jun 1, 2021 03:28
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City of Glompton posted:thank you i love that the baby chickens respect them! so they should.
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Jun 1, 2021 03:31
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 scrubby t! i think he's a rooster because he's super friendly and comes running every time he hears my voice, but doesn't like to be picked up. he's hilarious - his body is still only half the size of the others but he has normal-sized legs, so he's shaped like a tiny ostrich. i'm fairly sure he's moose's babby so he may end up being a jumbo, in which case growing slowly is best for his health.
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Jun 1, 2021 04:20
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I have a deep need to see more of this little ostrich. The two leading gals of the 4 that are old enough to start laying. We've got about 5 regular size and a few halfsize eggs from the last week or so. Can't wait for the chicks to get big enough we can let them all into the same run.
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Jun 1, 2021 06:23
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ShootaBoy posted:I have a deep need to see more of this little ostrich.  here he is being tall! quote:
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perepelki posted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5mtclwloEQ
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For suggestions on things to use eggs for: Boyfriend made a chocolate cake (a sacher) and pasta today. That's 20 eggs used up! Chinese egg cakes are also a pretty good use of eggs. https://www.chinasichuanfood.com/chinese-egg-cake/
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they look like LoTR elves to me
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City of Glompton posted:they look like LoTR elves to me
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ShootaBoy posted:
I don’t know... they look like teenagers to me. Large Marge started laying eggs again and she’s actively avoiding her 5 week old chicks. They grow up so fast  I will try to finish the teenagers’ new hoop coop (waaay out in the field) so that her babies can move into the current teenager hoop coop. As soon as that’s done I will give her the option to rejoin the flock if she wants to.Then I have some re-arranging to do with the Golden Girls. I have 2 more broodies set to hatch their eggs on the 13th so these gals need to graduate to other housing. Here’s Blanche and her little chicks. She’s such a good mom!  In the background are the giant rooster “chicks” I got from the feed store 3 weeks ago. A couple of them run to me for treats now so they are starting to really be chickens
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Joburg posted:Here’s Blanche and her little chicks. She’s such a good mom!    i never ever get tired of baby chicks standing on their hen. and i'm so glad your little foundlings are starting to warm up to you and enjoy their new life!
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Jun 3, 2021 02:34
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same except peeping their head out from under mama's wing
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Joburg posted:
This slays me
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Looking for a little advice. One of my chickens was a bit lethargic and had some vent gleek going on, so we treated that and all seems to have cleared up now. She was off lay for 2 days, then laid essentially a mass of crushed egg shell and yolk. She's now back to her perky self and seems good but is still not laying for the past 3 days. All her behaviour seems normal, eating, drinking, trying to help in the garden etc. Should I be thinking about getting her to the vet just now? She has been a really regular layer for the past year.
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Aramoro posted:Looking for a little advice. One of my chickens was a bit lethargic and had some vent gleek going on, so we treated that and all seems to have cleared up now. She was off lay for 2 days, then laid essentially a mass of crushed egg shell and yolk. She's now back to her perky self and seems good but is still not laying for the past 3 days. All her behaviour seems normal, eating, drinking, trying to help in the garden etc. Should I be thinking about getting her to the vet just now? She has been a really regular layer for the past year. I would, just for a check up. Having an egg-hap like that could mean she's laying internally (that's why she was lethargic for a couple of days, trying to push that mess out). Could be it was just a one-off, but worth a look by a vet.
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spookygonk posted:I would, just for a check up. Having an egg-hap like that could mean she's laying internally (that's why she was lethargic for a couple of days, trying to push that mess out). Could be it was just a one-off, but worth a look by a vet. Cheers, I'll get her booked in. Like I say she seems absolutely fine now, just not laying. Veet gleek has cleared up.
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I managed to get a picture of all 6! The "chicks" 
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Alterian posted:I managed to get a picture of all 6! i think scrubtit may not be long for this world. i just spent ten minutes watching a young currawong edging closer and closer to him along the fence until it was right overhead and ready to strike, all the while he was just pobbling around and jumping up and down and being a delicious little morsel without a care in the world. (then i picked him up and put him back in the coop, to his great indignation.) it takes a lot for me to say this, but... he has the worst survival skills i have ever seen in a quail 
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https://www.redditmedia.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/nqk87z/sit_on_the_egg_you_idiot/?ref_source=embed&ref=share&embed=true You sit on the egg,
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SSJ_naruto_2003 posted:https://www.redditmedia.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/nqk87z/sit_on_the_egg_you_idiot/?ref_source=embed&ref=share&embed=true I just appreciate the "Stupid *PECK* Idiot! *PECK*" at the end.
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Alterian posted:I managed to get a picture of all 6! Why do so many pictures of chickens look like they're for a cover album
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Enfys posted:Why do so many pictures of chickens look like they're for a cover album They're such natural posers! And, yet, one can always easily distinguish the drummer and bassist.
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City of Glompton posted:beautiful hens That is a good looking flock. I also like the blue nesting bins at the back.
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The nesting bins are Lowe's buckets with the lid cut in half and glued back on in a frame holding them.
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https://ludonaut.itch.io/borb-the-birb The borb loves you.
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Rose has some brave chicks!
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Nettle Soup posted:https://ludonaut.itch.io/borb-the-birb i love them,
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Joburg posted:Rose has some brave chicks! Whaaa? They flew up into the tree?
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spookygonk posted:Whaaa? They flew up into the tree? They did! And they had no problem getting down by themselves. Maybe they are part Leghorn. Our Leghorns spent some time thinking they were tree birds last summer. We kept having to get them down to put them in the coop at night.
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i love everything on this page edit: except the first post, but a dash of tragedy is required on every page of the chicken thread
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perepelki posted:a dash of tragedy is required on every page of the chicken thread today... friday is gone.
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