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Update: chickens are praising the sun by playing dead (sorry for potato quality, I had to take this by zooming in a bunch because if I opened the door they'd stop doing it)
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That is some amazing camouflage!
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Oct 15, 2020 02:38
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sun-worshipping poultry are the most mesmerising thing on earth
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Oct 15, 2020 02:40
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my resolution to always supervise the quail when they're out of the coop is proving surprisingly good for my mental health. watching them pobble about is very relaxing, and they are getting calmer around me as well. only spending a supervised hour out per day rather than several unsupervised hours doesn't seem to have diminished their quality of life - they're visibly more celebratory of their freedom and seem to make the most of it while it lasts. currently the six of them are in the same cage with no problems, even though three are roosters (i think - moose is still questionable.) oberon is a peaceful little blue darling. quimiii gets rambunctious sometimes, but i just take him out to explore the far corners of the yard by himself and that works off his excess energy. he hasn't crowed yet, but i saw him do the sexy strut at friday the other day - i'm desperate for a chick or three out of them, because they are both beautiful  
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Oct 15, 2020 11:31
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I moved the chicken playground around to give them something new to explore.
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Oct 15, 2020 18:32
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Alterian posted:I moved the chicken playground around to give them something new to explore. That is an intense stare
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Oct 15, 2020 20:03
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Alterian posted:I moved the chicken playground around to give them something new to explore.
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Oct 16, 2020 00:13
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The funny thing is Sparkles is not top chicken. Camilla and Henrietta are fighting for that spot. I thought it was going to be Camilla but it looks like Henrietta decided to go for it too. she's the big girl in the flock.
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Oct 16, 2020 00:50
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Our weather is at long last cooperating, and tomorrow, Saturday the 17th, starting around 11AM PST, we will run Chickam on the flock! We have a pumpkin all ready to go, the cam view will be from *inside* the pumpkin as the chickens eat it--if you've never seen it, it's a hoot! Linky thing: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr7ICWyIMhWSp0UUJpAeTCw/live
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Oct 16, 2020 15:55
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Velvet Sparrow posted:it's a hoot! No, see, you want to keep the owls away from the flock. Easy beginner mistake though.
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The flock is up to 6-7 eggs a day now and the birbs are all happy if not annoyed by our presence.  So we've made about 3 quiches and 2 custards so far and uh... eggs are still piling up.
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Oct 17, 2020 00:15
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 three days worth. The chooks and the duck are cranking it. Mind the poo poo. My wife has issues with me taking photos of the lovely eggs and putting them on the internet.
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Oct 17, 2020 00:27
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today i startled nina and she went PERCACK like a chicken 
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Oct 17, 2020 01:20
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Egg production is down around here. Yesterday I got 4 eggs out of 21 layers. Today was better, I got 11 eggs and this beautiful tribute:
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Oct 17, 2020 01:33
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My chickens are starting to molt.
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Oct 17, 2020 01:37
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Joburg posted:Today was better, I got 11 eggs and this beautiful tribute: 
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Oct 17, 2020 01:41
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Joburg posted:Egg production is down around here. Yesterday I got 4 eggs out of 21 layers. Today was better, I got 11 eggs and this beautiful tribute: Beautiful
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Oct 17, 2020 07:25
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fauna posted:today i startled nina and she went PERCACK like a chicken One of my teens got landed on made the buGACK!! Chicken sound instead of the trilling peep and I was happy yet kind of sad.
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Oct 17, 2020 15:24
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Shifty Nipples posted:My chickens are starting to molt. We have 2 molting right now and I think they are wishing they had done it a month earlier since it is now 40 overnight compared to 60 overnight then.
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Oct 17, 2020 16:54
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Velvet Sparrow posted:Our weather is at long last cooperating, and tomorrow, Saturday the 17th, starting around 11AM PST, we will run Chickam on the flock! We have a pumpkin all ready to go, the cam view will be from *inside* the pumpkin as the chickens eat it--if you've never seen it, it's a hoot! That's 7pm for GMT, so any minute now... 
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spookygonk posted:That's 7pm for GMT, so any minute now... Setting things up now! A whole lotta moltin' goin' on, so don't be startled. Software is updating--Chickam, live and from inside a pumpkin (chickspicion will be high, at DefCon 1 at first) will begin shortly here:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr7ICWyIMhWSp0UUJpAeTCw/live Velvet Sparrow fucked around with this message at 19:42 on Oct 17, 2020 |
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Chickam is up! Pumpkin being added now, we'll fix the sound after that Here's a photo of a previous PumpkinChickam, to give you an idea of what it looks like: The pumpkin prepared:  And in action! 
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Oct 17, 2020 20:18
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Velvet Sparrow posted:Chickam is up! Pumpkin being added now, we'll fix the sound after that peckpeckpeckpeckpeckpeckpeckpeckpeckpeck 
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Oct 17, 2020 20:35
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Source4Leko posted:We have 2 molting right now and I think they are wishing they had done it a month earlier since it is now 40 overnight compared to 60 overnight then. All four of mine badly need to moult but keep putting it off even as we head into winter. I don't think you're going to make it all the way through winter without moulting, ladies, might as well get it over with.
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Oct 17, 2020 20:38
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Mine are molting now. Feathers everywhere - have to keep making sure that no one has been eaten or gotten into a fight with something.
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We had our first hawk yesterday. Luckily I was in the kitchen with the window open and heard a commotion. Looked out and saw a hawk going ham on Salem our blue silkie. Shouted for my wife and we both sprinted out there and the hawk flew off. Very lucky she only has a small cut on her forehead and about 30 feathers ripped out and that’s it! :Phew:
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Edit: forgot to say glad she's ok There's a ton of hawks where I live and on no-poo poo day 1 that the girls were out in the new coop I caught one of them sitting in front of the wire looking at them twice. Got an owl decoy that day and it hasn't been back since, but my plans to let them wander the yard during the day have been dashed. Am going to have to make a medium security area for them to explore. stealie72 fucked around with this message at 14:22 on Oct 18, 2020 |
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Oct 18, 2020 14:17
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One of our chickens started laying about every other day. We decided to cook up two we have for dinner. I crack one for myself into the pan  My husband is super jealous. It's his turn to cook his.  Two double yolk eggs!
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Oct 18, 2020 22:46
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Alterian posted:Two double yolk eggs!
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Damnit avs I like your birdposting stop getting banned in other threads
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Gaukler posted:Damnit avs I like your birdposting stop getting banned in other threads like asking the wind to not blow, rain to not fall, or a quail to not die We got a coop and three more birds from someone who was moving and couldn't bring their birds, so now we have two coops and eight lil dinosaurs. The collection grows. (i love you and your birds avs for the record)
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Wife found this old girl dumped and abandoned on the side of the road. She is riddled with lice and her stool is crawling with worms Bone thin. She has also removed all of her lower feathers. Also she’s finding it difficult to walk, there is a large lump on her left thigh which I am guessing is a tumour We have deloused and wormed her. Will move her to one of the nursery enclosures in the next day or two when she is feeling better, but I think her prognosis isn’t too good  The kids have named her Amber. 
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Displeased Moo Cow posted:Wife found this old girl dumped and abandoned on the side of the road. She is riddled with lice and her stool is crawling with worms thank you for helping this bird, i hope she recovers
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Rip_Van_Winkle posted:thank you for helping this bird, i hope she recovers
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Rip_Van_Winkle posted:thank you for helping this bird, i hope she recovers Even if she doesn't, do not discount that you've given her a warm safe and loving place to live out her final days in relative comfort OP. I hope she pulls through and lives a long happy life with your flock though  .
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Rip_Van_Winkle posted:thank you for helping this bird, i hope she recovers You’re doing a great thing, showing this sweetheart the love she has clearly been lacking.
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Displeased Moo Cow posted:The kids have named her Amber.
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Captain Log posted:You’re doing a great thing, showing this sweetheart the love she has clearly been lacking. It’s a bit of a tough one. I’ve had a another chance to look at her now that I’m home from work and I don’t think the hard lump is a tumour, but a badly broken leg that has healed. The leg is at an acute angle and a bit dangly. I am wondering if she was hit by a car or something a while ago and somehow survived that trauma (and the hawks). However wifey only just noticed her on the side of the road a couple of days ago. She is very alert, chirpy as heck, eats like a horse, drinking well. She just...can’t move. She won’t be able to scratch or roost. Our nursery coups have ramps up into the roosting areas so I’m going to rethink. Either way she’s going to the vet. Our vet has a tendency to give chooks the final needle if they have so much as a sniffle though. But if she can’t really move, I’m sure that she won’t have a good quality of life.
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Displeased Moo Cow posted:It’s a bit of a tough one. I’ve had a another chance to look at her now that I’m home from work and I don’t think the hard lump is a tumour, but a badly broken leg that has healed. The leg is at an acute angle and a bit dangly. I am wondering if she was hit by a car or something a while ago and somehow survived that trauma (and the hawks). However wifey only just noticed her on the side of the road a couple of days ago. As sad as that will be, you're giving the chicken some peace at the end, if it is the end. She deserved someone like you a long time ago, at least she has you now. 
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Displeased Moo Cow posted:Wife found this old girl dumped and abandoned on the side of the road. She is riddled with lice and her stool is crawling with worms You did a good thing for her. Get well soon, Amber, at least you're in a safe place now. Chickens can be extremely resiliant, bouncing back from terrible injuries.
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