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City of Glompton posted:thank you all, she is an angel, but have you considered a hen in the style of round? 
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City of Glompton posted:thank you all, she is an angel, but have you considered a hen in the style of round? Ah, yes; the physicist's theoretical spherical chicken...  I just hope that's not a vacuum... 
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Aug 30, 2022 07:44
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 I had to crawl under the deck to take this picture. She was running around the yard with it.
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Aug 30, 2022 10:37
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City of Glompton posted:thank you all, she is an angel, but have you considered a hen in the style of round? Well, I was really looking for something more along the lines of a trapezoid.
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Aug 30, 2022 15:04
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Alterian posted:
beautiful and clever
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Aug 30, 2022 16:20
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 Y’all, Blanche is STILL mothering these babies and they are 8 weeks old today which is a week past our previous record. Usually she mothers for 5-1/2 weeks. 
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Aug 30, 2022 21:10
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Judging by her expression, she still takes her mothering duties very seriously
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Aug 30, 2022 21:39
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she's so dedicated! i love buff chickens, they're so pretty
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Aug 30, 2022 21:58
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Joburg posted:
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in non-dedicated hen news, Scarlett's eggs are pipped and she doesn't want to stay on the nest!!! she's worrying me. these are the pooped on eggs that she's gotten off of a bunch, hope they are ok City of Glompton fucked around with this message at 03:25 on Oct 9, 2022 |
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Aug 30, 2022 22:31
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City of Glompton posted:in non-dedicated hen news, Scarlett's eggs are pipped and she doesn't want to stay on the nest!!! she's worrying me. these are the pooped on eggs that she's gotten off of a bunch, hope they are ok Do you have another broody or an incubator you can put them in? Some hens don’t understand the hatching process the first time but figure it out on later broods. Good luck to your eggs!
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Aug 30, 2022 23:33
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we have one but, her eggs are due a few days from now. Scarlett has settled down enough to hatch one chick, so hopefully that will help her stay put e: she has hatched 6 chicks with 2 more pipped. there are two eggs that i think are duds there as well, but wasn't sure enough to take them out. so good job Scarlett, you're doing it. i hope i wake up to 8 fluffy babies in the morning City of Glompton fucked around with this message at 04:14 on Aug 31, 2022 |
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Aug 31, 2022 00:40
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My chickens are acting very strangely. Annabelle, the "lead chicken", has developed an odd habit. She will stand in the middle of the lawn, puff herself up while flapping and let out a very loud "barking" squawk. She'll then stand there for a bit before repeating it. There's no threats or anything around, and the others seem perfectly calm, so it doesn't look like a predator warning. If I go to see her she'll calm down and stop. Anyone observed anything remotely similar?
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Aug 31, 2022 11:47
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Astrid didn't make it back to the coop last week before we locked them up. We searched and couldn't find her. She was walking around the yard the next morning. It happened again a few days later, but it wasn't quite too dark yet and I was able to find the hiding spot. Last night her sister Valkyrie joined her. We put them in the coop when they do this because our area is pretty wild.
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Aug 31, 2022 14:09
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We had a group of 15 young chickens that were roosting in the trees. We were able to get them down every night and after about a month most go to the coop but a few hold outs still prefer the trees. It’s a pain but they will eventually figure it out. Really big breeds don’t seem to go through this phase in my experience. We’ve had one of the guineas staying the the coops at night for about a week. I assume she wouldn’t be grab-able if she was healthy so we did a quick external parasite check and found nothing. I gave her Ivermectin on Sunday in case she has some internal parasite. Yesterday she looked awful, droopy wings and gasping. Sorry for the poor video quality. https://youtube.com/shorts/nCJTdPtKi-Q?feature=share I gave her an LA 200 injection last night. Today she’s not gasping but it’s not as humid as it was yesterday. Any other suggestions of stuff to look for or try?
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Aug 31, 2022 14:59
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Our neighbors have a tree full of chickens at night. When we go lock up our coops we shine the flashlight over there and see a dozen orbs with eyes looking back at us. It’s hilarious. We had a hen that decided to brood in the wood pile away from the coop. Took us a couple of weeks of going out and digging through the wood to get to her, bring her to the coop, before she started doing it again herself. Silly chickens.
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Razakai posted:My chickens are acting very strangely. can you get a video of this? Alterian posted:Astrid didn't make it back to the coop last week before we locked them up. We searched and couldn't find her. She was walking around the yard the next morning. It happened again a few days later, but it wasn't quite too dark yet and I was able to find the hiding spot. Last night her sister Valkyrie joined her. We put them in the coop when they do this because our area is pretty wild. naughty babies Joburg, good luck with the guinea, i wish i had a suggestion. here's Scarlett's babies, she managed to hatch 8 despite her best efforts. three more eggs this week and then we are done hatching (unless Lil' Pep gets broody again, i'm saving her eggs for her  ) https://i.imgur.com/SAdynej.mp4 bonus from yesterday: when someone is making a fuss, but you can't figure out why. it's amazing to see all the chicks freeze in place.   (there was a RIR standing on top of the run, hollerin, i don't know why) City of Glompton fucked around with this message at 03:25 on Oct 9, 2022 |
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Aug 31, 2022 16:22
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I don't have chickens and I only very occasionally think about getting some, but I've been reading this thread over the past few weeks and it is now officially my favorite thread on the whole forums. Chickens are so cute and so dumb
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Aug 31, 2022 17:29
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Razakai posted:My chickens are acting very strangely. I forgot to answer this earlier, roosters do that. I think it’s just a general announcement to anyone in the area that this is their flock and they are willing to fight if anyone disagrees. Annabelle is the big bad boss chicken and now everyone in your neighborhood knows it.
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Aug 31, 2022 19:46
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Airbnb I stayed at had some lovely birds!   One wee little chicklet:  how are cochins so round and perfect 
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Joburg posted:I forgot to answer this earlier, roosters do that. I think it’s just a general announcement to anyone in the area that this is their flock and they are willing to fight if anyone disagrees. I looked up a video of hens crowing and that does appear to be it - seeing as there's no rooster I guess she's decided to be the boss. Hopefully this doesn't become an early morning habit...
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https://i.imgur.com/aJ4mQ6g.mp4
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...Oh thank god... (  )
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 Meet Henny and Bennie. Their mom is a Maran, dad is a Brahma x West-Sussex.
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Sep 2, 2022 13:58
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Now that's an album I'd buy based solely on the cover.
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Sep 2, 2022 14:06
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Those feather patterns are really neat.
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they're beautiful
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Sep 2, 2022 16:01
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The top one is really striking a pose. Do they have feathers on one leg only, or are they on the outside of the leg so it looks like one leg is feathered and one isnt?
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:The top one is really striking a pose. The feathers are on the outside only, a bit like cowboy pants.
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Sorry Scarlett is a bad mom. I would separate Navi and give the chicks to her. After a few days she will bond with them and be LESS likely to keep trying to take Clarice’s babies. I’ve not been having a lot of luck selling my pullet chicks either. Here most people buy/sell on Facebook so that always means I look at their profiles so I either don’t offer my birds or I respond with a high price if I don’t like them. (I decided the price includes a donation to BLM in their name  )And one person even had a post hinting that they like cock fighting WTF! I still have space and the cockerels are getting removed as they get old enough so I guess I’ll just have lots of chickens. It will be nice to see what color eggs they lay when they get there. The oldest pullets from our own eggs are 4 months old now so just a month or two to go.
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 Here are some of my other chocks chilling in the garden.  Morning traffic at the kitchen door, all begging for treats 
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I love that phase when the feathers are coming in but the down is still there.
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big girls having a sunbath new babies all three are here but it's difficult to parse the two in front. we are now done hatching  City of Glompton fucked around with this message at 03:55 on Oct 9, 2022 |
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5 week old chicks update. looks like we've got 3 or4 roosters among our hens and they're growing up nicely. 
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so a few weeks ago i bought two hens and two roosters for the excellent price of five dollars each, but to my absolute horror and dismay, my cattledog puppy got into the cage and ate two hens and a rooster. the remaining rooster was bullied in his old home and his head had been pecked totally bald when i got him, so i didn't even realise he was going to have a red head like our father felafel. now slowly regaining his rightful glory, he has been embraced by my four hens (moose, egret, sable and quoll). introducing the lucky orb, mister sandman: 
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yesterday i checked in on them to find moose and quoll sitting side-by-side with mister sandman snuggled between them. he is smaller than either of them and was completely buried in feathers, just a contented little face poking out from the vast fluffy expanse of hen
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double post dammit, so posted over the new page.
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