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it doesn't matter how many chicks i hatch i'll never stop losing my drat mind when i check the incubator in the morning and find a peepy hole
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 i stole an egg at a poultry show and here's what came out no idea what breed she is, the egg was tiny, maybe a bantam sussex? anyway she's cute and loud 
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Aug 7, 2016 02:07
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Avshalom posted:
That's a really good idea and I am going to steal this idea. I don't have an incubator or even laying chickens yet but I'm saving this idea. Thank you! I notice that when my chicks take a nap outside the coop in the afternoon, one is standing guard. Is that a sign of being a potential rooster or is that just the head bitch in charge?
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Aug 7, 2016 02:29
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i'm worried about the crime baby, i had four other eggs that were meant to hatch at more or less the same time but they're not pipping yet  will she be okay as a sole chick if they've died or whatever? is there anything i can do to make it easier on her? she has an ecoglow brooder and a tea towel to snuggle up to and she's quietened down and seems to be sleeping a lot. should i be handling her more than usual? put a quail in there?
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Aug 7, 2016 07:38
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...so it turns out googling "raising a single chick" gets you mostly non-poultry-related results
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Aug 7, 2016 09:01
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Imagine what strange people turn up to watch Chickam aka !!!TINY WET CHICKS LIVE ON CAM!!!
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Aug 7, 2016 09:18
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CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:Imagine what strange people turn up to watch Chickam aka !!!TINY WET CHICKS LIVE ON CAM!!!
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Aug 7, 2016 09:48
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Avshalom posted:i'm worried about the crime baby, i had four other eggs that were meant to hatch at more or less the same time but they're not pipping yet NVM I clicked the "?" under your name. You have, like, all the birds.
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Aug 7, 2016 09:52
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MisterOblivious posted:
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Avshalom posted:it's a disease Morehens disease, right? Do you have any hens that could surrogate/foster mother your single chick?
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Aug 7, 2016 13:10
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Avshalom posted:
Don't steal poo poo av
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Aug 7, 2016 13:40
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false alarm, a second peepy cheeper has arrived!Fluffy Bunnies posted:Don't steal poo poo av  but it's the perfect crime
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Aug 7, 2016 21:50
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Pfft, clever enough to steal eggs but not enough to mark them so you knew what breed they were? Btw stealing is bad, don't steal. But do give us more pictures of the bitty peepers.
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Aug 8, 2016 01:35
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Avs has ascended to a plane beyond the mortal and no longer needs to abide by such rules as "don't steal eggs from the show" and "don't post erotic Ariel fiction when drunk".
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CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:Avs has ascended to a plane beyond the mortal and no longer needs to abide by such rules as "don't steal eggs from the show" and "don't post erotic Ariel fiction when drunk". o_O I shouldn't ask, but ....where did the erotic Ariel fiction come from? (Also drunk, it's National Sister's Day, so I'm drinking in solidarity with my drunk sisters)
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Aug 8, 2016 04:43
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I know it's controversial but I think stealing eggs is a great idea but erotic Ariel fiction is not. It's really only kinda stealing in the sense that catching Pokemon is stealing. Maybe.
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samizdat posted:I know it's controversial but I think stealing eggs is a great idea but erotic Ariel fiction is not. It's really only kinda stealing in the sense that catching Pokemon is stealing. Maybe. I'm assuming any eggs left in cages would have been binned otherwise?
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Aug 9, 2016 10:51
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legit i feel so guilty about it that i won't be doing it again, also one of the two chicks* that hatched from purloined eggs is a sickly babe and requires my constant attention so as far as i'm concerned that's the good lord telling me it was the wrong thing to do *not friederike, she's fine and bright and incredibly chatty also i mostly only post erotic ariel fiction in forums/threads i have contempt for, i've always been a fan of pi and this thread in particular so you're all safe
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the second contraband chick died i spent three fruitless days trying to save him but in the end he just didn't thrive. i posthumously named him elvis and he's buried next to my peyote friederike on the other hand is bright as a button and she is the loudest, sassiest chick 
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Avshalom posted:the second contraband chick died Sorry to hear, I lost 1 chick, 2 Guineas, and a quail in the past month.
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Avshalom posted:the second contraband chick died You just know from that face, this one is going to be so much trouble and to think Friederike would have never been born if you hadn't got to that discarded egg in time. RIP Elvis.
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spookygonk posted:You just know from that face, this one is going to be so much trouble  i look forward to being terrorised by this chicken for many years Avshalom fucked around with this message at 14:14 on Aug 11, 2016 |
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 my brother responds. i didn't mention i was doing this beforehand because i realised it was a bad idea and i was fairly likely to end up with a dead chick but since freddy's sibling died she was screaming her little head off, so i put my most chilled-out japanese quail in the brooder box with her. miraculously, mellow yellow and freddy are getting along very well and she's quietened right down now she's got a friend. she follows mellow around and pecks at the spots on her feathers, it's so cute
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 Both of our year old barred rocks passed within three weeks of each other under similar circumstances (plucky in the morning lethargic by evening dead by nightfall) leaving our Easter Egger as the only survivor. Our first to pass, Elma, was sent off for a necropsy and the lab found she had an enlarged liver and the cultures of her liver and spleen grew staphylococcus. They didn't think she would be contagious and told is not to worry about the other two. Still, I ended up cleaning the hell out of their coop with beach and water and added fresh shavings after the coop had dried out. However now that our other girl has passed we are freaking the gently caress out and really aren't sure what to do. Our girls were all allowed to free range our yard during the day and returned to their tractor at night, ate a mixed diet of kitchen scraps, layer pellets and were allowed to eat veggies from my local organic market (they box up their cast off greens for folks to compost). Is it possible that both barred rocks had a congenital disorder? Am I a bad chicken dad? Should I worry about my remaining girl? Should I consider getting another adult hen? How about replacement chicks? I'm really worried for now our last girl and super disheartened about the passing of Elma and Repecka.
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i can't help you but just wanted to offer condolences, rocks are gorgeous and your girls look super healthy in that photo so i'm sure you took great care of them
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I don't know the details, and I'm just spitballing, but this Miso Beno posted:(they box up their cast off greens for folks to compost). raised a red flag. Not everything that's fine for compost is also good as feed. Anything moldy. Cutoffs of non-food plants. Maybe you already have an eye on this though. Otherwise I have no idea -- condolences all the same.
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We always inspected the food we gave them.for mold. Usually what we got was wilted (except the cabbage, they throw away fantastic looking cabbage) but not alone and whatever started to turn we would feed to the compost pile. I asked my mother to come by and check on the girls since it was in the mid 90s yesterday and it looks like she left them a ton of snack crackers. Is it possible that heat + high sodium crackers gave her heat stroke? edit: against my better judgement, I picked up three chicks, a barred rock, rhode island red, and golden buff. Hopefully the weather and Robin's sanity will hold through October and I can start chicken introductions. wheres my beer fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Aug 15, 2016 |
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Tractor Supply posted to their facebook about a heritage breed giveaway they're doing, and I thought of all of you that I live vicariously through. They're giving away a coop, a starter flock of Silver Spangled Hamburg chickens (doesn't say how many), some books, and a $500 gift cert to Tractor Supply. This is the Facebook post with giant chicken face, but this is the direct link if you don't use it. Ends September 5.
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Here is what a Silver Spangled Hamburg chicken looks like. Everyone needs to sign up for this! 
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So I have a bit of a dilemma. I do not have chickens, but some folks across the street do. Every morning for the last five days, said chickens have escaped, crossed the street, shat all over the sidewalk, and riled up all the neighborhood dogs, mine included. This is a FANTASTIC way to wake up before seven in the morning when I'm already having trouble sleeping due to being super pregnant. Multiple people have talked to the chicken owners about this issue, including someone who literally saw the chickens escape and told them where in the fence they escaped through. The only attempt they seemed to make was to stand some cardboard over that place three days ago, and that has apparently not accomplished anything. Am I a horrible bitch if I call animal control about this? Because I am getting really sick of this situation, and I'm not sure what else to do about it.
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ArmadilloConspiracy posted:I'm ... super pregnant. Likely. I'd talk to the people again and perhaps offer assistance if I was in that situation.
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ArmadilloConspiracy posted:So I have a bit of a dilemma. I do not have chickens, but some folks across the street do. Every morning for the last five days, said chickens have escaped, crossed the street, shat all over the sidewalk, and riled up all the neighborhood dogs, mine included. This is a FANTASTIC way to wake up before seven in the morning when I'm already having trouble sleeping due to being super pregnant. Talk to the neighbors once, if nothing changes in a few days, then call animal control. Sorry, as much as i like chickens, letting them annoy the neighbors is not ok. Besides, not preventing the chickens from escaping doesn't protect them any more than calling animal control, and the odds are the neighbors will get warnings first to fix the problem before taking the chickens away.
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Is it normal if a chicken jumps up on something higher and then another chicken will hop up underneath and pull on a feather? Whenever I visit the coop/run, one chicken will always try to get closer to me and another will be an rear end in a top hat to it. It seems to be a thing they all do to each other.
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When my chicken got out for a couple nights, it laid a big pile of eggs in a neighbor's yard. They called 311 who sent out a police officer to talk to everyone. I told her my solution to the problem, she told the neighbor what was up, and animal control never came. So, it ended up working out, if the neighbors are just being lazy about patching up their containment it's a good kick in the pants.
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SO how long can chicks survive in the mail? I had some shipped overnight yesterday from My Pet Chicken and they have sat in the Cleveland hub of the post office for over 24 hours, now. Earliest they will possibly arrive at this point is tomorrow. Can day old chicks last 2 or 3 days in the mail?
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ArmadilloConspiracy posted:So I have a bit of a dilemma. I do not have chickens, but some folks across the street do. Every morning for the last five days, said chickens have escaped, crossed the street, shat all over the sidewalk, and riled up all the neighborhood dogs, mine included. This is a FANTASTIC way to wake up before seven in the morning when I'm already having trouble sleeping due to being super pregnant. If it's happening repeatedly and bothering the whole neighborhood it seems reasonable to call animal control.
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Brawnfire posted:When my chicken got out for a couple nights, it laid a big pile of eggs in a neighbor's yard.
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GORDON posted:SO how long can chicks survive in the mail? This happened to us. We had an order of 24 through MPC, and it took them a couple days to get to us (shipped on monday, arrived on wednesday) and one of them didn't make it. We did our best to get the rest comfortable in their new breeder ASAP, but soon after we lost a couple more. That said, the ones we lost later, it was difficult to say if it was a result of the long time in transit or if they were just "failure to thrive." We successfully nursed one out of wry neck which left us feeling great, though.
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i mean sometimes i lay a pile of eggs in my own yard but it's just not the same
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ArmadilloConspiracy posted:So I have a bit of a dilemma. I do not have chickens, but some folks across the street do. Every morning for the last five days, said chickens have escaped, crossed the street, shat all over the sidewalk, and riled up all the neighborhood dogs, mine included. This is a FANTASTIC way to wake up before seven in the morning when I'm already having trouble sleeping due to being super pregnant. The only thing that offends me here is that apparently they riled up the dogs, but were they deliberately provoking the dogs? Or were they more just wandering around, the dogs saw them, and they got excited? After having lived with chickens for about four months now and therefore qualify as an OLD HAND I have to admit that these folks seem perhaps a bit thin skinned.
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