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Neddy Seagoon posted:As they're being born at easter, I vote for naming one either Bunny or Rabbit Mr. or Mrs. Cadbury.
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I hope I'm not too late to suggest a name.. In keeping with the theme (Jellybean, Marshmallow) I'm going with Gumdrop.
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Mar 29, 2018 02:56
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 WE HAVE OUR FIRST PIP! Those damned banty eggs--! I KNEW it. It's #6, a Dark India Cornish Rock bantam egg. Not starting the cam until it starts to unzip, tho. This is just the initial pip so the chick can get air and start the draw-down so it'll be a while. I'll start the GBS Chickam thread when the cam starts and will post a link to it in this thread. Meanwhile, I'll keep a list of name suggestions so you guys don't have to worry about posting them in the new thread. Also meanwhile, no sleep for me...little poo poo had to pull this at 11PM... Yay, chickens!  EDIT: We're messing with the cam, trying to get it all set, so you may see it come up and go down again. Not *actually* starting it yet. Velvet Sparrow fucked around with this message at 09:52 on Mar 29, 2018 |
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Mar 29, 2018 07:19
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Velvet Sparrow posted:
My chick name suggestion is "Hyacinth." 
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Mar 29, 2018 07:23
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Velvet Sparrow posted:
Velvet Sparrow posted:Yay, chickens!
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Mar 29, 2018 08:21
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Velvet Sparrow posted:I realized today that we have never had a chicken named 'Pickle' or 'Chickity China, the Chinese Chicken'. We may need to rectify that...The eggs went into lockdown today, three more days to hatch! Likely less for those damned banty eggs tho... Pickle is a great name for a chick. Here's our young Pickle abusing perspective and her large size to make it look like she's perched on the rim of our conservatory (whilst Hendini looks on bemused):  She's under a year old so last month's snow was a new and delightful low-calorie adventure for her.  Velvet Sparrow posted:
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Mar 29, 2018 10:15
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^^^^Very cute! Another egg has pipped! #37, a large egg from our flock, has a big ol' pip in it. No further progress on either of the pipped eggs so far, so I haven't started the cam yet...but soon! 12_String spent about an hour last night getting the cam straightened out, turns out it had downloaded new drivers and then stopped halfway through installing them and choked. All is working now, though... VVVHeh, 'Bird harvest'. I like that. Yet another egg, #26 (from our flock) has pipped. That makes 4 eggs pipped. STILL no one unzipping, but they will soon, then I can start the camera. Right now it'd be kinda like watching paint dry. This is a quiet batch so far, no peeping but loads of wiggling about when I talk to them. I'm checking the eggs every 20 minutes to try and avoid having one of the little stinkers suddenly just *appear* like they love to do. Velvet Sparrow fucked around with this message at 21:28 on Mar 29, 2018 |
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Mar 29, 2018 14:41
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Automatic updates are the worst thing since the last worst thing. Am eager though to see your bird-harvest.
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Mar 29, 2018 15:20
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OK, Chickam has begun! Link to GBS thread, I'll update there from here on out: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3853038&pagenumber=1&perpage=40#post482641707 So far we have 5 eggs pipped (one has pipped at the wrong end of the egg and will likely require assistance, we'll watch it carefully). Link to Chickam: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/chickam2008
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Mar 30, 2018 00:05
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The most amazing thing happened to me today! Chickens love croissants.  https://youtu.be/CZHt-hGqw50 The noise she makes when the croissant is all gone is hilarious! Do they always do this?! Are they always so much fun? I scooped and snuggled her, too. She had zero complaints. A very good birb.
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Apr 2, 2018 00:00
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my cat is norris posted:The most amazing thing happened to me today! "WHAT? WHAT DO YOU MEAN 'THERE ISN'T ANY MORE CROISSANT'?!  "
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Apr 2, 2018 04:11
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I know that sound well My chickens bully me constantly for delicious things and yell at me when I don't have any.
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Apr 2, 2018 11:23
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Enfys posted:I know that sound well Same, once they see the treat bowl they know what's up. When I don't have it they still swarm my feet making weird disappointed conversation noises Here's my gorgeous boy in warmer weather. It loving snowed today and they're as sick of it as I am. 
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Apr 4, 2018 14:52
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Sad news today, we lost Tix one of our ex-battery hens. Seems she'd had a lot of eggs backed up inside her some months now and despite the actions of a great vet, she died suddenly in recovery.     Three years, ten months and two weeks of being a retired garden hen.
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Apr 5, 2018 22:46
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Rest in Peace, Tix. She had a good life as a garden hen.
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Apr 6, 2018 02:08
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That is a pretty, pattable bird. RIP hen.
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Apr 6, 2018 02:32
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Aww, sorry to hear that. RIP beautiful Tix. We lost our old girl Hennessy recently as well. She lived a good garden chick life.
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Apr 6, 2018 02:39
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Sharma posted:Aww, sorry to hear that. RIP beautiful Tix. We lost our old girl Hennessy recently as well. She lived a good garden chick life. Hennessy is a great name for a chicken.
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Apr 6, 2018 11:10
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Rest in peace, Tix. She looks like she was a grade-A hen and I'm sure she appreciated her garden retirement.
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Apr 6, 2018 11:52
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From PYF. https://i.imgur.com/bnJFSti.mp4
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Apr 6, 2018 14:04
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omg if you don't follow this tumblr it is the best https://chickenkeeping.tumblr.com/ that baby chick is now this fabulous mohawk rockin li'l thing 
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Started harness and leash training my largest chicken today (the one i suspect may end up being a rooster) which it did not quite like, but did not fight as long as i didn't make it walk anywhere. Carried it down the street to the pet store to pick up some feed, and ended up leaving with 3 new chicks. Was a bit of a juggle to carry 1kg of chick starter, 1kg of general purpose grain, a box of chicks AND juvenile chicken all the way home, but i ended up letting the juvenile free-bird on top of the box which it seemed to enjoy. Edit: and now a proper night cage/ nesting boxes have been built for them, out of a pair of chipboard cabinets screwed together with some additional weather proofing plasticy stuff i forget the name of. Sun shades are now properly attached to house and fence, and the load-bearing shovel has been removed  .I did more for those ungrateful birds this weekend than i did for myself. McGiggins fucked around with this message at 09:46 on Apr 8, 2018 |
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Apr 8, 2018 07:35
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McGiggins posted:
My life in a nutshell
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Apr 8, 2018 19:57
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Do these girls look feathered out enough to move outside once it stays above 55 or so?  
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Apr 9, 2018 15:13
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spookygonk posted:Sad news today, we lost Tix one of our ex-battery hens. That's a real shame, was she the one who had the contraceptive implant ?. Dora's off her implant now after having had three over a year she'd built up enough calcium to go back to laying once every two days which she can hopefully keep up without any more shell-less problems. I've had dire warning not to eat her eggs in case of ball shrinkage.
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Apr 14, 2018 11:28
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Ball shrinkage wut?
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McGiggins posted:Ball shrinkage wut? I'm assuming residual female hormones from the birth control implant in the eggs could prove harmful to men who consume the eggs.
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hailthefish posted:I'm assuming residual female hormones from the birth control implant in the eggs could prove harmful to men who consume the eggs. Nearly, the implant deactivates the gland that produces the hormone that triggers a different gland to produce the gender specific hormone, so it works on either sex and is residual in the eggs and meat. The male vet who gives me all the dire warnings looks genuinely scared of it when he's waving the needle around, so I'm being a bit picky about omelets at the moment. I haven't been able to sneak a look at his nuts and spot if he's speaking from experience.
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Morningwoodpecker posted:That's a real shame, was she the one who had the contraceptive implant ? Tix was also the hen that slept in the house. Initially, it was to keep her away from Molly who would keep sitting on her, day and night. Tix has a weak leg, so she couldn't run away (more so in the the coop). Then days turned into a week, a month and we couldn't move her back out, she knew where her nest / bed was. On Saturday, all three hens walked through the kitchen and straight into the spare bedroom, they were looking for Tix. Obviously her nest had been removed since she died. The hens looked all around the room and then quietly walked back out into the garden. So sad. spookygonk fucked around with this message at 10:44 on Apr 16, 2018 |
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Apr 16, 2018 10:39
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Awwww, they were looking for their buddy  How do you go about getting the contraceptive implant? I have some ex-batts who've been doing really well in general, but one periodically lays soft shelled eggs and another nearly died from laying issues. I do my best to provide plenty of calcium/grit/etc but it's not always enough.
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Enfys posted:Awwww, they were looking for their buddy My vet, who we've been with since 2012, does the suprelorin implant. He's got it down to a fine art so less stress for the hens (used to inject it into the muscle, now just under the skin). He will also give their beaks and toe nails a quick dremel (it's a dentist quality unit) and return them in a couple of minutes. He uses the implant on all sorts of animals, dogs, ferrrets, other birds. Larger doses of the implant are used on polar bears. We have one hen, Molly, who came to us with a huge hernia, was put on the implant straight away:  She still has the hernia, but it suppresses her egg system for much of the time and shrinks the size of it. She's grown up to be a huge floofy hen who loves sunbathing and cuddles:  Because of the implant we have two hens that have been with us since December 30th 2011. spookygonk fucked around with this message at 15:05 on Apr 16, 2018 |
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Apr 16, 2018 14:55
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spookygonk posted:Yeah, All our hens end up on the implant as their egg system eventually fails, due to the inhumane conditions they spend in the cages. Poor Tix, I gave mine a cuddle for her. As an atheist I believe in heaven for purely chicken purposes. Our hens are mostly of the same breed they use for battery farming as we intend to rehome ex-bats but wanted a dry run first, so we got them at point of lay. All our casualties and illnesses have been from egg overproduction, it's not the conditions that effect egg-laying (although they are terrible) it's the way we've bred them to be. They just don't take breaks the shell gland wears out or they run low in calcium and they get problems. They're bred to be egg-laying machines for a year then culled, going beyond that is hard on the poor little things. The chicken equivalent of pedigree dogs.
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spookygonk posted:We have one hen, Molly, who came to us with a huge hernia, was put on the implant straight away:  what a lucky girl, i love her
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I just love that derpy look chickens have when they stick that one leg out while sunbathing
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this broken hill posted:those two comparison photos are insane That's pretty much what all our ex-batts look like when we bring them home, though Molly is the first with a hernia. Mols is an adorable hen. It's taken her, Pip & Piper about two weeks to stop looking for (and basically mourning) Tix. The sunny, warm weather and loads of bugs hatching has helped. hope and vaseline posted:I just love that derpy look chickens have when they stick that one leg out while sunbathing That's level two sunbathing. Level three is wing out (as Pip demonstrates): 
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My chook that can’t walk will pop up her wings whenever she sees me because she knows I give scratches right up in there, it’s adorable. She moves around by propelling herself on her wings and if I leave the kitchen light on too late she flips her box and sleeps under it, she doesn’t lay but she gets all the best food because I feel guilty about not being able to afford to take her to the chook specialist around here to get her legs looked at and she lives right next to the kitchen  If anyone has any ideas I’m open to em, I don’t think it’s infectious and it’s definitely not terminal but the poor thing is always gaping even though there doesn’t appear to be any infection per the normal vet
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Apr 22, 2018 01:31
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Malcolm Turnbeug posted:My chook that can’t walk will pop up her wings whenever she sees me because she knows I give scratches right up in there, it’s adorable. She moves around by propelling herself on her wings and if I leave the kitchen light on too late she flips her box and sleeps under it, she doesn’t lay but she gets all the best food because I feel guilty about not being able to afford to take her to the chook specialist around here to get her legs looked at and she lives right next to the kitchen Did she ever walk (also, what's her name?)
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My lazy chicken hasn't laid an egg since I adopted her from my dad's farm, she was supposed to have reached point-of-lay that summer and never did. She doesn't appear to be unhealthy; she is eating and drinking fine, not limping, no noticeable swelling in her belly or loss of color in her wattle and comb, basically she seems like she should be laying but she's not. She is 3 years old this summer; last summer her buddy laid a few eggs before dying suddenly of Mysterious Chicken Death Syndrome (we didn't bother autopsying) but this hen laid none that I could find. My chickens have always had calcium on hand and are fed layer pellets, provided fresh water and dirt clods and occasional time outside the run but spend most of their days enclosed in the run where they are safe and have a dust bath, roosts and shade. Chicken woke me up this morning with a godawful croaking that I hoped was her egg song, but alas there was no egg. She did squat for me though, and that's a first. Any tips to gently encourage egg-laying?
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Apr 22, 2018 16:15
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Is it possible she's laying them in a place you can't find them?
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spookygonk posted:Did she ever walk (also, what's her name?) Yeah apparently she only stopped walking about 2 months ago (partner and I moved in with her dad) she got separated from the rest of the chooks in case it was infectious but they all took turns breaking out to visit her :s Her name is Krinkle and I love her so much even if she’s a gross pain in the rear end To myself: ‘Welcome to the chicken party kid’
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