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it's been really cold outside and Tiny Man was starting to get just a little bit of discoloration on the ends of his comb, so I brought him indoors and gave him some time to warm up. He'll stay the night indoors and tomorrow we'll vaseline him up before letting him back out. In the mean time he's sitting here falling asleep in my pocket. He's a good bird.
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Dec 28, 2021 01:54
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BHB posted:it's been really cold outside and Tiny Man was starting to get just a little bit of discoloration on the ends of his comb, so I brought him indoors and gave him some time to warm up. He'll stay the night indoors and tomorrow we'll vaseline him up before letting him back out. In the mean time he's sitting here falling asleep in my pocket. I love Tiny Man. Thank you for taking such good care of him.
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Dec 28, 2021 04:52
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aww what a cutie  i wish i had a pocket chicken
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Dec 28, 2021 05:16
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 who wants small eggs
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Dec 28, 2021 05:25
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Tiny Man is the Chicken We Need. Question - Does a tiny chicken in your pocket produce a lot of poop? My cockatiel goes a couple times an hour and clean up is simple if you catch it when it happens. I don't know how much that applies to something technically "livestock."
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Dec 28, 2021 09:11
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Tiny Man! 
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Dec 28, 2021 13:10
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LOOK AT THAT LITTLE FACE!BHB posted:He's a good bird.
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Dec 28, 2021 15:48
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Captain Log posted:Tiny Man is the Chicken We Need. yeah, Pocket Chicken time has ended with a poop more often than not. It sets a pretty hard limit on how long the activity lasts. He'd look funny in a tiny chicken diaper though
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Dec 28, 2021 16:43
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someone or something got the front door of the quail hutch open. 2 quails remain, a rooster and i think a hen. the rooster has been calling and calling to get his girls to come home, but i didn't see any sign of anybody out there. no blood, no mess, just...gone.
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Dec 29, 2021 15:09
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Oh god. I'm so sorry.
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Dec 29, 2021 15:13
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we found queso blanco! she has no camouflage. it's her curse, but my blessing. back up to 3!  in retrospect i believe it was scurryfeet who flew the coop first...she's light-colored like marzipan but not as GOLD and the one left is definitely GOLD and a BOY. so we're down to lil dumplin', queso blanco, and marzipan. my cat is norris fucked around with this message at 15:29 on Dec 29, 2021 |
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Dec 29, 2021 15:26
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glad you found queso blanco
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Dec 29, 2021 16:58
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my cat is norris posted:someone or something got the front door of the quail hutch open. 2 quails remain, a rooster and i think a hen. heartbreaking, i'm so sorry 
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Dec 29, 2021 17:25
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So sorry for your quail loss. How many are you down (this time)?City of Glompton posted:Lil' Pep is broody again How's Lil' Pep doing?
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Dec 29, 2021 18:58
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spookygonk posted:So sorry for your quail loss. How many are you down (this time)? From the 8 who grew into a lovely egg-producing flock, I'm down to 3! Thank you for the sympathies. Quails are dumb and cute and I love them, but as Avs has mentioned many times in the past, they are certainly wellsprings of sadness.
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Dec 29, 2021 19:00
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Just had this pop up on my FB page and cause some dust to get in my eye: Today is the anniversary of the rehoming of Piper, Dora, Boo and Queen Pip the Glorious. We lost Pip on the 15th of January and the flock hasn't been the same since, it's now a loose collective of four hens. Been a hard year. 
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Dec 29, 2021 22:24
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Those memory posts are a blessing and a curse. RIP Queen Pip.
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Dec 29, 2021 23:13
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^^^ such a lovely transformation! spookygonk posted:How's Lil' Pep doing? she got a diaper today. she is not impressed  the bowtie in particular caused her consternation so it had to go  it took her about 10 minutes to get out of it. i think her frizzle feathers and lack of tail feathers make it difficult to properly apply. at least she got a little exercise?
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Dec 29, 2021 23:13
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I’ve been slowly building a duck house out of old fence materials. The ducks help. https://youtu.be/KqK_ENW0WFw
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Dec 29, 2021 23:19
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i love the little tail wiggle at the end there
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Dec 29, 2021 23:29
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Joburg posted:I’ve been slowly building a duck house out of old fence materials. The ducks help. Those ducks are hard at work.
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Dec 29, 2021 23:43
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Joburg posted:I’ve been slowly building a duck house out of old fence materials. The ducks help. *boing* *wagwagwag*
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Dec 29, 2021 23:58
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Muscovy wags are great. good helpers.
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Dec 30, 2021 01:59
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  Pleasing colors and shapes.
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Dec 30, 2021 21:51
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Everything I read about sebrights says they lay 1 or 1.5 eggs per week. Many sources say they usually won’t lay at all their first year and will hit menarche the next spring. I have two ~8-month-old sebrights. They have both laid three days in a row now. They have laid five days out of seven for a total of 10 eggs in a week. They have been producing like this for a couple of months now, even during the shortest days of the year. I don’t know how this is possible. Their eggs aren’t easy to confuse for any of my other chickens; this has to be them.  
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Dec 31, 2021 23:33
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Happy new year chicken keeper goons. Y'all have the best chickens.
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Dec 31, 2021 23:54
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freeedr posted:Everything I read about sebrights says they lay 1 or 1.5 eggs per week. Many sources say they usually won’t lay at all their first year and will hit menarche the next spring. I have two ~8-month-old sebrights. They have both laid three days in a row now. They have laid five days out of seven for a total of 10 eggs in a week. They have been producing like this for a couple of months now, even during the shortest days of the year. I don’t know how this is possible. Their eggs aren’t easy to confuse for any of my other chickens; this has to be them. My mom’s sebrights laid a lot of eggs, but it didn’t seem like it because they hid them all the time. She regularly found stashes of 10+ eggs. You are a chicken wizard if you can keep yours laying in the nesting box!
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my cat is norris posted:
beautiful birds freeedr posted:Everything I read about sebrights says they lay 1 or 1.5 eggs per week. Many sources say they usually won’t lay at all their first year and will hit menarche the next spring. I have two ~8-month-old sebrights. They have both laid three days in a row now. They have laid five days out of seven for a total of 10 eggs in a week. They have been producing like this for a couple of months now, even during the shortest days of the year. I don’t know how this is possible. Their eggs aren’t easy to confuse for any of my other chickens; this has to be them. congrats on your above-average butterflies  spookygonk posted:Happy new year chicken keeper goons. Y'all have the best chickens. happy new year! Lil' Pep was really bored today so i let her out with the other chickens. it's cold and windy, but it's sunny and she went right to the dust bath spot. both roosters tried to harass her but she didn't care, it was dusting time. i'll bring her in tonight so she can avoid bedtime bullying but i'm glad she can get out with everyone for a bit
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Jan 1, 2022 00:52
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norris i'm so sorry about your quail! that is terrible! it's good that you managed to catch one as she bumbled around in the wilderness and that you still have three, and the trio you have left are lovely, but you've tried so hard to give these little fools a good life and it's tragic that fate keeps getting in your way. they just don't understand that we want to keep them safe. they look at us like we're idiots and then go off and get themselves slain
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Jan 2, 2022 23:04
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My chicken coop is in a pond now. It rained a lot last night and it's still raining lol.
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an egg posted:norris i'm so sorry about your quail! that is terrible! it's good that you managed to catch one as she bumbled around in the wilderness and that you still have three, and the trio you have left are lovely, but you've tried so hard to give these little fools a good life and it's tragic that fate keeps getting in your way. they just don't understand that we want to keep them safe. they look at us like we're idiots and then go off and get themselves slain the quail life!!!! i will hatch beautiful new children in the spring. they will also someday do something stupid and terrible, but you know that. Shifty Nipples posted:My chicken coop is in a pond now. It rained a lot last night and it's still raining lol. and how do the chickens like it?
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Jan 3, 2022 19:23
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They're officially known as ducks, now. You can no longer refer to them as chickens. I got the pressure washer out a couple of days ago and pressure washed the coop. The roof had gone green from a couple of years of being under the trees, and seeing it come out all red and brand new looking was quite satisfying. Moved their house up to near ours, instead of under the trees. A few geese and swans in the area have been hit by bird flu, but I don't have the resources to make them a covered run.  Have stopped throwing oats out for them, and aren't feeding the wild birds this year. 
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my cat is norris posted:the quail life!!!! bless them, bless youi've just been admiring the orbs' morning routine. they have breakfast, and then they all plob down around the cage and gaze at each other serenely. it's enviable to me how they achieve these states of perfect calm when the world is so dangerous for them
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nothing moves my heart like seeing a quail all splayed out in the sunshine, blissed out and having a wonderful time, as well-camouflaged as a melting soft-serve ice cream on carpark asphalt
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Jan 3, 2022 23:37
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Nice bit of morning sun here in the UK this morning (though -4°C / 24°F overnight). Willow and Molly appreciated it. spookygonk fucked around with this message at 19:09 on Jan 5, 2022 |
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Jan 5, 2022 19:03
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my cat is norris posted:and how do the chickens like it? Fortunately the coop is on relatively higher ground so the water was only a few centimeters deep and they weren't too bothered by it.
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Jan 5, 2022 20:28
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It feels like spring today so this one is crowing in the yard like a big boy! The 4 Jersey giants and the Cream Legbar crow too, but only in the coop, never in front of the grown up roosters. (Jersey Giant roosters are fantastic, they seem to get fewer teenage rooster hormones than the other breeds we’ve had so I highly recommend them.) And Goldie is still a lap chicken.  The neighborhood Guineas are really being jerks to the chickens. As soon as the duck house is finished I’ll be looking for some female Guineas to start off in the pen. I’ve looked really closely (with binoculars) and I think there is only one hen in the current group of five 
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I approve of this meme
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we use that document at work for testing faxes. i smile every time i see it
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