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Joburg posted:I love the happy stamping.
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my cat is norris posted:Tonight I did a workplace virtual hangout and paint thing, and I thought of Avshalom's paintings, so I did my own version of my birds. This is incredible  
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Joburg posted:I love the happy stamping.
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Joburg posted:I love the happy stamping.
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Nova celebrated her one year anniversary of being a retired garden hen yesterday. Many snacks were had by all. 
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That there is one grand hen. Keep on, Nova.
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General Tso did not like being picked up
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beautiful birds
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Just sneaking in to say...  Chickam 2022 will be Easter weekend, April 16-17!  This is our 14th year of broadcasting Chickam, this year we'll be hatching mostly our own eggs, plus I'm getting some from a couple of local kids who are trying to earn money selling eggs.  As always, we'll be doing our webcast on our YouTube channel, it won't go live until the hatch has begun, so if you tune in and see EGGS, the hatch is on! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5iMWhoO42w I'll post updates on our Chickam Twitter account https://twitter.com/chickam2008 Be prepared with weird chicken names!  When the hatch starts, I'll post a link here to the GBS Chickam thread.
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Finally some good news in the world.
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Chickam, yay!! Rose isn’t a cam kind of girl, she was very irritated that I took her picture, but some of her chicks hatched today! She had 4 eggs and they were all developing when I checked on Sunday. I gave the other 3 eggs of the 7 that she started with to a neighbor whose broody hen was on dud eggs for a MONTH. That poor hen deserves some babies after all of that work! Fingers crossed all 7 eggs hatch.
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Velvet Sparrow posted:Just sneaking in to say... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G0stojwYjI Chickens!
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god i just love how happy ducks look at all times There were bantam chickies at Tractor Supply today. So tempting!!! They're so cute!
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My wife is already tempted to start the chicken math since tractor supply got sexed barred rocks in. Chicken story: I had to bake some cakes today and I needed twelve eggs. We have been eating a lot of eggs lately so we only had ten. I panicked a bit before suddenly laughing at myself, going outside, and collecting for the day. (I also took them some veggies for a treat)
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We're going to get back on the chicken wagon this year! We're looking at one of the resin plastic coops, since our previous wood one was garbage and needed constant repairs. Also a walk in run with wire mesh to prevent another racoon incident. Going to get hardware cloth and bury it around the edge to avoid a dig through. We're going to get six this time, and a variety instead of all buff orps. The store has their chick list and we'll get one of each: golden laced Wyandotte, lavender orp, olive egger, light brahma, cuckoo marans, and a Rhode Island blue. Should make for a pretty flock! Technically our permit from the city only allows us three based on our lot size, but our neighbors have five and their lot is smaller than ours. Add in our privacy fence and the fact that nobody ever checks once the permit goes out. Should be good!
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MrUnderbridge posted:We're going to get six this time, and a variety instead of all buff orps. The store has their chick list and we'll get one of each: golden laced Wyandotte, lavender orp, olive egger, light brahma, cuckoo marans, and a Rhode Island blue. Should make for a pretty flock! Good choices there. We got our first duck egg today!  And Rose ended up hatching 3 chicks. One didn’t make it so she had 1 boy and 1 girl cream legbar, gotta love those auto sexing breeds!   This is Rose’s third brood and every time she has weaned her chicks very early, like after 3 weeks, so we went to tractor supply and got 4 buff Orpington chicks to add to her twosome. They were confused about the lack of a heat lamp for a while but now they know to go under Rose to keep warm. When she inevitably leaves them to return to the flock they will all be able to keep each other company. https://youtu.be/ZFcjDOHy0S8 Pardon the annoying guineas.
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Rose is awesome, the best mama hen. https://twitter.com/foxfeather/status/1022896542569689088?t=l13cWcEFa5igc7cynSVqug&s=03
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mahershalalhashbaz posted:
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I have two egg aprons with rad designs on them. Gifts from my mother and my oldest daughter. I take them out if I miss collecting eggs for a day because they build up
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since we only have 5 pullets i just put eggs in my sweatshirt pocket but i know someday i'm gonna forget and it will be unfortunate today we got 5 eggs, plus one bonus shell-less egg i found on the ground when i was shooing them towards bed. i guess someone just couldn't wait until tomorrow
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I forgot to collect eggs one day recently, and I learned that if you have two hands full of precariously balanced eggs, you cannot then try use those hands to catch a falling egg without causing complete carnage.
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Enfys posted:I forgot to collect eggs one day recently, and I learned that if you have two hands full of precariously balanced eggs, you cannot then try use those hands to catch a falling egg without causing complete carnage.  
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Enfys posted:I forgot to collect eggs one day recently, and I learned that if you have two hands full of precariously balanced eggs, you cannot then try use those hands to catch a falling egg without causing complete carnage. did the hens see it...?
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Enfys posted:I forgot to collect eggs one day recently, and I learned that if you have two hands full of precariously balanced eggs, you cannot then try use those hands to catch a falling egg without causing complete carnage. LOL, been there. I got my first Guinea egg today! And the crazy Guinea hen kicked the other eggs out of the nest box and broke two. I hope she figures out how to lay like a normal bird soon.
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Joburg posted:I got my first Guinea egg today!  guinea egg season was a trip. our guineas all bonded into pairs, and one of the top roosters would go mad when his mate was on the lay and run around violently kicking all the chooks out of their nests. i kept stopping him, and when he didn't find a good nest, his mate left him for three (!) younger roosters and he had to pair up with a black australorp for about six months until another guinea hen would give him a go
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the ravens now expect to be given some grain every morning at the same time as the quail, and if i don't, they stand at the back door and croak at me
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We're back up to getting 7-8 eggs a day here, they've apparently decided now is good enough to get back into the swing of things. Fingers crossed we'll get all 10 in one day this year
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mahershalalhashbaz posted:the ravens now expect to be given some grain every morning at the same time as the quail, and if i don't, they stand at the back door and croak at me an unsteady alliance is being formed
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We had more snow this morning.  Don't worry, they have a dry spot to scratch. 
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We have family #2! Fauna hatched the two leghorn mix chicks and we got her some feed store chicks too. She’s a great mama so far. https://youtu.be/KD4UBoLzvVU Rose is still doing a great job too. Today she two-foot kicked one of the guineas who got too close to her chicks, it was impressive! The Guinea actually backed off, which was a surprise.
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