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City of Glompton posted:is sunburn a concern when they grow up? If they're free ranging in a yard with plenty of cover items, they'll stay out of trouble.
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I’ve read mixed reports so yeah, I think they will be fine when they figure out what shade is. They are just so cute. I now think Marge’s chicks are all boys.
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May 11, 2022 23:44
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In less good news, the bird flu wave has reached my state and started burning through it with a vengeance. Thanks primarily to my partner's heroic prep efforts we've moved all of the chickens into the old screened in carport attached to the house. It'll be a pain working around the extra biosecurity steps, and there are still the ducks to handle but I think the chickens should be able to ride out the next X months in comfort and style. e: with video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYBe_8awewg BHB fucked around with this message at 06:04 on May 12, 2022 |
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May 12, 2022 00:53
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My local Target had this for sale: My 3 year old claimed it.
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 Meet the girls! Light brahmas Edam and Mozzarella, Easter Eggers Florette and Pecarina, gold laced Wyandotte Colby and cuckoo maran Abbaye. This is an older pic, they're getting wing and tail feathers now. They've also discovered the joys of scrambled eggs and instead of running from The Hand, dash over to investigate, even standing on The Hand to eat. Mrs. Underbridge found a worm and gave it to them today. She was "Ew, I'm not cutting it up!" No need. The girls tore it up. They're also hop flapping, and eyeing the rim of the brooder, so the wire lid went on. They were not happy with the new sky. And for extra squee, sleepy chicks! 
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May 13, 2022 09:07
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May 13, 2022 17:08
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5er posted:If they're free ranging in a yard with plenty of cover items, they'll stay out of trouble. I have the opposite problem, if anything. If the weather is unpleasant the girls will huddle under my son's trampoline and act like they're playing "the floor is lava" with any other wet/icy/snowy/hot ground when I try to get them out. Somehow a 2 pound chicken who doesn't want to move can suddenly become a small boulder and seemingly quintuple its mass. "Great," I think, "I'm a grown man trying to push a chicken."
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So cute  I’ve offered scrambled eggs to the naked neck chicks 3 times and they won’t even try it 
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I have 6 broody chickens now. Still expecting 2 more, one youngster is looking broody-ish and Blanche has been broody before so I assume she will go again. I checked all the broody’s eggs today and one of Penny’s cheeped! Tomorrow is expected hatch day so they are right on time. And here is a duckling update. 
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May 13, 2022 18:06
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god they're just so precious! a chicken stuffy my husband recently bought for me is named Blanche. https://fluffnest.com/products/puffpals-blanche-the-chicken
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Joburg posted:So cute One thing I've had on my mind with my current chicks is that they're all extremely enthusiastic handfeeders, from day 1. My previous birds were 2 barred rocks and 2 ameraucanas, and when they were chicks, it took a few days of work before they'd eat out of my hands, and maybe a couple of weeks before they'd stop being shy of my hand from just putting it in the brooder. The two buff orpingtons I added later on were much friendlier from the start. This pack though, only the wyandottes took some coaxing to get used to my hand. A week later, and the stronger of the two is always muscling her way through the other chicks to peck at whatever's in my hand, or just play 'king of the hill' with whatever part of my hand can be perched on if I'm just interacting with them. The weaker one's going to be my shy guy, but she'll still come around last if I've got food. I introduced them to dry steel cut oats on Tuesday or Wednesday. At first, they had that 'wtf is this poo poo, this isn't the usual food' reaction. But by Friday, oats will start outright piranha frenzy. I haven't tried scrambleds with them yet but I'm going to bet at this point they've figured out if I'm handing them something, it's going to be for them to eat.
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spookygonk posted:Today is the seventh anniversary of Lady Molly Dashwell leaving her factory cage for freedom and coming home to be a retired garden hen. ^^ How time flies. ^^ Today is the EIGHTH anniversary of Lady Molly Dashwell coming to her forever home and she's doing great.  She's now about nine and a half years young. Note: she has had many treats and cuddles today. edit She's our wholly remarkable and unique chicken and even though she's technically the top of the flock, Molly has no interest in those duties. It's all about Molly (and quite rightly so). spookygonk fucked around with this message at 22:49 on May 17, 2022 |
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spookygonk posted:It's all about Molly (and quite rightly so). Hear, hear! Happy Anniversary to you and Molly!
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Happy anniversary Molly! she looks like a proper lady
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beauty and grace
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spookygonk posted:Today is the EIGHTH anniversary of Lady Molly Dashwell coming to her forever home and she's doing great. 
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good golly, miss molly  she looks like a wonderful, healthy, happy, grumpy gal
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Happy anniversary to a magnificent lady
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Our girls are doing a lot of growing! At just over two weeks they're at least twice the size they were when we got them. Pecorina is now putting out her body contour feathers, while the two brahmas aren't even partway done with their wing feathers. They have been introduced to the joys of live prey, but it took a few minutes. I dumped a couple of dozen tiny crickets in the brooder and afirst they were afraid of the little moving dots. Then Edam kept staring and staring, getting closer before finally giving an experimental peck. She was sold immediately and ran around giving the "I've got a treat!" trill. That got others interested. Some were slower than others but Edam went into beast mode and snarfed up almost half of the crickets. Pecorina got about a quarter, and the other four finally managed a couple each. They've also decided that chopped fresh corn is tasty enough to take from The Hand.
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Happy anniversary to Molly! Love it when a head hen decides to prioritise being a princess over the boring duties.
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Talk about live prey! Our little buff Orpington cockerel caught this big toad yesterday and it took him a long time to figure out how to eat it. Our duck mamas are doing really well with their ducklings despite some hungry Fish Crows hanging around all the time. (I ordered a fake dead crow to deter them but it’s delayed  ) And Penny the Penedesenca is doing great with hers too. I was really on the fence about her because she’s so high strung but she’s really patient with these chicks and she’s interested in the naked neck chicks that spend the day in the pen. I hope she will allow them to hang around her and learn how to free range.   Large Marge finally started weaning her giant chicks yesterday at 5-1/2 weeks. She’s such a fantastic mom! 
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Some pretty chickens there!
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Best chicken mums right there.
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https://twitter.com/caenhillcc/status/1528017392890167301
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Adrienne Broody.
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Was going to post that. My gosh
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You'll have to supply the Jurassic Park t-rex roar in your imaginations. Originally these chickens were plunked on my son's arms for a photo, but they rapidly migrated to his shoulders and began battling for dominance of his scalp.
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i love hen
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i forgot to announce her birthday, but moose is now two years old! (and ~3 weeks)  moose is my jumbo who raises chicks that aren't hers (this is rare for a quail) and sleeps literally all the time. possibly because she's huge, she is completely uncoordinated and every time she gets excited about something she trips over her own feet and falls flat on her face. somehow she maintains her dignity despite this.
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I love her.
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Happy Birthday Moose! such a wonderful bird
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5er posted:You'll have to supply the Jurassic Park t-rex roar in your imaginations. Originally these chickens were plunked on my son's arms for a photo, but they rapidly migrated to his shoulders and began battling for dominance of his scalp. Now take the same photo again in six months when they're all grown up.  (That's such a good photo though, goddamn  )
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mahershalalhashbaz posted:i love hen Joburg posted:I love her. 
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Moose is amazing! I am not very confident about my current egg batch... the incubator I'm using has not been very stable, and those tiny eggs are so hard to candle. I guess we'll see what happens in a few days but I just don't know!!
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Happy Birthday Moose
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spookygonk posted:Happy Birthday Moose She is magnificent beyond her years 5er posted:You'll have to supply the Jurassic Park t-rex roar in your imaginations. Originally these chickens were plunked on my son's arms for a photo, but they rapidly migrated to his shoulders and began battling for dominance of his scalp. 
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Lil' Pep introduced me to a chicken problem i've never encountered nor imagined. she had an ingrown feather on her head! i got it out, and she seems fine although she pooped on me during the process because she was struggling to get away at first the good news is, she is growing back a lot of her feathers and i thinkin a few weeks she'll look more or less like a normal frizzle again
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moose thanks you all for the well wishes  at two, she has reached comfortable middle age for her kind. (although industrial farm standards say that two years is the age at which quail should just naturally drop dead from overwork )my cat is norris posted:I am not very confident about my current egg batch... the incubator I'm using has not been very stable, and those tiny eggs are so hard to candle. I guess we'll see what happens in a few days but I just don't know!! City of Glompton posted:Lil' Pep introduced me to a chicken problem i've never encountered nor imagined. she had an ingrown feather on her head! mahershalalhashbaz fucked around with this message at 01:57 on May 23, 2022 |
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Imagined posted:I honestly had no idea that chickens had so much personality and capacity for emotion before my wife convinced me that we should get the ones we have now. Every time I see their happy, impatient dance at the coop door when they see me coming to let them out, or watch them line up curiously behind me, chattering noisily, when I'm messing with something in the barn just in case it's food for them I experience the same feeling that I've heard people report when they see those videos of cows capering in the field after being released outdoors from months in the barn over-winter: "I didn't realize my food had emotions". My brother's chickens finally developed noticeable personalities and it's neat. The head hen is very vocal. She is definitely in charge of the original flock of They've got a bunch of ~8 week old layers that they have to keep separated from the 12 month olds. She, a RiR and intimidates their 8 week Polish roo. I don't know everything about chicken raising but it seems like letting him establish his flock of a dozen layers and letting him build confidence is probably a good thing. The flock of 3 gets kicked out of their area and free-ranged during the day and then the other flock is put into the 3's fenced area. quote:"I didn't realize my food had emotions". Sometimes they don't. Food chickens seem to have 3 emotions: eating and content, really hungry, sleep to work up the energy to eat some more. He's got a dozen Cornish Cross in a chicken tractor and everything people have said about home raising Cornish Cross meat birds seems to be true. It's hilarious and sad. They really do just lay on the feeder and eat. I guess the app, your do scratch around, because the grass is a bit shorter, but every bird I saw was either laying next to or letting on the feeder and just gorging themselves. He thinks it's a disgusting breed, like any non-factory owner should, and is looking for meat birds with less insanely freakish genetics for next year. He's got a Muscovy that isn't old enough to look so god drat weird yet, and a regular ol' north american duck with the happy shaking tail feathers. Not sure if they're laying yet. 3 Indian Runner chicks in the brooder box right now. Gonna be an interesting duck flock mix.
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