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please call one simply "hen"
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Mar 4, 2019 07:32
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Name one Dr Clucksworth, Ph.D. She worked hard for that degree!
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Mar 4, 2019 07:40
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Name one of them "Fannie." :3
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Mar 4, 2019 12:36
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Velvet Sparrow posted:I have -zero- willpower and my family are all Morehens Disease enablers. Yay, more chickens! Names: Toodles or Doodles
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Mar 4, 2019 12:48
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name one Cull for the quality of so many of our local TSC chicks. seriously holy gently caress half of them come in dying
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Mar 4, 2019 14:20
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I think there are more names than chicks at this point but I have to offer up Rex Mine are doing well, the days are getting a bit longer and they're spending more time out of the coop. 8 months and 4 weeks old - and still only one layer among the three hens. I always read that they would start laying in the winter if it was their first year but that does not seem to be totally true.
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Mar 4, 2019 15:08
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I'm going to order 9 or so fancy birds this year and then 100 for meat. 
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Mar 4, 2019 17:46
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spookygonk posted:Doodles I approve. 
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Mar 5, 2019 04:35
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avshalemon posted:please call one simply "hen"
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Mar 5, 2019 04:59
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https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/axeskl/didnt_realize_chickens_had_such_great_balance/
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Mar 5, 2019 12:41
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spookygonk posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/axeskl/didnt_realize_chickens_had_such_great_balance/ That's Through The Fire and Flames by Dragonforce.
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Mar 5, 2019 13:40
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the quail love the butcherbird, they trust the butcherbird, when the butcherbird lands on their cage they all gather around to tilt their heads at it and bibbit companionably 
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Mar 6, 2019 00:29
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they just don't understand anything
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Mar 6, 2019 00:30
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They have accepted that they are quail and are basically dead already.
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Mar 6, 2019 00:33
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Chickens 'teamed up to kill fox' at Brittany farming school https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/12/chickens-teamed-up-to-kill-fox-at-brittany-farming-school
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Mar 12, 2019 23:57
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spookygonk posted:Chickens 'teamed up to kill fox' at Brittany farming school Guess they must've figured out that Fox had ~worms~. 
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Mar 13, 2019 20:13
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spookygonk posted:Chickens 'teamed up to kill fox' at Brittany farming school Ah yes, the chickens are unionizing. Even the birds know that we are stronger together.
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Mar 13, 2019 20:24
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Riddle me this, chook-folk. You is a bird. You have escaped your containment, through likely impressive means, and have the run of the yard. It is dark, and raining. You require shelter. Do you:
Please cast your vote before peeking. 
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Mar 15, 2019 14:20
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The ladies have decided it is finally warm and bright enough to both A, leave the coop, and B, lay some eggs! Good work ladies.
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Mar 15, 2019 19:27
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McGiggins posted:Riddle me this, chook-folk. Yeah that is the answer I expected.
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Mar 15, 2019 19:33
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So warm outside today, but I'm still scared to let my chooks out to free-range a bit. The last two times I did that they were attacked by a hawk in less than 5 minutes after I let them out. I know they love poking around outdoors but I think they also enjoy not being ripped to shreds by beaks and talons :\ I think I'm just going to look into building a nice big run for them this spring.
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Mar 15, 2019 19:56
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I'm really lucky we have crows around here, they seem to do a good job keeping hawks away.
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Mar 15, 2019 19:59
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Shifty Nipples posted:Yeah that is the answer I expected. I didn't even have to read the answers, my sisters chicken did the exact same thing
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Mar 15, 2019 20:34
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McGiggins posted:Please cast your vote before peeking. Oh that chicken is *SO* disappointed in you.
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Mar 15, 2019 21:38
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DarkHorse posted:I didn't even have to read the answers, my sisters chicken did the exact same thing Yeah one of mine somehow got the coop door closed on them before they got inside so I found her on the porch in the rain when I went out to close them up for the night.
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Mar 15, 2019 21:47
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Our dear old Hendini won't come out of the coop. She's just standing upright and motionless. She's alert and her eyes are open, but she's refusing to eat: refusing even kale and dried mealworms.  e: yeah, she's giving off the imminent-departure signals. Farewell, fluffy hen. ynohtna fucked around with this message at 15:24 on Mar 17, 2019 |
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Mar 17, 2019 08:57
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Rip_Van_Winkle posted:The ladies have decided it is finally warm and bright enough to both A, leave the coop, and B, lay some eggs! Enough of the ice sheet has melted that mine are starting to come out of the coop and rummage around in the dirt! No eggs yet, though.
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Mar 17, 2019 14:16
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ToxicFrog posted:Enough of the ice sheet has melted that mine are starting to come out of the coop and rummage around in the dirt! No eggs yet, though. We've had dry weather the last week but with stupidly high winds, so the hens have been grumpy. Today, sunshine and a breeze, proper Spring day and all chickens are sunbathing down the bottom of the garden (inbetween mooching at the kitchen door for treats). fake edit https://twitter.com/Dalton_Reed02/status/1099021309290430469 spookygonk fucked around with this message at 15:48 on Mar 17, 2019 |
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Mar 17, 2019 15:45
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We keep being hit by hail storms, but the chickens have decided they seriously love eating hail pellets. I looked outside during one to make sure they were ok and weren't stuck outside, but the little idiots all ran *out* from shelter so they could eat hail while also shaking themselves from being pelted by the sky. Eventually they ran under cover but as soon as it lightened up, they sprinted out to gobble up little ice balls.
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Mar 17, 2019 16:10
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Today I learned that while my quails will go down a ramp in the name of exploration, they will forget how ramps work and never go up again even if that way lies food. I had to move the food to the bottom of the ramp.
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I followed this thread off and on for a bit and had a couple of questions about getting into backyard chickens. My wife and I finally have our own home and chickens were one thing we were excited about potentially having. We live on 1 acre but about 2/3 of it are forested and need to stay that way due to proximity to a river / wetland conservation area. So the backyard (where they would ideally reside) is going to be running into a half acre of woods that extends to a river. Farmland is on the other side of the river. We live in a pretty rural neighborhood in Rhode Island. Neighboring houses are close enough that I don't want to let the chickens free range out front and into neighboring yards / gardens. I was thinking of putting together a chicken tractor and am reading up on that. Right now we just want to have enough to supply eggs for ourselves. We're big on pets so we are probably the sort that would keep them around even after they stopped laying and not just eat them. From reading the thread I am guessing about 3 hens for us? I am looking for some general stuff to read on getting started with chickens and a good recommendation for plans for a chicken tractor that would nicely accommodate 3/4 hens. Given the proximity to the woods and turkeys, owls, hawks, coyotes around here I'd like it to be strong enough to resist that and something that will be suitable for cold weather next year. I've got a woodshop and am happy to build up one from lumber and parts. Also wouldn't mind breed recs. I am leaning towards Rhode Island Reds because well... its the state bird and all, but not totally committed to that either.
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I did the chicken tractor thing and you need to know that your lawn needs to be very, very flat and level and it can be a huge hassle to move it around. So mine hasn't moved in a long long time. You might want to consider just building a larger coop with a big run.
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RIR chickens are great. I had two growing up and they were huge, sturdy, placid birds and i wish i could find more of them in my country.
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A coworker is offering to provide me with a dozen mixed fertilized chicken eggs. I'm totally taking her up on it -- she's got some of about every breed I like, including silkies, Wyandottes, Rhode Island reds, barred rocks, and Americaunas. I'd get the eggs in mid April so I have time to educate myself and prepare! What incubators do you guys recommend? I'd prefer something with automated turning.
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Mozi posted:I did the chicken tractor thing and you need to know that your lawn needs to be very, very flat and level and it can be a huge hassle to move it around. So mine hasn't moved in a long long time. You might want to consider just building a larger coop with a big run. Yeah I'd rather a large coop. We live in a pretty sparsely populated neighborhood, big lawns, good tree / shrub blocks between properties but I don't know how bad our neighbors are yet about rules lawyering etc. We won't have roosters so sound isn't gonna be a big deal, but our local laws state that we have to have coops 100' away from our well head (rules out most of the backyard) and 25' minimum distance from a "living area" which rules out most of the side and front yards. I figure with a tractor at least I can keep it away from the wellhead and if it goes into the 25' minimum distance it's only staying there for a day or two at a time as I park it around. If after a year of owning them and none of the neighbors have issues I'll probably build a more permanent coop and run up near the back of the house that's within the minimum distance from the well. I am not overly concerned about well issues as ours is over 90' deep and we're looking at like 3-4 hens max.
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Also I'm absolutely going to have Chickam 2.0 happening. Velvet Sparrow will have some company! 
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Mozi posted:I did the chicken tractor thing and you need to know that your lawn needs to be very, very flat and level and it can be a huge hassle to move it around. So mine hasn't moved in a long long time. You might want to consider just building a larger coop with a big run. That is very good to know. I'm indefinitely planning a chicken coop myself, and my mother-in-law loves suggesting the chicken tractor thing. But our yard is very very much not level.
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my cat is norris posted:Also I'm absolutely going to have Chickam 2.0 happening. Velvet Sparrow will have some company! Finally some good news for 2019.
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my cat is norris posted:A coworker is offering to provide me with a dozen mixed fertilized chicken eggs. I'm totally taking her up on it -- she's got some of about every breed I like, including silkies, Wyandottes, Rhode Island reds, barred rocks, and Americaunas. I'd get the eggs in mid April so I have time to educate myself and prepare! If you want some more, just pm me your address and I'll ship in some weird poo poo. Speckled sussex, swedish flower hens, frizzles, polish, shitloads of easter eggers, and some fun wyandottes (columbian, gold laced). https://www.amazon.com/Incubator-Au...A4NX4ATBJ2RGHE2 I've seen a lot of like on these
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Fluffy Bunnies posted:If you want some more, just pm me your address and I'll ship in some weird poo poo. Speckled sussex, swedish flower hens, frizzles, polish, shitloads of easter eggers, and some fun wyandottes (columbian, gold laced). Thank you thank you thank you!! That's so incredibly sweet and generous, I'll almost definitely take you up on that. Going to be researching and getting things ready for the next month, then start the hatching.
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