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Chido
Dec 7, 2003

Butterflies fluttering on my face!

I don't think I'll ever let my chickens hatch their eggs, 6 chickens is the max I can take care of, even though they are adorable :(

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Chido
Dec 7, 2003

Butterflies fluttering on my face!

I don't think it'd be good for the chicken to be alone :(

http://www.mypetchicken.com/about-chickens/frequently-asked-questions.aspx#JustOne

Chido
Dec 7, 2003

Butterflies fluttering on my face!

I got home from work and went outside to add more ice to the chickens' waterers. It's been in the mid 90s today and my sister put some ice in the water earlier today. When I went out I saw my four chickens and the new one lying on the grass really close to each other. They are still separated by the welded wire fence, but they are finally getting used to each other :).

Chido
Dec 7, 2003

Butterflies fluttering on my face!

Tendai posted:

Two-headed chickens.

Two-butt chicken.

Chido
Dec 7, 2003

Butterflies fluttering on my face!

I need some help. The barred plymouth rock hen we bought 2-3 weeks ago,Spaghetti, has been losing weight. She drinks a lot of water and eats very wekk, and she poops a lot. Recently Rusty one of my pullets got gapeworm so I gave all my chickens Iverpectin to start deworming them. I don't know if worms is the reason Spaghetti is losing weight, but this is what I need help with:

Now that she is used to us and very attached to me, I've been petting her a lot and noticed she has huge scabs on the sides of her body, right under her wings. I think her previous owner either had a rooster that mounted Spaghetti nonstop and wounded her, or she was kept with other aggressive hens. The sounds are scabbed and healing, the skin looks good, a nice uniform color both next to the wounds and in areas that are clean. However, I think my cockerel reopened a deep puncture wound on ghetti's left hip/side, because I can see the muscle underneath the skin through the hole, and it's been oozing a big of pus/clear liquid, and there's a huge scab next to it that I think is dried ooze.

The wound is a bit under half an inch long, and less than a 1/4 inch wide. I cleaned the area as best as I could with a mix of iodine and water and trim some feathers that were stuck on the discharge, and put some generic Neosporin on the hole until it was filled, and spread it around the wound. Now, because of the weight loss, I don't know if it's the pain or maybe a hidden infection that has been causing it, so I'm also giving her about .6cc of Bactrim and another broad spectrum antibiotic I was given for Rusty when she had a tongue and crop infection.

I repeated the same treatment today, clean the wound (it is scabbing over again), try to remove as much of the dry scab with a qtip soaked in water and iodine, the two antibiotics, and lots of Neosporin on the wound. so far it seems fine, but I can't bandage it because Ghetti and the other chickens kept pecking at the saddle I tried to put on her yesterday, and she kept taking it off. Good thing is that Ghetti is the beta hen in my flock, and the head hen tends to leave her alone, so nobody is trying to peck at her wound. Also her wing feathers cover that area most of the time, so it isn't visible.

Am I doing everything right so far? I already spent like 400 dollars on Rusty during the summer at the vet, and adding the cost of the coop we bought them, and also having unexpected expenses with college (Fafsa isn't granting me as much money as I expected, so I had to pay part of my tuition). With all these unplanned bills, I have no money left for another vet visit, so I have to treat her on my own :(.

Chido
Dec 7, 2003

Butterflies fluttering on my face!

K I'll stop with the antibiotics, but now things got worse. One of my nieces didn't lock the gate correctly and Spaghetti got into the run with the rooster, and now her wound is about an inch and a half long. The ugly scab that was next to the hole cracked and I can see the muscle too well. Thankfully it's not a hole but a long gash, so the skin can stay together to heal. I cleaned the area the best i could with saline solution, made sure to flush the wound well, then applied iodine with a qtip. Once it dried i put a lot of neosporin to work as a barrier for dust and stuff, and I put a chicken saddle I made on Spaghetti so she can't try and eat the neosporin.

I'm gonna try to put some liquid bandage on the part where the scab is so the wound doesn't split open so easily again, but let both ends of the wound unglued so any discharge that may occur has a way out. I'm so glad the skin around it has a healthy color, but now I'm really worried about this wound, it's big and I don't have any idea how long it takes for a wound like that to heal on a chicken :(.

Chido
Dec 7, 2003

Butterflies fluttering on my face!

Maximusi posted:

What's a good setup for a brooder? What do I put on the bottom? Shavings? What kind of chicken breed is a good egg layer but quiet? When can the chick move from the brooder to the chicken coop?

I've read that brahmas are rather quiet, and my light brahma cockerel (he's 6 months now, and crows like a big boy :3:) doesn't crow nearly as much in the morning or during the day as the other roosters in the neighborhood.

Chido
Dec 7, 2003

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Maximusi posted:

I live in California. I really don't want to keep chicks inside for that long.

I live in California too, in Los Angeles county. I had to keep my chicks inside until they were about 3 months old, fully feathered. By then it was June, and they'd be a bit cold at night still. I'd say you'd have to either keep them inside at night until they are 4-5 months old, or wait until March so you can let them grow in the brooder and let them outside in the summer.

Chido
Dec 7, 2003

Butterflies fluttering on my face!

meriruka posted:

Don't really recommend buying other people's used birds. There is a reason they are getting rid of them. Some don't lay, some may be sick, they may have parasites or they may all be roos. Don't get me wrong - some people sell decent birds but you have to be careful. Get pics and try to go there to pick them up so you can see the birds' living conditions.

Yeah you have to be careful. Our hen Spaghetti was dumped on the feed store we bought her from the same day we bought her for 12 dollars (she was "donated" during the time I was buying food and my brother in law went to pick me up). We got her because my BiL liked her and we need a medium to large chicken for our hormone driven cockerel. The poor thing turned out to be covered in old scabbed wounds, I couldn't really see how many because Spaghetti would scream and try to jump off my lap for the first couple of weeks we had her. Finally she got attached to me, and I saw all the scabs.

To make it worse, my cockerel reopened an old wound, so there was a tear in her skin and you could see the muscle beneath. Then one of my nieces wasn't careful enough when closing the gate to lock Spaghetti outside their run so Roo couldn't have access to her, and Spaghetti went back to the run, got mounter, and the wound split to be over an inch long :(. She seems to be healing well and I'm doing my best to keep the wound clean while it heals.

The previous owner either had a rooster who overmated this poor hen, or she was picked a lot by the other hens that were dumped too, and the lady didn't say poo poo about it when she gave them to the store owner.

Chido
Dec 7, 2003

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Roostroyer at 6 months next to an empty gallon jug. He's such a fatty :3:

Chido
Dec 7, 2003

Butterflies fluttering on my face!

She has one big ugly scab on her wound, but the skin around it looks healthy, so no infection. I keep her separate from Roo until that scab is completely healed to avoid Roo opening it again if he tries to mount her. I rotate the chickens in and out of their run and also which chickens stay with Roo:



There you see Dust, the stray hen we caught, locked inside the run with Roo (not in the picture) I often let him and Dust outside and the other hens inside, or I leave Roo with Dust, Megatron and Godzilla outside and Spaghetti and Rusty inside.

Spaghetti is growing her feathers back, but she still poops really soft poop that looks like the splats of pigeon poop you see on cars, and she doesn't really gain weight, drinks lots of water and has a crop that feels mushy, but she doesn't have a sour crop nor bad breath, so I guess that's how she is, although I see her lay down on the grass more often than the others, but she isn't lethargic, I just don't know what's wrong with her, if there's anything wrong :(. She lays an egg every other day and eats well otherwise.

Here's the grumpy lady in question

Chido
Dec 7, 2003

Butterflies fluttering on my face!

Photodump time!

Dust, slowly getting used to human contact. She's a cute mutt :3:



Rusty, I love her tail!



Godzilla, she's so soft and has such pretty colors.



Megatron, she's adorable but I think the little hamster in her brain fell off its wheel :downs:



Roostroyer being a fluffball



Spaghetti is slowly growing her feathers back. Poor thing should be much fluffier.

Chido
Dec 7, 2003

Butterflies fluttering on my face!

Dust is part of the flock Godzilla, Rusty, and Megatron come from. When the guy moved away he took most of his chickens with him (finally). Four hens were left behind because he couldn't catch them, although dust finally fell into a live trap we have a about 2-3 weeks ago, and we decided to keep her. she is the head hen, she pecks everybody and they keep their distance, with the exception of Roo, he has already had his way with her.

She is a bit of a bully, but nothing serious yet because I keep her with Roo most of the time when I separate him from Spaghetti. I do let them hang out for half of the day, or keep her and Spaghetti in the run along with Rusty, and let Megatron and Godzilla with Roo.

And here's Roo trying to charm the girls with yummy food :3: too bad it was his turn to be in the run with Dust and his ladies could only watch in despair. You can see him grab bit of cheese and drop it, too bad you can't hear his adorable bokbokbok enticing the girls to come over.

Chido
Dec 7, 2003

Butterflies fluttering on my face!

I would a big piece of cardboard on the floor so they don't slip too much, and get one more chick, chickens like to be in groups, so three would be much better than two :).

Chido
Dec 7, 2003

Butterflies fluttering on my face!

He's a light brahma cockerel. He's surprisingly quiet, he does crow in the morning but nowhere near as often as my neighbor's rooster, or the roosters across the street, or the ones a couple of blocks away...

Chido
Dec 7, 2003

Butterflies fluttering on my face!

Well the hens that are still roaming free outside have started to sneak into our backyard and eat our chickens' food... and also Roostroyer has already mated with them :psyduck:. My coop is small and if we end up catching them, I don't know if they'll fit in the coop to sleep at night. I guess I'll find out eventually.

Chido
Dec 7, 2003

Butterflies fluttering on my face!

... My brother-in-law saw a really cute chick at the feed store. She is all white, completely feathered, less than a pound in weight, so she is probably 7-9 weeks old. He bought her and the pullet turns out to be a leghorn. I thought I had a bad case of chicken fever, he's worse.

And in other news, Spaghetti's wound was pretty much sealed, just a tiny scab and the skin looked kinda thin, but the wound was closed. Well, it seems it was too soon to let Roostroyer have access to her because the wound reopened. I have to keep her separated again for a couple of weeks again :(, and I'm gonna make her wear an apron until all her feathers have come out and her skin is 100% well.

Chido
Dec 7, 2003

Butterflies fluttering on my face!

K, I need some help with one of my chickens, I've already posted in bakyardchickens.com but nobody has replied yet. I hope you guys can help me.

I left for work today at around 2:30 and my pullet Godzilla was fine. I called home at 6 to remind my niece to lock up the chickens when I'm told Godzilla got a very swollen face and he eyes are a bit watery/bubbly. I can't do much until I get home so I tried to calm my nieces down as they were crying :(.

I get home at around 8 pm and take a look at Godzilla. she's lock up in my bathroom right now, and the poor thing looks like a chipmunk. Her face feels very warm and her cheeks right under her eyes are very swollen. Her eyes are half closed because of that. Now, Godzilla hasn't been sneezing at all, she's been acting normal and eating and pooping well. No nasal or eye discharge, and even now she doesn't really have much discharge from her eyes, and her nose is clean.

She probably got stung by something, is there any way to help her feel more comfortable and help with her swollen face?

Chido
Dec 7, 2003

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That's the thing, I don't see any sting on her face, :(. She doesn't seem to be itchy, but she looks miserable. I don't even know if I can give her aspirin or anything to help with the swell. All I can do right now is help her drink some water, and let her sleep in my bathroom, I don't know how else to help her :(

Chido
Dec 7, 2003

Butterflies fluttering on my face!

Nettle Soup posted:

You can try giving her a tiny bit of ibuprofen, 1/4 or less of a 200mg tablet wrapped in something nice, might reduce the swelling. My Rooster ate loads of it, (He looked like he was on his last legs so we figured it couldn't make it any worse) and there's a couple of studies and a few anecdotal posts on the internet if you look around. Asprin is fairly safe too, there's dosages on BYC somewhere.

(Incidently, you can give dogs asprin but you CAN'T give them ibuprofen, they can't metabolise it, making it toxic)

I think bee stings are acid and wasp stings are alkaline. So holding a compress with vinegar on the sting may help. (if you find it)

Thank you :). My brother-in-law went to buy some aspirin since we didn't have any, and I just crushed one, dissolved whatever bit of powder stuck to my finger in a cup of cold water, and gave her some with a dropper. I hope she gets better tomorrow, these chickens are the first pets my nieces have ever had, and they both were so devastated when they saw Godzilla's face all puffed up :(.

Chido
Dec 7, 2003

Butterflies fluttering on my face!

Well she hasn't had any symptoms of a respiratory infection, and according to my nieces Godzilla's face went from normal to swollen within a couple of hours yesterday. Today one side of her face is a bit less swollen and her eye more open, and she is hungry as she just devoured some mealworms I gave her, so I think it was a sting or some kind of bug bite.

Chido
Dec 7, 2003

Butterflies fluttering on my face!

Maximusi posted:

Will I have to put the birds in a bigger box when they get bigger? I'm using a really large plastic bin as a brooder for the chicks.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31zgRJEBGzL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

But they're already trying to fly out of it and they're only 1.5 weeks old. Will the chicks need more surface area as they grow to 3-4 weeks? When can/should I clip their wings?

You can make a lid with some welded wire, just make sure the holes are small so the chicks don't get stuck. Also get used to having mini escape artists, they'll keep trying to get out because they may feel lonely and want to be near you :)... or they just want to explore.

Edit: I think you only have 2 chicks, right? they probably feel lonely and that's why they keep trying to get out. When my first 3 pullets were babies, they would keep trying to get out of their box and peep their tiny hearts out whenever I locked them in their box. I eventually transfered them to a dog carrier, but I'd let them run around in my room so they'd keep quiet. this is what would usually happen after I'd let them out:




They'd settle for sleeping in a chicke pile on top of their crate whenever I was in my computer. That was the only way they'd keep quiet :).

They'd even take sunbaths in my room and stay mostly on top of the crate whenever I was is my room :). They just felt lonely and wanted to be near "mommy" so they'd get more of a sense of being par of a flock, I think.



Things got a bit annoying when they got bigger and still insisted on getting to roost on the back of my chair while i was raiding. I'm glad they were almost feathered and ready to go out.



This is how old they were and how fully feathered they were when I finally took them outside to sleep in their coop. the big chick is Roostroyer, same age as the other pullets, but he's just a big fluffy boy :3: they were probably 11-12 weeks old I think.


Chido fucked around with this message at 23:02 on Oct 3, 2011

Chido
Dec 7, 2003

Butterflies fluttering on my face!

Maximusi posted:

Wow. Wait a minute, don't you have to have the heat lamp on them at all times? I think my chicks are scared of me. They run away when I try to pet them. And when you let them out don't they poop everywhere? Cute chickens.

I didn't have a heat lamp because the desk lamp I borrowed broke :(. When I got these chicks under my care, it wasn't a planned thing, my brother-in-law found them outside. There was a street flock roaming freely in March, and these chicks got separated at one point and he found them hiding in the bushes late one night, without their mom nearby. So the dog crate and everything I did I had to learn as it went.

The whole mini saga is here:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3399768

Also as they start to grow feathers, they'll need to be less and less near the lamp, and since you leave in SoCal like I do, with the warm weather we have right now, I think your chicks won't need the heat lamp that much. When my lamp broke, I started to use a heater in my room, since March/April were rather cold this year, so that kinda took care of the temperature issue. Yes, they pooped everywhere on my carpet, but I didn't mind much. You can wash off chicken poop stains easily with dish soap and warm water, and the chickies needed space to run, as you can see here :), the chickies were probably 4 weeks old in that video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rYB0XAKBuE

Also my first 3 pullets would always run away from me whenever I tried to grab them, specially the smallest one (she still runs away), but if I was sitting, they'd jump on me and roost on my shoulders and head. Now, since you have a heat lamp, I'd say you can still leave it on in one side of the box, so the chicks can get away from it if they get too hot.

Chido fucked around with this message at 23:13 on Oct 3, 2011

Chido
Dec 7, 2003

Butterflies fluttering on my face!

Thank you for the link :D! Godzilla's face looks better today, she had no fever hat I noticed as her legs didn't feel nearly as warm as they were last night, her face isn't all bright red, and the swelling on the left side of her face went down more than in the other side, but both cheeks are less swollen than last night.

She was also very hungry, but it seems that it bothers her to eat anything hard like her pellets, so I gave her mealworms, about 2 tablespoons of tuna, some bread, and let her outside for a bit so she could eat some grass. If she stops improving then I'll bother VS and probably ask that chicken doctor too for advice, but meanwhile things seem to be going ok.

Chido
Dec 7, 2003

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Well my efforts to isolate the ill hen didn't work, the virus made its rounds already and everybody got sick. Most of the chickens are almost back to normal, but Spaghetti the barred rock hen isn't doing too well. She breathes normal now, there's no nasal or eye discharge, and is molting, but she won't eat. I've seen her eat a bit of scratch and drink a lot of water, but she doesn't really eat. I managed to make her eat 2 meal worms, and a bit of bread, and also a spoonful of cottage cheese yesterday, and she ate a bit of scratch and a couple more mealworms today that I know of (I had to work in the morning, I don't know if she ate anything during that time). Spaghetti mostly just stands in one place, or walks around a little bit, I'm just glad she's still drinking water on her own, I just wish she'd eat more.


Spaghetti has never been the healthiest chicken out there, she wasn't in a very good condition when we got her and her poop has never been solid. Her poop now is basically a yellowish water with tiny pieces of very green poop. I le her hang out with the other pullets outside, and just keep Roo and the alpha hen Dust separated from them so Spaghetti doesn't feel lonely, and she does seem to be more alert when she's with the flock. At this point I just can wait and see if her appetite comes back. :( the poor thing must've had horrible owners before us, I really hope she gets better, she deserves it.

Chido fucked around with this message at 07:25 on Oct 11, 2011

Chido
Dec 7, 2003

Butterflies fluttering on my face!

I don't know where they got the virus from. My rooster and the stray hen are fine, and everybody is ok now except Spaghetti. My guess is that they either got something from the birds that come to drink from their waterer and eat their food (and poop everywhere in the backyard), or maybe the stray hens we haven't been able to catch yet are carriers for something. These hens sleep on a tree next door, and every few days come to our backyard to eat with our chickens, and the sluts also come to mate with Roo (he's also a slut); however, I haven't seen any of Roo's street girlfriends sick.

Before his illness affecting most of my hens, I only had problems with rusty a while ago, and with Spaghetti who has never been quite healthy, and that problem comes from before we got her at the feed store.

In other news, I'm still hoping Spaghetti will make it. She doesn't eat much and is very underweight, she drinks a lot of water though. Her poop is pretty much yellowish water with some whitish/yellowish stuff and tiny bits of green poop. Finally today I got her to eat some mealworms, and after days of offering her different treats, she decided to eat about a spoonful of layer feed soaked in water so it was soft and mushy. I got her to eat another spoonful of that mash tonight, and her poop was still pretty much water, but it had also chunks of real poop in it.

I'm gonna prepare more of that mash tomorrow using some unflavored Pedialyte and fill her waterer with Pedialyte too. I'm crossing my fingers I can get her to eat more mealworms tomorrow, or at least some bread besides her mash :(.

Chido
Dec 7, 2003

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Maximusi posted:

How do I make my chickens love me? :( I have to grab them every evening to put them back in the coop because they don't know they're supposed to go in yet. Now they're afraid of me.

Bribe them with food. I taught my chickens to come to me wen I whistle by whistling the same tune whenever I was going to give them treats. I also say "hey guys!" in a very high pitched voice when I have treats. Now they come to me whether I have food or not, and we made it a routine whenever I lock the for the night, which works perfect for the stray hen we have that is still very skittish and won' let us grab her. This is what I do:

2-3 times a day call all the chickens for treats.

At around 6 pm, lock the big fat rooster outside the run, and then herd the stray hen into the coop, there's a crate there that I use to lock her in. I lock her before everybody else because she would climb on the trees to sleep and the other hens were learning to do the same. Now the hen will go to the crate on her own before everybody else :).

At 6:30, I go out again to check if everybody is in the coop. Sometimes my barred rock hen would try to sleep in the same spot with the other hens, but I move her to another perch, since the roo also sleeps in that spot, and a lot of drama would ensue if I let them all fight for the coveted corner.

At 7pm, I grab the rooster and put him in the coop. By now everybody else is asleep.

The trick is consistency. Chickens aren't as dumb as one would think, and they can learn from routines. 2 of my hens hate being chased but they love perching on my shoulders, so if I kneel, they'll jump on their own on my shoulders. Another hen does like the attention, and the barred rock just doesn't enjoy cuddling. Since I know now how to approach each bird, I can manage to handle them without much trouble.

Chido
Dec 7, 2003

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Well Spaghetti is still hanging out there. She is relatively active, still very underweight, and she is not digesting whatever greens she's eating that well, I can make out pieces of grass in her poop. Still, for a starving hen she is one picky chicken. She won't eat yogurt, or cottage cheese, only eats a bit of ham or other meat I give her, some mealworms... and that's it. She loooooves eating grass and clovers, but rejects other veggies I offer. I still offer her different sources of protein during the day and she nibbles here and there, but it's getting annoying :(. drat chicken should eat her cheese and get fat and healthy >:(

Chido
Dec 7, 2003

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Chickens can be so tolerant (reposting from the random thread).

Chido
Dec 7, 2003

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Inveigle posted:

Awwww...post more photos! Everyone here is a sucker for cute, fluffy baby chick photos. :)



Chido! What is going on in that image???

Magic!

(click on the picture and you'll see the torture that it is to be a kid's pet).

Chido
Dec 7, 2003

Butterflies fluttering on my face!

... Roostroyer has gotten so pretty and fluffy, I want another brahman, and I'd love to get a dark brahma hen, but nobody seems to sell them online, at least on the sites where I can order only 3-4 chickens :(.

I need another big fluffy butt running around in my backyard...

Chido
Dec 7, 2003

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I read chickens do lay less during winder due to less sunlight. Maybe the needs a well lit coop instead of just a heat lamp to start laying more again? And from what I've been told, chicken are crazy and go broody whenever they feel like it.

Chido
Dec 7, 2003

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This is what Velvet Sparrow has on her site about broodies:

If you don't want or can't have chicks and want to break the broody cycle, there are a number of things you can do. The normal incubation period for chicken eggs is 21 days. Sometimes a hen will sit a nest for weeks or months to the point of losing a dangerous amount of weight. I've heard people tell stories of putting the hen under a box for three days, squirting her with water, etc. This seems kinda needlessly cruel to me. I simply remove any eggs she has and don't let her sit on any more of them, roust her off of the nest several times a day, carry her around for a bit with me, give her some goodies to eat outside the nest, give her a handfull of ice cubes to brood instead of eggs and/or remove or block off the nest. The idea is to make being OFF the nest more attractive and fun than being ON it. You can cage a broody hen in a wire cage for a few days to break the cycle, it sometimes works--the idea being that since she is on wire with air circulating around her undercarriage there is no soft ground to nest on and she'll give up the idea.

http://jackshenhouse.com/VSChickHensBroodiesChicks.htm

So basically pester the hen and make her feel as unconfortable as possible whenever, until she stops being broody.

Chido
Dec 7, 2003

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WrathofKhan posted:

My Pet Chicken has Buff Brahmas and Light Brahmas, if that would be close enough.

I know, I already checked that site and others, but no dark brahmas :(

Chido
Dec 7, 2003

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Well I decided to put Spaghetti back in the run with the Godzilla, Megatron, and Rusty. I put Roostroyer and Dust the stray hen outside of the run because Roo would try to mate with Spaghetti and she's still very thin and she's also scared of him; Dust is true to her gamey mutt blood and she's the head hen, so she tends to harass Spaghetti, who is also really scared of her(funny thing, when Dust is not around, Spaghetti is the head hen). She eats much better now, and while I can still see that she isn't digesting all that she eats (can still see some semi-digested grass in her poop), her poop is much more solid, she's active and does forage when I'm outside with her, or when she's hanging out with the other chickens.

She's still very underweight, I don't know how long it will take her to gain her weight back, but at least she's pretty much back to normal and eating on her own. I'm kinda concerned that she doesn't digest grass and scratch that well, but there isn't much more I can do at this point :(.

Chido
Dec 7, 2003

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meriruka posted:

Here's Jerry with some of his children....he's a great daddy.


Awww that's adorable!

I just saw today one of the stray hens in our backyard, eating Spaghetti's food. I hope she shows up tomorrow so I can try and lure her to the garage and catch her. There were three left, but lately I have only seen this brown one still roaming around, I have no idea what happened to the other 2.

Chido
Dec 7, 2003

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daggerdragon posted:

I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one thinking :chef:, what with Thanksgiving in a couple weeks and all...

I did think that too, but once food has a name, it's hard for me to think of eating Jerry...

Chido
Dec 7, 2003

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daggerdragon posted:

Looks like Light Brahma to me, too. From page 5:


Also:



Okay, I'm done.

It seems to be a light brahma cockerel, they look big and mean, but they are pretty tame. then again roosters tend to be more aggressive, but in general the breed is really calm. My nieces can grab Roostroyer and pretty much do whatever they want with him, and even play with his wattles and I have yet to see him try to peck them or show any aggression. He's a big baby still :).

Here's a better picture of Roostroyer at 7 months:





Me holding him (I'm an overweight, 5'4" Mexican lady for size comparison).



Roo doing his sexy walk.



Lookit those wattles soo cute :3:

Chido fucked around with this message at 06:30 on Nov 9, 2011

Chido
Dec 7, 2003

Butterflies fluttering on my face!

Roostroyer 1-2 weeks ago, next to a lawn chair :3:



godzilla's hearts!

Chido fucked around with this message at 06:38 on Nov 11, 2011

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Chido
Dec 7, 2003

Butterflies fluttering on my face!

c355n4 posted:

drat, that boy has grown since we saw him on chickam. Have you sent velvet any pictures of him?

I don't think I have lately, but I'll send her a link to my post here in a PM. He's so fluffy indeed and cuddly :3:

Chido fucked around with this message at 19:20 on Nov 11, 2011

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