Realized today my Athena is a boy: " You promised me you were a girl! You little turn coat!" He is the best cuddler of the bunch too, so sad as I cannot keep him
Cut the top off a plastic soda bottle and flip it upside down resting it on the bottom (like a funnel) put a little Apple cider vinegar in the bottom, if you have a bit of banana peel toss a small piece in there too, they fly in and cannot get out.
Come here you, little cluckers! That may end up being her permanent name, her actual name is Lily Chicken, scared to death of me but loves my 7 year old. I assume because she was the one to take her to the brooder from the incubator.
" It's just a strawberry!" as all my chicks run in terror from the offending fruit.
"You better eat those ants before they eat you!"
"Honey, just so you know, they can can fly really well and enjoy roosting on my head...."
"You better be a girl!!!!!"