Eastern Tennessee Thread - Page 470  

The Great Escape has taken place.

Half my pullets dug under the wire, were running around naked in my back yard, and were doing chicken shenanigans in front of the neighbors , as they were working their garden.

I called them and the shameless fowl just giggled like school girls and headed for a honey suckle thicket as fast as their yellow little feet would carry them.

The ones in the run were no help.

In their avian language they urged the vagabonds on with cries of "Power to the Poultry" and "Let My Chickens Go".

This weekend the 8X8 coop will be finished to the point that they will have more permanent dwelling and confinement.

The Great Escape has taken place.

Half my pullets dug under the wire, were running around naked in my back yard, and were doing chicken shenanigans in front of the neighbors , as they were working their garden.

I called them and the shameless fowl just giggled like school girls and headed for a honey suckle thicket as fast as their yellow little feet would carry them.

The ones in the run were no help.

In their avian language they urged the vagabonds on with cries of "Power to the Poultry" and "Let My Chickens Go".

This weekend the 8X8 coop will be finished to the point that they will have more permanent dwelling and confinement.

Daph.... Can you hurry with another post please (your post count) 

I had a broody failure today. I isolated my two broody Wyandottes who were sharing a nesting box (converted fruit crate). Tonight I went in and found two fluffy chicks laying stiff in the shavings. One was still breathing and I put it under one of the broodies, hoping to warm it back up. The other was gone. :( The rest of the eggs haven't hatched, yet.

So, do I go back out and bring the barely breathing one and put in under a lamp? Do I leave the other eggs and hope they do better or should I take them and stick them in the bator?

It's my Wyandotte curse. It was Wyandotte eggs that I left unplugged overnight and lost every single one. I've had major fertility issues. I don't know that I'll ever have a chick besides the obviously male one in the brooder.

I thought a broody would be fool-proof!!!

  Have fun catching them!!

Greed was their down fall.

A hand full of scratch grain is all it took.