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LittleMissPurdy said:
Now see..this is what, ..the kind of thing i was expecting for you when I asked about the medication ..and what did i get...huh?!..a kick in the butt from Wing......Well,..i would still hang out with you though, you know..when we go to the casino
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Last time I was at a casino, I was with mu mom. We had an awesome time..I went home with what I had originally brought. Had one cup for playing with & one cup for winnings...We did a bus thing through AAA, stayed over night ..Atlantic City. Have never been anywhere else. I love the Chinese game Mia-quong (sp?) with the tiles..I won A lot there, so did mom...we were there till 2 in the morning....would love to do a trip again, just to get out for a bit..don't even have to play much..
oh..so cool...i want to get one of those trail cams...he is purdy though...I like foxes, BUT (don't hurt me
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),..only the kind that mind their business. Caesar looks like one...maybe that is why the attraction.
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....We have a ton of aerial predators...but not the biggest problem..it would be the raccoon,..bears..cats..and neighbors dogs before a hawk
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LIE..LIE is a LIE i tell you.....up here up better add 21 more days...we are in a WHOLE world...this place makes it's own weather.....**Wing..umm the fingers thing is very disturbing...very..what was that..hot dog?! hahaha....
Now..to keep all this craziness chicken related....My chickens are doing strange things, go figure
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,...and I don't understand why...one will be eating and still have food in it's mouth..and another one will come up and feed from the others mouth....
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..I see chicka(Marans) & Babs(Partridge) do this more than anyone else,(the tend to pal around together), but sometimes, the little blue(Cordon), will come over and get in on it...they don't seem to mind this...it's like they are sharing with each other....no one gets mad or excited...any thoughts on this??
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LMP,,, only thing I've found to remove Blu-kote is time... if anyone else knows of a cleaner for it I hope they chime in!
And our birds routinely will clean food off others beaks, and the hens frequently 'groom' the beards and such of other birds after feeding.. a few of our 'senior' hens also groom the rooster's neck and back area each evening on the roost. The roos don't seem to mind it, so must be a social thing for them.
wingstone said:
Hubby is buying dinner tonight, think I will order chicken just for the look he gives me....

atleast I get a night of dinner for all this pain,,(had a bone tumor biopsy on friday morning,,, my butt is getting tired of this chair, but it also hurts to walk yet..)
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What????? Hope all turns out OK. My sister has histiocytosis and another odd syndrome and gets bone tumors frequently, she gets bone scans until the growth gets bigger, then has either a biopsy or removal, depending on where it is and if the bone needs grafted for strength. Sucks to have to go through that.
Sally Sunshine said:
Little Known Chicken Fact #6 ~
There are four cities in the United States that have the word "chicken" in their name: Chicken, Alaska; Chicken Bristle, Illinois; Chicken Bristle, Kentucky; and Chicken Town, Pennsylvania.
Will be looking that up!
Little Known Chicken Fact #9 ~
The chicken is the closest living relative of the tyrannosaurus-rex.
Yep, absolutely believe that!! Ever see them go after a pan of bones with meat still on them????
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Sally Sunshine said:
TIDBITTING! ha! new word of the day! ha ha ha

Some info I didnt know had a name.... Roosters perform a little dance called ‘tidbitting’ in which they make sounds (food calls) and move their head up and down, picking up and dropping a bit of food. Researchers have found that females prefer males that often perform tidbitting and have larger, brighter combs on top of their heads.
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I didn't know it had a name! We always called it 'pook, pooking' (pook is pronounced like book) because of the sounds our fellows make when doing it.
Blarneyeggs said:
Seriously Wing?! WTH...
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exactly!
 
fisherlady said:
I didn't know it had a name! We always called it 'pook, pooking' (pook is pronounced like book) because of the sounds our fellows make when doing it.
exactly!
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Our rooster does that. And so does the Leghorn hen. I think she's the dominant hen of the flock, though she doesn't really openly assert her authority. She eats first, comes down and greets me along with the rooster in the morning when I open the run to put down their bowl of fermented feed. The rooster also makes this little funny deep growly gravely type noise that sounds a lot like marbles being rolled against each other in a bag. This is his impatient noise apparently as he does it while stalking around the food bowl waiting for me to open the glorious jar that contains the fermented feed and spoon it out for him to eat. I've also seen him do it out in the yard when he finds something interesting to eat. I think he's calling the girls over to it sort of?

I dunno for sure. I love trying to figure out what they're saying to each other though. They definitely have a very complex language of sounds and postures and movements. It's hours of fun watching them. ^_^
 
Well, took a while to get through the 10 pages!

We spent our day outside with the birds and working on firewood. Cleaned out the coop, I didn't even have the sifted sand and new sand and stove ashes spread back out when the hens decided it looked like a good time for some spa therapy. Ended up with a community dust bathing session going with the ashes and sand piles so we had to wait to finish the nest boxes and such.
Our little silkie broody (Gracie) had her 3 youngsters out and about with all of the others and the only conflicts that happened were with 2 other hens who are frequent brooders , Janeway made multiple attempts to 'chick nap' the little ones and we had a knock down, drag out, roll around on the floor type fight we broke up between them. A short time later Janeway was walking around in the coop, head down and wings slightly out making crooning and baby clucking noises... shortly after that she was cruising nest boxes and tonight when DH went out to close the pop door and do a final check he found her parked in a nest box with a bald chest and an attitude! Apparently she decided if she can't steal Gracie's babies then she will just hatch some of her own!?! Geesh!!
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Will see if she is still on the nest in the morning and if so I will be (hopefully) getting her some eggs for another hatch.

Gotta love Broodies!!!
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