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    Thistlewick Smallholding - Chickens & Sheep (for now)

    Helga and baby spent several days warming up and drying off up in the raised brooder. Then I moved them downstairs for 1 day (moving my skittish Helga was awful ><) and today I just let them out. Did 100% fine - no more rain and all perfectly getting along with everyone. I really dont know...
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    Stinky Acres Farm

    She is seriously gorgeous :love
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    Thistlewick Smallholding - Chickens & Sheep (for now)

    Okay so I do not know what happened. My husband went out and swung by the hen house to just check on things and found Helga and her baby like this Soaking wet. The baby absolutely drenched. We aren't sure what happened at all. Im cooking lunch, husband comes in with the baby in his hands...
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    Thistlewick Smallholding - Chickens & Sheep (for now)

    okay yall I was wrong, Helga went to the hen house - I guess she was waiting under the tractor to sus out when it was safe. But this little one is a few days old and so she very likely DID brood out in the hedge, and decided to come home today! What a looker! It's half Vorwerk!! That's...
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    Thistlewick Smallholding - Chickens & Sheep (for now)

    It was not under the Hedge! It was under the bushhog of the tractor LOL This is where it's been parked for well over 3 weeks. We leave it there because it's great cover for the chickens. Apparently they were laying eggs under the bushhog... because I heard a chick peeping there this...
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    Wrath's Marans

    Hey Wraths, (as an ex-professional illustrator) That'd probably be about $20-$40 venmo to the artist for that! ;)
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    North Carolina

    You won't get $10 for a human aggressive rooster. At auction they go for 2-5 each, at MOST. the only roosters worth $$ are gentle, sociable purebreds for breeding.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I'm just catching up with the thread after not checking for a few days but all of this is easily changed in Settings on the phone. The drop downs are notifications - you can stop all of that from happening in Settings. There are no pop ups on the phone, so if you're seeing them, that's on any...
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    Thistlewick Smallholding - Chickens & Sheep (for now)

    Y'all I went out just now to collect eggs and who do I see after 4 whole days? Helga. Looking rough. She must be brooding out there in the hedge. She's making cluckcluck mama sounds. We will see what happens!! Happy to see her!!
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    Wing It Ranch

    That's w i l d @Tstraub as my EEs are the absolute most golden retriever of all my chickens, friendly, sweet, obliging to everyone around them. Definitely not a breed thing - probably just a genetic strain thing. I love all the pics so much of the babies and mama and I am so glad it's been...
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    Thistlewick Smallholding - Chickens & Sheep (for now)

    So every evening I sit out with my chickens and just hang with them for an hour or so since they all gravitate back to the hen house for bed time. I was doing a couple chores in the hen house, picking up some eggs, cleaning up some poops (never ending chore lol) and right as I walked out I...
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    Thistlewick Smallholding - Chickens & Sheep (for now)

    Got some nice pics of some of the youngsters last night Arthur, my hen feathered cockerel; at least, I think he's a hen feathered cockerel. He's 16 weeks old here. Compared to his brothers, he looks... ehhhh I think it's a cockerel. lol My lovely Clara and Heidi, Silver Lakenvelders...
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    Thistlewick Smallholding - Chickens & Sheep (for now)

    So a few updates; We lost one of the new chicks, the Ermine one - to what, I have no idea. Just didn't come in one night. Tilly and Ginger take them off and away to all over the property during the day so there is no telling what got it. It's the first loss of a raised/hatched chick I've...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    This *perfectly* exactly describes what I've observed as well, to the letter. Currently have a ton of teens still, lazing around the hen house all day lol Only some are starting to be curious about where the cool bigs go
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    No, amazingly. They all just share -- and I don't do plates, I toss out any goodies. Though I have done plates, and no pecking. Also, different hens go in first versus eating later at the feeders. @MrsNorthie This is where it gets interesting, they have little mini-flocks within the large...
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