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  1. fluffycrow

    LGBTQ+ Poultry Keepers

    I know, but since your gorgeous birds are not one of the recognised colours (as you said), I would enter them in the non APA. Wind’s OEGB is on the OP, and OEGB are also APA, but that particular pullet wasn’t a standard colour
  2. fluffycrow

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I do eat meat. Most regulars on this thread that do consume meat products have much healthier eating habits than me. All the males that are not kept are eaten, and so are some hens. I only recall of one case where I managed to find that bird a home. Still, I eat quite a bit of meat, and red...
  3. fluffycrow

    LGBTQ+ Poultry Keepers

    :) https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/non-apa-aba-bantam-hen-show—2025-byc-summer-fair.1670295/ https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/non-apa-aba-bantam-rooster-show%E2%80%942025-byc-summer-fair.1670296/
  4. fluffycrow

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Same here. You were one of the last people on my mind while typing that post. You’re a regular in this thread, for one, and besides you never struck me as someone whose natural response to “I have a cockerel for the first time” (let alone a “problematic” one) is “get rid of it”. You have had...
  5. fluffycrow

    LGBTQ+ Poultry Keepers

    Omg, she totally is :love:love:love !!! You HAVE to enter her in the non APA Bantam Hen Fair contest! She’s stunning!!! Thanks for tagging me, TwoCrows!
  6. fluffycrow

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Shad has long theorised this, and my observations have led to similar conclusions as yours, and many others. In the penned bantam group, I know the exact hierarchy. In the free range group, I can only somewhat, sort of, maybe, kind of try and guess. Back when there was peace in the land, I...
  7. fluffycrow

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Understood! I think a thread like the one you described would be nice. Yes, I would also prefer if the overused advice of culling isn’t a part of said thread (and I know exactly what you mean about certain roosterless posters🤭). Not that I’ve never culled a rooster, or that I will never do it...
  8. fluffycrow

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Thank you. I think she’s very pretty too, even though her back is much worse now. I keep hoping, but I’m not hopeful. Big Red is an absolute angel with me, but he has less maturity than some males at 6 months old. If you wouldn’t mind, I’d love to read more about each of your male’s...
  9. fluffycrow

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    This is sort of what I’m dealing with right now. The two yearling roosters have always grown up with other males around, and have no issue working together. Big Red is a different story. Ever since he got the position of head rooster in the free range group, he has driven out the other two. Not...
  10. fluffycrow

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Seems like we’ve all (or most) had significant losses this week and the last few. As SimpleJenn says, a group hug would indeed be nice :hugs :hugs :hugs
  11. fluffycrow

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I’m so sorry:hugs:hugs:hugs. Sorry for the lost of beautiful Tamar as well, fuzzi :hugs
  12. fluffycrow

    Help needed. Young hens not integrating.

    It has been my experience that the youngsters won’t fully integrate with the adult group until the cockerels have started to mate and crow, and the pullets have started laying. The behaviour your birds are showing, with one adult group and one juvenile sub-group isn’t odd at all. Even when they...
  13. fluffycrow

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Photos from the two orphan chicks I have taken on. Hopefully we can make this work. Camouflage!
  14. fluffycrow

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I’m so sorry :hugs . How unexpected and sad. You and the chickens haven’t been able to catch a break in some time now. Poor Tull. It’s awful to see young birds pass away
  15. fluffycrow

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Congratulations! I sure hope to see both of you with spirit badges soon
  16. fluffycrow

    Natural breeding thread

    Thank you. It’s not my loss that I’m worried about, rather the absence of a mother for the chicks. It’s quite different when a chick is hatched in an artificial environment from the start, compared to going from a vast, natural environment with a mother as a teacher, to a heat plate with no...
  17. fluffycrow

    Natural breeding thread

    As most of you could guess, mum passed some time during the night. One chick was found wandering around, healthy. The other was still under its mum’s body, trapped and almost crushed under her weight. Mum passed on a damp spot, so the chick under her got dangerously cold. It couldn’t walk, due...
  18. fluffycrow

    Natural breeding thread

    Thanks for the input. I don’t think it’s mites. I’m pretty paranoid about that, so I check the nests (as well as the friendliest birds) daily. After mum had taken the chicks off the nest I checked once again, and did not see anything. She has not gone back to a nest since. Right now it’s...
  19. fluffycrow

    Natural breeding thread

    The chicks seem to have retained that rebellious spirit. The were eating their chick feed and scratching on the ground when I went down to the coops. If they make it through the night (assuming that mum doesn’t, and as such, they will be left with no heat source), I’ll try a hybrid method of...
  20. fluffycrow

    Natural breeding thread

    I came home after being out of town for almost two days to mum pretty much on the verge of death. I don’t see her making the night. The chicks are both alive, and I made the decision to let them with mum. We’ll see what tomorrow brings. I don’t know why mum is so sick. The only indication while...
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