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  1. JudithKerlin

    Hen lightly mauled three days ago... can't walk?!

    Our hen managed to dig her way under the fence and got cornered by neighbor's dog. We rescued her fast, before there was even any chance for dog to break skin anywhere, and I can'r detect anything broken, but she can't walk. Both her legs work, in the sense that she can push with them (she's...
  2. JudithKerlin

    We could sure use a friendly hen or two if you have excess?

    We live in South Austin and cherish our chickens. Sadly a concatenation of bad luck recently left us with only one lovely young hen and her anxious daddy Copper Maran; of the previous adult Aracauna hens one got scooped up by a big hawk and one died a graceful death of old age. Young hen sure...
  3. JudithKerlin

    I have a hen (possibly a red star mix) in need of a new home.

    where are you? helps to know!
  4. JudithKerlin

    Texas

    We are in South Austin trying to keep all our three-month-olds warm. Since 4 out of 5 are boys, that means separate quarters, and they can't share with the sole hen any more either--someone pecked her face so I had to bring her in and nurse her back to health. Fine now, but still living in the...
  5. JudithKerlin

    South Austin with a NEED to rehome some gorgeous young boy birds

    ...documentary on PBS about the remarkable fellow who raised a flock of wild turkeys from hatching-- it's called "My Life As a Turkey" and contains *marvelous* footage of them hatching and imprinting on the man, who sat near with his face at hatch-level and clucked and crooned so that the wet...
  6. JudithKerlin

    South Austin with a NEED to rehome some gorgeous young boy birds

    ...someplace that will care for them well right up until the sudden end. But if there is ANY possibility of a spot where Little Red Rooster and his *gorgeous* bigger brother can go and enjoy being defender of a flock of actual hens, that would be alI pray for this Christmas. LittleRed is the...
  7. JudithKerlin

    Baby Chick Pictures!!!!! POST!

    Bittie chicks are like God proving he can do "adorable".
  8. JudithKerlin

    Comment by 'JudithKerlin' in item 'Easter Eggers'

    I have noticed my Easter Egger hens are *smarter* than my other breed hens and more, well, bird-like; they fly a little better, roost on tree-branches, etcetera. I have heard that the Aracauna is a breed much closer to a wild bird than breeds like, say, Buff Orps, which have been domesticated...
  9. JudithKerlin

    oh yikes a strong cold front came through. Worried about my chickens

    Do put up a tarp or a towel or SOMETHING for a windbreak if you can. It's much easier for them to stay warm in a pocket of non-moving air. Mine down here in Central Austin have a lamp to warm the air inside the sleep-coop. The two small guys who can't share quarters with bigger rooster are...
  10. JudithKerlin

    When do we stop feeding ChickStarter and switch to regular feed?

    I read the wonderful thread by the professor raising a porch flock of games and was startled to learn that some of his chicks died from eating scratch grains scattered for the adults-- the corn, I believe it was, tore up their tiny gastrointestinal tracts. No scratch-grains for my juveniles...
  11. JudithKerlin

    I want a house chicken.

    ...definitive of the role. Just don't think your birds won't ever love you just because they take for-freaking-ever to get used to you. They're *prey species*-- everything that moves scares them, because every carnivore species likes chicken. Test the difference between, say, your cat's...
  12. JudithKerlin

    I enjoy my chickens so much..Is that wrong?What are your favorites?

    I *love* the idiot birds no matter how much trouble they are (and right now they are quite a lot since we got 4/5 roosters in the hatch-batch!) and have given up trying to figure why. Perhaps some of us are born to become "the crazy chicken lady". Family luckily tolerant of wife/mama wandering...
  13. JudithKerlin

    constructing a single chicken family unit for porch

    He was such a handsome bird, and such an excellent father!
  14. JudithKerlin

    Pudding the rescued Maran

    She is pretty adorable!
  15. JudithKerlin

    Five chicks of odd colouration?!

    ...these Easter Egger hens and this Mystery Daddy (Rocket the Rooster)-- does something about the coloration of the offspring suggest that they could *not* be the chicks of one of these hens? The three mostly-black ones have developed various golden-brown bits similar to the gorgeous...
  16. JudithKerlin

    taming your chickens

    ...a nice neck-feather preen! seriously, just have them spend time in your lap and give them treats and preens-- no bird fails to enjoy having its face feathers scritched! and bear in mind that *only* lots and lots of time can imprint anything on a chicken brain. they are scared of EVERYTHING!
  17. JudithKerlin

    Comment by 'judithkerlin' in media ''

    I swear God made nothing cuter.
  18. JudithKerlin

    Five chicks of odd colouration?!

    Thank you so much for the information-- I will get better pictures of my mystery mutts! The two Easter Egger hens are the only candidates for mom and the rooster pictured for dad-- we had three, now have eight. The poor small hen in the hatched clutch goes about looking slightly panicked all...
  19. JudithKerlin

    Texas

    South Austin with a few more Ameracauna cockerels than my yard can hold peacefully! Four out of five hatched three months ago are boys-- healthy, gorgeous, clever birds they are but they would rather have a home with a better male-female ratio. Anyone have room for one? I don't mind them...
  20. JudithKerlin

    Five chicks of odd colouration?!

    Both parent chickens were bought as "Ameracauna" from a local farm supply store, although I understand they could be Easter Eggers, and the coloration of the rooster looks like many other breed pictures I've seen. He has a nice trim "crown". One of the pretty auburn hens went broody and we...
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