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  1. Aimless Farmer

    FOUND chicken in Fitchburg, MA

    Hey, area peeps, can you spread the word amongs your local chicken friends? On New Years Day, at the split of rts. 31 and 12, by Once Upon a Tile, a hen was found in a snow bank! She is currently being fostered by kind folks of Ahimsa Haven Animal Rescue. She's a sweety! Not afraid of...
  2. Aimless Farmer

    FOUND chicken in Fitchburg, MA

    On New Years Day, at the split of rts. 31 and 12, by Once Upon a Tile, a hen was found in a snow bank! She is currently being fostered by kind folks of Ahimsa Haven Animal Rescue. She's a sweety! Not afraid of people, cats or dogs! If she's yours, please contact me and I'll put you in touch...
  3. Aimless Farmer

    10 week old Buff Orpington cockerel in N. Central MA needs home

    "Bob" is a cute little Buff Orpington cockerel hatched around June 6-7th. He needs a new home. Do you have some ladies who need a chaperone? He lives in North Central MA, and could be driven a reasonable distance to your place. Contact Michaelmas Farm michaelmasfarm at comcast dot net
  4. Aimless Farmer

    1 NH Red Rooster N. Central MA

    This nice fellow needs a flocks of his own ASAP... One year old New Hampshire Red (hatched May 2011) Nice enough guy (no attacks on people), takes good care of his ladies, vigilant to predators. He's just too BIG for my smaller EE girls, and they have sore, scabby backs now:( He needs some...
  5. Aimless Farmer

    Can chickens molt due to post-illness stress?

    I've had one of my hens in the house for about a month due to an impacted crop. She almost died, was down to skin and bones, but her crop is has been clearing regularly and I've been offering her regular layer pellets for about a week now, but rationed (1/8 cup, several times a day), because...
  6. Aimless Farmer

    Crop impaction saga(s)

    Started offering scratch grains last weekend to my "free ranging" (inside electro-mesh netting) EE flock, due to recent low temps (below freezing), as I do every winter. Thursday a.m. I brought in "Violet", because she looked like she was going to keel over on the roost. She was left alone...
  7. Aimless Farmer

    Someone else is laying eggs in our coop!

    When I found a small (1.25" x 1") dark olive green with brown freckling egg in the nesting box with our regular Ameraucana/EE eggs yesterday, I said, "Uh oh...someone's having egg issues!", and put a close eye to all six hens. All seemed fine, yesterday, as well as today. Well, when I found...
  8. Aimless Farmer

    GONE:) Free Ameraucana/EE cockerel in N. Central MA

    I have 2 lovely Ameraucana/EE roosters, hatched mid-April 2010, but can only keep one (unfortunately). The "extra" is black (with that gorgeous green "beetle" sheen) with white, with cheek muffs. He has really come into his voice of late. Very melodic:) He is handled several times...
  9. Aimless Farmer

    Free Ameraucana/EE cockerel in N. Central MA

    I have 2 lovely Ameraucana/EE roosters, hatched mid-April 2010, but can only keep one (unfortunately). The "extra" is black (with that gorgeous green "beetle" sheen) with white, with cheek muffs. He has really come into his voice of late. Very melodic:) He has been handled several times...
  10. Aimless Farmer

    Free Ameracauna/EE rooster-N. Central MA

    I have 2 lovely Ameraucana/EE roosters, hatched mid-April 2010, but can only keep one (unfortunately). The "extra" is black (with that gorgeous green "beetle" sheen) with white, with cheek muffs. He has really come into his voice of late. Very melodic:) He has been handled several times...
  11. Aimless Farmer

    Rooster increasingly aggressive w/hens. Hard decision made:(

    So tonight is the night...My 3 y.o. Ameraucana roo has grown increasingly aggressive over the last year or so. It started after his first moult, when he started becoming more aggressive toward me. I think it ticked him off that the girls would flock to me for treats and not listen to him when...
  12. Aimless Farmer

    EE/Ameraucana cockerel needs home-MA (pix) Will drive him to you!

    "Poppycock" was hatched mid-April, is mostly black, with that gorgeous green "beetle" sheen, with white speckling on wings. Slate legs, red earlobes. He was one of 3/day-old chicks from the local farmer supply (They advertise "Araucana", but I know enough to know he's not. He has muff/beard...
  13. Aimless Farmer

    EE cockerel in MA needs a home...I'll drive!

    I'm working on getting a picture... "Poppycock" was hatched mid-April, is mostly black, with that gorgeous green "beetle" sheen, with white speckling on wings. Slate legs, red earlobes. He was one of 3/day-old chicks from the local farmer supply, but started crowing (or trying to) at about...
  14. Aimless Farmer

    Need "Cockerel Integration" advice

    I have an EE cockerel, "Poppycock", hatched mid-April, that I've been trying to rehome because I already have a 3 year old EE roo, "Elvis". Poppy has been housed with his 2 EE sisters in a "nursery tractor" within our large electronetted chicken pasture. The problem is he's now easily as big...
  15. Aimless Farmer

    Could we get a section just about roosters?

    Not every one has them, but I think everyone, at one time or another, has a question about them. Also, I think many people who have experience with roosters only have one roo at a time. So figuring out what's "normal", or "okay", or "what will happen if...?" isn't as easy as with hens, because...
  16. Aimless Farmer

    EE cockerel N.Central MA STILL needs home...Flashy & Friendly

    I'm working on getting a picture... "Poppycock" was hatched mid-April, is mostly black, with that gorgeous green sheen, white speckling on wings. Slate legs, red earlobes. He was one of 3 day-olds from the local farmer supply, but started crowing (or trying to) at about 7 weeks, much to my...
  17. Aimless Farmer

    Ever used peepers/blinders to help w/introductions?

    I have six 3 month olds and four 1+ year olds who need to meet soon. I've had two "When Chickens Attack" moments this past month, 1 which resulted in the death of one of my 1+ year olds due to a broken neck, and 1 which resulted in stitches, antibiotics and pain medication in one of my 3 month...
  18. Aimless Farmer

    Help for my healing pullet

    One of my 3 month old chickies got out of the nursery yesterday, in with the 1 year olds, and got the stuffing beat out of her. We found her tangled in the electric net fence with her scalp peeled back. Long, expensive story short...she's been stitched up, given injections of antibiotic and...
  19. Aimless Farmer

    Small white spots on my rooster's comb

    I'd noticed 1 or 2 of these before, and didn't worry because they didn't seem to be anything to worry about. Now I'm noticing more. When I give them a gentle scrape with a fingernail, they seem to be part of his comb, not anything attached. He seems fine every other way, and he doesn't seem...
  20. Aimless Farmer

    Can a hen "run out" of eggs?!

    I posted this previously, but still I am stumped. My EE hasn't layed an egg since 2/2/08. I'm absolutely sure of it. She appears healthy and normal in every other way. She turned 1 year old mid-April. She was my best layer previously. She layed my largest turquoise eggs. Can a chicken...
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