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  1. chickenheart

    Houston, we have peeping! finally ***PICS PICS PICS***

    Yikes! I am still trying to understand my new camera as well as photobucket!!! I am technologically challenged- so sorry. Anyway, my dear broody Aqua has indeed hatched two of the three eggs I placed under her. They are supposed to be buff brahmas, but I question one of them. Then again, I...
  2. chickenheart

    Houston, we have peeping! finally ***PICS PICS PICS***

    Hope everyone's hatching goes well. I'll show you mine if you show me yours (pics, that is). Good luck to you and your broodies!
  3. chickenheart

    Houston, we have peeping! finally ***PICS PICS PICS***

    Chicks are here!!! I have been peeking in on Aqua all day today. When I let the chickens out to free range this aft., I sat in the coop with her and hand fed her. I spied a bit of eggshell and then heard some loud peeping. Soon the little yellow head of a chick peeked through Aqua's black...
  4. chickenheart

    Houston, we have peeping! finally ***PICS PICS PICS***

    Despite all of my well-intentioned interference and basic stupidity, there is lots of peeping going on under my dear broody hen and tomorrow is hatch day! Aqua, my blk cochin hen, has been sitting on three buff brahma eggs since March 6th. And I, in my supreme ignorance, have done everything...
  5. chickenheart

    Partridge Rocks or Speckled Sussex from Mt. Healthy?

    I hope it's just a fluke that you would allow such bad puns to leech into this forum, because that really fell flat!
  6. chickenheart

    Partridge Rocks or Speckled Sussex from Mt. Healthy?

    Sorry, our computor needed some help and I've been offline. Just in case anyone is re-visiting, the leech was found in a muddy, swampy spot at the foot of a tree. It is a bit of a mini creek that springs up when we have received a lot of rainfall (it runs to an actual creek on our property)...
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    Partridge Rocks or Speckled Sussex from Mt. Healthy?

    I wish it were a slug, but I have looked into it and it turns out it was a ...leech! I didn't even know we had them here in Ohio. After realizing that all of their pecking was futile, the girls finally dropped it and moved on to easier pickings (or should I say scratchings). Evidently leeches...
  8. chickenheart

    Partridge Rocks or Speckled Sussex from Mt. Healthy?

    Here are some pictures of the girls. We are currently recovering from a record February snowfall and the chickens love to hang out by this muddy stream, scratching for insects. However, I was NOT prepared for the alien insect that Sparrow dug up. Eeewww! Still, Saffron the BO seemed to think...
  9. chickenheart

    Broody will only sit in nest!

    Of course, a chicken type ramp!!! I guess I'm tired, because I envisioned these little chicks sliding down the ride of theirs lives!!! I have an extra ramp that's not in use because I did some re-configuring of Chickenland. I'll have it handy just in case. I know that mother hens are very...
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    Partridge Rocks or Speckled Sussex from Mt. Healthy?

    Mt. Healthy Hatcheries is local for me. Last year I purchased 8 one-day old chicks from them and my broody is currently sitting on eggs from there as well. My chickens have been happy and healthy! I do have 2 PRs and 2 SS and I love both breeds dearly. They are calm and friendly. My PRs are...
  11. chickenheart

    Broody will only sit in nest!

    Thanks for the replies! I will screen the nesting box until the chicks hatch and then move them. There are three nestings boxes (built into the side of the coop) but the walls between them don't go all the way up. Another chicken can reach it's head over into the next box. Does that sound...
  12. chickenheart

    Broody will only sit in nest!

    My first ever broody (from my first ever chickens) will not sit on her eggs if I move her. She is currently sitting on three eggs in the ever-popular middle nesting box. She seems to be extremely devoted to her task, warning the other hens away if they try to take over the nesting box. She...
  13. chickenheart

    Does blood in poop always signify cocci?

    My little partridge rock, Cherry, is fine and well. A long-time chicken raising friend got back to town and looked everyone over. No blood in anyone's poop (even Cherry) and all are happy and healthy. She said it was just one of those things- perhaps remnants of passing lining. My chickens...
  14. chickenheart

    Does blood in poop always signify cocci?

    There didn't seem to be any fleshy material in the poop to make me think it was lining. There's no way it was a staple. The brooder is made of huge sheets of cardboard that had never been stapled, and then I taped them together. I just checked on the girls again- I was hoping to see Cherry...
  15. chickenheart

    Does blood in poop always signify cocci?

    I have eight chicks that are still in a brooder. I expanded the brooder a week and a half ago and they still have plenty of space. They all seem happy and healthy. I have not seen blood in the poop of any others. I can't post a "poop pic" because she walked in it, but it was a swirl of red...
  16. chickenheart

    Does blood in poop always signify cocci?

    The poop of one of my 5-week old chicks had a small amount of blood in it. Her behavior is absolutely normal (and, as these are my first ever chicks, I have spent a lot of time with them and have gotten to know their "characters"). She was my little runty, but has really feathered and is...
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