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  1. WildWalker

    Help Name These Chicks! **PIC HEAVY**

    I can't believe noone's said it yet. Ebony and Ivory? Soot n' Snow sounds cute to me too
  2. WildWalker

    So i got some TSC banties but i dunno what they are

    Perhaps bantam GL wyandottes, and I would think the two bearded ones might be EE's. But suffice to say not everything in that brooder is a chicken.
  3. WildWalker

    My Broodie's gonna set herself to death X.x

    I have a broody BO who's been sitting religiously on her dozen eggs for at least 20 days now, candling what eggs I could (curse those thick-shelled EE eggs) I see there's little hope of a successful incubation. She's been sitting hardcore on the nest, going into broody over-drive and has lost a...
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    Can I move the brooder outside yet?

    How old are the babies? Whether or not they can have some fun in the sun depends entirely on how feathered they are. With temperatures being that nice you could certainly put the brooder out, provided the were protected from drafts and away from strong direct light. At minimum I would go no...
  5. WildWalker

    Just got the chicks home!

    Congrats on the babies! Careful tho - chickens are VERY addicting. They're like potato chips - you can't just have one (dozen). I'm not an expert at sexing chickens by any stretch of the imagination - but I can usually sex them reliably at 3-4 weeks of age. It depends on the breed, but the...
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    Is there any breed that likes to be held?

    I have a bantam self-blue D'uccle hen that is the friendliest little thing. She's considerably smaller then the vast majority of our mixed flock, so when it came around to feeding time I would always giver her a little something extra (usually kitchen scraps or a tiny bit of starter). After a...
  7. WildWalker

    First eggs and the Monster

    I had one exactly like that day before yesterday - decided to have a one-egg omelet for sup.
  8. WildWalker

    Spring 2011 RAISE-A-LONG!

    Quote: I think they'll both do just fine together then, they both seem very even tempered - I inspect the BO and the silkie once a day, checking the eggs and keeping a head count of the babies. Both of them will gripe and grumble at me, but they've never once shown signs of aggression. The...
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    Spring 2011 RAISE-A-LONG!

    I'm expecting quite a few fuzzies in my brooder now. I've ordered about a dozen silkies (white, blue and black) and have some beautiful pidgeons (satinettes, FF'd pouters, homers, and capuchins) on the way for later this month too. Went this morning to the local feed store and got 8 assorted...
  10. WildWalker

    Hatching Concerns - Poor Chooks O.o

    ~Bump~ I'd also like to update about the youngest chick, who may have turned out to have underdeveloped legs. It's been about 30 hours since he's hatched and is only now attempting to stand and barely managing it. His joints at the tibia/metatarsus seem swollen, although it may be because he...
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    Hatching Concerns - Poor Chooks O.o

    It's been a good few months since I last posted here, been busy building pens, looking through catalogs and otherwise enabling my chicken addiction. I just started raising chickens this year and and now that my chickens are older (mass chicken-birthday in march) I have a few questions. I...
  12. WildWalker

    What is this rescue?

    With that green sheen it looks like a Black Australorp to me. Hope she finds a good home!
  13. WildWalker

    Quote this pics please!!!!

    "O rly?"
  14. WildWalker

    Some of my favorites, and (MORE) mama hen and biddies pictures

    Aww - cute lil' peeps, I can't wait until mine grow up and get all crabby-broody. Do you know for sure what breed Silver is? I have a banty baby that looks almost exactly like that, partridge patterning, rosy breast, slate legs but with a while head and muffs - it's absolutely gorgeous.
  15. WildWalker

    Help managing humidity without a hygrometer - is it possible?

    I guess I'm just worrying over nothing then. First time hatching and I feel like I'm playing the part of the worried parent.
  16. WildWalker

    Help managing humidity without a hygrometer - is it possible?

    As the subject line says, I need help managing the humidity of my still air, three egg 'bator and/or possible solutions to making a homemade one that will either fit in the incubator or be able to read from it. Direct link to the 'bator While the instructions for this thing are rough at best...
  17. WildWalker

    free atwoods chick with neck thing.

    While I've never had a chicken with Scissor beak, as they call it, I've read that giving it a deeper feeding bowl then usual helps them out quite a bit, since they can't peck at stuff normally. IIRC mash might help too - other then that I don't know. Good luck with it and keep us posted!
  18. WildWalker

    Standard leghorns unable to walk - low stamina - ideas?

    IIRC, these guys were fed Nature Wise medicated chick starter for 3-5 months - Gma told me to start giving them the Nature Wise chicken grower she bought maybe a month ago. It was a 50lb bag of feed (I should know, being the one who lugged it into storage), and we just dished up the last of it...
  19. WildWalker

    Standard leghorns unable to walk - low stamina - ideas?

    I have two chickens like this that were given to us as chicks by a family member who worked at Tyson's, these guys were rescued from the "not gonna make it" bucket and with some TLC, have been raised to near-adulthood. We've tried to make sure they have all the amenities, but they are still...
  20. WildWalker

    Bumps on wings-is this normal?

    lol, if you wanna see a cuteness overload - try putting a mirror in there for them to see for a little bit and watch.
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