2018 Newbie Chat!

[PNW_Peepers]

A video of Angus crowing.
To me, he sounds like he’s yodeling lol.

His crow is so silly sounding! I love how each rooster has their own twist on a crow. My rooster and cockerel sound completely different from one another.

 

[CannedMonster]

His crow is so silly sounding! I love how each rooster has their own twist on a crow. My rooster and cockerel sound completely different from one another.

Yep. Oliver sounds a lot quieter.
I actually really like Ollie’s crow.
Angus can be quite annoying especially when he’s right outside the sliding glass door on the deck.

 

[Anna Ranieri]

A video of Angus crowing.
To me, he sounds like he’s yodeling lol.

Love this! He's so cute. I'm out with my birds and when I played this my chickens put their heads up, so I played it again and they were looking around and then Pedro came over to me softly clucking - I think she thought it was me lol

 

[CannedMonster]

Sadly we lost one of my partridge Rocks, Paisley, this morning.
She was acting kind of strange lately.
I found her a few days ago in the big coop in the back on the floor acting like she was going to lay an egg there.
But she never did.
Then DH said that yesterday she stayed on the nest box all day.
But it was the box with the incubating eggs that Bootsie and Minnie have been setting so he thought she was broody.
Well she’s too young to be broody (7 months) and isn’t a breed that typically goes broody.
But DH doesn’t know that.
This morning when he let them out of the coop she was in the space underneath the nest boxes.
He thought that was unusual but not alarming.
She got up to follow the others out and he went back into the house for a while.
Well when he went back out maybe 30 minutes later he found her dead right outside the coop door on the ground.
So she only made it a few feet...

I have no idea what happened but she may have been egg bound.
Her comb and wattles were red.
Her weight seemed good but her abdomen was kind of squishy?
I don’t think we would’ve been able to do anything for her.
I did make sure DH understands that a broody bird will growl and puff up and peck at you when you disturb her.
A sick one will probably not react at all which is exactly how Paisley was yesterday when he looked underneath her for eggs.

 

[No More Empty Nest]

Sadly we lost one of my partridge Rocks, Paisley, this morning.
She was acting kind of strange lately.
I found her a few days ago in the big coop in the back on the floor acting like she was going to lay an egg there.
But she never did.
Then DH said that yesterday she stayed on the nest box all day.
But it was the box with the incubating eggs that Bootsie and Minnie have been setting so he thought she was broody.
Well she’s too young to be broody (7 months) and isn’t a breed that typically goes broody.
But DH doesn’t know that.
This morning when he let them out of the coop she was in the space underneath the nest boxes.
He thought that was unusual but not alarming.
She got up to follow the others out and he went back into the house for a while.
Well when he went back out maybe 30 minutes later he found her dead right outside the coop door on the ground.
So she only made it a few feet...

I have no idea what happened but she may have been egg bound.
Her comb and wattles were red.
Her weight seemed good but her abdomen was kind of squishy?
I don’t think we would’ve been able to do anything for her.
I did make sure DH understands that a broody bird will growl and puff up and peck at you when you disturb her.
A sick one will probably not react at all which is exactly how Paisley was yesterday when he looked underneath her for eggs.

Oh no! So sorry to hear this. It's hard to lose one.

 

[Cbarr00]

Sadly we lost one of my partridge Rocks, Paisley, this morning.
She was acting kind of strange lately.
I found her a few days ago in the big coop in the back on the floor acting like she was going to lay an egg there.
But she never did.
Then DH said that yesterday she stayed on the nest box all day.
But it was the box with the incubating eggs that Bootsie and Minnie have been setting so he thought she was broody.
Well she’s too young to be broody (7 months) and isn’t a breed that typically goes broody.
But DH doesn’t know that.
This morning when he let them out of the coop she was in the space underneath the nest boxes.
He thought that was unusual but not alarming.
She got up to follow the others out and he went back into the house for a while.
Well when he went back out maybe 30 minutes later he found her dead right outside the coop door on the ground.
So she only made it a few feet...

I have no idea what happened but she may have been egg bound.
Her comb and wattles were red.
Her weight seemed good but her abdomen was kind of squishy?
I don’t think we would’ve been able to do anything for her.
I did make sure DH understands that a broody bird will growl and puff up and peck at you when you disturb her.
A sick one will probably not react at all which is exactly how Paisley was yesterday when he looked underneath her for eggs.

Oh no I'm so sorry. Poor girl

 

[Anna Ranieri]

Sadly we lost one of my partridge Rocks, Paisley, this morning.
She was acting kind of strange lately.
I found her a few days ago in the big coop in the back on the floor acting like she was going to lay an egg there.
But she never did.
Then DH said that yesterday she stayed on the nest box all day.
But it was the box with the incubating eggs that Bootsie and Minnie have been setting so he thought she was broody.
Well she’s too young to be broody (7 months) and isn’t a breed that typically goes broody.
But DH doesn’t know that.
This morning when he let them out of the coop she was in the space underneath the nest boxes.
He thought that was unusual but not alarming.
She got up to follow the others out and he went back into the house for a while.
Well when he went back out maybe 30 minutes later he found her dead right outside the coop door on the ground.
So she only made it a few feet...

I have no idea what happened but she may have been egg bound.
Her comb and wattles were red.
Her weight seemed good but her abdomen was kind of squishy?
I don’t think we would’ve been able to do anything for her.
I did make sure DH understands that a broody bird will growl and puff up and peck at you when you disturb her.
A sick one will probably not react at all which is exactly how Paisley was yesterday when he looked underneath her for eggs.

Awwww hun, so sorry for your loss

 

[No More Empty Nest]

It was really windy today, gusts up to 60 mph! My plastic started to rip off the run. We reattached it with strips of wood to hold it. I sure hope the plastic holds up tonight. It's getting down to 2 degrees. When the top of the plastic was ripped off, the ribbon I have in the coop to check for drafts was blowing around. Don't want a draft tonight!

No eggs yet, lol. 27 weeks now. I've decided that they will all undoubtedly lay their first eggs when I go visit my brother in Texas next month, when my daughter will be taking care of them!

 

[emrya]

so I have 5 5 1/2 month old Cochins- 3 girls 2 boys. last night one of my boys started finding his voice- not sure if its Big Blue or Buster, but is there anything more amusing than a cockerel learning to crow?

 

[PNW_Peepers]

so I have 5 5 1/2 month old Cochins- 3 girls 2 boys. last night one of my boys started finding his voice- not sure if its Big Blue or Buster, but is there anything more amusing than a cockerel learning to crow?

Enjoy the squeaky crow while it lasts. Manchineel (my young cockerel) crows at everything... he’s right next to my house, driving me and the neighbors nuts. Wally my Rooster is wonderful with his crowing, he only crows in the morning.. I hope your cockerel isn’t as bad as mine!