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Hi! Today my name is Angel. This is my itty bitty self.
I'm a splashed Frizzle x Cochin bantam. My mom, Bo loves me the best! Aunt Harmony is a crazy broody who wants to kill us tiny chicks.
Everyone else is really nice to us. I'm glad mom decided to let Bo keep us. I'm only 3 weeks old.
I am from the newest flock that Bo has hatched. 4 of my siblings are mostly like me but only one other shows with some frizzle. His name is Fozzy Bear. Only his primaries and hocks are frizzled and he looks rather silly. 2 of my siblings are OEG bantams. I had 3 but one drown.... Mom learned another lesson and put chicken wire over the hen's water dish now.
I like to spend my days following my mom Bo and getting treats to eat from her. She's good at catching flies! I love to take them and run from Fozzy and the others as they chase me around and around the rhubarb. Then we play chest bump!
Mom had to put chicken wire up around her chicken garden fence so we can't fit thru it anymore.
We have more babies here too. BCM's, buff orps, ameracauna and olive eggers. Some are real pretty but not a pretty as I am! They are 9 weeks old. Lily and Olivia co brooded 3 of them and Harmony the rest.
This is Memphis, Isabella,(orps) Blue (olive) and Arizona (ameracauna)
The Maran Clan! Mary, Margaret, Maggie with Hunter and Flynn the Olive x Maran.
That white pretty is Phoenix (ameracauna)
Mom's turn to talk....
Gorgeous George has gone to the great chicken coop in the sky....
I think I gave to much scratch and the Bigs who then did not eat enough pellet, all of a sudden we had secondary problems between depleted nutritional values and CRD. George had issues from his early life experience with a duck, bad nutrition and then the CRD. He'd do somersaults if he tipped forward to eat or drink so he stopped. He'd tip sideways if he tried to stand. I fed him vit. and mineral water with a syringe 5 x a day for a month. His health didn't get better or worse but I knew this was no life for him. I found out that there was a place to take a loved chicken to have it humanely put down and a necropsy done ($10.50) and that helped confirmed my thoughts. Ministry of Agriculture Animal Health Centre in Abbottsford BC.
Before George's crisis Frankie died fast one evening and Matilda fell ill too. During George's crisis, Matilda fell ill for another week, then Giselle for a day and then Ruby for a day. Gracie puffed up for a few hours and then disappeared for a week. I was worried about loosing my whole flock but didn't know why! At the same time, Bo was about to hatch out 7 eggs (one of which was an egg from Gracie and George!) I was so scared! What disease could this be? And by now I had 12 chicks in the house ready for the outdoors and Bo expecting, how could I protect the babies????
Let me tell you I know longer feed 2 cups of scratch daily to 12 hens.
Everyone is healthy again. Necropsy showed George to be in great shape but with MG. No one can say why he tipped and fell. I have always figured we had it. It is impossible not to have it if your birds free range. It travels vertically from mom to egg and travels in the wild bird population too. Usually it stays hidden unless something else weakens the immune system.
Gracie was found under in the middle of the coop with a clutch of 8 eggs! She still has 4 of them but hatch date by my records ended 2 days ago. She talks to her eggs now so maybe she knows something I don't!!! She was moved to the furnace room in a large wire dog crate. I hope she gets to have a baby or 2 for her own.
Josie and Harmony are broody, Giselle's eggs are very wrinkled, Matilda lays only soft shelled eggs for a month now, Lily and Olivia and one other are the only ones laying good eggs! I pickled the little bantam eggs! YUM!
I'm a splashed Frizzle x Cochin bantam. My mom, Bo loves me the best! Aunt Harmony is a crazy broody who wants to kill us tiny chicks.
I am from the newest flock that Bo has hatched. 4 of my siblings are mostly like me but only one other shows with some frizzle. His name is Fozzy Bear. Only his primaries and hocks are frizzled and he looks rather silly. 2 of my siblings are OEG bantams. I had 3 but one drown.... Mom learned another lesson and put chicken wire over the hen's water dish now.
I like to spend my days following my mom Bo and getting treats to eat from her. She's good at catching flies! I love to take them and run from Fozzy and the others as they chase me around and around the rhubarb. Then we play chest bump!
We have more babies here too. BCM's, buff orps, ameracauna and olive eggers. Some are real pretty but not a pretty as I am! They are 9 weeks old. Lily and Olivia co brooded 3 of them and Harmony the rest.
This is Memphis, Isabella,(orps) Blue (olive) and Arizona (ameracauna)
The Maran Clan! Mary, Margaret, Maggie with Hunter and Flynn the Olive x Maran.
That white pretty is Phoenix (ameracauna)
Mom's turn to talk....
Gorgeous George has gone to the great chicken coop in the sky....
Before George's crisis Frankie died fast one evening and Matilda fell ill too. During George's crisis, Matilda fell ill for another week, then Giselle for a day and then Ruby for a day. Gracie puffed up for a few hours and then disappeared for a week. I was worried about loosing my whole flock but didn't know why! At the same time, Bo was about to hatch out 7 eggs (one of which was an egg from Gracie and George!) I was so scared! What disease could this be? And by now I had 12 chicks in the house ready for the outdoors and Bo expecting, how could I protect the babies????
Let me tell you I know longer feed 2 cups of scratch daily to 12 hens.
Everyone is healthy again. Necropsy showed George to be in great shape but with MG. No one can say why he tipped and fell. I have always figured we had it. It is impossible not to have it if your birds free range. It travels vertically from mom to egg and travels in the wild bird population too. Usually it stays hidden unless something else weakens the immune system.
Gracie was found under in the middle of the coop with a clutch of 8 eggs! She still has 4 of them but hatch date by my records ended 2 days ago. She talks to her eggs now so maybe she knows something I don't!!! She was moved to the furnace room in a large wire dog crate. I hope she gets to have a baby or 2 for her own.
Josie and Harmony are broody, Giselle's eggs are very wrinkled, Matilda lays only soft shelled eggs for a month now, Lily and Olivia and one other are the only ones laying good eggs! I pickled the little bantam eggs! YUM!