Anyone have luck catching a feral chicken?? UPDATE: Rooster caught, no hen

[theuglychick]

No, no hen.

Still no hen

 

[Parront]

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*The discreet undergarment for easily embarrassed hens.

Posting this here too because I am not a highjacker

Something to focus on while breaking a broody Buff.

Trying to make her stretch her legs a bit.

She's temporarily out of chicken jail, wearing a diaper , and being forced to follow mearound and watch me clean house.
I'm trying to show her that being a mother isn't all that it's cracked up to be!!!!

Omg. Sometimes I crack myself up.

There is no stopping some Orpingtons! I ended up with 1/2 Orpington 1/2 Sultan, trying to get "Big Mamma" away from other chickens. She hid the eggs in the Oleanders, came out amazingly soon with very cute mutt rooster clutch. Out of 10, 7 were blond male copies of an annoying pet Sultan. Murray McMurray sends a "free exotic" chick, man does that free chick cost the parents!

 

[theuglychick]

I so wish I could knit or crochet! I love these!

Edited to not sound like a dummy.

X2 !!

Fall project: to knit matching hats for me & my girls
Inspiration pix:
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[Sassysouth]

I keep one my husband’s old dove chairs by the coop. It fold up extremely small.

I saw the comment about the roosters for sale or give away on Craigslist, etc. I have 11 (soon to be 13) unsexed chicks, what am I suppose to do if I end up with 10 roosters? Either sale, eat or make a separate pen? What are the other options?

 

[staceyj]

I've read that they LOVE cabbage, so I ran out and got one then got out my husband's drill and bored a hole through the middle of it,

*side note- I thought that would be safer than trying to stab it through and through with a kitchen knife...

Ran outside to hang it up for them....

They stared and cowered in the corner.

So I peeled off a petal and tore it to bits and tossed it to them.

They screamed and ran to a different corner.

It hung there for four days until it got soft and wilty!
A few peck marks was the only sign of attention it got.

Guess they just weren't feeling it without a side of corned beef.

I hope yours like it better than mine!

 

[Parront]

Exactly!!!!!!

Awesome! I'm going to have to try that. I just bought a flock block from TSC (10% discount shopping spree) to give them when winter finally hits to keep them busy, but I like the idea of making them at home, esp b/c using the oven heats up the house! I did get a cabbage last night to try hanging from the rafters to keep them occupied and getting some veggies. It's going to be interesting to see how that goes. Has anyone ever done that?

I used to get lots of free veggies from Safeway to give the birds. The produce man saved me the trimmings, I gave him eggs. I had to keep them in chicken concentration camp (CCC) due to all the dogs in the neighborhood killing them, so no free-ranging for most of them! Free range only for the ones I wanted to die, who of course lived happily in the bushes!

 

[rjohns39]

Exactly!!!!!!

Awesome! I'm going to have to try that. I just bought a flock block from TSC (10% discount shopping spree) to give them when winter finally hits to keep them busy, but I like the idea of making them at home, esp b/c using the oven heats up the house! I did get a cabbage last night to try hanging from the rafters to keep them occupied and getting some veggies. It's going to be interesting to see how that goes. Has anyone ever done that?

I suspend the cabbage from a chain. They start by hiding from it, then one brave sole will peck at it and eventually get a piece. Then the free for all starts.

There is no stopping some Orpingtons! I ended up with 1/2 Orpington 1/2 Sultan, trying to get "Big Mamma" away from other chickens. She hid the eggs in the Oleanders, came out amazingly soon with very cute mutt rooster clutch. Out of 10, 7 were blond male copies of an annoying pet Sultan. Murray McMurray sends a "free exotic" chick, man does that free chick cost the parents!

Tell me about it. My Hamburg/del crosses. Still don't know how the sneaky guy did it.

 

[theuglychick]

Ugh! It's glitching again

 

[staceyj]

Ugh! It's glitching again

Take a screenshot and attach it to that thread I mentioned yesterday

 

[Parront]

I keep one my husband’s old dove chairs by the coop. It fold up extremely small.

I saw the comment about the roosters for sale or give away on Craigslist, etc. I have 11 (soon to be 13) unsexed chicks, what am I suppose to do if I end up with 10 roosters? Either sale, eat or make a separate pen? What are the other options?

Eat, unless you want to try to give them away, too! You can't even give them away. AS SOON as they start to be annoying it is time to send them to "freezer camp" They will seem too small, just do it!