Araucana thread anyone?

[Frazzemrat1]

I’m also planning on going to... well, mostly araucana. I’m gonna have EE, but i want to keep my araucana together. Not gonna be able to breed color to color since I don’t have it. An did I don’t have room for more coops.

 

[chickengr]

Welp... I’ve learnedly a valuable lesson today.

This fall/winter I hadn’t meant to worm everybody, like I’ve done before when less of the girls are laying. Well... I forgot this year. Yep, you see where this is going. I got home and went down to the run to let the ladies out, as per usual, but not the kids yet. I refill food, etc... come back up to the house where the ladies are waiting for their afternoon scratch. There, next to my back door is a wriggling pile of poo.
SO I run around dumping and refilling water with dewormer in it, even a few drips to the kids, since if they were hen raised, they'd get it anyway and they're in the extended run. Now I gotta figure out how to worm my dog too.
NEVER gonna forget now! Let me tell you!!!!

my problem is that wormers I can get here do not kill any worms. that's why I mix garlic, hot pepper, black pepper, clove, pumpkin seeds, etc. with their feed from time to time. whole oats help to expel tapeworm. this natural staff does not kill worms but help to expel them. weak birds might die anyway. I call that natural selection. I have decided to keep and breed tough birds only.

 

[chickengr]

Sorry, I misunderstood/misread your post. I'm going to hatch from the clean faced blue (well both of them) until I get another Blue Boy. I'm paranoid I'm going to lose him and not have a replacement like him.

2 roos are a must!

 

[Frazzemrat1]

Not one of my araucana... but draw me like one of your French girls... not 2 min out of the run. LOL

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Not one of my araucana... but draw me like one of your French girls... not 2 min out of the run. LOLView attachment 1827168

Lovely Silver Spangled Hamburg hen!
My girls love to sun like that too. Especially my Frizzle Bantam hen Jane.

 

[Trish1974]

Oh I wish I could have recorded this!

I'm letting the flocks out this morning...food, water and a handful of scratch and mealworms for everyone. I get to Lil Girl and her chick. Well, for the past two mornings Lil Girl and I both are trying to get the chick to eat out of my hand. She keeps calling her/him over as she eats out of my hand but s/he is too scared, makes a pissed off purring sound and jumps back. Up until this morning LG would take food out of my hand and give it to the chick when it protested, but not this morning. So the chick gets mad and tries to show dominance over mother - pecking HER on the top her head twice! She jumped back and gave him/her an angry mom look (yes, hens give "mom looks") and just pecked the $h!t out of him with a scolding tone like "WHO *peck* DO *peck* YOU*peck* THINK *peck* ARE *peck*!!!" Maybe it was a you-had-to-be-there moment but I have not laughed that hard all week!!

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

How old is the little chick now?

 

[Trish1974]

How old is the little chick now?

They turned 5 weeks this past Wednesday.

 

[Frazzemrat1]

That's fricken hilarious!!!! That's why I want to get my kids in with the flock as soon as possible, so that the hens teach my cockerel (especially) the proper manners of the flock!

 

[RinaRoo]

Teehee, that would have been amusing to see.