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Welcom Roy! No idea on the Phx roo, but I have a LOVELY EE from hatched from one of Houndit's pink eggs who may be looking for a new home:
Sweetcheeks was the roo of my banty flock (he thinks he is a banty, but is NOT) up until last week. But the banty girls decided Patchwork was more manly and jumped ship.
Maybe if I stopped calling him "Sweetcheeks" for something a bit more masculine, like "Blackbeard" the girls would have a change of heart.
Sweetcheeks is my baby, my pet, and I don't want to get rid of him, but he is lonely now.
Sweetcheeks was the roo of my banty flock (he thinks he is a banty, but is NOT) up until last week. But the banty girls decided Patchwork was more manly and jumped ship.
Maybe if I stopped calling him "Sweetcheeks" for something a bit more masculine, like "Blackbeard" the girls would have a change of heart.
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Update: I just peeked outside, and Sweetcheeks is courting *YES COURTING* the CM pullets!
Edited: heading out to the Stock Shop now, last chance for pick-up orders....
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Went to visit dad, stopped at the Stock Shop, and even peeked in the brooder. I was bedazzled by cuteness, but abstained. Then I walked over to the vertical pens. There were a bunch of 6-8 week old chicks in there...so sad. No one wants a non-cute barred rock, production red, or even EE. There were too many chicks in the cages, and they had been cannabalizing each other. They looked pretty pecked on their butts and backs.
What do the feed stores do with the chicks no one purchases? Do they just keep them until they are eventually bought?
I wanted to rescue them all, but then what do I do with them? Raise em' for food? Spoil them until they are laying & then try & sell them? Some were obviously roos--and they all needed love.
I wanted to rescue them all, but then what do I do with them? Raise em' for food? Spoil them until they are laying & then try & sell them? Some were obviously roos--and they all needed love.
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Dad is recovering, thank you for asking. I will be going to see him every day, if you want me to pick up all those sad, unloved chickies for you....
Does anyone have access to an xray machine? My CM pullet is better, but still limping hard. I'd say she's NOT better, but just wants to think she is. Since Dad retired my "in" at radiology is "out". All the free xrays have dried up: no more x-rayed halloween candy, animal x-rays, or wicked-cool pics of the neighbor boy who ate all the monopoly pieces AND battleships.
Does anyone have access to an xray machine? My CM pullet is better, but still limping hard. I'd say she's NOT better, but just wants to think she is. Since Dad retired my "in" at radiology is "out". All the free xrays have dried up: no more x-rayed halloween candy, animal x-rays, or wicked-cool pics of the neighbor boy who ate all the monopoly pieces AND battleships.
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I suppose they let them do as they will till they die, sold or culled. It's terrible really. There is not much to be done for them...Not to mention they might be very sick.
I suppose they let them do as they will till they die, sold or culled. It's terrible really. There is not much to be done for them...Not to mention they might be very sick.
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I live just 3 miles from The Stock Shop. They don't usually have older chicks (usually sell out while they're tiny), but I did find month old chicks there once in the condition you described. They were labeled as wyandottes. I felt so bad for them that I purchased all of them and brought them home with the intention of raising them for awhile to get them healthy and then sell them. They ended up being black sexlinks - not wyandottes (all pullets). I still have one of them (the rest found new homes).
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I live just 3 miles from The Stock Shop. They don't usually have older chicks (usually sell out while they're tiny), but I did find month old chicks there once in the condition you described. They were labeled as wyandottes. I felt so bad for them that I purchased all of them and brought them home with the intention of raising them for awhile to get them healthy and then sell them. They ended up being black sexlinks - not wyandottes (all pullets). I still have one of them (the rest found new homes).
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Mahonri - 20 of the 22 eggs I set are developing, including the marans egg! I set your 12 and 9 of the eggs the two ameraucanas gave me - the next day, I popped in one more egg from the splash. It was tempting to add two more the following day, but I figured they would have been too far behind the others.
They're bigger than I thought they would be at 6 days, so I hope my temps aren't too warm. My thermometers keep giving me different readings (they're placed in different areas of the incubator) and I'm not sure which one to believe.
The 2 polish eggs are the only eggs that don't seem to be developing - they look clear. I'm not sure if it's cause they were in the hottest spot of the incubator the first day. After watching the eggs were several hours, I realized they might be too close to the light and turned the carton around so that the two empty spots in the carton were next to the light instead.
I'm bummed that we won't get to see the cute polish/ameraucana mix would look like, but am excited that the other 20 are developing - I just hope I don't screw the hatch up somehow.
They're bigger than I thought they would be at 6 days, so I hope my temps aren't too warm. My thermometers keep giving me different readings (they're placed in different areas of the incubator) and I'm not sure which one to believe.
The 2 polish eggs are the only eggs that don't seem to be developing - they look clear. I'm not sure if it's cause they were in the hottest spot of the incubator the first day. After watching the eggs were several hours, I realized they might be too close to the light and turned the carton around so that the two empty spots in the carton were next to the light instead.
I'm bummed that we won't get to see the cute polish/ameraucana mix would look like, but am excited that the other 20 are developing - I just hope I don't screw the hatch up somehow.
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Cool... you know, I've only seen him mount her once. Maybe they are not fertile. Glad he got around to all the other girls. I swear he is a machine. He's in with 19 hens (The CM roo has only 4 girls to service).. the other night I watched the Blue Wheaten feller do 5 differnt hens in about 7 minutes. I see him do it more in the early morning and just as the Sun is going down. Catches them by surprise when they can't see as well!
Cool... you know, I've only seen him mount her once. Maybe they are not fertile. Glad he got around to all the other girls. I swear he is a machine. He's in with 19 hens (The CM roo has only 4 girls to service).. the other night I watched the Blue Wheaten feller do 5 differnt hens in about 7 minutes. I see him do it more in the early morning and just as the Sun is going down. Catches them by surprise when they can't see as well!
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I'm headed over there tomorrow.
I must resist purchase.
I'm headed over there tomorrow.
I must resist purchase.
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