Arizona Chickens

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Sylvia isn't a Marans, she's a Naked Neck

Dakota, Basil, and Angle are Marans. Sweet Pea and Vony 2 are EE's. Tina is a White Leg Horn, and Rosy (short) is a Minorca? (I think she is a Plymouth Barred Rock).
the other 4 are Georgia is a PBR, Ginger is a RIR, Coney is a SL Wyandotte, Gloria is a GL Wyandotte.
Oh yeah, I forgot about the little naked neck!
 
Ok, I'm a dad mama, Sweet Pea is no longer with me, :hit she is in :eek: Mary, Lisa, Louise, and Tipsy. :rant I think Louise is the baby snatcher.

This morning my baby's were making a lot of noise, I got up, turned off the alarm and went out side. They were quite, I counted them, the ones that could not get out of the brooder and the other 6 that can...... Only I counted 5 not 6. Sweet Pea was missing. I checked and they couldn't get out of the pen..........???? I looked all over and lessoned, nothing. Then I saw a chase in the fare back corner were the "gang of 4!" Had been huddled. One of them had a leg! :th How?

I just found out. I have been just setting and watching, Louise!, got on top of the pen, slipped down throu an opening. :rant :cd I got her! I closed up the entire top, made the pen smaller but now she can not get in. I am going to have to be very vigilant from now on, now that 4 of them have tasted blood. I have been growing grass in the big grow out pen, I do not know if I have that much time. In about a week the brooder will be to small. The worst thing is I have no idea just how she got out of the brooder??? She would have to have jumped straight up 30" and hit the hole on top perfectly to get out. I have a rug over it now.

There is a reason papa chicken keeps all the other hens a way from Mama and kids!
 
omg, so sorry, LKD. Dang, that's rough. Sweet Pea was almost 4 weeks old? She probably flew out of the brooder. Even the tiny ones can get pretty far on flying on fluff.
 
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Love the dog snacking (presumably) on chicken poo! The patterns on that one EE are so pretty!
 
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LKD , no matter how perfect your setup is, loss just happens. Try not to feel guilty.


Agreed. If anyone remembers, a few nights again, Procelain, the d'Uccle we got from RedRooster was looking very bad. Well, she's doing significantly better, but when I went to put her back other my other chicks, Oreo, my Splash Marans is mysteriously dead! She was perfectly fine when I locked IP last night.

At least you have an explanation for yours.
 

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