California - Northern

[ronott1]

I spent my lunch hour answering un answered posts. That is a lot of fun!

 

[waititout]

Last post for now lol. My kids named their chickens. 

Show Girl roo - Phoenix
Silkie - Letters
Frizzle - Isabel

My 4 year old named hers Letters. ahaha So cute and funny. The kids are very excited to have a pet chicken. They were not allowed to name any chickens up to this point so they are excited to have their OWN chicken that is immune to the stewpot. haha!

Very clever names, gotta love Letters!

 

[waititout]

I  love my new little Partridge silkie chicks... hatched out over the last 2 days. They look like little balls of fluff! I had some very bad luck hatching and used my little Brinsea Mini for a hatcher this time. (still incubated in my styrofoam incubator), Cant wait to try my  Brinsea 20 for my next hatch!

And I am relieved that my White Silkie pullet that was shipped to me and was injured during shipping is doing better and was able to be moved to the coop yesterday and introduced to the ""girls"  They were all piled on the floor last night to sleep When she got here she was flattened out on the bottom of the box wings over her head and unable to stand. A rooster in the same box is limping but was ok. I feel sure the box must have been dropped. She enjoyed being a "house chicken" for a while

Wow! What cuties!

Glad the shipped ones are doing better! Poor things.

 

[tls_ranch]

Had the first hawk attack in nearly 2 years today. It had one of my blue hens pinned down near the fence line, but we chased it off. The hen might make it, but she has gash about 1inch wide on the back of her neck and probably some puncture wounds elsewhere. She's also missing all her tail feathers too. I have her in my baby chick brooder in the pump house, no flies and hopefully a quiet place for her to recover if she does make it.

This is the hen...of course it's one of my good ones and one of the few laying right now.

 

[ronott1]

Had the first hawk attack in nearly 2 years today. It had one of my blue hens pinned down near the fence line, but we chased it off. The hen might make it, but she has gash about 1inch wide on the back of her neck and probably some puncture wounds elsewhere. She's also missing all her tail feathers too. I have her in my baby chick brooder in the pump house, no flies and hopefully a quiet place for her to recover if she does make it.

This is the hen...of course it's one of my good ones and one of the few laying right now.

That is so sad!

I saw a couple of dead hawks on the freeway yesterday, so there a lot of them around still..

 

[debs_flock]

So sorry Trish. I hope she pulls through, she is beautiful.

Deb

 

[Feathersprings]

Had the first hawk attack in nearly 2 years today. It had one of my blue hens pinned down near the fence line, but we chased it off. The hen might make it, but she has gash about 1inch wide on the back of her neck and probably some puncture wounds elsewhere. She's also missing all her tail feathers too. I have her in my baby chick brooder in the pump house, no flies and hopefully a quiet place for her to recover if she does make it.

This is the hen...of course it's one of my good ones and one of the few laying right now.

Im so sorry, she is beautiful, hope she makes it ok.

 

[tls_ranch]

Thanks everyone

She seems ok, but it just happened not even an hour ago. If the wound heals and she doesn't get an infection she'll probably be fine. For now she'll get to stay in the brooder until she's healed.

We have tons of hawks around here...one pair even nests within eyesight of my coop. The last attack was a tiny falcon type hawk and it got a much smaller pullet. This is the first big chicken to be attacked by a hawk. I hope the hawk is a migrating one...not a "resident". DH was the one that heard the chickens freaking out and ran to see what was going on. The hawk saw him and flew off and the blue hen got up and ran for the coop.

Trisha

 

[debs_flock]

I was moving youngsters around this afternoon and took a picture of the spots on my two paint silkies (of course that doesn't count the six I just hatched).

They go perfectly with my harlequin great dane! Well as much as a bantam, feathered bird can go with a 140# dog!



ETA - they're about 7 weeks old.
Deb

 

[Feathersprings]

Thanks everyone

She seems ok, but it just happened not even an hour ago. If the wound heals and she doesn't get an infection she'll probably be fine. For now she'll get to stay in the brooder until she's healed.

We have tons of hawks around here...one pair even nests within eyesight of my coop. The last attack was a tiny falcon type hawk and it got a much smaller pullet. This is the first big chicken to be attacked by a hawk. I hope the hawk is a migrating one...not a "resident". DH was the one that heard the chickens freaking out and ran to see what was going on. The hawk saw him and flew off and the blue hen got up and ran for the coop.

Trisha

We have lots of Hawks here as well... and since I have Silkies they cant even see them coming. We have to keep out in covered runs. I hope your hawk leaves.. sometimes they keep coming back