California - Northern

[JerseyGiantfolk]

Congrats!! I wouldn't take it out of the brooder for the sake of the others. At least its got a couple days worth of yolk in it.

We have a chick!!! Should I take it out and put it in the brooder? No one else has pipped, and I don't want her to kick her friends.

 

[Miss Molly]

Almost 24 weeks (6 months)

That is so exciting... My children are by far the best part of my life
I thank God everyday for letting me be the pround mother of them ....

 

[debs_flock]

Last night I started out drooling over silver penciled rocks then I ended up looking at different chicken breeds...I do that way more than is NORMAL and came across Icelandic Chickens... They are added to my dream flock list.

I raise Icelandics





They come in every color

 

[juststruttin]

Our Easter:

Good ol' Balthazar


Malcolm and Buffle


Our Partridge Cochin roo. We call him Dino-Baby right now. The Polish in the background is one of Clementine's special girls. She's so sweet, Clementine named her Cotton.


Ducks! Rapunzel ripped off her back toenail yesterday. I put corn starch on it and it stopped the bleeding. Seems fine today.


Ms. Coulter, the Sultan. She's a weirdo, but I kind of like her.


Much loved SLW Huckle.


Our cat, Scout, hanging out on the dirt pile with the chickens.


Malcolm in time-out for throwing dirt clods at the chickens, but BO roo Gilbert is visiting him anyway


More chickens mob the hill and chase Scout off (she's in the top right corner)


Colombian Wyandotte, Anne





Iorek Byrnison is kind of ridiculous looking, but he broke up a squabble today. He's going to be a good roo.

Cute pictures, looks like a fun day!! I love Mob Hill.

 

[juststruttin]

Congrats!

Woot!

Thank you for sharing your pictures. These cheered me up after my horrible afternoon (see story below...)
Yeah!!

A few weeks ago I told a story about seeing an adolescent bobcat stalking my hens but my DH scared it away before it had a chance to do anything... well, I wasn't so lucky today. I got complacent because I hadn't seen it since and was getting lazy about sheparding the girls around the yard (DH hasn't put up the chicken run yet). Luckily I was sitting inside where I could half watch the chickens and I heard a screach, I looked up and a bobcat grabbed one of the girls and ran up the hill. I ran after him yelling and he dropped her. I was sure she was going to be dead but she was just in shock. She has at least one huge gash on her neck, I'm sure there is a matching one on the other side. I put her in a pen inside the coop and am gathering the courage to clean out the wounds per these instructions on post #6:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/723550/large-flesh-wound-new-pictures-added
Tomorrow I'm going to try to locate some penicillin G, I really hope they have it at our feedstore. I'm mad at myself for getting lazy, this didn't need to happen.

I just hope I can help her get better.

I bet she will be fine. It is amazing what chickens can survive. Good luck

 

[chickee]

Wow, I can't keep up with you guys! I am lucky if I get the time to offer a little advice and post chick pictures. So much action going on in this thread

All 23 of my eggs hatched in this last hatch

I did have to help the last chick out. Both feet were terribly curled and her left leg was rigid and stretched out behind her so she couldn't walk

I couldn't put her down on Easter so I bent the leg and taped it up and then against her body like they do at the vets when an animal has a dislocated hip. I really didn't expect it to work, but the next day I took the tape off and the leg was back in place!

Her toes were still completely turned under, but she could get around by crawling along. Once again I thought I was going to have to put her down, but this morning when I checked on her, her toes are uncurling!!

I am so glad I didn't give up on her

Here are some pictures I took of chicks in this hatch. The two lighter ones are pure W/BW Ameraucanas. I have 7 more EE chicks available

6 of these chicks went to liz9910 on Saturday

 

[Miss Molly]

Pictures? Bresse First egg: Not bad for a first egg! 33G This is the Bresse that laid her first egg today: It was easter, so who couldn't resist a Lamb and the Lion picture:

Congrats on your Bresse egg... Very exciting. My Bresse Rooster went after me yesterday. He is Usually in the breeding coop, but I thought I would let him out to give my hen a Break .He kept following my around, I told my husband...I think he is going to bite me,? He said, " no your fine. " Later that day he Bit me. Not really sure what I'm going to do. I put him back in the breeding coop. I have only hatched two chicks from them. I have not gotten a egg in three weeks. I think one of them is eating the eggs... :/

 

[Miss Molly]

Ron, love the cat and chick picture

 

[ronott1]

Quote: He is a sweety! That is Jasper and the chick is one of the HRIRs. Jasper is some part Main Coon Cat and weighs over 20 pounds. He is very long and has a very different personality.

 

[ronott1]

love the cat/chick pic Ron

So we had a intense thunder storm yesterday with a bit of accumulating hail. Lots of lightning and thunder I guess.
Our 2 labs somehow hoped the fence and ran off

They are old dogs (10)
and One is terrified of Thunder. I feel so bad for them. It was nice when we left to Roseville yesterday. She was probably really scared. The other one just follows her. We live by Eldorado National forest so I am hoping they are around here somewhere and did not head east.

I hope your dogs do not decide to join the pack of feral Pit Bulls up there!