I've got to get some pictures before I can place an ad, but if anyone is interested in a Blue Barnevelder rooster, please let me know. He is a very sweet boy, great with people, kids and broodies with their babies. Great flock protector as well.
I have too many roosters and I'd like to find this wonderful boy a great home if I can.
Before there is any sympathy elicited, I can tell you I'll never have sympathy again. I've lost birds to predator getting in, or being able to drag birds out enough to kill them. We just keep making the pens more secure and trapping when we need to.
The final iota of sympathy came when I noticed a bird dragging itself around on the ground. I picked up the bird and was horrified by what I found. The bird had obviously had one of it's legs snagged during the night and pulled to the outside of the pen, nothing else would fit through the wire. The bird had the bottom part of it's leg eaten away, what would be the thigh bone (femur), was just a bare bone, every speck of flesh was eaten away. It looked just a like a chicken bone you would leave on your plate after dinner. However this bone was still attached to a living breathing pullet.
I have no sympathy for predators going after my birds that I have done my best to protect.
That sounds nasty! My dad grew up on a farm in Iowa during the Great Depression. They used to eat squirrel. He could hardly wait to get off the farm and I don't think that he understands why I have chickens & dream of farming.
I've got to get some pictures before I can place an ad, but if anyone is interested in a Blue Barnevelder rooster, please let me know. He is a very sweet boy, great with people, kids and broodies with their babies. Great flock protector as well.
I have too many roosters and I'd like to find this wonderful boy a great home if I can.
If you ever end up with an extra Wellie roo, please let me know. I had a quad and the boy started crowing so had to go to the farm. Somehow, he disappeared from the pen. I have the 3 girls here and they are the sweetest pullets. We aren't quite ready to set them up for breeding but I hope to in the spring.
I had a strange thing happen with my mama hen and one of her babies. A few days ago, I went out to feed them and could hear one of her babies chirping like crazy but could only see 2 of the 3 chicks. Cossette was upset too and then I saw her chick hanging upside down underneath her. I guess its foot must have gotten caught in her feathers when she stood up. Mama was very upset and that made catching her to rescue the chick a difficult job. I finally got the chick off of her and then it just laid there on the ground. I debated bringing it in and adding it to the chicks in the brooder but decided to stick it back under her. I checked several times during the day. The chick spent most of its time under mama and she didn't move around the brooder. When the chick did come out, it was limping quite a bit. I don't know if I hurt its leg when I freed it or just hanging upside down for who knows how long hurt it. It is slowly getting better and seems to keep up with the other 2 chicks with only a slight limp. Has this happened to anyone else? It was definitely a new and unexpected experience for me!
I've got to get some pictures before I can place an ad, but if anyone is interested in a Blue Barnevelder rooster, please let me know. He is a very sweet boy, great with people, kids and broodies with their babies. Great flock protector as well.
I have too many roosters and I'd like to find this wonderful boy a great home if I can.
looks like my blue langshan pullet
