California - Northern

[Hangtown Farms]

Hmmmm. I quoted all of you that responded but only one showed up.

Jason they have been on dirt for 1 week Almost. It will be a week on Sunday.

They aren't acting lethargic at all really. My concern is that I am out of town all day tomorrow and can't observe them.

I was looking for puffiness and I didn't see any.

The poo is pumpkin color. Too dark now for me to get a pic darn it.

It didn't look bloody but I just wasn't sure what the beginning stages look like.

Thanks for answering. I do appreciate it!

I still think they are fine. Maybe just drinking alot. Maybe too much coffee. just kidding. I get pumpkin pooh all the time. Well my chickens do. Vitamins in the water , acv , greens or fruit may be the cause. when you get back check them by being gone a day it may easier to tell than if you are standing looking at them all day. easier to see a difference sometimes when one is absent a few hours

 

[lawatt]

Yes, it is an art getting them integrated. I make sure I am home now--I have had three beaten up this year--Spanish chickens are a bit harder to work with is seems. I absolutely love them though!

an art! one i haven't mastered yet -- but thank you!! will keep sketching...

 

[lizanne]

Yes, it is an art getting them integrated. I make sure I am home now--I have had three beaten up this year--Spanish chickens are a bit harder to work with is seems. I absolutely love them though!

Do the Spanish chickens get beat up on, or give the beat down? When I'm integrating I always make sure to have an area that the younger ones can get into, and the big girls can't. That way if they need to get away for a while they can. I have a separate run attached to the coop, and it has a slide down door that I leave open just big enough for the little ones to get in. I leave extra food and water in there too. I haven't had too many problems, but I have a kinda weird group of chickens.

I would actually be interested in Safeway chicks, but I just have to hold on and do only one more hatch this year. I want to integrate all at the same time.

Are they the brown egg layers? I am looking for that lovely big white egg.

I am sorry. It is always stressful when the dogs get out. Maybe they will come home by themselves when they get tired. Mine always did the few times they got out.

The problem is those two dogs aren't the brightest. Poor Duke has no sense of direction, and Penny will follow him where ever he goes. He ran away a couple years ago, and was found the next morning 5+ miles away. It's just weird without them here. So quiet, and I don't have to worry about leaving food on the counter cause they're not here to get it.

These guys are almost 4 weeks old. I'm not sure what color they will lay. They came from a jumbo brown egg, but they look like Leghorns, and I've heard they are Leghorn mixes - Maybe RIR & Leghorn? I'm not sure how white/brown egg genetics work.

 

[ronott1]

Hmmmm. I quoted all of you that responded but only one showed up.

Jason they have been on dirt for 1 week Almost. It will be a week on Sunday.

They aren't acting lethargic at all really. My concern is that I am out of town all day tomorrow and can't observe them.

I was looking for puffiness and I didn't see any.

The poo is pumpkin color. Too dark now for me to get a pic darn it.

It didn't look bloody but I just wasn't sure what the beginning stages look like.

Thanks for answering. I do appreciate it!

I still think they are fine. Maybe just drinking alot. Maybe too much coffee. just kidding. I get pumpkin pooh all the time. Well my chickens do. Vitamins in the water , acv , greens or fruit may be the cause. when you get back check them by being gone a day it may easier to tell than if you are standing looking at them all day. easier to see a difference sometimes when one is absent a few hours

They do sound fine Ali. Just watch them for puffiness and walking like they hurt inside. They will often stand real still and that is called statue standing. You will know it when you see it.

Have fun while you are gone!

 

[Miss Molly]

Love all the momma hens with there chicks. Adorable they look like great momma

 

[OR4-hmom]

I had all the chicks out today, except the pair of broodies and their chicks. When I opened the back door I flushed a hawk. It was down on the ground cruising the ground by the OEGB and her BLRW chick. Silly chicken was stretched out enjoying the sunshine watching the hawk, baby tucked under her wing. Sure glad nothing happened to them, the hawk could have been hunting for one of the many water snakes we have living around here though.

 

[ChickNmamma]

A friend of mine raises chickens and was upset that her young chickens where not eating her goodies.

I said well what are you giving them?
Garlic foliage , basil and rosemary
I said well they probably think your trying to internally season them

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Thanks for the laughs before going to sleep Jason, you were on a roll tonight! Glad to see you got an incubator you can trust too.

And welcome to the thread ladybythelake.

I used to visit my mother when she lived in Clearlake Oaks, and I drove thru there last month to pickup two very wonderful Silkies and visit a few friends.

 

[waititout]

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Broody Update: Day Nine


Little Miss Zsa Zsa, once sweet as pie, is taking this broody thing pretty seriously. I went to check on her in her nesting box this morning and she let out a screech that sounded like the dragons on G.O.T.


I opted NOT to stick my hand inside and pet her.





Look how sweet she used to be!

Cute picture.  My BR is sweet as can be UNTIL she is broody.  When she is broody, she means business and she takes out chunks of skin when she pecks at you.  Hurts like heck! (as I look at my wounded hand now)  She raised 2 sets of babies last year and is raising 2 babies that she hatched a few days ago.

Got 2 broodies raising babies now, 2 more that hatch in a couple of weeks, and another that will get eggs next week.  Gotta space them out some. LOL.

Thank you, ha ha! I will definitely be keeping my hand out of there after all.

All that broodiness sounds so exciting. Congratulations!

 

[tommysgirl]

Thanks for the laughs before going to sleep Jason, you were on a roll tonight! Glad to see you got an incubator you can trust too.

And welcome to the thread ladybythelake.

I used to visit my mother when she lived in Clearlake Oaks, and I drove thru there last month to pickup two very wonderful Silkies and visit a few friends.

Did you pick up silkies from a Lake county person? That's where we are and my uncle needs a pullet or hen STAT he has a lonely rooster.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

I have hatched 6 more olive eggers and 2 white empordanesa the last couple of days from the eggs I pulled from the broody hen . That means 16 out of 20 so far in the old Terra bator.
I was planning on giving the chicks away but with the emp's hatching I am not so sure now as I need more..

one neat note. I was getting all grey/blue chicks from my olive eggers. most of these too except 2 black. 1 grey with brown highlights on the head. this would of had to come through from the blue ameraucana I suspect but not sure as I have never seen any other feather color besides white in the emp's

no one can move between pens either as it is fort chicken knox.