California - Northern

[casportpony]

Good morning!!! It's PARTY day!!!!!

For those going, have fun!

-Kathy

 

[PetRock]

So, after two weeks of confining a new hen for quarantine, I let her out onto the yard with the rest of the flock. She's on the bottom of the pecking order of course. So much they've attacked her till her eye and comb had bled and her feathers have been pulled out from her neck, so I have decided to take those mean girls and put them in the run until the new hen has made friends with the nice hens that are free roaming. Do you guys think I'll have to do this for long or there's a better way to get her to fit in?

Is this the hen from me? She was close to the bottom in pecking order here, too. She is not very assertive. If keeping the meanies separate for a while doesn't work, I have heard of putting the new hen in a separate area with one of the lower pecking order flock members for them to bond with. It does seem hardly fair to make them suffer though when it is the aggressive ones who are causing the problem.

 

[BCollie]

I'm obsessively watching my lens on eBay. C'mon, sell sell sell! I need an incubator!! 4 and a half days left unless some uses "BIN"

 

[JDXX]

I'm obsessively watching my lens on eBay. C'mon, sell sell sell! I need an incubator!! 4 and a half days left unless some uses "BIN"

Good luck with the auction. I think you made a good choice of incubators, we have two. I bought them after doing extensive research, they also have been running trouble free since December. Hatching is so much fun and chicks are so cute,you better have a plan.

 

[casportpony]

I'm obsessively watching my lens on eBay. C'mon, sell sell sell! I need an incubator!! 4 and a half days left unless some uses "BIN"

You should sell your pictures or your services to pet owners, I'm sure people would pay to have photos of their pets.

-Kathy

 

[JDXX]

You should sell your pictures or your services to pet owners, I'm sure people would pay to have photos of their pets.

-Kathy

Good idea!!!

 

[BCollie]

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I do sometimes. I MIGHT be doing a photoshoot today where I offered to do it for free(very good friend who's helped me a lot) but she is insisting on paying me. My health issues make it hard for me to make appointments, such as for photoshoots, but I do what I can. I photograph dogs for rescue and we give new pet owners the option of buying prints of their new family member from me.
I love photographing dogs, it makes me happy.

 

[debs_flock]

Thanks, I think so too! My only concern is not being able to sell all the chicks that I hatch. I'm not planning on hatching many, but still..

Oh no.................it begins

Hatching truly is an illness.

So those of you that incubate, how do you make sure you are able to find homes for all the chicks you hatch? What's your back-up plan if you can't sell them?

We eat them. Although I have too many to do that ourselves. We have a lady that buys all my extra cockerels and she and her family eat them.

 

[BCollie]

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Hehehe...."I'm not planning on hatching many," she says, and everyone laughs. I guess that's how it starts, eh?

My chicks will be sold as straight run, and probably pretty cheap, but I'm just worried that I won't be able to sell them all and will be stuck with cockerels. Roos are illegal here and they won't be big enough to butcher by the time they start crowing, right?

 

[KristyAnn]

Is this the hen from me?  She was close to the bottom in pecking order here, too.  She is not very assertive.   If keeping the meanies separate for a while doesn't work, I have heard of putting the new hen in a separate area with one of the lower pecking order flock members for them to bond with.  It does seem hardly fair to make them suffer though when it is the aggressive ones who are causing the problem.

No, not your hen. She's fit in real well with the nice crew that gets to run free as the other hen tries fitting in.The mean crew is pretty much all my first birds that are put away in the run till the new hen fits in. Eventually I hope to let them out in maybe a couple days.