Chicken Math Got Me Bad....

[Sefirothe]

Gimpy and Eleven. I think that’s Gimpy on the right and Eleven on the left. I think.

One is a Black Ameraucana and the other is an Olive Egger which this hatchery frequently seems to use Black Ameraucana as half of the hybrid.

They are both cute little balls of fluff.

Q-tip is starting to get her poof. Polish chicks are so fun to watch feather out.

I don’t know if I’m doing something different than in the past or what. But this batch of chicks is way less afraid and more willing to interact with me. Refilling their feeder yesterday I almost lost my wedding ring because half of them mobbed my hand when I reached in the brooder to refill the feeder!

 

[Sefirothe]

Also…it’s 3:45 am, pitch black, and 40°F. Why are you all out from under the heat plate and eating at the feeder??

 

[AnneGirlGG]

Also…it’s 3:45 am, pitch black, and 40°F. Why are you all out from under the heat plate and eating at the feeder??

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Lol midnight snack?

 

[Sefirothe]

Lol midnight snack?

Apparently. I wish I had that kind of energy at zero-dark-thirty.

 

[AnneGirlGG]

Apparently. I wish I had that kind of energy at zero-dark-thirty.

Me too. I'm actually a morning person, but i laid there this morning thinking about how it's 40 degrees outside, and it sure is warm under my heated blanket in my comfortable bed...

 

[Sefirothe]

Me too. I'm actually a morning person, but i laid there this morning thinking about how it's 40 degrees outside, and it sure is warm under my heated blanket in my comfortable bed...

It took every scrap of willpower to make my bed this morning while getting ready for work….instead of crawl back into it.

 

[AnneGirlGG]

It took every scrap of willpower to make my bed this morning while getting ready for work….instead of crawl back into it.

I've been a stay at homenon for years now, but we do homeschool, so the battle of getting them out of bed still lies ahead of me shortly.

 

[Sefirothe]

I've been a stay at homenon for years now, but we do homeschool, so the battle of getting them out of bed still lies ahead of me shortly.

I wish you luck!!

Do you have any roosters? Maybe a strategically placed roo greeting the rising sun at the foot of a bed may help?

 

[AnneGirlGG]

I wish you luck!!

Do you have any roosters? Maybe a strategically placed roo greeting the rising sun at the foot of a bed may help?

I do!! If those boys would just grow up and crow, I might carry them up from the coop and let them do the job. They're bantams, after all, and would be easy to bring up the hill. Brilliant idea!

 

[Sefirothe]

Yesterday Eleven was standing in the pop door admiring the view when another chick had zoomies and body slammed her into the run. I just happened to be checking the coop camera and saw it happen.

Just what I was afraid of and she couldn’t figure out how to get back in. The adults chased her a little bit. This happened about an hour or two before I got home from work.

I checked the run when I did get home and found her wedged into a little protected corner of the run wall bracing.

Her back end was a bit red and bruised looking with a couple superficial scratches and with poop all over her butt. So I took her in the basement and cleaned her up and sprayed a bit of BlueKote on the red areas to hide them from the other chicks. I don’t have a second heat source so no way to separate her. Probably should rectify that.

Back in the brooder she was moving slow like she was sore but moving to food and water.

Sigh.

Why do the little chicks gotta have death wishes?

This morning I saw her on the camera, she was again moving slow but a bit better than yesterday.

I swear I have no luck with getting blue egg layers to adulthood. Fingers crossed that Eleven bounces back from this.