Chicken (Poultry) Addiction Anonymous *Chat Thread*

[PartridgeRooster]

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Cass, I did mention it and she said that one of the stores brings them eggs all the time so I guess it's time to make my shingle

BTW, I didn't get the 26 they had gone elsewhere but...I'm sure the clock is ticking......and I'm not sure if I should be happy or excited just when I was this close to ordering the chick special from mypetchickens.....

Enjoying the WEATHER.
I'm melting outside.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

Things have been pretty heck-tic here on the ranch these past few weeks...

I've been busy collecting and shipping off eggs, hatching out chicks, keeping the poultry cool and the that's not even to mention trying to keep the house in order!

I finally hatched out 3 Serama chicks from my duo of Seramas. So excited about that!

I took some pictures this afternoon, and will share them with you sometime today if I have the time. With this batch of chicks (Seramas) I've been having trouble with pasty bottoms. Is there anything I can do to make that stop? ACV in their water, or something?

I'm looking forward to this fall, when the months get cooler. These hot days are relentless!

I turned my 6 peachicks out in the yard during this past week, they really enjoy running around the yard. The first day I let my IB peachicks out one of them started fanning his tail!

He also had his wings down strunting around the peachicks, so cute!

My older peachick, I'm very sure she is a peahen. She is beginning to get green feathers on her head and neck, and if I'm not mistaken the peahens main color is green.

Everyone have a very cool day~

~ Aspen

 

[Muggsmagee]

Mrs. Fluffy Puffy :

Things have been pretty heck-tic here on the ranch these past few weeks...

I've been busy collecting and shipping off eggs, hatching out chicks, keeping the poultry cool and the that's not even to mention trying to keep the house in order!

I finally hatched out 3 Serama chicks from my duo of Seramas. So excited about that!

I took some pictures this afternoon, and will share them with you sometime today if I have the time. With this batch of chicks (Seramas) I've been having trouble with pasty bottoms. Is there anything I can do to make that stop? ACV in their water, or something?

I'm looking forward to this fall, when the months get cooler. These hot days are relentless!

I turned my 6 peachicks out in the yard during this past week, they really enjoy running around the yard. The first day I let my IB peachicks out one of them started fanning his tail!

He also had his wings down strunting around the peachicks, so cute!

My older peachick, I'm very sure she is a peahen. She is beginning to get green feathers on her head and neck, and if I'm not mistaken the peahens main color is green.

Everyone have a very cool day~

~ Aspen

Any pics of the peachicks?

I am FINALLY able to let more birds go. I've been hoarding the 2 Coronation Sussex roos and the 3 Sussex hens, but I realize, I really don't want to be bothered with them.

I am no longer keeping birds that are not my absolute favorite...because otherwise, it becomes a chore taking care of them. And, they are too big, friendly and beautiful to go into the stew pot!

 

[featherz]

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I need to do that too.. Lots of people around me looking for hens, I just can't decide who goes! Logically, I should rehome my oldest birds (white leghorns) - but they are the friendliest and best layers.

The few I'd like to boot out the door I'd have a hard time giving away.

 

[Muggsmagee]

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I need to do that too.. Lots of people around me looking for hens, I just can't decide who goes! Logically, I should rehome my oldest birds (white leghorns) - but they are the friendliest and best layers.

The few I'd like to boot out the door I'd have a hard time giving away.

I have 3 cages of roos. How sad is that? I keep saying THIS will be the weekend to butcher the birds, or tonight will be the night, and something ALWAYS gets in the way. Because there are so many farms/farmers in our area, we can't give our roos away too! I hate the idea of giving something away that cost X amount of money to acquire (via eggs or chicks) and that I raise until they can be sexed (lots of money in feed and lots of my own time), that I raise to see if I want to put into a breeding program. By the time the growing is done, each bird has cost us a lot of money we would never see a return on when "selling" them. And, I know the next person will eat them, so it may as well be us doing the eating!

Still a vegetarian featherz?

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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Any pics of the peachicks?

I am FINALLY able to let more birds go. I've been hoarding the 2 Coronation Sussex roos and the 3 Sussex hens, but I realize, I really don't want to be bothered with them.

I am no longer keeping birds that are not my absolute favorite...because otherwise, it becomes a chore taking care of them. And, they are too big, friendly and beautiful to go into the stew pot!

Yes, I do have pictures of the peachicks. I will upload them after I catch all the 70+ chicks in the yard...

~ Aspen

 

[PartridgeRooster]

Ugh, it was 112 degrees today with heat index. Every animal on the property that doesn't have some kind of cooling is in the pond, lol. I think the Geese are living permanantly on it now.

I built a new Goose shack next to the pond, neariest the house and made a run path to the pond with part of the end of the run in the shallows. The last few mornings I've found all the Geese crammed at the end in the water staying cool. I'm thinking of just building a fence around the pond and letting them have the whole thing to themselves.

I'm glad now that the farm property I own had several fish ponds for fish farming.

 

[featherz]

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Yep! But I take the view that if you (generic you) eat your well-raised chickens, you won't be running out to the store to eat those poor abused factory meat chickens, so that's a net + in my book!

I probably won't hatch much anymore unless it's something I HAVE to have - I hate sending all my roos off to someone's house to be dinner..

But at least I know their early lives went well and I try to send them to someone who will treat them well until they have that 'one very bad day'.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

Pictures as Promised

These are the three Serama chicks I hatched out this past week. The brown one is Bugzy, haven't named the other two yet.

I snapped these pictures yesterday evening of my 4 IB peachicks chill'in out in the bird bath.

This is my favorite peahen

If this face doesn't scare you, I don't know what will!

A few weeks ago I traded all of my Button Quail (a.k.a Chinese Blue Breasted Quail ) but three for these two White peachicks.

This is a picture of my very naughty white peachicks, that scared their momma half to death!

I have to lock up the peachicks earlier than the other chicks because right about 6:30 they try and fly out of the yard. Anyway to make a long story short I had caught the 4 IB's and locked them up and then I started to look for the white peachicks and couldn't find them anywhere! I looked everywhere, but I just couldn't find them. Finally after searching and searching I found them roosting in the Apricot Tree!

~ Aspen

 

[vintage00gypsy]

wow. I can't wait to have too many birds flitting around.
We haven't had chickens for a few years and I am so thrilled that we have a few hatching this week in our first incubator batch. We also have some guinea hatching. How COOL!

I have some peacock eggs coming next week from a friend of mine.

I sure hope my luck is better on the second incubation than this one!!!