Chicken (Poultry) Addiction Anonymous *Chat Thread*

[featherz]

Mrs. Fluffy Puffy :

featherz: That is really evil!!!

But guineas are cute alien birds!! She MUST have guineas to go with the chickens, the alpacas, the quail, other critters, etc etc etc..

 

[Muggsmagee]

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My husband will keal over if I get "too" many of any other thing! Chickens have overrun us.

If I hatch out a dozen, I think that would be fine...ahem...for starters!

I am planning to hatch more guinea keets next year! You are welcome to some. Muahahahaha.

After the hell my neighbor has put us through with her dogs...umm YES PLEASE!

We have no trees for them to roost in though...looks like one more coop for DH to build!

 

[featherz]

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Yes!! more coops!! You must have guineas. I have decided.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

featherz: I AGREE!

Muggsmagee: Guineas preferr to roost in trees but it's better if they have a coop and run.

 

[Louieandthecrew]

Oh noooooooooooo! One of my hens is limping with a sprain leg or something and one of my roosters' combs are bleeding!

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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Oh no!

 

[Muggsmagee]

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Louie, did something get to them? Like a dog?

 

[equinehugger3]

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I have a feeling this coop won't last for years and years due to the pressure it's under

. That's okay, it served me and my chickie girls well! I have two mystery chickies, I'm not sure what breed they are, and I have two bantam brahmas; one black and one buff. I bought the brahmas a couple months ago. At night, the brahmas sleep next to each other on the same roost, and the buff one will snuggle her head in the black one's tummy feathers.

The black brahma is Alanna, or Lanna; The buff is Calypso or Caly; The big black mystery is Ayanna, or Yanna; The little grey mystery is Peep... And I really REALLY want to get some Salmon Faverolls! They're so cute! But I have to upgrade my coop before I can fit anymore, and I have to wait till spring for that. Anyway, UNTIL THE SPRING!!! Oh yeah, thanks for telling me what DH meant

Here are pictures of my mysteries!

< That's Yanna!

<That's Peep!

< That's Peep and my old rooster Pip when they were babies.

Pip had to be moved to a roo-friendly place in the the country

I miss him, but now we won't be forced to get rid of our chickens due to complaints of crowing...

Glad you found us.

There are no dumb questions. DH stands for dear husband. Don't ever be afraid to ask a question on BYC...we are all here to help (or enable) one another!

As far as your coop...it could last anywhere from a season to years and years. It all depends on how it was made, the materials involved, etc. We've made temporary run/coops, small coops, now a LARGE coop. You can always find uses for them...like separating out egg layers from breeding pairs/trios. Or keeping young ones in one, adults in another. You find what works for you, and if you need to make changes, that is part of raising chickens.

What kind of chickens do you have now?





I have a feeling this coop won't last for years and years due to the pressure it's under

. That's okay, it served me and my chickie girls well! I have two mystery chickies, I'm not sure what breed they are, and I have two bantam brahmas; one black and one buff. I bought the brahmas a couple months ago. At night, the brahmas sleep next to each other on the same roost, and the buff one will snuggle her head in the black one's tummy feathers.

The black brahma is Alanna, or Lanna; The buff is Calypso or Caly; The big black mystery is Ayanna, or Yanna; The little grey mystery is Peep... And I really REALLY want to get some Salmon Faverolls! They're so cute! But I have to upgrade my coop before I can fit anymore, and I have to wait till spring for that. Anyway, UNTIL THE SPRING!!! Oh yeah, thanks for telling me what DH meant

Here are pictures of my mysteries!

< That's Yanna!

<That's Peep!

< That's Peep and my old rooster Pip when they were babies.

Pip had to be moved to a roo-friendly place in the the country

I miss him, but now we won't be forced to get rid of our chickens due to complaints of crowing...

Glad you found us.

There are no dumb questions. DH stands for dear husband. Don't ever be afraid to ask a question on BYC...we are all here to help (or enable) one another!

As far as your coop...it could last anywhere from a season to years and years. It all depends on how it was made, the materials involved, etc. We've made temporary run/coops, small coops, now a LARGE coop. You can always find uses for them...like separating out egg layers from breeding pairs/trios. Or keeping young ones in one, adults in another. You find what works for you, and if you need to make changes, that is part of raising chickens.

What kind of chickens do you have now?

Glad you found us.

There are no dumb questions. DH stands for dear husband. Don't ever be afraid to ask a question on BYC...we are all here to help (or enable) one another!

As far as your coop...it could last anywhere from a season to years and years. It all depends on how it was made, the materials involved, etc. We've made temporary run/coops, small coops, now a LARGE coop. You can always find uses for them...like separating out egg layers from breeding pairs/trios. Or keeping young ones in one, adults in another. You find what works for you, and if you need to make changes, that is part of raising chickens.

What kind of chickens do you have now?

 

[equinehugger3]

Oh, wow... My post up there turned out weird! Haha, I guess I wrote all of that in the quotes...

 

[Louieandthecrew]

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Louie, did something get to them? Like a dog?

No, luckily

My hen used to have a bad limp when she was about four or five months and I had to go to the coop every day and hold her by the food and keep away the others, then the same with the water because she could barely even hop there. It got completely better, but now she is limping again! She's very shy and doesn't let me pick her up, so I just sat down in the coop and let her make her own way over to me. I did't pick her up, but I did see that her right foot was swollen

So, now I'm just really hoping that it's not bumblefoot. My Uncle is more experienced with chickens than I (I know more, he does more

) so when he gets home from work today I'm going to have him go with me to the coop and pick her up and look on the bottom of her foot to see if there's any scab (bumblefoot). If there's not and her limping is possibly because of too much wait being put on her from all the rooster (over-mating and such) then I'll have to put her and my one other hen in my dog's old kennel. (I'd put my other hen in there too so that she wouldn't be left alone with all five roos.)

As for my bleeding rooster, I know that no predator did this because their coop didn't have anything wrong with it and if something wanted to get in there they'd have to try really hard! He may be bleeding because of his fighting with the other roosters, but I have never seen then even think about fighting with each other at all, even though they've already started to mount and crow. But, if fighting is the case then I just have to say sorry to him for now. I'm planning on selling him and two other roos ASAP, leaving me with only two: one for show (I hope), one for breeding. At first I wondered if it may be frostbite? but then someone told me that frostbite will usually STOP them from bleeding.

Hmmmm...