Chicken (Poultry) Addiction Anonymous *Chat Thread*

[featherz]

I do NOT need any more chickens, but I have new baby buff orpingtons hatching! I am hoping to put them under my broody tonight. Keep your fingers crossed. will try her with two to start. Woohoo!

 

[kraftyladies]

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[PartridgeRooster]

Grrrr.....Had to put down most of my new birds do to Cholera illness. NOT buying from that person again.

Luckily I had seperated my Silkies when I got them as they tend to be picked on in my experience.
It would of cost too much to put them on anti-biotic for the weeks that would be needed.

The Silkies are happy though and I had the vet test the rest of my birds and they are fine.

 

[zoo357]

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I'm sorry. It sucks when you get sick birds and aren't told. I don't understand why people can't be honest and say something

Glad your silkies are OK though....

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

What a week...

Friday and Saturday I had two more peachicks hatch, that puts my peafowl population up to 5 now.

I have 3 more eggs due to hatch Thursday. The two older ones are growing like weeds!

They started flying out of their brooder so I had to put egg cartons over the brooder to keep them in, that kind of made me feel like a redneck!

Oh well

I put 2 dozen Black Australorp eggs into lockdown this evening, they're due to hatch Tuesday.

Ugh, we almost had a bad acident today with a rattler.

Yesterday we caught most of the chicks and mother hens in the front yard and moved them out to the big chicken coop out at the barn. This morning I went to feed the chicks in the hutch in the front yard and someone, or something had opened the side door and abunch of the smaller chicks were loose in the yard!

And...we found a dead chick by the hutch (one of the older chicks that we hadn't caught the day before, not one of the little babies) and it looked like it had been mauled and slobbered on. Well later on this evening we're trying to caugh the chicks that were loose and one of the little ones was on the other side of the hutch trying to shoo the chicks out and my mother heard a soft rattler and she yelled at him to get out of there!! We'll we finally caught all of the chicks but one and we were feeding and watering them and Stockton was up on the hutch and he screamed "Mom there's a snake!" And sure enough a big 'ole Rattle snake with 10 buttons came out...he somehow got lead poisoning... and a big BOOM!

We're very thankful that no one was bitten.

Y'all have a good night!

~ Aspen

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

PartridgeRooster - So sorry about your flock!

~ Aspen

 

[PartridgeRooster]

Fluffy, I'm so happy I don't live in Texas. I hate snake especially poisoness ones. Also I enjoy more rain, lol and a winter. I ordered more chicks from an actual hatchery, which means little chicks,.....UGH. So new order was all up to the Wife so when I find out it should be interesting.

 

[zoo357]

I hate snakes with a passion. I think I would have been standing up on the coop still screaming......
Glad no one was bitten

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

I always want to either live in Texas, or TN. In our area it's extra try, but I do love living out in the middle of nowhere!

I haven't ordered from a hatchery in years....that's why I have a two sportsmans, and a "few" other incubators!

Did y'all see the auction on the BSA that went to $666.25 ... plus $25.00 shipping.

I tryed to get it at $250.00...but it quickly jumped up to $500!

~ Aspen

 

[PartridgeRooster]

Lots of Topics on this one....

I have this Poultry book I just love called " Storey's Illustrated Guide To Poultry Breeds". It covers many breeds of chicken, duck, goose, peafowl, guinea's and many other exotic birds. I find it very helpful when selecting my birds or just learning a little more about them.

Ok for the baby chick order I've decided the wife went crazy with her order as she showed me it with a innocent face

. Lets just say I went

in my chair as she smiled, kissed me on the cheek and walked away.

:love

Buff Polish Bearded, Mottled Crevour, Bearded d'Uccle, Silver Spangled, Golden Campine, Faverolle, White Orpington, Blue Orpinton and last but certainly not least Sultan. The real shocker was that she got 10 hens of each and 2 roosters. I think I'm going to just go out back and shoot myself.