Chicken (Poultry) Addiction Anonymous *Chat Thread*

[Muggsmagee]

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I have Lav Am x NH mixes...they are due to lay soon. If they are anywhere close to that, I'll continue breeding for this color. The moms went to live at a different farm, and the Buff Am dad became soup.

I have his brother and a friend down the road has NH's from the same breeder. I'm sure we can make more!

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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I have Lav Am x NH mixes...they are due to lay soon. If they are anywhere close to that, I'll continue breeding for this color. The moms went to live at a different farm, and the Buff Am dad became soup.

I have his brother and a friend down the road has NH's from the same breeder. I'm sure we can make more!

Ooow! Me want!

Purple egg layer...count me in!

~ Aspen

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

Spent this afternoon cleaning out my 3 incubators.

It's quite sad to see them empty, but it won't be for long! I have two Mystery packages coming, and then the eggs I bought from revolutionmama. *insert evil grin*

~ Aspen

 

[Cass]

Mrs. Fluffy Puffy :

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I have Lav Am x NH mixes...they are due to lay soon. If they are anywhere close to that, I'll continue breeding for this color. The moms went to live at a different farm, and the Buff Am dad became soup.

I have his brother and a friend down the road has NH's from the same breeder. I'm sure we can make more!

Ooow! Me want!

Purple egg layer...count me in!

~ Aspen​

Add me to the "purple egg layer list". If the distance is too far, I'll take eggs to hatch myself at the going rate for hatching eggs.

 

[equinehugger3]

 

[featherz]

Hey other chicken addicts..

how do YOU merge your chickens?

I've merged several groups together, but only when they were about 15 weeks old.. Never had a problem.

Since I'm short on space, I have my baby NN chicks (7 weeks or so) in with the 18 weekers, but they are separated safely in a large dog cage with their own food and water and no way to get out. They've been in there a little over a week. Yesterday I put another dog cage outside under the tree the POL chickens like to sit under and stuck the babies in. Other chickens circled the cage a few times but generally left them alone other than trying to get at their food.

There's no way the chickens will fit in that cage until 12-15 weeks, but they should be ok for at least another couple of weeks.

Think with all this exposure I can let them out in a few weeks even if they aren't the same size? I'm thinking that letting them out when the other chickens are out free ranging would be a good time, although I am locking them up until around noon now to give the pullets the idea to head to the nest boxes.

Whew.. Thankfully, except for the couple of eggs my broody has, I am done with chicks this year. I hope.

My hubby is such an enabler - he keeps pointing out that one of the coops could hold more chickens.. And maybe we should get more guineas.. and didn't you want an Emu? Hahahahahha. I have enough to do as it is and winter is coming.

(But I DO want a blue and a purple egg layer!!! I have olive eggers, light green eggers, brown, white, and one pink.. and would someone tell DH that leghorn eggs are NOT better than everyone else's? LOL).

 

[Cass]

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First, 5 is a time that should only be seen in the PM.

Second, I think that you shouldn't have a problem with the merge if the youngest ones have a place they can hide under. I put a laundry basket upside down along one wall, hung on wire to allow access to my newest chicks, and they run under there if someone comes at them. I let them out of their "cage" when they were 3 weeks, into general populatioin, on a Friday night, so I could supervise all weekend. ONE D'uccle has a problem letting them at the water, but everyone else is like "WHATEVER". (I put one of the small waterers under the basket when I noticed her driving them off the gen pop's waterer.) They are now 5 weeks and as tall as their Mama and even the roosters leave them alone.

 

[featherz]

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Hahahaha.. I am up at 4 every day!

This situation is a bit different from yours - you had a broody. When I had my two broodies, I just left them in the coops with the others and their chicks were mixed in on day one. No problems at all, broody mama integrated them. And the little BO's I kept get pecked now and then but they are doing fine. The little BO roo is so cute!!

These new chicks, however, were brooder raised. And they are MUCH smaller than their new coopmates.. And there are five of them vs. 18 of the others.. I think I'll probably keep them in the cage for one more week, then let them out - but I'll put something on the front of the cage so only they can enter if they want to get away.

Speaking of broodies, my re-broody BLRW is still dutifully sitting on her three BO eggs. She is so hilarious on her daily sojourn outside, running around all puffed up.

I think I'll have to cull my brahma roo. I hate culling and I'm not very good at it. But not sure what to do with him. He's just not 'right'. He doesn't have anything contagious that I can tell, but he is a half blind loner and has acted strangely for the last few months. None of his coopmates are ill or acting odd, and the roo is eating/drinking/pooing, etc. He just isn't right, and the other chickens seem to hate him. I wish I had a farmer neighbor who would come by to cull my chickens for a dozen eggs.

I now have 50 chickens. GACK.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

I was going to say Good Morning, but I think I'd better say Good Afternoon instead!

Only six more days until my broody hatches out her clutch of eggs!

Ugh, I was looking at my 3 Serama babies I hatched out from MY flock and they're ALL Roosters!

Now, I'm going to have to order MORE Serama eggs to get some hens...makes since...NO?

Now I must add New Hampshires to my 'list' of things to get!

I already have two Lavender Ameraucana boys. *sigh* I hatched out Black/Lav/Lav Split Ameraucanas from CrystalCreek, I think I hatched around 7? Anyway, a few died then the heat killed some, and then my DOG (

) killed some so I'm down to TWO ROOSTERS!

Everytime I walk in my room and see my 3 incubators completly EMPTY it makes me so sad!

~ Aspen

 

[zoo357]

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Congrats on the blue egg. We have 2 of the new chickens we have that lay really light blue eggs but I was told my Ameraucana's will lay really blue eggs.. I can hardly wait to see them. Most people are freaking out about the blue eggs and wonder if the inside is blue...uhm, we arne't talking green eggs and ham here....

I saw that egg. That is one beautiful egg and I would take a chick (or two) that laid that color as I'm not sure I want to get into hatching.....

I for one am glad the heat and humidity have gone by the wayside for the time being. I looked like I had taken a shower by the time I came in from caring for the chickens. The ended up with a cold and I'm sure it's from going in and out. I'm just not a person who likes it like we've had in the month of July.