Chicken Swaps Of Nh ( June Swap Listings)

[chickenpiedpiper]

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Three swaps on one day? isnt that going to spread us all out a bit thin? if only a few vendors show up at each one, people are gonna be confused or disappointed.....? Am I over worrying, or opening a can of worms? Just seems counterproductive to me.... I was going to go to merrimack, but ossipee is closer for me, I will probably go there instead.... anyone else?

 

[swtangel321]

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Put them in a dark box/crate together and take them for a 10-15 min ride. then leave them in the box for another 30 or so mins. Then in to the hutch. This works for me every time !!

 

[darbella]

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How old are they each? You usually can not put rabbits together that are not litter mates.

If you are trying to breed them then you should bring the girl to the boys cage for just a few minutes while they do the deed.

He is very young and was underweight so I thought she would sort of comfort him, she is 3 months old and he is about 6 weeks old. I was only looking to let him have some company because I figured he was too young to want to breed, and he seemed to not know his way around a water bottle and what to do with it.

 

[darbella]

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Three swaps on one day? isnt that going to spread us all out a bit thin? if only a few vendors show up at each one, people are gonna be confused or disappointed.....? Am I over worrying, or opening a can of worms? Just seems counterproductive to me.... I was going to go to merrimack, but ossipee is closer for me, I will probably go there instead.... anyone else?

I will be going to Merrimack of I have anything left at all to sell...hoping not! haha, but I can hear peeping in the bator from the other room so that means my bantam dom's, splash d;anvers, and some mixes are hacthing out. I just had to "bath a chick free from its cocoon..why the heck can I not get this humidity thing?

 

[blazingsaddles]

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Three swaps on one day? isnt that going to spread us all out a bit thin? if only a few vendors show up at each one, people are gonna be confused or disappointed.....? Am I over worrying, or opening a can of worms? Just seems counterproductive to me.... I was going to go to merrimack, but ossipee is closer for me, I will probably go there instead.... anyone else?

Merrimack TSC . is one of my swaps so we'll be there.
the other 2 are run by the stores. they choose the dates.
I posted them as a courtesy.

Like you said ossipee is closer for you. others might be closer for others just gives everyone a choice

much like tomorrow. there are two events in MA . 1 in westford and 1 in oxford . tough to choose but they are put on by different origanizations.

 

[chickenpiedpiper]

Well, I am glad you posted them all, I find it tiresome to search around for the info, so thanks!

A~

 

[darbella]

I was out of town this morning when my daughter called to tell me that my hens had all the little chicks out in the rain and that 2 of them were almost dead. One was laying off to the side of the coop and the other under a lawn chair. They are just tiny 3 day old bantams. She put them on a paper towel and back into the coop telling me they were gasping for air and ice cold. We are in the middle of a torrential downpour here and it has cooled down a lot. (NH) So my hubby and I headed home and got here in about an hour, he went to the coop(doghouse) that she put them in and said "what do you want me to do, they are just about dead"...first I was going to have him finnish them off, but them I said "bring them to me, I want to try something". Well, one was on its last breath for sure, and the other was hardly breathing, and doing so with a gaping open mouth and they were like drowned rats and cold and stiff. I took them into the house and ran the warm water in the sink and made a litle "hot tub" out of cupping my hands being careful not to let them get water in their beaks. I could feel one of them start to move and so then I wrapped them both in a paper towel and placed them in the bator with eggs that are due in another week. I have 2 bators going, one allready has chicks, so I used the one just with eggs in case something might be catchy! About an hour later I can hear peeping so loud so I look in on the live chick bator and they are all peeping, but the noise is coming from the other bator, one of the chicks was all fluffed off and running around, but the other did not make it. I feel so good that I saved it! Never give up, there is allways hope.

ETA: About an hour or so later I went to check on any unhatched eggs in the coop(which is actually a large dog house) and saw one egg that was not even in the nest area of where the others had hatched. I picked it up and it was cold as a stone and as I rolled it over in my hand, it had a small hole about 1/4" and a beak poking out, but it looked like it was dead. Then all of a sudden there was a weak peep coming from it, so up to the sink and I ran the egg under warm water and slowly peeled off the upper half of the shell, then I must have hit a vein because all this blood came out and so I wrapped it in a paper toel and put it ion the bator with "revival" chicken...just checked in on it and it is out of its shell and all fluffed dry! I cant believe I saved 2 deaths door chicks and cannot manage to even hatch a dozen eggs!

 

[1Chick Magnet]

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all I have to say is WOW job well done.

 

[DKMfan86]

It'd be cool to go to the swap in Merrimack, although I doubt I'll be able to make it.
Is it chickens only, or will they have quail there too?

 

[luvmysilkies]

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Hi. Usually there are all kinds of poultry, rabbits and small livestock at the swaps. What kind of quail are you looking for? Chances some will have some and let you know. Good Luck.