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[new chick 203]

Does anyone know of a good place to get mealworms? Agway just jacked up the price to 20 bucks for a little tub, and that just isn't going to happen!

 

[bella1210]

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you could try a wallmart or a petstore

 

[little blue]

i would have to agree with my sister for once walmart is super cheap.also if you go to some pet stores you can buy crickets super cheap live the chickens love them sooooooooo much an is alot of fun to watch.

 

[Egg Crate]

Last week for Thing One and Thing Two. If I can't find a new home for them this week I guess I"ll be serving up some chicken dinners. Neighbors have been real patient for the past few weeks and I hate to push them to the limit. If anyone knows of any CT farmers that may be interested in a couple of beautiful silkie roos for free, please let me know.. Also, if any knows of someone local that can show/teach me how to properly process a chicken that would be appreciated too. Thanks again for any advice. Ron

 

[new chick 203]

I hate pecking order drama, and I need advise. Today I tried to integrate my bantam cochin Bobby and her 9 week old girls back to the flock. Bobby had been the top girl in her flock of LF before she went broody. I tried free ranging everyone together and the big girls attacked little Bobby. So what I am trying now is the "Old Switch-a-Roo"! I put Bobby and the lil girls in the big run and coop and the "trouble makers" in the tractor coop. Will this take them down a peg?

 

[chicken boy sam]

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Possibly... If she is injured, I would recommend putting Blu-Kote on her. I actually made an area where there was a small door where only my banties could hang out to get away from the bigger ones!!!!

 

[new chick 203]

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Possibly... If she is injured, I would recommend putting Blu-Kote on her. I actually made an area where there was a small door where only my banties could hang out to get away from the bigger ones!!!!

No actual injuries. Just major feather flying stuff. I intervened before it went further. I wish there was something I could slip them to make them chill a bit. (does that make me a bad chicken mom to want to drug my girls to get some peace?)

 

[Beth G.]

Did you intergrate them during broad daylight? It is always wise to get a broody, not broody on a wire cage prior to putting her back into a flock. Also, if you intergrate the broody and the chicks in together, the broody will still feel the need to mother even if they are capable. That can make her a target of your big girls

If you are going to try again wait a week and intro the other girls in the coop with her at night time. Do it around 10pm that way they have all night to sense she is there and know she is there but, will not haunt her b/c it's roosting time. Be ready to be out there first light to let them out of the coop to have room to get away outta danger type of thing.

Good luck

It's never any fun to watch I know.
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Possibly... If she is injured, I would recommend putting Blu-Kote on her. I actually made an area where there was a small door where only my banties could hang out to get away from the bigger ones!!!!

No actual injuries. Just major feather flying stuff. I intervened before it went further. I wish there was something I could slip them to make them chill a bit. (does that make me a bad chicken mom to want to drug my girls to get some peace?)

 

[Beth G.]

With the pictures you posted it's tough to say 100% It appears to me you have all pullets from what I can see. The part rock chick looks like a pullet b/c of the roundness of her feathers. The Barred Rock has the dark shades on her legs that's a dead give away. The Brahma if it were a rooster would have a bigger comb and wattles, The EE I would need to see a frontal shot of her pea comb. From what I see in the side shot it appears to be a pullet. SLW I can't really tell in the pictures. I wouldn't worry too much. I think your neighbors will be happy

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[new chick 203]

What you are saying is put Bobby in at night, and then a few days later the babies?

Beth G. :

Did you intergrate them during broad daylight? It is always wise to get a broody, not broody on a wire cage prior to putting her back into a flock. Also, if you intergrate the broody and the chicks in together, the broody will still feel the need to mother even if they are capable. That can make her a target of your big girls

If you are going to try again wait a week and intro the other girls in the coop with her at night time. Do it around 10pm that way they have all night to sense she is there and know she is there but, will not haunt her b/c it's roosting time. Be ready to be out there first light to let them out of the coop to have room to get away outta danger type of thing.

Good luck

It's never any fun to watch I know.
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No actual injuries. Just major feather flying stuff. I intervened before it went further. I wish there was something I could slip them to make them chill a bit. (does that make me a bad chicken mom to want to drug my girls to get some peace?)
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