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[Ivywoods]

Danz I think we cross posted. So sorry to hear about your folks. I'm sure it is hard to watch them go through this. I will be thinking of you and praying for all of you.

 

[chicken danz]

Canchaser. Good to see you back. You don't have to keep up but just feel welcome to post when you can. Congrats on your new chicks.
Ivy I've been very blessed to have wonderful parents and it try to remember to thank God for letting me have them this long. We were always pretty poor but they sure taught me to appreciate everything I have.
I'd better get my rump off of here and get busy. Have a great day all of you.

 

[Ivywoods]

CanChaser-Hello!

Long time no see!

I was curious if any of the eggs you got from me hatched. If so, what did you get? If I remember correctly they were leghorns crossed with marans or ameraucanas. I can't remember what else, maybe some pure marans?

Hope all are doing well.

 

[CanChaser]

Yes! I did get some of them hatched and some I think I screwed up with my incubator. Not sure what I did, humidity issues or what but I'm learning. Anyway I got a leghorn rooster which I REAlLYwanted! I'm not sure if he's pure leghorn or not but he's all white and beautiful! I think the others are ameruacanas? I'm not posative. I'm still learning the breeds but I will take some pics later and u can tell me what I have. All I know is I love the little stinkers! Lol! Last night we bought some buff orphingtons and some black sexlinks and some kind of rainbow layers. I wouldn't mind getting a few more leghorns sometime. I just really like them!

 

[tntblake]

Danz- I am sorry your dad isn't coping well with your mom's deteriorated state. I hope he will be able to cope and take care of himself too not just your mom. I hope you have some help shouldering the burden. I will continue to keep your family in my thoughts. I, too, come from an extremely close family so I know how hard and stressful it is when someone has something serious going on. My aunt has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's and she seems to be getting worse here in the last month. The meds they have her on don't seem to be working much. My mom and I are the ones doing most of the caring and supervising since my grandparents aren't back from Texas yet. They wanted to come home to help but we convinced them to stay. Who knows how much longer they can go down there and enjoy themselves so we wanted them to stay. This illness has really stressed out the whole family.

This afternoon is Donovan's Orthopedic appt. I am praying for good news but am not holding my breath because I don't want to be disappointed. It seems like it is going to be a beautiful day. I hope everyone can get out and get done the things they need to do.

 

[Hawkeye95]

Hawkeye, I can't believe those Rosecombs are on day 8 already - it seems like you just set them. Incubating always seems to take forever when I am doing it and go really fast when its someone else LOL. I may be getting some eggs today so tonight or tomorrow I'll be setting those. I haven't incubated in a year so I'm really excited.

what kind of eggs are you getting? What kind of incubator are you using? Good luck with your hatch!

Things are going great, thanks for asking! The chicks are completely settled into a routine and have learned how to scratch.

Duckies are doing good as well. We've been taking them out and holding them on our laps once an evening for 1/2 an hour so they can get used to it.

that's great that they are doing well. I thought it was funny you had to pluck off a pasty butt. It's so much easier to pluck than wasting time trying to wash it off. Ducks are VERY social!!! We've had all kinds, and they are always happy and set up a constant noise of talking.

Darn it. I just lost a huge post. Grrrr! The control Z doesn't work here.

am also taking a couple pairs of chickens when we go. An acquaintance went through a nasty divorce. Knwoing it would hurt him, his ex wife killed all of his chickens. How sick can people be?
It's been a few months but he is finally to the place where he can get chickens again. He is a single parent from a previous marriage so he has his hands full. I just thought the right thing to do would be to donate him a couple of breeding pair. He is going to surprise his son when he gets home from school.
I don't think I've explained my Mom's illness. She has a rare incurable lung disease called bronchiectasis. It is very similar to cystic fibrosis.

Sorry about losing your post-- I hate that! I do it now and then, too. That is sooo nice of you to give him a few chickens to start off with. I just can't imagine anyone being so cruel to go kill a bunch of chickens just to be spiteful and hurt someone else. WOW. You're right, that is one sick person. His son is going to be so excited! My boys LOVE their chickens. I have to yell at my oldest to get out of the pen at some point, because he could spend all day in there. He's running around holding a bird when he's at home. So sorry about your mom, it sounds very serious. You have a very good attitude about it and you have been very blessed to have them.

I just candled my 18 partridge wyandotte bantam eggs. AT LEAST a dozen of them are showing developement. Yippee! It is still early, but I'm hoping for a good hatch on them.

I went to take a BCmarans out of the incubator this morning. It had one eye that wouldn't open. The eye didn't look quite normal, and I couldn't pull it open when gently pulled at it. I thought, "Great. Now what?" Anyway, I gave the chick a drink and as soon as I tipped him up to let him swallow he popped his eye open. Shees. I don't know how he had it closed so tight before. I've never had that happen. I guess the laugh was on me.

I feel a lot better today. No fever, no body aches, (I'll spare you the other details!) lots more energy, but I still feel a little weak. I've done more today already than I did in the last 2 days! The wind has died down some, so after Mike's cardiac rehab appointment I think I will clean out the chicken tractor house and the barn. Then if I have any energy or time left I'll do the coop, too.

Hope everyone has a great day.

YAY on your good eggs!! That is so exciting that they are growing!! How long have they been in now?? I'm soooooo tempted to candle my rosecombs and see if they are developing or not. Glad you are feeling better! Don't over do it, or you'll be done in and worn out before the day is started. I



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Hi everyone! It's been several months since I have been on here. I have a 5 year old and a toddler and it was getting too hard to keep up. Anyway Im back now. We still have all our birds including the ones we hatched. We also just got 12 new babies last night. I have about a half a dozen goose eggs in the incubator now because ours started a nest then left it. I'm not sure if I got them in time b4 they got too cold though. I'm sure they are fertile though because one was broke and u could see a small bloody thing in it.

Hey, great to see you back!!! Congrats on the new birds!! I hope your goose eggs will be okay.

 

[Hawkeye95]

Danz- I am sorry your dad isn't coping well with your mom's deteriorated state. I hope he will be able to cope and take care of himself too not just your mom. I hope you have some help shouldering the burden. I will continue to keep your family in my thoughts. I, too, come from an extremely close family so I know how hard and stressful it is when someone has something serious going on. My aunt has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's and she seems to be getting worse here in the last month. The meds they have her on don't seem to be working much. My mom and I are the ones doing most of the caring and supervising since my grandparents aren't back from Texas yet. They wanted to come home to help but we convinced them to stay. Who knows how much longer they can go down there and enjoy themselves so we wanted them to stay. This illness has really stressed out the whole family.

This afternoon is Donovan's Orthopedic appt. I am praying for good news but am not holding my breath because I don't want to be disappointed. It seems like it is going to be a beautiful day. I hope everyone can get out and get done the things they need to do.

Yes Danz, I feel terrible for your dad, it sounds like he is really sad about it. That's just heartbreaking.

TntBlake, I hope that appt goes well!!!! More prayers your way!!

 

[MarcAustin]

Hello all ! Quick question - when do chicks normally learn to fly? As I mentioned previously i just started with 6 chicks. 4 were 2day olds but the 2 Sussex are at least a week or two older. The thing is, my brooder's in my office because its naturally the warmest room in the house and as I'm working last nite, the larger of the two managed to fly up and land on the edge of the brooder which is 13" high. I'm sure he got a running start and whatnot but I was VERY surprised. I know i sound like a city slicker making the assumption that chickens can't fly. I know they can, but i didn't expect it until they were over a month old. I tried to find pictures online of Sussex at various ages but I was hoping someone here would know if they are more likely 10 days or 17 days old to have enough feathering to accomplish this. Also, when I was a young man, friend of mine kept parrots and macaws and he had to clip their wings to keep them from flying around and up into the ceiling fan. I thought it was cruel be apparently it's widespread practice with cagebirds. People don't do that to chickens do they ?? THanks and have a great weekend !!

 

[Hawkeye95]

I went out and fed and watered and got a few pictures of the girls. It occured to me-- I haven't posted any pictures of my girls since they've grown up!! They still are too young to lay, though. But I'm hoping SOON!!! Oh, and here is the current state of my chicken coop, too. I still need to have my DH finish a piece of siding at the top. Then, depending on what we hear in another week, I'm going to take down the temporary dog run and build a MUCH larger run that will be secure with a wire top and a partial roof over it.

Below: You can see Seymore checking out the perimeter. She does that every day-- she hangs out with them looking in at them. I fed the girls BOSS so they'd be busy so I could snap some pics. You can see their poor tails on the WCBPolish. I still haven't gotten the pinless peepers on... My DH and I need to do that together.

I have two of these white cockerels-- anyone want one?!?!? I call them the Peace Keepers-- they do a good job of keeping the Polish from getting picked on too much. They are very sweet and lovable, but also super cocky in the pen. They just learned how to crow last week.

These are Olive and Blackie. (my oldest named her Blackie) They are the Queen Bees and are super mean to everyone else-- they pack together and torment the flock and pull out their tail feathers. But they come right up to me and are the sweetest pets. They like to be held and pet. They just don't play nice with the others.

 

[Hawkeye95]

Hello all ! Quick question - when do chicks normally learn to fly? As I mentioned previously i just started with 6 chicks. 4 were 2day olds but the 2 Sussex are at least a week or two older. The thing is, my brooder's in my office because its naturally the warmest room in the house and as I'm working last nite, the larger of the two managed to fly up and land on the edge of the brooder which is 13" high. I'm sure he got a running start and whatnot but I was VERY surprised. I know i sound like a city slicker making the assumption that chickens can't fly. I know they can, but i didn't expect it until they were over a month old. I tried to find pictures online of Sussex at various ages but I was hoping someone here would know if they are more likely 10 days or 17 days old to have enough feathering to accomplish this. Also, when I was a young man, friend of mine kept parrots and macaws and he had to clip their wings to keep them from flying around and up into the ceiling fan. I thought it was cruel be apparently it's widespread practice with cagebirds. People don't do that to chickens do they ?? THanks and have a great weekend !!

Beautiful chicks!! I'm no expert, but my two week olds had feathers in like that. I could go back and find pictures, but they were pretty good at jumping up on to the water, etc. Personally, I would not clip their wings. Time to get a top for your brooder. You can use a piece of screen.