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[EeyoreD]

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Originally Posted by EeyoreD

Roosters aren't the only ones that chest bump/jump on other chicks as chicks right? Hens will do it to?

(please say yes otherwise I have 12 roosters and no hens)

I had a hen that bumped and jumped. She didn't lay very well but she could really crow loud. I guess that made up for the low egg production. In fact I don't believe she ever laid one. Oh well, she was one of my best looking hens ever.

 

[Rachel96]

Am I weird for getting up at quarter-to-six to feed a week-old chick antibiotics?

My aunt says I'm the strangest teenager she's met (and she works in a high school, so that's saying something). I'm sixteen years old and I get up at six am most days.

In my defence, before daylight savings finished, I was getting up at seven am.

So am I weird?

Who feeds a chick antibiotics? In fact, exactly one drop of antibiotics (and that's the technical term the vet gave).

 

[Rachel96]

Also, if you cross a Welsummer with, say, and ISA Brown, will you still be able to sex the chicks at hatch, like you can with Welsummers? I'm just curious as I'll probably be crossing a Welsummer with an ISA Brown sometime this year.

 

[Baby Chick]

No your only weird if you think that I'm weird for waking up at 10:00 every morning haha

 

[HollyBird24]

Is the chance of getting Marek's high if I don't vaccinate? I live in a town with very few chickens by the shore, and I am only going to have a flock of 7-10 birds. I might show them in 4-H sometimes, but I guess that's taking a risk right there huh? I was told you can vaccinate at any age, is this true?

As far as I know, chicks can only be vaccinated when they are very young. Like they do at the hatchery. I have been keeping chickens for five years and last year was the first time I had it in my flock. I lost a few of my "teenage" aged birds to it, but the birds that survived will have a natural immunity to it. Its not like if you don't vaccinate, you'll lose your whole flock. It affects younger birds more then adults too, in the "teenage" stage.

 

[Baby Chick]

Why wont my mom let me have a facebook

 

[shadow rabbit10]

As far as I know, chicks can only be vaccinated when they are very young. Like they do at the hatchery. I have been keeping chickens for five years and last year was the first time I had it in my flock. I lost a few of my "teenage" aged birds to it, but the birds that survived will have a natural immunity to it. Its not like if you don't vaccinate, you'll lose your whole flock. It affects younger birds more then adults too, in the "teenage" stage.

Thank you. I talked with a poultry 4-H leader and she only vaccinates some of her chicks, but has never had a problem with the disease. I don't think I will vaccinate. It just seems too dangerous.

 

[shadow rabbit10]

Why wont my mom let me have a facebook

Because you haven't begged her enough yet! And, Facebook kinda manipulates peoples' minds. My mom made me have a Facebook so I could make friends.

 

[EeyoreD]

Will I ever get to the point where I'll be able to tell my chickens apart?

Also, am I the only one that thinks when chicks start growing their leg feathers it looks like they put little pants or leiderhosen on?

 

[shadow rabbit10]

Let's not have this thread die people!
I think you will be able to tell them apart eventually. And they do look like they are wearing pants!