Hector's World: Adventures and Mayhem at Mountain View Poultry (or Sequel to The Evolution of Atlas

[speckledhen]

Where do you put them all? Are they in with the main flock?

Let's just blame the solar eclipse! As good an explanation as any for these nuts! I have Lizzie with her three chicks in the old bantam coop, Thea with her four chicks in a dog kennel in the barn and I guess Brandy will have to go in the other dog kennel with her eggs. I have three teenagers in Xander's old pen in the barn and I NEED THAT PEN BACK! I can put MaryJo in an old lady group, but what the heck do I do about the two 15 week old about-to-be-hormonal boys? Sigh. I wish someone would buy those two boys and I'd have the extra pen for Brandy.

 

[speckledhen]

No, nononononononononoNO! Tom comes back in from locking up the barn, holds up an egg and says Jill was sitting on it on the floor and when he reached for her, she screamed at him. He lifted her up and put her on the roost and she sat there all fluffed out. NO, NOT ANOTHER ONE!

 

[scottcaddy]

Where do you put them all? Are they in with the main flock?

Let's just blame the solar eclipse! As good an explanation as any for these nuts! I have Lizzie with her three chicks in the old bantam coop, Thea with her four chicks in a dog kennel in the barn and I guess Brandy will have to go in the other dog kennel with her eggs. I have three teenagers in Xander's old pen in the barn and I NEED THAT PEN BACK! I can put MaryJo in an old lady group, but what the heck do I do about the two 15 week old about-to-be-hormonal boys? Sigh. I wish someone would buy those two boys and I'd have the extra pen for Brandy.

I'm rather fond of young rooster and dumplings, Just MHO.
Scott

 

[Pyxis]

Where do you put them all? Are they in with the main flock?

Let's just blame the solar eclipse! As good an explanation as any for these nuts! I have Lizzie with her three chicks in the old bantam coop, Thea with her four chicks in a dog kennel in the barn and I guess Brandy will have to go in the other dog kennel with her eggs. I have three teenagers in Xander's old pen in the barn and I NEED THAT PEN BACK! I can put MaryJo in an old lady group, but what the heck do I do about the two 15 week old about-to-be-hormonal boys? Sigh. I wish someone would buy those two boys and I'd have the extra pen for Brandy.

Yep, they're all with the main flock. The flock as a whole tolerates chicks well. The broodies tend to hang together with their chicks away from the other birds (although right now since they nearly all have chicks they're pretty much all together as usual). Leo is good with the chicks and my geese look out for them too. It's good that it works because I really don't have room to separate thirteen hens with chicks! It does help that most of them only have one chick. Although one of my AC hens just hatched about 8 - she hid nest on me I have two hens cobrooding two chicks together, too. They did the same last year.

The cochin and her keets are separate, but that's just because the keets need a higher protein feed.

 

[speckledhen]

I'm rather fond of young rooster and dumplings, Just MHO.
Scott

I can't. If I had raised a bunch of roosters in a separate pen with the intention of processing them and had not spent time with them, or if they were aggressive toward me, yes, they'd be on the chopping block, no doubt. But, I have a soft spot for good quality youngsters with a lot of potential, my downfall. I admit it. I'm weak. I love my boys, even when there are too many of them.

Yep, they're all with the main flock. The flock as a whole tolerates chicks well. The broodies tend to hang together with their chicks away from the other birds (although right now since they nearly all have chicks they're pretty much all together as usual). Leo is good with the chicks and my geese look out for them too. It's good that it works because I really don't have room to separate thirteen hens with chicks! It does help that most of them only have one chick. Although one of my AC hens just hatched about 8 - she hid nest on me I have two hens cobrooding two chicks together, too. They did the same last year.

The cochin and her keets are separate, but that's just because the keets need a higher protein feed.

I wish I could do that. It never seems to work out except in the past with the Belgian D'Anvers. They do great with chicks in the flock, but they don't lay anymore so even my broody ones don't go broody anymore. Guess that's a good thing having Bonnie and Brandy in the Brahmas going broody once a quarter. Geez.

 

[speckledhen]

Jill, Hector's hen, is broody. No way in hellooooo is she getting eggs! I have two hens with chicks, another broody on eggs who just started and I cannot do any more. Nope, not happening. Poor Hector. If he'll just hold on, when Atlas's daughter, Lizzie, is finished with her chicks, she will go in with Hector. And when 15 week old MaryJo is a tad larger, she also will be with Hector.

 

[speckledhen]

I hope that when Lizzie is done with these three Hector chicks, someone wants them. These are some very cool kids! Super friendly, smart, curious, you name it, someone needs these youngsters!

 

[speckledhen]

I already have them for sale, pickup when Lizzie is done with them. I don't need them right now. I want to wait for more BRs when MaryJo and Lizzie are in with Hector.

These boys are so friendly and smart and calm! Usually, broody-raised chicks are more standoffish, but Lizzie has somehow taught them that we are cool humans and she has become more friendly herself since she's been a mom. Weird, huh? The pullet is friendly, but less likely to just run up to me and stand for a chest rub.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

They are very bold. Their legs are photographing pink, is that the color they are? They must get the yellow coloring as they grow up?

 

[speckledhen]

They are very bold. Their legs are photographing pink, is that the color they are? They must get the yellow coloring as they grow up?

Yes, they still have what I call "pinky baby legs". They become more yellow as they get older. Some lines of BRs have leg color issues, it is true, but Hector and Jill both have nice yellow legs, as do all my other BRs of both lines.

By the way, Miss Lisa, how are you feeling?