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noodleroo

Snuggles with Chickens
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Apr 29, 2010
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I live in coastal south Texas and I've decided on Buff Orpingtons for my backyard bunch. My son built a 3'x3'x6' chicken tractor for me for Mothers Day so I'll be ordering my chicks tomorrow! I've raised guinnies before and chickens when I was a little girl (a long time ago). I have two grown children, one granddaughter, one rough coat collie, one 16 yr old, 22 lb. cat and two ponds of tame (yes, tame) goldfish. This may not be the place to ask this, but my 'spousal equivalent' (for the past 17 years) has 10 black sex links on our property on the bay. I'm ordering more chicks than I need for the back yard so my question is; when are the extra Orps old enough to put with the adult sex links? I understand that you are supposed to do it at night and in the morning the adults assume that the others have always been there. Let me know what y'all think. This looks like a great forum. Thanks!
 
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If I understand correctly you already have adult birds and want to add new ones when they are old enough? I wouldn't add them until they are grown or they will get picked on and I wouldn't just stick them in the coop. Set aside an area where they can see each other but can't get to each other for a few days and then put them in at night.
 
Thanks for the quick reply. We accidently have adult chickens. Last week when we were leaving our property in the country, we saw something cross the road about 1/2 mile in front of us. I asked Robert 'what was that'? and he said it looked like a chicken. I said thats what I thought it was, too. Sure enough, someone had 'dumped' what turned out to be 19 chickens! I've seen many dogs, puppies, cats and kittens, but chickens??? Anyway, he went back at dusk and watched them roost on the ground and got 10 of them. He took them to our property about a mile away, built a coop the next day and now he has a ready made flock of really nice black sex links. They are people and coop oriented, just not hand tame. We sit and talk to them and they walk all around us, not afraid at all. These chickens are very healthy looking except for missing feathers in their tail/vent area. I don't know if they were in a small, confined area or if they have/had mites, but, their feathers are growing back now and they seem fine. Robert's going to dust them later this week. Any other suggestions?
 
Any other suggestions?

Go back and get the other 9.
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Good of you to help those chickens

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I forgot to finish the story; so sorry! The area that the chickens were 'dumped' was a very snake-y area. There are big clumps of gulf cord grass and mesquite and huisache bushes, and, it was really, really dark. Needless to say, they weren't too happy about being grabbed in the dark. He gave up hunting and chasing at about midnight, deciding to go back in the morning for the rest. The next morning, there was no sign of them. We've looked every day since but there are lots of predators there; coyotes, owls, hawks, bobcats, etc. so there is just no telling what happened to the rest. The good news is that the ones that he rescued will be well taken care of. Everybody that I know wants to come back in their next life to be as one of my pets! Blessings to you all....
 

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