HOLIDAY HATCH PARTY... chicks anyone... the party continues....

[neferset]

I'd love to see you do that too. And that one is just so cute!

But if we have to start with a different peeper, then I'm sure she will be cute too. I wish I'd done that with some of our Rhode Island Reds. I might not be looking at these Orpington X chicks strangely if I had. (I've actually never raised a Buff Orpington from a hatchling. Buffy was half grown.)

I bought a couple of those camping style egg carriers since my paper carton is a wreck now. I feel silly because I want to break them into pieces immediately, cut holes in them, and find a way to rough them up a bit or coat them in something non skid. Ideas are welcome.

Oh, the three boys that were exiled to the barn didn't have to be carried in tonight. They found a nice roost all by themselves. Here's hoping they keep doing it.

 

[evonne]

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rofl... tie the egg cartons to a rope and tie it to the goats halter.. let them drag them around the yard for a day or two....
you asked for ideas...
if it were me i'd give them to my human kids to play with for the day... they can scuff up and destroy that pretty new finish real quick...

and why did you exile 3 roos?? i missed this....

 

[wegotchickens]

DH says our basement smells like a petting zoo again. He says it like it's a bad thing? I love that smell more than puppy breath!

DH sat and talked to the chicks with me last night. The boys all ran from his finger, the girls came up to have their chests rubbed. One in particular kept coming back and asking for attention. DH says she's his new 'chicken girlfriend'. There's always one that loves him best LOL.
I guess different breeds have different spaz rates. With my d'Uccles, the spastic are usually roos and the cuddlers are always pullets.

The guinea pig got jealous of all the chick attention and squee-ed at me as I walked by. Although Cinderella is DD's piggie, I stopped and petted her fuzzy head and talked to her for a minute. Tonight I'll have to make sure to let Rellie run around while the chicks get lovin'!

I love fall/winter chicks. There's less to do outside and more time to socialize them. Spring chicks compete with the garden and yard work. They never get as much time & attention.

 

[neferset]

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For their own good actually. They were standard chicks that our little black OEGB hen hatched this summer (I believe Valeria died during the hawk attacks and the black OEGB is one of the chicks we bought last year. She is about 2000x nicer than Valeria ever was, but we never named her.) Anyway, they are beautiful roosters and at least half brothers by genetics. Their Mom was Raven the Australorp x EE. One looks like Igor, but he hasn't gotten his colors in. I am beginning to doubt that he will. The other looks like our BBRed (how he managed that is anyone's guess). The last one is all black like his mother.

They all have their foster Mom's temperament. While the big boys in the middle pen are also their brothers, they didn't get raised by the sweet mother hen. Though the boys in the middle pen got lucky and have a heated accommodation. I wanted to make sure my nice boys stayed warm at night and also stayed away from the yard pecking order. I gave them to the goats.

Every night for the last three nights, I had been going up to the barn, getting the goats in, and tossing the roosters inside with them, Then I let them all out the next morning. Last night, the roosters were already asleep up there.

 

[neferset]

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Evonne, you have my sympathy.

 

[evonne]

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rofl.... i've solved my issue... they're in a 3 level hampster cage right now.. about to graduate to the rabbit cage, but their all mobiile... i just pick it up and carry them to whatever room i'm hangin out in... and god forbid i get up to go potty or get a soda.. OMG!!!!

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my hubby was threatening them with banishment to outside when i got home last night after being gone for 1.5 hours... i told him before i left unplug the heating pad and take them upstairs with you.. not my fault he didn't listen and they drove him nuts... lol...

 

[mishythechickenlover]

Awwwww I love it if I could keep my babies with me all the time lol but the Hubby would disapprove. All mine are doing well since I changed their lighting now..pics to come tomorrow still

and hoping for the girls but i Think i might have two roos. Glad all babies are doing well

 

[neferset]

How is everyone telling this early? I admit, I'm not that good at sexing chicks. I remember something about the wings. I tend to wait a few months for the combs to turn color.

 

[Happy Chooks]

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With welsummer's you are supposed to be able to sex them by the eyeliner and the V on their head. Time will tell if it's right. (if it is, I have 1 boy, 2 girls)

 

[evonne]

i'm in their all he's until they lay an egg crowd.... i don't know why i call them all him's... my hubby calls all dogs boys and all cats girls.. lol...