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[Faraday40]

@WhyDoILikeChickens
Congrats on your 1st hatch. Now you can enter into the fun world of broody-watching (and then worrying about them LOL).

Today's example:
The Lonely Only serama we adopted from @homeschoolin momma had a little adventure. Of course she's old enough to be on her own & may even start laying next month, but we still worry. At the moment the bantams are in a make-shift chicken tractor made from 2 play yards next to each other. It's a larger enclosure but not actually attached, so the little one slipped out for some fun. The bantam tractor was in the middle of the yard. A tiny flightless chicken out in the open could be a disaster. It took me a while but I found her in my neighbor's raspberry patch about 150' away. I was lucky that she answered to my voice with some peeping or I never would have found her. She's safe, unharmed, and I'm grateful to have her back.

 

[Justso]

@WhyDoILikeChickens
Congrats on your 1st hatch. Now you can enter into the fun world of broody-watching (and then worrying about them LOL).

Today's example:
The Lonely Only serama we adopted from @homeschoolin momma had a little adventure. Of course she's old enough to be on her own & may even start laying next month, but we still worry. At the moment the bantams are in a make-shift chicken tractor made from 2 play yards next to each other. It's a larger enclosure but not actually attached, so the little one slipped out for some fun. The bantam tractor was in the middle of the yard. A tiny flightless chicken out in the open could be a disaster. It took me a while but I found her in my neighbor's raspberry patch about 150' away. I was lucky that she answered to my voice with some peeping or I never would have found her. She's safe, unharmed, and I'm grateful to have her back.

One of my new little chicks escaped the tractor yesterday, same thing running around there naked in the yard. I yelled at everyone "stop trying to die"!

 

[homeschoolin momma]

@WhyDoILikeChickens
Congrats on your 1st hatch. Now you can enter into the fun world of broody-watching (and then worrying about them LOL).

Today's example:
The Lonely Only serama we adopted from @homeschoolin momma had a little adventure. Of course she's old enough to be on her own & may even start laying next month, but we still worry. At the moment the bantams are in a make-shift chicken tractor made from 2 play yards next to each other. It's a larger enclosure but not actually attached, so the little one slipped out for some fun. The bantam tractor was in the middle of the yard. A tiny flightless chicken out in the open could be a disaster. It took me a while but I found her in my neighbor's raspberry patch about 150' away. I was lucky that she answered to my voice with some peeping or I never would have found her. She's safe, unharmed, and I'm grateful to have her back.

Sounds like Lonely is going to be a handful! Adventurous spirit! Heart attack for human mom.

 

[Molpet]

One of my new little chicks escaped the tractor yesterday, same thing running around there naked in the yard. I yelled at everyone "stop trying to die"!

I have"chick proof" e net around part of the poultry yard. The bottom 18" has a plastic 3/4 " net. Every other year I have chicks and poults that figure out all they have to do is jump up and over the smaller plastic netting. Running amuck all over the place and can't figure out how to get back in.

 

[Molpet]

Hatched July 3
Out of Steve Austin the 6 million dollar chicken... He is a dark Cornish ... the only one that hatched out of 23 expensive shipped eggs.
Out of various CX mixed hens, a bjg and a part bo

 

[WhyDoILikeChickens]

Copy pasted on broody thread
Ok wisdom givers... . Momma has 5 chicks. She has gotten off the nest to teach the chicks to scratch and drink. It's been at least an hour off the nest. Is she done sitting? Problem is 1 is half pipped. I see a little beak breathing and 4 eggs unhatched. I do not have an incubator. Should I attempt to intervene

 

[WhyDoILikeChickens]

You guys really go through this on a regular basis? I'm jealous.

 

[SnootyHen]

I have 2 layers now!! Not sure Karen (the Marans) will be able to keep up with Galadriel's (Leghorn) track record but I am excited for a new color in the skelter. Galadriel has laid 13 in 16 days. I did think Karen's would be darker but I read they darken up with maturity for Marans.

All these chicks are making me antsy to head over to TSC and their $1 chicks!! I think I need to get all of these pullets laying and through their first winter before we add to the family so I keep telling myself to wait for the spring and get more from my cousin's feed store during their chick days. But I don't always listen very well.

 

[cavemanrich]

All these chicks are making me antsy to head over to TSC and their $1 chicks!!

There is an old saying,,,,,,,,, "WHY WAIT IF YOU CAN DO IT NOW"
Besides, next spring they will not be @$1

 

[WhyDoILikeChickens]

There is an old saying,,,,,,,,, "WHY WAIT IF YOU CAN DO IT NOW"
Besides, next spring they will not be @$1

You are enabling!