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The fall is the worst b/c the school is grabbing at your wallet for the first several months. Then just as that settles down the holiday season starts up just in time for the higher electric/ heating bills. Being an adult is not the glorious experience I had been told it was.
 
That's probably why nobody told any of us just how crappy adulthood was. If I'd known I'd have refused to do it! :)
apryl29 said:
The fall is the worst b/c the school is grabbing at your wallet for the first several months. Then just as that settles down the holiday season starts up just in time for the higher electric/ heating bills. Being an adult is not the glorious experience I had been told it was.
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apryl29 said:
OK, that is the best story ever. I needed an LOL this morning. Thank you! (glad your daughter was found and grew out of her Imma do what I want phase.)

What is it w/ chicken picking lately? Since It's been getting cold I've been nice and giving my girls some mash & oatmeal made w/ hot water (warm by the time they get it)... yesterday I realized they weren't letting Damon have any. Then ever time I tried to give her some she'd get scared and run away. So today I let them out first, hoping Damon would stay behind and eat first, no such luck.. So they come back in and Damon keeps getting pecked & my little bantam is left out too. So I scoop some out and put it in a nesting box away from the group. The bantam eats some & I try to put Damon by it, but she's apparently afraid of the bantam too. The bantam finishes and I toss Damon up and she finally gets to actually eat some instead of trying to quickly grab bites before getting pecked. Then I realized that during the warm weather when we'd let them range she's usually the first one out and always trying to escape... b/c they're all mean to her. I get that someone needs to be the lowest on the totem pole, but it's super unnecessary for them to be that mean. Like I scooped some food out for her and set it on the step for the bantam to reach the feeder & the others ran for it so I tried to point the now vacant food dish out to Damon and they went back to that. I'm going to work on hand feeding her so she'll come to me and get treats rather than fighting the others for some.
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I dunno. I've been seeing a lot more squabbling going on. My poor little EE Mocha gets it from the RIR and BR girls. I've been taking her a small dish of scraps or whatever and take it in the coop hoping everyone else will stay in the pen. After she gets a few bites the mean girls show up. They peck at her coming and going. So far there are no injuries or missing feathers, but I really feel sorry for her.

I think that not getting to free range all day every day isn't helping. I've been letting them out most of the day at least 3 to 4 times per week. Not looking forward to winter with ice and snow as they will be cooped up even more. Then I will have baby Eve going in to a cage/brooder out in the coop eventually. And hopefully others to follow.

Speaking of baby Eve. I noticed the other day my tee shirt had this huge splotch of dry blood on it. For a change I didn't know I'd injured myself until later. I've got all these teeny scratches right near my collar bone -- from that bird. She's got the pointiest, sharpest little claws and beak. Didn't notice my chickens being so sharp when they were babies. I keep trying to take her outside for fresh air, exercise and exploring, but she gets too cold.
 
Same here. Can't they establish dominance w/o being so mean to everyone? I don't feel like we don't have enough space, I think it's more they just don't want to share with anyone else and since she's little they figure they can keep her out, but the big ones will fight back.
Maybe Eve's trying to tenderize you so she can eat you later. LOL I don't remember mine being so sharp to break the skin. We've been taking our little bantam and sticking her in our coat while we're in the coop. We're supposed to get our first real snow this weekend so it's going to be interesting to see what happens there. How old do people usually put their chicks out in the coop when it's really cold in the winter?
 
This morning I went to let my girls out and found Ziva sitting on the nest. She went outside and I was FINALLY able to identify who's laying the eggs w/ the brown spots on top. 4 down! Only 4 eggs so far today. When they stop laying, do they go through the same thing in the spring to restart laying as they do when they're new layers? Like do they stop squatting and submitting to mating when they aren't laying?
 

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