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[SallyinIndiana]

I took pictures today of most of my chickens. The HRIR are fast so I think there are a few missing. Then the PRIR are now all rehomes so not really mine anymore. The BR is spoken for as well.
Here is a link:
http://s841.photobucket.com/user/Sallys_Red_Meadow/library/Chicken Pictures/2013 September Flock

 

[Old Salt 1945]

So I moved her. After finding multiple eggs that weren't marked under her today, and three hens in the nesting box with her enabling her egg stealing problem, I moved her to the barn. She was a bit confused at first, but ate and drank and pooed and went back to the eggs. I accidentally broke one of the eggs she was sitting on this morning, so there are twelve now. But it was developing, the blastoderm/ target, was larger than a fresh egg. I felt badly, but she has twelve more to work with and there are three eggs in the silkie coop this morning, plus the four layed by the big girls, so I'm not short on fertile eggs at all. lol

She's in there, just hard to see.

Soooooooooooo, you killed one of her babies. You just march yourself into your room, lung yadie, and don't come out until you can behave yourself. Sometimes I don't know why I even try.

John

 

[Old Salt 1945]

I am so jealous. We had to rehome our rooster recently, due to neighborhood rules. I can't wait to move and have some hatching going on. I hope you plan to post pics when they hatch.

I think it is possible to have a vet remove the crow from a rooster if you really, really want one. It would likely be expensive. I know it can be done with dogs. Seems a bit harsh, but, oh well. Probably no more so than having a child's tonsils removed. I remember I wasn't to keen on it. But I got lots of ice cream.

John

 

[Leahs Mom]

See how nice her tail feathers are compared to her friends?







After a few days of uncertainty, I made a decision and I am posting this to document what I am trying. Maybe it will help someone else but it is not a recommendation. I think you have to try something different when nothing else seems to work. Btw, I am still getting 6-7 eggs a day. The injured one even laid an egg in the cage. Bully was not so generous.

Where did you get those?

Very nice!

 

[danand]

Gun chief- I would love to see a close up so we can try to figure it what they are??!!

Crselvy - the coup looks great. Soooo jealous!!!

Old salt- you crack me up. Would love to see a pic of the aquarium. We've always wanted a salt one but never made the plunge!

Head count.....who's going to the show in Bloominton Sat?

 

[julie0477]

So I gave my mother in law my bantam cochin rooster Oliver... This is what she posted on fb that he is doing today. Can you say spoiled! He does live outside with his two big hens, not sure why he was in the house LOL. He is also a therapy chicken for my husbands grandmother who has alzheimers. He sits with her outside all the time. He thinks he is a big rooster. He is a war dancing toe pecker, but he is adorable!

Love!!!

 

[HouseKat]

Tired of jockeying for position at the feeder one of the EEs just hopped right inside. (The two blurs at the left are the other two EEs trying to find an opening.)

 

[CityHen-Indy]

So I gave my mother in law my bantam cochin rooster Oliver... This is what she posted on fb that he is doing today. Can you say spoiled! He does live outside with his two big hens, not sure why he was in the house LOL. He is also a therapy chicken for my husbands grandmother who has alzheimers. He sits with her outside all the time. He thinks he is a big rooster. He is a war dancing toe pecker, but he is adorable!

Despite your claim as a newbie, I find you inspirational. What a good use of a roo!

 

[julie0477]

Line up pillows under the roosts so the eggs don't break.

John

lol it crossed my mind

 

[kabhyper1]

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Aww thanks. I actually recently got him back, and gave him to my mother in law. He was my baby as a chick. He hurt his leg and stayed in the house longer than the others with my husband and I and got very attached to us. I rehomed him because I had too many roos, but when I went to the farm he went to and saww him again, I couldn't leave him, so I brought him home. My inlaws live right in front of us. The green coop in the backgroung of the bridge pic is ours. He has turned into quite the little novelty/ therapy chicken though. These are him.