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[Chaneys Ranch]

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Wow thats a lotta teenage girls.. ugh! Girls are WAY harder than boys IMO

Im tooting my horn...... I got the number 3 top rated post for the last 30 days! Whoo hoo, im in the byc club now i think!! Lol I hope that means my little ones will maybe win the caption contest!

I just love that picture, I hope they put it on the calender this year!

Quote: She isnt loud either. just too sweet. I think she is a serema tho.
What do yours weigh?
She is maybe 14 oz, not even a pound. Her and Kate are both very tiny.
Harry is also that small but bigger than the girls.
Diana is the largest, and my favorite. She is a red pyle? i think.
Doesn't really matter to me, they are pets and I just love the group.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

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I really love the peafowl! Mine are less than a year. My 2 smaller chicks are not doing well but I keep them In my porch.
My older fella is turkey sized and very personable. They are somewhat difficult to keep I am learning.
Hoping to raise them, but really just enjoy them a lot.

 

[PeacefulWalls]

Im tooting my horn...... I got the number 3 top rated post for the last 30 days! Whoo hoo, im in the byc club now i think!! Lol I hope that means my little ones will maybe win the caption contest!

Congrats! I really love this pic!

My Cochins all lay light eggs like that one a and they have tine white speckles. They are also more elongated than my wyandottes eggs.
I do happen to know someone with a trimmer but I don't think using said trimmer on poopy chicken butts would help my mission to get chicks this year

. I'll probably stick with scissors this time.

So it was a busy afternoon. I was talking to my DH today and he said what's that on Kiki (the cat). Um, I don't know...I looked at my cat and she had this horrible rash like wound on her leg. I got her a vet appt ASAP and then remembered that I used the cat carrier to house one of the MD chickens and I haven't cleaned it out yet (I'm a slacker, what can I say). So to the vet she went in a box. It wasn't very stylish. She got a shot and some antibiotics. Then the vet says she hopes that clears it up so we don't have to look at bad things for possible causes. I'm an idiot because I just had to ask what bad was. That would be cancer. My vote is an infection. This cat is awesome and hasn't had one sick day in her 11 years. It can't be cancer. Period

On a high note, I became an auntie to twin girls this morning

. Now I have 4 nieces under the age of four. I am already anticipating how hard that will be having 4 girls going to high school at the same time. Do you think counseling sessions make good Christmas presents?

I vote for infection too. Congratulations on being an auntie again!

 

[Leahs Mom]

"Jumps up on the soapbox"

I just can't kill a bird if it has a cold in its eye or a simply, easily fixed problem...I guess I judge each case as it comes.

I have a few that have had an eye pecked. They do just fine and for me, not a reason to kill them.
Even both my grandmothers used "sulfa" drugs for a bird with the "croup" and would never waste a single chick.
One from Germany, the other from PA hills. Both did things the same. That's what I call a true "old timer".
And its a family decision too. Dad would just go into orbit

let alone my Ma, both are in their 80s.
Both my parents have set with chicks and eggs for hours if we have power outages, every life is precious.
We all sit around buried in blankets with babies and eggs under our sweaters

I guess I respect what they have taught me, and learn from all of you too!

The birds with issues do not stay in my breeding flocks, they go to the egg coop. "Egg coop" birds do not get sold here.
They are our food birds, egg birds, and most are our pets. Some even have went "wild" and rarely even come in and eat.
I can still call out Weeeeweee chickie chickies and every bird is there, waiting for treats.

Deformities I just won't do it anymore. It is heartbreaking, and they are suffering too.
Quality of life is the hardest decision to make on any bird. We all have to follow the practices we feel fit our flocks.
(steps off the soapbox)

Definitely agree!
I'd always do whatever I can to help an injury if it's within reason. And there are many more "natural" ways (you mentioned sulfa, for one) to help an otherwise healthy bird to become strong again. As animal keepers we really do have to learn to judge the severity of the situation and act accordingly.


I guess I mixed 2 topics into that post too...culling when necessary was one. The other was husbandry that works toward prevention rather than a "lifestyle of illness" that always needs remediation. I probably should have separated those

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

CRselvey ~ Wow, I've had cats my whole life and I've never heard of that (and I thought that I had been through everything possible with my cats through the years-- and those things always seemed to happen at a time when the only place open was the Pet Emergency Center). I'm glad you were able to get Kiki into the vet and treated. And don't feel bad about using a box as a carrier -- bradselig uses them for photoshoots of his chicks.

Congrats on the niece additions, auntie. Twin nieces sound like fun-- more than twin daughters! lol Are they locally grown, so your Savannah can join the flock? And do you mean counseling sessions for the mothers?

I was just looking about info for sexing chicks and I ran across this old-fashioned method. Does anyone have comments?

This doesn't work, just yet another old wives tale.

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

I have seen some pretty outrageous stuff! Cragslist is always fun!

There is someone on craigslist that is giving away a rooster "mixed brown egg layer type" lol.

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I have a few that have had an eye pecked. They do just fine and for me, not a reason to kill them.

I have a black ameraucana rooster that is blind in one eye. I don't know if another chick pecked him, or if he poked it on something,but have confirmed that it is not diseased related,that all I really worried about. He has been blind in one eye since he was a few weeks old and he does just fine. Infact he is the head rooster in his pen. I agree it is no reason to kill them

 

[bradselig]

I'm so happy! And it's not really because I just got a shipment of LF blue Cochin pullets, but rather my path to the coop didn't blow shut! Lol. Ok, I'm still happy about the Cochins as well! Lol

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

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Exciting!

Wow thats a lotta teenage girls.. ugh! Girls are WAY harder than boys IMO

I just love that picture, I hope they put it on the calender this year!

She isnt loud either. just too sweet. I think she is a serema tho.
What do yours weigh?
She is maybe 14 oz, not even a pound. Her and Kate are both very tiny.
Harry is also that small but bigger than the girls.
Diana is the largest, and my favorite. She is a red pyle? i think.
Doesn't really matter to me, they are pets and I just love the group.

I don't know exactly how much she weighs, but not a pound. I would guess around 12-14oz. I could be wrong though. I got a scale for christams but it doesn't work right.

 

[ChickCrazed]

I'm so happy! And it's not really because I just got a shipment of LF blue Cochin pullets, but rather my path to the coop didn't blow shut! Lol. Ok, I'm still happy about the Cochins as well! Lol

I'm so jealous! Order any extras?

 

[bradselig]

I'm so jealous! Order any extras?  

I ordered 12, one didn't make the trip. I also have 5(?) more coming from SallyinIndianas order. (I can't remember exactly how many I ordered with her order!). I only plan to keep 2-3, so I will definitely have extras but won't be selling any until I raise them up and keep the best ones if there are any I like.

If anyone is interested in any Wyandotte cockerels, I have several available. They were the extras with my order. I believe they are all gold laced.