Oh...and I have used the door for 2 years and never had any problems with it getting stuck down or frozen in the winter.
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about half a dozen. I saw 2-3 were pipped when I pulled these guys out. This hatch is going much slower than normal, but as long as they are coming out ok, I'm happy!Yay! I got me some lavender babies!! How many are left to hatch yet?
Pretty chicks Brad.![]()
The suspense is killing me. I love using broodys, Ihate not knowing whats going on!
LOL you are not a dork! And not a waste of time by any way at all! Thats how we learn, asking questions and posting problems. Someone will learn from it, and so will all of us. I am reading just to catch up, WAY behind. But did want to say its our thread, posts like yours help us all. No worries!So, two new things to add to the equation.
First, I'm not so sure now that I was hearing difficult breathing sounds from the gray EE. Gray stopped making the rumbly breathing sound after I put him in the isolation cage - until last night. When I had him in the towel, and he calmed down, I was gently stroking the feathers around his face with a cotton ball, he laid his head down in my hand and started rumbling. I think that the rumbly breathing I heard might have been him purring. I'm going to feel really stupid if that's the case. I really really wish someone who knew something could come look at these birds and tell me whether or not I actually have any problems.
So, his eye problem really could be just an injury... if so, could it have infected, and that spread into his sinuses, and cause some of the other stuff I'm seeing? I absolutely can not afford to pay a vet to look at this bird.
Oh, and I put his friend in, and they're both much happier for the company.
This post has been edited because I'm a dork. I don't usually try to hide my shame, but this time I've gone to wasting people's time, and I'm not okay with that.
Wish me luck.
Quote: Goslings are doing great! #3 hatched today, and was no problem taking it.![]()
Ganders "pin" their opponent, or intruder in a fight. The stronger gander is the winner by pinning the other down, like a wrestling match, literally. Wing and neck grabbing, flogging with wings, they can be pretty fierce and the bite/twist is painful! My ganders will not let other birds fight like a pair of roosters for example. they immediately intervene. If a gander or goose attack me, they get pinned. I have to keep the role of flock leader or would not be able to control them. 14 geese is a lot of big birds! So if one attacks, I grab the neck with one hand high right below the skull, and other arm goes around the wings, fast. And we go to the ground immediately. I hold the bird down until he stops struggling. I stop everything right then, and do it now! I am not harming my bird, and he doesn't get to harm me either. This corrects the behavior in a young gander in 2-3 times, usually less. Goose (hens) rarely attack a person unless they have babies. In this case he was doing his job, but I cannot let him think he can attack me, even in this instance. He is almost 10 months old and just massive already, my largest goose breed. I really need to take some pictures!keep promising and forgetting to take the camera out with me...![]()
So, I went to a feed store today. It shall remain nameless to protect the innocent (me!). The lady working was rather helpful, but also very negative. She asked about my biddies and I told her. She proceeded to warn me that my silkies weren't cold hardy and my BRs would be aggressive to my children. All my chickens, actually. She said all bantams are aggressive.
Surprised she didn't tell me my guineas would fly the coop and NEVER return the day I let them out.
If it were not for BYC and the awesomeness that is the internet leading me to read up on these birds for 10 years, I'd have left that store very upset. As it was, I was able to say "Okay," and change the subject.
I know some people have lost silkies outside in the cold winter, especially the polar vortex. But who's to say my coop isn't going to be warm enough with its square footage, insulatin, and a flock of 8 in there together? Maybe she will be right and all my chickens will attack my kids even though we are handling them every day and going to feed them treats. I guess I'll be glad to see 'em freeze then, huh?
WTHeck is wrong with people? She said all of that in a helpful, nice way, but...I came home and googled what she said and as usual, it's one of those "your mileage may vary" things.
Just needed to vent.
Ol Wise Grey Mare ~ I've encountered more variations and complications in raising chickens than I did when raising children!The way I look at it is it is much like the input one receives on a site such as this - just look at the vast difference of opinion on issues (even some of the most basic questions) that often arise - both 'sides' of the opinion convinced that their opinion is the correct one and offering information that may be completely contradictory to the input of the next person.
Goodness, they are precious! Congrats on all the chicks.. Some of mine (lavender guinea) are from trey also! I am leaning chocolate PIED so he really blessed you with some beautiesOkay, more pics!
Lynda in profile. (Don't mind the poop!)
All the kids holding chicks!
And lastly...the guineas! Wow, they are wild compared to the baby chicks. They tried to fly out of the box on the way home. Thanks again, Brad, for putting me in touch with Trey.
We don't know if these are boys or girls yet but we are calling them Thelma & Louise thanks to their escape attempt! They peep about 10x louder than the chicks. @jchny2000 , he said he thought these two were chocolate. What do you think?
So now I guess I can collapse for the day and rest! The brooder is too quiet...no one is peeping...guess I will watch chicken TV for a bit.
The dogs have still not made any sign of noticing the birds, even with the addition of the loud keets. Hubby said he thinks I desensitized them with Animal Planet streaming chick cam!I told him that was my plan all along...just hoping I'm not delusional in the early days. You know how all new moms think everything is working out perfectly.![]()
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OH NO..Hawk attack today ... I think.
Looks like a great start!! We are scrounging wood for our breeding coop project too. I keep begging DH to get pallets, its a great way to repurpose. He wants to use new wood.Here is my progress from Monday. The beginning of a breeding coop. By the way those aren't the legs, I just used longer boards that I could use them as braces for the actual legs and it isn't going there, just working on it inside one of the barns so I don't have to drag all over the place. I probably won't get to work on it until this weekend. If only there was more time in the day
And yesterday my dad called me and said he was driving down a road and saw a hawk eating something it had killed on the side of the road and a group of buzzards were waiting several feet away, waiting for its scraps