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[kittydoc]

@MnMPoultry, that photo is priceless. I just did a nighttime eviction of my Ameracauna and Brahma in with the big girls. The Brahma already had a brief introduction and thought she had been thrown down into the 7th level of Hell! Tomorrow night, the Jubilee girls will join them. I put saddles on all of them tonight, and wanted them to have a full day to get used to those before I threw them another curveball.

 

[chick rookie]

Oh My Gosh, Oh my Gosh

I got hit hard by the chicken math this weekend.

I had been wanting some Cochin's really bad, and I finally found me some. Got 6chicks, plus 5 frizzle chicks, plus a pair of black cochin bantams that are 1 year old.

I also got 11 silver seabright chicks and 4 golden polish chicks, and I have 8 that just hatched in the incubator yesterday and this morning ( these are feather-legged mixes) with another 5 or 6 still to hatch,

. Gotta go clean some coops and do a little change a roo to make everyone more comfy. I will post pics of the newbies a little later.

lol it happens... waiting on pic's

Hiding... You're doing it wrong...



Just thought I would show this cutness from the other day when I evicted the 2 month olds out of a grow out pen into the main coop. This pair of Cochins was hiding from the big bully birds.

That is just too cute... you cant see me.... lol

I'm testing out my tablet camera today and got some pics of the newbie/bantam coop residents.
Sunny and Kiwi

Sunny Peanut and Po oegbs

Bandit

Einstein

Kiwi who btw laid her first little green egg today shes bantam EE


We also found the water balloon egg next to it in the pasture. Someone is avoiding their calcium.
The Ee newbies and their little oegb sister.





My mixed girls. Rir x slw

Slw x splash EE and her full slw sister

And last but not least Oliver my little cochin buddy. He has gotten intoa couple tussles with Blueberry the last couple of days, but they willget along eventually Ithink. .

Okay I think I sufficiently hijacked the thread. I'm done now.

My camera don't take that good of pic's. Beautiful birds too

Oh my! We have an early achiever here. My three month and one day old Lavender Orp cockerel belted out his first crow this morning. This is not the kind of "early achieving" we aspire to here, but it will now give me a chance to try out my homemade no-crow (really a less-crow) collar soon.

Hope everyone is enjoying their Sunday (ha ha, weekends are for getting caught up on all things poultry!).

(ha ha, weekends are for getting caught up on all things poultry!). Yes it is... lol DH is always ready to go back to work on Mondays...

My momma hen did well. She hatched 8 of the 10 eggs she had left. She had smashed 2 eggs earlier. Of the 2 that didn't hatch one never developed and the others abdomen didn't close.

The little blue one is my favorite!

@ellymayRans your birds make some cute chicks!!!

Hopefully there's a lot of pullets in there!


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Congrats and wtg momma.. My momma got off her eggs for 2 hours yesterday DH said he tried to put her back on but didn't work... Do you think they will still hatch?

I added a few things to the brooder... I think the chicks are happy ​

and I SWEAR, it's really the dog panting in the background!​

I hung my chicks water. worked great.

 

[Mother2Hens]

I'm back after my second Indy/Bloomington quick trip this week. Lauren is thrilled with her car! And I am behind on the thread . . .

Also: 4 Ways to Kill Mushrooms - wikiHow
Originally Posted by iamfivewire
we had 19 hatch a couple days ago - iowa blues, EEs, & 1 RSL/IaB mix - some will be needing "adopted" as well as 3 cockerels a month old (2 IaB & 1 EE/Americauna mix)
@iamfivewire Glad to hear that you had a good hatch! How's your injured Iowa Blue Roo doing?

Originally Posted by MnMPoultry

Hiding... You're doing it wrong...



Just thought I would show this cutness from the other day when I evicted the 2 month olds out of a grow out pen into the main coop. This pair of Cochins was hiding from the big bully birds.

@MnMPoultry ~ So funny! Hope they don't get stuck --
who was the one who posted a story about a chicken getting stuck in a concrete block, and I think the block was broken with a hammer, and the chicken was fine?
@chickiebaby1 What breed(s) are your frizzle chicks? I'm hoping my Broody Bonbon will hatch some. Post photos of them please.
@LKShepherd Love your video! We need to send an assorto-pack of chicks to @EurekaChic so she can get started, too!

@kabhyper1 I'm serious! You need to be a chicken photographer. I don't know how you get them to pose-- and look at the (OEGBs?) in the background posed perfectly!! I love the design they make.

 

[Mother2Hens]

@MnMPoultry, that photo is priceless. I just did a nighttime eviction of my Ameracauna and Brahma in with the big girls. The Brahma already had a brief introduction and thought she had been thrown down into the 7th level of Hell! Tomorrow night, the Jubilee girls will join them. I put saddles on all of them tonight, and wanted them to have a full day to get used to those before I threw them another curveball.

kittydoc~ Haha I used to post about my sweet Orps (who must have had similar thoughts) when they moved into the big coop with The Five Mean Hens.

I've mentioned before that softly singing (so no one hears and alerts the authorities with the big white coats) calms by chickens at bedtime, and they go to bed nicely. We were late getting home last night from Bloomington, so my DS and his girlfriend came over and locked up the chickens. After we arrived home, I looked in the big coop with my flashlight. My EE, Roadrunner, was standing on the perch where my Jubilee and Blue Splash Orps normally sit, and the Orps were standing at the bottom on the poop tray! When my EE saw me, she quickly hopped over to her assigned seat. I had to get a stepladder to put the Orps up on their perch. Roadrunner, the opportunist, was at the bottom of the pecking order for a long time before I got the Orps.
Originally Posted by kittydoc
Oh my! We have an early achiever here. My three month and one day old Lavender Orp cockerel belted out his first crow this morning. This is not the kind of "early achieving" we aspire to here, but it will now give me a chance to try out my homemade no-crow (really a less-crow) collar soon.

Yes, let us know how your version of the crow-little

collar works out!
My two tiny bantam roos -- Belgian d'Uccle and OEGB just started assaulting the ladies, and the hens are incensed. It's ridiculous when the teeny tiny roos try to mate with the LF hens by standing on their backs! The hens wonder why in the world those pipsqueaks want to hitch rides.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Quote: Every bird here free ranges 5 acres off season from breeding. They just "know" and each group is taught a different call. Geese are called in by WEEEWEEEES! Ducks by Duckydukyducky there's a call for each species. I feed an hour before dusk and they know that too. I have a main coop for poultry off season, and another for waterfowl. Those coops wrap a 3rd for bantam and littles be it poultry or waterfowl to teach them where "safe" is. Birds of a feather is a true wives tale. They want to be with the older birds of their own type. Using a key word tells them when its food for them and come in.
It starts at chicks, when I clean brooders, add water or feed, thats what they hear, my call to them.
Everyone is locked in their coop/runs at night. They are all let out for the day as early as we can. New birds joining flocks are housed 2 weeks next to the coops. the coop as look, dont touch in cages and they learn fast. Any coming from someone I dont know I quarantine longer, more for the new birds safety, free ranging can pose risk to a formerly caged bird.

 

[ChickCrazed]

Good morning everyone!!! Hope everyone is doing well in the heat! I have been super spoiled all summer with the nice cooler weather, it makes it silly to complain about the heat but man it is hot! The birds are all panting. I also have THREE broodies at the moment! Both Marans and the white Silkie pullet (who btw is adorable trying to flatten her teeny body out over a rediculous number of eggs)! It is super frustrating and I only have one broody breaker! I guess I'm going to have to put both Marans in the breaker together and then tackle the silkie. One Marans went broody a week ago and I was hoping she would get bored, but instead she talked the other one into joining her. Boo!!!

I refuse to let them hatch this late in the year!

My BLRW really is a terrible mother lol. I went into the coop yesterday and she was hanging out on a roost in the coop - where the babies def. couldn't go. The poor things were milling around under the roosts looking all terrified as the other big birds came in and out. They are only 4 weeks old and she seems to be contemplating cutting the apron strings already! Something kind of cute, one of my EEs has become a bit of a surrogate mother. She hangs with the babies most of the day so hopefully she can fill the void when the ditzy BLRW blows the babies off.

I am also contemplating no-crow collars for the three grown boys until they settle a bit. Has anyone tried them? I would like to muffle the noise a bit, they are currently getting into crowing contests when I am out there and they are driving me crazy!

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

Good morning everyone!!! Hope everyone is doing well in the heat! I have been super spoiled all summer with the nice cooler weather, it makes it silly to complain about the heat but man it is hot!

It has been brutal - I agree we had been spoiled up to this point compared to last summer, but MAN! I knew this summer was too good to be true so far, lol. We got DUMPED on with rain to boot Friday night and still have some pretty good puddles laying around so that is just adding to the humidity -- steamy is a good way to describe this weekend.

 

[kabhyper1]

[COLOR=8B4513]I'm back after my second Indy/Bloomington quick trip this week. Lauren is thrilled with her car! And I am behind on the thread . . .[/COLOR] [rule] [COLOR=333333][COLOR=333333]Originally Posted by [/COLOR]@jchny2000 : Some mushrooms are poison, DNR has a lot of info for it. Turkeys are usually the least "smart" about whats ok.... They eat anything. If they act loopy I would look up what the mushroom is. Especially if the bird is meant for food, or a breeder.[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]@SallyinIndiana [COLOR=8B4513]Because of our large, tall shade trees, we unfortunately have many types of mushrooms that seem to appear overnight (I haven't seen them in the chicken run, though). I'm with jchny-- they may be poisonous, so I dig them up and use vinyl gloves to remove the debris, put it in a bag, and throw it in the trashcan.[/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=8B4513]I just ran across this info:[/COLOR] Tilly's Nest: The Danger of Mushrooms for Backyard Chickens Also: 4 Ways to Kill Mushrooms - wikiHow [rule][rule]Originally Posted by MnMPoultry /img/forum/go_quote.gif Hiding... You're doing it wrong... Just thought I would show this cutness from the other day when I evicted the 2 month olds out of a grow out pen into the main coop. This pair of Cochins was hiding from the big bully birds. @MnMPoultry ~ [COLOR=8B4513]So funny! Hope they don't get stuck --[/COLOR] [COLOR=8B4513]who was the one who posted a story about a chicken getting stuck in a concrete block, and I think the block was broken with a hammer, and the chicken was fine?[/COLOR] [rule]@chickiebaby1 [COLOR=8B4513]What breed(s) are your frizzle chicks? I'm hoping my Broody Bonbon will hatch some. Post photos of them please.[/COLOR] [rule]@LKShepherd [COLOR=8B4513]Love your video! We need to send an assorto-pack of chicks to[/COLOR] @EurekaChic [COLOR=8B4513]so she can get started, too! [/COLOR] [rule]@kabhyper1 [COLOR=8B4513]I'm serious! You need to be a chicken photographer. I don't know how you get them to pose-- and look at the (OEGBs?) in the background posed perfectly!! I love the design they make.[/COLOR]

Lol thanks Julie. I dont know how that happens, I just have camera ready chooks I guess.

 

[ChickCrazed]

How horrible! I can't believe such evil exists in the world!

http://wishtv.com/2014/08/25/impd-4-chickens-killed-set-on-fire-on-east-side/

 

[SallyinIndiana]

Quote: Every bird here free ranges 5 acres off season from breeding. They just "know" and each group is taught a different call. Geese are called in by WEEEWEEEES! Ducks by Duckydukyducky there's a call for each species. I feed an hour before dusk and they know that too. I have a main coop for poultry off season, and another for waterfowl. Those coops wrap a 3rd for bantam and littles be it poultry or waterfowl to teach them where "safe" is. Birds of a feather is a true wives tale. They want to be with the older birds of their own type. Using a key word tells them when its food for them and come in.
It starts at chicks, when I clean brooders, add water or feed, thats what they hear, my call to them.
Everyone is locked in their coop/runs at night. They are all let out for the day as early as we can. New birds joining flocks are housed 2 weeks next to the coops. the coop as look, dont touch in cages and they learn fast. Any coming from someone I dont know I quarantine longer, more for the new birds safety, free ranging can pose risk to a formerly caged bird.
Picture a Brown county state park wooded area for the setting. There was lots of shade. Next add in lots of watering stations, and a few coops or shelters for the animals. Then and this is the best part picture multiple flocks of birds with each flock knowing their group and following a planned or choreographed color guard movement pattern. Honestly when one of the flocks decided it was time to get up and go, the rest just knew what to do and where to go. I had seen our ducks act in a similar pattern, but not so much my chickens. I think it is my lack of a wooded area for them. I have a few trees on one side of my front yard. But they are all young. We keep planting the little free ones from Arbor Day but have not had great success lately. Once that area gets a little bit older / shadier, I can see myself adding a pig in the mud area.
My question for @jchny2000 : Is the tree in Wilber's area has it always been bare or did the mud + pig get to it?