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[Faraday40]

We're being taken over by broody hens!!!!
Here's the backyard update:
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I was given some turkey eggs..... and then added some orpington eggs a week later to give the turkeys some friends. They eggs are under Jewel - a very large broody. Due to hatch June 20th.

Jewel says: "I'm NOT FAT.... I'm broody!"

The turkey eggs were orig. for Trouble, but she adopted all the orps that hatched last week. She didn't mind an instant family, and it saves me the work.
Last week:

Trouble says: "MINE! They're all MINE!"

....and today, here's what they look like:



Then of course I have a Penciled Rock that went broody for the very 1st time & the next day a silkie went broody for the 3rd time this year! I stuffed both into the same nestbox & let them have a few eggs. I think of it as a broody mentoring program. One chick was out this morning. When I reached under to investigate, the silkie saw an egg & stole it out from under PR..... then PR saw a diff egg & stole it away from the silkie.

They are so funny.
*I must add that I went outside & discovered we have at least 3 chicks now.


Last but not least, we have Smudge. We kept 5 chicks from the May 1st preschool hatches & still have 4 chicks & 2 poults from May 18th hatch. Smudge loves all of them. The chicks enjoy riding on her back. .....So glad I have a "hen saddle."


The marked chick is a neat experiment. She is the granddaughter of Oopsie, daughter of Jewel. At hatch she looked mauve, but her feathers are growing in white.
1st mystery - Mauve???? Jewel looks blue, but now I guess she's a very dark mauve. The other option is that the dad could have 1 copy of both a choc gene & a lav gene.
2nd mystery - white feathers??? Oopsie had double recessive white genes. I think they call it "sport." Jewel must have inherited & passed it along. That also means my black/lav split roo also carries the recessive white. I'm not sure if I'm keeping him, but he's the only way I can hatch lav orps at the moment, so he's here unless I find something better.

pic#1 Oopsie (recessive white) & her daughter Jewel (looks blue, but perhaps a mauve)
pic#2 The father of the mystery mauve to white chick is this blk/lav split roo.

 

[Faraday40]

Some "useless chicken" pics

Little Teddy strutting around

Digger in a bush

.... take Off!

and a turkey - because we hatched a turkey & are enjoying him/her while they're here.

Trouble (our Sebright) looks like she's contemplating her life choices.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Remi our new dog has officially been here a week. He has had 2 shocks from the hot wire fence, nose pecked by the chickens because he is sniffing them. Geese have goosed him, new animal! Remi is still a little timid with the youngest gander. My SIL's little chihuahua wants to attack him and we have not allowed anything more than fenced interaction. He just walks away and has that happy dog smile.
He saw the groundhog family by the barn this evening and barked loud nonstop! Pleased to see that, they pose a danger to my cows (holes mean broken legs). We also saw a fox and I was worried he might break the cable on his tie out he was very distressed it was here.. I just let him out a few minutes ago and put him to bed. He was barking and growling, so I shined my flashlight towards my coops. Sure enough a raccoon family. He seems to know what is ok and what isn't. This guy is really stealing our hearts! I can see why DD adores him so much.

 

[JanetMarie]

@jchny2000 Have you dealt with a depressed goose? My Chinese hasn't been eating enough, and I think she is depressed. Is there anything I can do besides taking her to food?

 

[Indyshent]

@jchny2000 Have you dealt with a depressed goose? My Chinese hasn't been eating enough, and I think she is depressed. Is there anything I can do besides taking her to food?

Any bird can get depressed. Make sure it isn't health related because she might be ill or have parasites. Often, depression is due to loneliness, so getting her other geese/goslings might help. Some birds are better finding company in other species, and some just aren't.

 

[JanetMarie]

Any bird can get depressed. Make sure it isn't health related because she might be ill or have parasites. Often, depression is due to loneliness, so getting her other geese/goslings might help. Some birds are better finding company in other species, and some just aren't.

She was broody for a week then stopped, and has been depressed since. Her mate is fine, so I think it has to do with the eggs not hatching after a week, or she got too undernourished while on the nest.

BTW: Did you get your medical tests done? How have you been?

 

[Indyshent]

She was broody for a week then stopped, and has been depressed since. Her mate is fine, so I think it has to do with the eggs not hatching after a week, or she got too undernourished while on the nest.

BTW: Did you get your medical tests done? How have you been?

Stuck with crappy doctor after crappy doctor and don't have money enough to see anyone now. Had an MRI, but *nobody* has discussed results with me. Had bunches of labs done, everything's normal enough (when they bother discussing anything with me, that is). Had really hoped for answers, but nobody is willing to do the detective work on me. I give up. I'm sick of thousands of dollars in bills for no answers and no improvement.

I can't even get one to prescribe blood pressure meds so I can get dental work done. I've had a cavity since November 2016, and so now it's spread to several other teeth no matter what I'm doing to keep my mouth clean, but the dentists won't work on me because my blood pressure is so high. I've hit 178/119 several times, and nobody seems to have a clue why or care enough to find out (let alone *do* anything about it). None of them have even given suggestions as to how I might lower it on my own (so I've had to struggle with that using Dr. Google).

 

[JanetMarie]

That is a reason I do not go to medical doctors. Dr. Google has been extremely helpful for me, and given diagnosis that medical Drs. have virtually no knowledge about, and only $49.95 per month for multiple visits!

 

[faerydust16]

@JanetMarie I thought she meant googling symptoms lmao

 

[Indyshent]

I did, actually! Just been googling symptoms, getting worried, and giving up.