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[ChickCrazed]

I have some friends near cloverdale that had two male great pyrs show up at their farm last week. They have been unsuccessful at trying to find the owners and are looking to re-home them. Please PM me if you are interested and want contact info.

 

[bradselig]

I have some friends near cloverdale that had two male great pyrs show up at their farm last week. They have been unsuccessful at trying to find the owners and are looking to re-home them.  Please PM me if you are interested and want contact info.

I hope they atleast had them scanned for microchips!

 

[chick rookie]

So tomorrow is the one-year birthday of my rooster Reginald (the handsome fellow in my profile pic). What does one give the rooster who has everything??

His own personal bag of mealworms!

thats what I was gonna say... lol you beat me too it.

My runt meat chicken passed away. Sad, but it is the first meat chicken I have lost

Sorry for your loss

More pix...

Black Rosie (plucked hen) Red Rosie, Crazy Bertha and Just Bertha. FIL had named the SLW Rosie and I already had a Rosie, so I decided 2 hens per name.

Loki and Stoner

Willow acting guilty about.something

Luna (a.k.a. Luna the tick)

Rex the bunny and the original flock
One more of the dogs, because I think it's cute...

Ok, now I'm done.

I think they all are cute, congrats on your chicks, enjoy

Today is my rooster's first birthday! I made him a "cake". Sadly I had no meal worms, so I used all of his other favorite treats instead. It has been the best year of my life, partly because of him




And finally, a video of him sharing it with Gwyneth Poultry and her chicks, Smokey & Bandit

a Chicken b-day party... so cool

Love it!! I have a birthday party for my flock every year, usually on the youngests' birthday, although I might go for my EE Cubby's birthday next year since she'll be turning 10! I see apples and raisins, what else is in your big guy's cake?

Mine have been a hollowed down watermelon filled with diced tomatoes, bell peppers, corn, cucumbers, and apples, with yogurt 'frosting' and cucumber letters. This year I also made mini cakes so the lower-ranking girls could have a taste.

Some samples of my work!

2012:



2013:




And this year:

neat!!

We lost a runt today as well. I saw it coming but sometimes it is hard to cull. I had the space so it was in the runt pen but it would not drink.

Sorry for your loss as well

, ya all need to stop losing birds, its depressing.

I must say that I'm rather impressed with that cucumber lettering.

After years of reptiles, I don't have issue with serving the chickens bugs. However, I do have a question...
Did anyone have to "teach" their chickens to eat bugs?

While working in the garden beds, I grabbed a few worms, slugs etc. I thought they'd be gobbled down in seconds, but instead, the hens just looked at them & walked away. Only one hen made an attempt but it slipped out of her beak, so she gave up. Do I have defective birds?

My hatchery birds aren't real big on worms it seems but my farm born birds dig them up and go to town.. I seen one of my 1 1/2 week old chicks trying to eat one today, mom must have gave it to her.

I'm guessing some of you would not have done well in my summer science camp.

Each year I offer a couple different camps, but my "Bugs" program is always a hit. Several kids started with me about 5 years ago & return each year, so I must constantly change the program. This year our guests were Giant Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches! We had races, a cockroach pull, a few behavioral studies, and even a hissing contest. (I have a very patient hubby, but there's no way he'd allow roaches in the house. They currently reside on our porch awaiting frost. A few went home with kids as "pets" but I did not find a home for the remaining few.)

NO!!!!

Okay, it's not all bugs for me, but roaches are a big, big, big NO!

I can do butterflies (but not caterpillars or moths). Things like mosquitoes and house flies don't bother me (but they still annoy the heck out of me!). I love fireflies! And I rather like snails and slugs, of course, but they aren't really bugs. I had a pet snail for a while (named Sheldon

) that I actually had found in the woods right here at home. Also, that biology class I mentioned, I had found a teeny tiny snail in the lake and kept it for a short while. It rode on my thumb while I looked for other things in the gunk. Then it came time for everything to be preserved for slides and things, and I couldn't put the little guy in, so my bio teacher told me to just toss him back into the lake. Lucky snail.

Like I said, I have no rational reason for why certain bugs freak me out and others don't. I just have... issues.

I have the same Issues!!!

Went out this afternoon and one of my chicks is gone

We had a hawk visit later so I assume that's where it probably went. Thank goodness we were out in the yard this time, it didn't get anything!

Oh and I have a sick bird I'm not sure what to do with

Poor thing, so sorry

Here's the little cutie! Hopefully it's a pullet!

Now that is cute!!

and so tiny..

They are growing up soooo fast!! I put them into the coop tonight for the 1st night out there. I have been out there every couple hours to make sure they are ok, and they seem to be loving it. But now as it is getting dark, I am getting worried about predators !! LOL Is that normal? I have double, tripled checked doors, cracks, corners... and see nothing dangerous, but then again, Im not a predator.... I'm so scared!! LOL

BTW What kind of chicken do you think she is?

I have no Ideal what she is but she is pretty

 

[kabhyper1]

Well we are almost done with winter barn prep. One more coop to build where the little silkies are in the picture. So we will have a main flock coop far left, bantam next, girl silkies, then the one we need to build is boy silkies. We had a bunch of old doors so we used themfor west wall insulation in the coops. Aside of bringing the ducks in and getting the bantam flock in and adjusted to the main flock, and bringing the silkies in, we are about done! oh ya the plastic is training the stubborn ones to coop up and not sleep on the middle fences.

My baldies are using the undivided coops for a bit to get their feathers back.

 

[ChickCrazed]

I hope they atleast had them scanned for microchips!

I haven't actually talked to them about the dogs but they are the best people ever and very responsible pet owners so I'm sure they did. I think they are going to pay to fix them before they are re-homed. That is pretty amazing in my book!

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Aww, well fingers crossed for the others! That baby is so cute, and seems so small, too!! Here's hoping you at least get a male/female pair out of all of this!

Yes, very small. They were pullet eggs. So this chick is getting a little extra attention.

Aw! Well I'm sure she'll do fine with plenty of extra attention.

They are growing up soooo fast!! I put them into the coop tonight for the 1st night out there. I have been out there every couple hours to make sure they are ok, and they seem to be loving it. But now as it is getting dark, I am getting worried about [COLOR=141823]predators [/COLOR]!! LOL Is that normal? I have double, tripled checked doors, cracks, corners... and see nothing dangerous, but then again, Im not a [COLOR=141823]predator[/COLOR].... I'm so scared!! LOL BTW What kind of chicken do you think she is? Here is a pic of her standing up... [COLOR=B42000] [/COLOR]

Where did you get these gals again? My first impression is black sexlink. The greenish legs have me thrown, but they aren't impossible for that hybrid, and the single comb and clean face pretty much rule out the other option that comes to my mind.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Y'all, I was looking up pictures of my Speckled Sussex when they were younger to compare to someone else's bird on another thread and I came across pictures of Frou-Frou when she was between 7 and 8 weeks old. Oh my goodness, wasn't she adorable?!

My big fuzzy-wuzzy now.

ETA: It occurs to me that a 'then and now' pair of pictures would be more useful with the ages of the bird in both pictures... That second picture was around her 2nd birthday.

 

[LKShepherd]

Quote: I got the "pullet surprise" from Ideal. She is the only one that looks like that tho. I ordered 10 pullets, but got 15 chicks.... so sure I have 5 roosters in this batch. I have only identified 1 so far!!

 

[Leahs Mom]

Well we are almost done with winter barn prep. One more coop to build where the little silkies are in the picture. So we will have a main flock coop far left, bantam next, girl silkies, then the one we need to build is boy silkies. We had a bunch of old doors so we used themfor west wall insulation in the coops. Aside of bringing the ducks in and getting the bantam flock in and adjusted to the main flock, and bringing the silkies in, we are about done! oh ya the plastic is training the stubborn ones to coop up and not sleep on the middle fences.

My baldies are using the undivided coops for a bit to get their feathers back.

Thanks for the photos! It's helpful to imagine what I might be able to rig in the barn here for winter.

A question -
Am I seeing that correctly - that your areas are only about 4 ft. high? Will they have tops on them to keep the birds in each division? Or maybe I'm seeing that wrong?

 

[chick rookie]

ok now that I'm all caught up I have a few updates and some pic's too.

TSC stopped carrying my deer netting so I'm on the hunt for more, still need 2 more pks. That sucks!! Got the top done but need to do the sides....

We had an old ( 88 ) Chevy truck 1/2 ton that has been sitting in the drive for years that didn't run..... ITS GONE!!!!!!! Some guy that works with DH said he wanted it but didn't have any cash for it, so DH told him he would trade straight across for the guys Ford, ( he didn't think the guy would go for it ) The guy said ok !!!! and they towed it out of here today!!! (n if ya cant tell I'm sooooo happy its gone.... dont tell DH but I hated that truck!! )
This is the new trk. The old trk.

and this one RUNS!!!!!!

Started letting Mom and the babies out in the yard, Mom is so happy to be out scratching and dusting again..

ok will have to finish this tomorrow, it just took 15min to upload this 1 pic... its almost 11 pm and I have to get up at 5 am and get ready to go help my grand mother winterize her house.
Hope all has a great nights sleep and a better day tomorrow.
G-night all.