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[Mojo Chick'n]

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I've seen some bugs flying around here. I can even hear the tree frogs over at the swamp if I go outside - that's always a good sign of spring being near. I did see a worm earlier, but the chickens didn't see it

so it got away.

Lucky worm! A worm wouldn't last 2 seconds here!! I only had one chicken that wouldn't eat them. Cris would pick them up and feed them to the chickens once he learned how much they liked them! He gave some to Emma and her chicks this past fall, and she didn't even look at them! So he picked them up and took them to Sissy and her babies. He didn't even have to put them down, Sissy just came and snatched them out of his hand!

Yeah, my chickens almost got their heads snatched off today

I had those bones leftover from the steaks last night, and I threw them out into the yard - well, the dogs went for them, and the chickens, thinking the dogs would be happy to share, tried to get some of the bones, too

- Lily didn't appreciate them getting too close to her bone. She didn't make contact (didn't want to get up and leave her bone in peril) but she snapped and snarled at them loud enough to make them scatter

I got to go get Jon at work, be back later.

 

[briarpatchfarms]

Thats awfull!!!!!! I would have something to say if that was my dog either the owner would listen to what I had to say and pay the bill or there would be two missing dogs in the nieghborhood thats awfull!

 

[shelleyd2008]

Mojo Chick'n :

Oh, I almost forgot to share this one....

I'm coming home from Cindy's and we stop to talk to the neighbor, since he is just pulling up to his driveway - turns out he just got back from taking his dog to the vet. Our other neighbors dogs (the ones that chase the cars every time you drive by) ripped his dog's tail off!!! They ganged up on her and tore her tail clean off and tore a muscle on her back leg.

Needless to say, he is going hunting the next time those dogs are in his yard.

I'm glad they don't come all the way over to my house - I'd have to get violent if I even saw them contemplating coming on my property.

These two dogs have been a nuisance for a long time, and the owners won't do anything about it. Jamie tried to be nice and talk to the guy, and got told where to get off, and then this happened - so now he isn't talking anymore. I don't blame him a bit, he can't afford that type of vet bill, and his dog might be crippled, now, poor thing. Luckily the local constable vouched for him so they're gonna let him make payments on the vet bill.

All his dog did was follow his kid to the bus stop this morning, and it never made it back to his house without being attacked. (the bus stop is at the end of his driveway, but that is on the edge of the other dog's yard.)

Well that's a bunch of bull. Is there anyway he can get the owners of those dogs to pay the bill?
I think I would be baiting those dogs onto my property, just so I could off 'em!​

 

[shelleyd2008]

DIABETIC WARNING: The following picture WILL make your sugar rise!

Cris has claimed her I think. He is calling her 'Cutie Pie'. I have been telling him none of the puppies are staying, but who can resist that face?

 

[kycowgirlchick]

We have chickies. I think Mario49 and I are at about 25. There are still lots of pips.

 

[estpr13]

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So let me get this straight... I'm reading between the lines here.

You are selling these puppies and your son Chris wants to keep this particular puppy so you are selling the puppy with Chris thrown in to sweeten the deal?

If I remember from past posts, Chris does well with chickens but I'm not so sure about the dog, so I'll have to pass on this one!
(he says at the risk of incuring the wrath of a loving and very protective mother)

 

[estpr13]

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There are white leghorns, barred rock, and buff brahma. Right now it is mostly barred rocks.

I took a closer look at the chicks and it looks like all the barred rocks are roos. They all have the white spot on their heads. Did you get any hens?

 

[kycowgirlchick]

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There are white leghorns, barred rock, and buff brahma. Right now it is mostly barred rocks.

I took a closer look at the chicks and it looks like all the barred rocks are roos. They all have the white spot on their heads. Did you get any hens?

So can you sex them that way??? I am new at this. They are still hatching. Is their a way to sex the white leghorns and brahmas at this point?

 

[estpr13]

You can sex Barred rocks just as soon as they hatch and dry off because they are sex-linked. The males have a white spot on their heads and the females have all black heads. Barred rock hens have a gene which causes the sex link. Most other breeds of hens don't.

The other chicks you would have to vent check to sex and very few people are good enough to do that. So sorry you will have to wait on the Leghorns and Brahma's.

They are all still cute tho.

 

[estpr13]

I'm not an expert. I use a heating pad covered with a rubber no slip shelf liner. The kind that looks like a checkerboard with holes. Sometimes I use an LED green night lite, but just for light and not warmth.

I also have a faux hen. It is just a 5" x 8" mini wire kitchen shelf with a kitchen towel thrown over it so the chicks can run and hide. It is over the heating pad. The heating pad only takes up about ½ of the brooder cardboard box I have so if it gets too warm for them they have somewhere to go to stay cool. I then lower the temp on the pad. It has three settings.

When they get bigger I put a light on top of a quart water jar. but that is just to keep them from hopping up and poopin into the water. I also put the light into a tin can so that it isn't too bright and too warm for the water.

I'm not normal tho... but it works for me and the chicks.