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[Mojo Chick'n]

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good ideas - I haven't really thought about names much, been busy trying to figure out if they were too traumatized by the move - that first day they simply piled on top of each other and slept all day - I was worried, they are so tiny. They still sleep in a pile - and they fight to see who gets bottom - it is warm enough in there, maybe it is because the tank is so big it intimidates them.

meri

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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No fair!

: You kids get to have all the fun!

: While I get to sit here worrying over hatching eggs.

: and wrestling with the MinPins for the blankets at night!

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come on down, the more the merrier.

meri

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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yeah, they all have some wing feathers. I can't wait to see how they'll look once they are done getting the feathers in. That little blackish one I'm betting will be very pretty.

I'm thinking eenie, meenie, miney and mo, too - now which one for which?

I'll be better able to name them once they start moving around more and getting more personalities.

I can't wait to go get Jon from work tonight, so I can come home and get comfy. I've been getting achey the last few days (figured it was stress from having company almost non-stop for two weeks), and tonight I am VERY achey and have a slight fever - great, now I'm coming down with something

I hate being sick, hopefully it is a passing thing.

I am so ready to just crawl into bed.

Oh, I got a one gallon sprayer today at Lowes, so I can use that for the Oxine in the coop - instead of a spray bottle and cramped hands

. Was only about 12 bucks, so if anyone is gonna do the Oxine, I suggest ya get one - save your poor hands from cramping.
(it's one of those pump up pesticide sprayers with the wand)

Well, gonna go see if I can work out the knot in my shoulders, be back...

meri

 

[shelleyd2008]

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good ideas - I haven't really thought about names much, been busy trying to figure out if they were too traumatized by the move - that first day they simply piled on top of each other and slept all day - I was worried, they are so tiny. They still sleep in a pile - and they fight to see who gets bottom - it is warm enough in there, maybe it is because the tank is so big it intimidates them.

meri

Nah, it's because they're quail! I told you dad kept saying they were cold cause they were all piling up, but it's just the way they are. It's kind of cute, unless there are a whole bunch of them. Then they start killing each other.

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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He was surprized they are so tiny

he keeps checking on them, too - then he reports to me what they're doing

But he doesn't care at all about chickens or quail, or chicks... no, not him

I need to figure out new floor covering for BC and the Jap - I caught BC trying to eat ripped up puppy pad tonight

That can't be good for her. I thought she was just playing with it, then she ate a piece!! Stoopid bird

She's gonna be pooping cotton balls tomorrow.

I had thought about enclosing the bottom part and putting sand in there, but she'd probably have that all over the place. I would do wood shavings, but I'm thinking it might be worse with those. I don't know, I guess I could try hay, I have some hay I can cut up smaller and put in there. At least if she eats the hay it won't hurt her.

I definately want to grab the play pen tomorrow to bring in, even if they have to take turns getting some excercise in there for an hour or two a day - they are growing really big for that little cage.

I have something I think I can use for a "lid" for it, to keep them from hopping or flying out.

That'll give me a chance to REALLY clean their cages, too - instead of just changing the puppy pads, I can vaccuum the thrown around food and poos that get missed.

I need to get updated pics - those cochins feet and legs are REALLY getting feathery, now.

well, time to go get Jon at work - later all -
meri

 

[shelleyd2008]

You could just use a bed sheet to cover it with. I would try the wood chips, or just use nothing, and put newspaper underneath the cage. That's what i did with my aggressive A&M. He has a cardboard box with a newspaper in it under his cage.

I think we are gonna cook those two quail. Even Cris is all for it. I think he is tired of hearing them crow all the time! I bet he will cry when we do though. I just don't see the point of keeping 2 quail to feed that are good for nothing but eating. Cris made me feel like crud the other day. I was telling him we might do that, since they are both boys, and pretty much useless. He tells me 'well, I'm a boy'...

Like he's useless cause he can't lay eggs or have babies? Poor little guy! He is too young t ounderstand the reasons for these animals. He thinks they are just pets, which most of them are, but the quail (except the buttons) have a purpose...to lay eggs and/or be eaten. These can't lay eggs by themselves, so they have one other alternative. I don't want to waste gas driving 2+ hours to get some more that may be males as well. I think I might just get some more of the ones I have already that are in the barn. Either that or the jumbos that look like them, only bigger. I still am hoping to get bobwhites and chukars in the spring. Might try to get adults, or at least some, since the young don't lay for at least 6 months, if not a year.

 

[shelleyd2008]

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None of the others have feathered legs, except for the cochin right? I didn't know you had large breed cochins, I thought they were all bantams.

 

[shelleyd2008]

I'll check her again in the morning. It's too cold tonight to go moving her around. My luck she would have one that was all wet, and it would get froze with me just picking her up a bit.

ETA: The 4 bantam eggs look like they are from the same hen, unless your girls all lay similar looking eggs?

 

[cthrash1]

Shelley: Ron found this website and someone in Columbia is selling chickens, ducks, and geese. http://www.golsn.com/listings/farm-livestock/live_stock/619622.html

 

[cthrash1]

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None of the others have feathered legs, except for the cochin right? I didn't know you had large breed cochins, I thought they were all bantams.

Bandaid was my only lg breed Cochin...Her and Bess were my most prolific layers at the time of the incident. For a Cochin Bandaid laid daily, I was surprised since I read they weren't good layers. No one else should have feathered legs unless the Millie roo snuck one in on the Japs' girls. Now two of my Jap babies in the brooder started out with very minimal and light feathering partway down their legs but it is almost gone now.