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[Mojo Chick'n]

Got the chickies this morning - one has a spraddle leg, but they are all looking fluffy and healthy. And No white chicks!!

all of them are some black chicks (look like might be BR or black sexlink) and some red/buff chicks.

I have two bins of these

and one bin of these

Plus I have babies hatching - lots of pips and four chicks out so far.

yay I got chickies again!!

meri

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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I'd love some more

but hubby probably wouldn't let me buy anymore until these are out of the house

I guess this time of year is a good time to buy those extras packages, since last time it was earlier spring (mid March) and I got more males and more white chicks. I think these ones will sell really well once they are older. I may find a few to keep, also, if those black ones turn out to be barred rocks. I have a hard time telling with hatchery chicks sometimes if it's a barred rock or a black sexlink, or whatever until it gets older and has some feathers.

I put that one spraddle leg baby in with the red chicks, since that is the fewest in a bin that I have. I figure he's less likely to be walked over.

I have so many bins in that room I have to move them to walk through, like one of those puzzle games where ya move the squares around to put them in order

meri

 

[cthrash1]

Hey Meri you have that poor little black one by himself in with all those reds? You're such a sadist...

The black box looks like you've got some girlies mixed in there, you should have a contest to see how many folks guess the right amount of girls you have in that box.

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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yeah, wouldn't that be titties and beer if they were all barred rocks?

Of course, if they are black sexlinks, then I know I have a lot of girls

A few have more white on them than a barred rock should have (on wings and undersides) so I am waiting to see what they truly are.

meri

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

Almost forgot to ask ya all.....

Ya know I mentioned the problem with the coon digging around the coop - well, last night the geese and ducks were making noises and acting nervous, so I went out to check, and didn't see anything (Toby came along, of course) but I heard out in the woods this animal making noises - it sounded like a young critter calling it's mama, perhaps. The sound made me think Fox - I don't know why, because to my knowledge I've never heard a fox make any sound at all - but it just brought that image to my mind. eta - it was sort of a half barking half mewing sound.

It definately wasn't a coon sound.

So - being ignorant here - would a fox dig under the coop to get in?

The way the holes were dug, I had blamed it on Toby before I found it dug out one morning before he even got out there. I know I have mice in the coops, and Toby will dig for the mice if he sees them.

If it is a fox, I am thinking I might need to trap the little sucker.

I also need to get that fence put in, because I had planned on including the entire woods in the new pasture - the donkeys would keep any foxes out, probably (fox = dog = coyote in a donkey's mind - even Toby doesn't mess with the donkeys

).

meri

 

[CedarRidgeChicks]

Meri..don't know about the fox sound..but oh yeah they dig..they dig dens if need be to have their young..and believe it or not..they can climb a fence..saw it with my own eyes in my pen..6 ft fence..no top..he/she used a tree to shimmy up between it and the fence!!!..better get out the trap or hubby better bring out the toys!!!

Sandi

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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Hubby already has one of the toys loaded and set behind the front door - just in case we need it for critters. Whatever this is, it took two 8 week old chicks before I noticed the digging. Right after that the toy came out of the cabinet.

I don't have a trap, I been wanting to buy one,maybe I can borrow one for now from someone, and get one next time I'm at TSC. (TSC has the two for one price deal - or is it three of them - anyway, it's a large and a medium or a large and a small and you can buy them as a set, so it is cheaper that way.)

meri

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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well, if I could catch the little booger in the act, that would work, too

but I always find the evidence after he is gone.

meri

 

[FrChuckW]

Yes Shelley, we are still on for the 1rst for the road trip. I have to go pay my AAA dues and then go reserve the van for us to ride in.

Foxes are more closely related to cats than dogs, so they do have a mewling type bark. They can be quite ingenious in figuring ways into a coop or pen, from climbing to digging. Just make sure your dogs are up to date on all their shots, rabies, distemper, parvo, bordetella, etc. You never know what they might encounter when patrolling the property and defending it.

I wish I had the room for more birds but at the moment I am full up. Although those button quail do seem cute.

 

[shelleyd2008]

Oh the button quail are darling!! And the best part of it is that you could keep them in with your budgies or finches or parakeets, since they are ground-dwellers. They are the 'hoovers' of the bird world. Many people keep them with their bigger birds to keep the feed cleaned off the bottom of the cages, so you wouldn't need anymore room, you already have it!