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[Mojo Chick'n]

thanks for the compliments everyone, I think they are major adorable, but then I am biased

Someone said I ought to name number 5 Norman (after the calf on City Slickers) so he is Norman - number 4 still needs a name though. Maybe Patches

We'll try it out and see how it rolls off the tongue tomorrow morning. ETA - T-bone sounds like a good name too

No baby donkey yet - Michelle gives me this long suffering look, though - poor girl, I can't imagine being pregnant for a solid year. 9 months is bad enough.

Poor Mook is up and eating hay right now - Hubby and I just came in from out there, cause Toby was having fits. Remember when I said something trashed Jr's nest? well, it came back - and it was a Possum. It had 11 babies in it's pouch - so it is now an even dozen dead possums. Toby had it cornered in the nest back there, (behind a cabinet) so hubby grabbed the .22 and shot the mother, then when he pulled it out he noticed the babies - they were small, still rat-like and pinkish.

Toby got a piece of cheese (one of his fave treats) for his help in taking care of the chicken thief. (well, eggs are chickens, too

) Mookie, however, was disturbed by the noise, and since he is the only one with the big roomy stall, he came out from under the roof to eat hay. I tried to get him back into bed, but he refused - he'll go back in when he feels like it, I guess. At least it isn't raining.

meri

 

[shelleyd2008]

Is Spooky chewing on the gate?? Silly thing!

Well, no more losses yet that I know of, so that's good.

Nugget decided she liked sleeping in the building better, guess I should have kept her locked up longer. She's trying to get her babies up in the rafters, silly bird! She is smart enough to realize that they can't fly up there though, she hops up the ladder clucking to them. Of course the babies just freak, guess they aren't old enough yet to try flying too much.

Cris's girlfriend (millie mama) has finally started 'roosting' with her chicks, who are about 6 weeks old. She was on top of the rabbit cages tonight, scaring those poor cochins to death!! One of the cochin pairs likes to sleep on a flat surface, and I guess they don't like being disturbed by rats and/or mice running around them, so they go onto the cage

I sold some guinea babies today, finally. It was that woman whose number you gave me Meri? She talked me out of two of my lavenders, those eggs in the bator better hatch!

I should have sold them all, I need the money more than I need the birds...oh well, too late now.

I'm hoping to go to Sano this week. I'll be taking most anything that I can catch and don't need. Of course this depends on how many I can fit into the 4 cages we have, so probably not all that many unfortunately. I need to be asking some neighbors to give me a ride, I figure I shouldn't have any trouble getting a ride back from there, and I don't plan on bringing anything back home with me. What I can't sell in the lot I'll take in to the auction. I'm spending too much on feed.

I'm gonna raise my quail egg prices a bit, try to offset the costs some. I'm thinking I need like 10 more hens next season, I have been booked at least a week in advance a lot lately! My luck, if I do that, then I won't need any, I've been selling so many, everyone will have their own!

I'll have to think about that one...

Okay, I'm done now

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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naw, she just has her face stuck through it to get closer to me - she's a big baby. Hard to imagine that I named her Spooky because she spooked at everything when we got her - you couldn't get near her - now she follows you everywhere wanting to be petted and loved on.

meri

 

[shelleyd2008]

I was in the spare bedroom feeding the kids this morning, wondering to myself why it sounded like something was knocking around in the bator? Because 2 of my guinea eggs have hatched already, that's why!! They weren't due until Friday or Saturday, silly birds! I've not had a guinea egg go 28 days yet....I guess I'll have to start moving them earlier.

One of my japs' eggs was almost totally zipped too, and its little fluff was dry, what I could see of it anyway. So I have a brand new BTW jap baby, a pearl guinea, and a lavender guinea.

 

[shelleyd2008]

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Well that makes sense then, people should say something about that, as I've not heard that we are supposed to cool them. I've always heard they take 28 days, and these sure didn't!

I have another duck egg pipped too, my bator is looking pretty empty!! I have about 45 quail eggs to go in, and 5 or 6 chicken eggs. I guess I could set some of dad's chickens eggs, much as I hate too. Don't want to have a half-empty bator running!

 

[Bluedog420]

Howdy y"all...I am going into the oeg's full steam I am going to sell my other chicken's, and thought I would give my friend's on BYC first dib's on em before I put them on Craigslist...I have 10 rir pullet's and 1 roo...will be laying any day...80.00...3 slw pullet's and a roo...25.00...6 large fowl cochin hens...3 white and 2 partridge,1 buff and a white roo...70.00......BANTAM'S...1 PAIR OF WHITE COCHIN...20.00...1 pair of black cochin...20.00...2 pair of barred cochin's...1 black hen and a mottled rooster...trio of cochin's,,,1 red roo...1 splash pullet and a black frizzle pullet...20.00 and all kind of chick's...silkie...oeg's... and whatever I have missed...e-mail for more info...Peace

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

My stoop!d chickens are not laying

Out of George's coop, the last two days, I got NO eggs, the two days before that I got ONE egg each day. Today I left them locked inside, I got two eggs.

Mr. Speckle's coop - I get maybe four eggs a day if I'm lucky (there are about dozen hens in each coop.) Today I got 5 eggs from there.

Out of 24 hens today (plus the Orp pullet) I got all of 8 eggs.

They aren't too old and they aren't moulting that I can see. A couple of the hens are two years old, I can see them slowing down slightly - the rest are about 1.5 years old - so not THAT old.

I thought maybe George's girls were laying somewhere else, hence my locking them in today. Still no eggs, so not laying other places.

I hope my pullets begin to lay soon.

meri

 

[Bluedog420]

I had a varmit to get some of my bird's...2 welsumer's and 2 slw...So I started watching for the culprit and here it came out in the clearing...A big raccon...So to make a long story short...This varmit has had it's last meal at bluedog's expense...lol... I hate to kill, but I will protect my chicken's at any cost...

 

[shelleyd2008]

I'm now up to 3 guinea keets, 2 BTW japs, and 1 duckling...Still have 7 guinea eggs and 5 or 6 chicken eggs to go!!

Baby goosey is sleeping outside in a tractor tonight, I'm tired of smelling him! He does not like that idea one bit, by the way

ETA: My bigger baby goose has found the pond, I haven't seen it in 2 days

I guess I'm chopped liver compared to all that water

 

[FrChuckW]

Meri, it could possibly be this crazy weather we are having affecting the hens. With all the rain lately, they may be holding on until the weather improves. I've noticed that on days with crappy weather my girls aren't all laying, just the older ones that have been either broody(my bantams) or laying for over a month.

Shelley, congrats on the hatches. Don't worry if the goose is on the pond then at least you know it's almost predator proof and pretty safe.

Bluedog, good luck in selling your birds, I wish I had the money and the room. I'd buy them up, especially the silkies.