Kirby Thread *NEW PICTURE 7/11

[joe17]

Its inserted in the egg before hatching

 

[Knock Kneed Hen]

Does Kirby have a friend? Chickens are flock animals and would be happier raised with a buddy. Is Kirby a Leghorn?

 

[Avla]

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-sigh- I have heard this SO many times I know chickens are flock animals, but yes, Kirby will have three pullet friends when he is old enough to go in the coop, however he doesn't seem to like other birds, I take him out every few days to bask and play and I let him free range with the pullets. BUT, he stays away from them and follows under my feet, doesn't even show interest in the other chicks. He never leaves my sight and if he does he will do the "crying" chirp. Yes, he is a white leghorn.
I find that chickens CAN do well alone, at least Kirby has.

 

[Avla]

Day Nineteen:

 

[ranchhand]

Sorry, not a fan of the chick dye industry. But he is a cute little rooster, despite the LOUD color!

The longer he stays as a solo chick, the harder it will be for him to adapt to flock life, because he has bonded to humans. Can you subdivide a run or pen so he can spend more time with the others?

 

[Avla]

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I let him outside during the evening to free range with the hens to get use to them more (while being supervised), if he has enough feathers when he is 4-5 weeks old he will be moving out to the coop.

 

[usschicago1]

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Nooooo hahaha they do an injection into the egg when its developing!

 

[r-l-newell]

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I'm not a fan of the dye industry either. Our local feed store had three water trofts full of these dyed chicks when I went in the store two weeks before Easter I was told that they would sell out of them by Easter. I went in there the week before Easter and they were down to about ten dyed chicks left. The bad thing is that when I was looking on Craigslist the week after Easter I saw at least nine posting trying to get rid of their dyed rooster chicks because they didn't want them anymore. He is going to be a big rooster when he grows up.

 

[r-l-newell]

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Nooooo hahaha they do an injection into the egg when its developing!

Do they do it this way with all of the dyed chicks? The reason I ask is because the local feed store had every one of the dyed chicks and advised that every one of them was a rooster and that if I didn't want a rooster to not buy one. How can they determine that it is rooster if they are still developing in their egg when they are injected with dye?

 

[sommrluv]

This is like a big chronicle of "do nots".

Poor lonely kirby. And seriously, injected? I read it's illegal in many states.