LGBTQ+ Poultry Keepers

[Sally PB]

The chick passed.

Rest in peace, Little One.

Hugs for you, @fluffycrow.

 

[fluffycrow]

Did you raise you birds from chicks or did you aquire them from someone else as adults?

Ok so here's the deal. Most of my chicken keeping life I got production breeds as point of lay pullets. The first chicks I've raised were a pair of male aseel when I was much younger, and I did that basically without no clue of what to do. Besides that, I'd get some BYM chicks that were a month or so old. When I started being more interested in breeding and finding chicken breeds, I got the Tsouloufati from a hatchery. Small parenthesis here, Greek hatcheries from what I've seen have, if I dare say so, better quality birds than your average US hatchery. It also works a little differently, since they only sell month olds (the maximum age would be maybe 3 months in some instances, but it's usually 1-1.5 month). This also means that they come sexed. There are only two hatcheries in Greece that I know of, and one of them requires you get a male with your females (unless you're getting production breeds, then I'm not sure). The aseel I got from a breeder at 2 months old, and the serama at 10 weeks old. I think the only true adult birds I've ever bought are the brahmas, but then again I can't remember. So basically, this is my first time that I'm truly raising chicks

 

[fluffycrow]

Rest in peace, Little One.

Hugs for you, @fluffycrow.

Thank you so much

 

[Paz]

Ugh, that always stinks

The 4 year old who sat behind me was a complete monster! That was the worst flight of my life. It was really hard not to pour water all over this child or choke his mother. And his father was just snoring! He wanted the bagels, his grandma said: no bagels. He started screaming and screeching like some sort of a beast, his grandma kept arguing that he can’t have any (notice it was 12PM) and should go to sleep. He wasn’t buying it. He shouted frantically, kicking all three chairs on my row, standing on his chair and screaming: I WaNt ThE BaGlEs!!! He received crisps instead. A whole Pringles box, he ate them and started screaming again about the bagels. When finally the GRANDMA said she will not give him snacks tomorrow if he kept screaming, he stopped, two minutes later he started screaming about something else. He did NOT shut his mouth the entire flight. He did not stop kicking the chairs. Even after we’ve landed he continued screaming and screeching.
The flight attendants laughed when I said there was a monster in row 20, but they went to check, arguing it was JUST A BABY, so they can’t do anything… they then realized it was a child, not a baby, asked the mother to calm him down. She told him to be quite, didn’t work. Grandma told him that the plane police will put him in plane jail, he quoted down for 30 seconds, then started shouting again about how he wants chocolate milk.
That was a nightmare. I ran away and stayed in the toilet the rest of the flight, but my brother said, the kid f do isn’t stop screaming and kicking the chairS the entire flight.

 

[Paz]

I’m sorry for your lost @fluffycrow
But chicks die. That happens, with time and experience, it gets easier.

 

[SpotTheCat]

@fluffycrow

just caught up

 

[fluffycrow]

The 4 year old who sat behind me was a complete monster! That was the worst flight of my life. It was really hard not to pour water all over this child or choke his mother. And his father was just snoring! He wanted the bagels, his grandma said: no bagels. He started screaming and screeching like some sort of a beast, his grandma kept arguing that he can’t have any (notice it was 12PM) and should go to sleep. He wasn’t buying it. He shouted frantically, kicking all three chairs on my row, standing on his chair and screaming: I WaNt ThE BaGlEs!!! He received crisps instead. A whole Pringles box, he ate them and started screaming again about the bagels. When finally the GRANDMA said she will not give him snacks tomorrow if he kept screaming, he stopped, two minutes later he started screaming about something else. He did NOT shut his mouth the entire flight. He did not stop kicking the chairs. Even after we’ve landed he continued screaming and screeching.
The flight attendants laughed when I said there was a monster in row 20, but they went to check, arguing it was JUST A BABY, so they can’t do anything… they then realized it was a child, not a baby, asked the mother to calm him down. She told him to be quite, didn’t work. Grandma told him that the plane police will put him in plane jail, he quoted down for 30 seconds, then started shouting again about how he wants chocolate milk.
That was a nightmare. I ran away and stayed in the toilet the rest of the flight, but my brother said, the kid f do isn’t stop screaming and kicking the chairS the entire flight.

I hate children that always shout

 

[fluffycrow]

I’m sorry for your lost @fluffycrow
But chicks die. That happens, with time and experience, it gets easier.

Thank you. I don't think losing them gets easier, but coping does

 

[fluffycrow]

@fluffycrow

just caught up

Thank you so much

 

[fluffycrow]

So far it's another great day for Cruella and her brood. Today they got a small amount of finely cut pieces of grass. I'm pretty sure I've read some horror stories with grass, so no grass for the brooder babies. I figured however that Cruella knew best, so I gave them some, as I said. She only allowed her babies to eat the smallest pieces, and the bigger ones she ate herself. Then they sat and relaxed