They are so cute! Fuzzy Butt Love! The dimmer is a great idea. I'll remember that the next time I have a fuzzy butt.
Hey Joe -- good to see you on the forum. How are things going?
Glad that your mom is better. Sounds like Jazzmine is on the road to recovery. That yogurt and ACV always seems to perk mine up. I love that stuff. I hope she is back to her old self.Thank you so much. Just brought my Mom home from the hospital. She's weak, but so much better. Jazzmine seems better. I am giving her yogurt and ACV daily and she does seem perked up. Her tail is still to the side, but not worse. She is definately eating and definately laying. Phew, it looks like it may not be something too serious. THANK YOU to all for your comments and prayers.TruBlu--Pathetic, isn't it? Ridiculous that people would steal chickens. You have options -- locks, cameras and surveillance, or electric fencing. OR ALL THREE!!! Man, you've been double hit with the losses first and now the stolen ones. Prayers for you! PrimRose - hope your mom is on the mend quickly and so is jazzmine. --How were those d'uccle eggs from me coming along? Nola - Love new crows! Each are unique. I got home yesterday and had to take care of my daughter who is having some reactions to new meds. We then checked the last of the eggs in the incubator and the newest chicks in the brooder. After about 45 minutes or so the rain eased up so we went out to feed everyone. She started feeding and I started checking to see who needed water. I opened a run and heard my 8 year old say, "Mom, I think I'm locked in." I looked around--saw nothing. I walked around the coop where I was and the little toot had shut himself into the newest coop that my husband had just finished. He had made solid doors instead of wire, so poor baby couldn't unlatch the door from the inside. He'd been out there in the rain since we got home and I thought he'd been in his room!!!! I didn't know whether to laugh or cry so I did both.Bet he won't shut himself in that run again. No work for me today. Taking daughter back to the dr for her thoughts on the reaction to the meds. Hoping for a good report and I can get home. We have decided to sell the following if anyone is interested: 4 light sussex chicks straight run around 4 weeks old trio of buttercups ALL of the silver penciled rocks - I need to get a count today of how many and see if I can tell the genders. These are Horstman show lines. pair of buff orps - cockerel has the single barring gene to lemon cuckoo--they have been offered to grambysfarm, but if gramby chooses not to take them they are for sale 1 gold laced wyandotte cockerel - won BB at last show and has proven fertility
Nice!! Good luck!Ive conquored chickens, ducks and rabbits... now I'm about to venture into Guinea Fowl. I have 42 eggs in the incubator, wish me luck!!
I got the eggs for a great deal $20 for 42... She was a real nice lady, with a very nice set up and she's in Gonzales, la... If your interested, this was the Craigslist ad http://batonrouge.craigslist.org/grd/3736035416.html
Beautiful !!!!!!!! Congrats!!Look what I got from Mary today at the Covington Swap!!A chocolate silkie
a partridge silkie
...and a couple of paint silkies
Here's a family picture. By this point they weren't being very cooperative. 4 of the 6 have their fuzzy butts to the camera.
Their new home. I put this together today for the new additions. I have the light on a dimmer so I can regulate the temperature without having to raise of lower the light fixture. You can't really see it but there's a cut-out in the lid about 12" x 15". It's covered with chicken wire to keep the chicks safe and let air circulate.
He said that it felt like a wasp sting. OUCH!
I have been lucky enough that everything hatches when I do that.
When I have to ask too many questions, that gets me nervous about the owners. But then again, I'm glad that they have questions. But at the same time, you can ask questions but if you don't properly care for them after getting the information, it's a waste of time. I"m leery of people who continually lose animals to predators or for whatever reasons. That bothers me. :/
