This is so funny- My mom emailed it to me last week and keeps asking if I made sweaters for mine yetsomeone posted this and I just had to share. chicken sweaters!!
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I am in Poland! Just found this thread, so excited to chat with some locals!! For the record, I use and have always used shavings and love it. My chickens seem to be able to nest right down in them for the really cold nights when the roost just ain't cutting it
someone posted this and I just had to share. chicken sweaters!!
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mymom has asked if she Could knit sweaters and hats for mine! she can knit and watch tv at the same time - im always amazed by that... im so tense while knitting (well, lets be truthful, attempting is more like it) that its painfu
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mymom has asked if she Could knit sweaters and hats for mine! she can knit and watch tv at the same time - im always amazed by that... im so tense while knitting (well, lets be truthful, attempting is more like it) that its painfuB][/B]
This is so funny- My mom emailed it to me last week and keeps asking if I made sweaters for mine yet
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Thanks anyway banana! I have been worried about it not eating and drinking, it just pecks at the food and water, not swallowing...but last night when I was scratching in its food it ran over and got right in and pecked wherever my finger was. It got all excited and was cheeping and trilling happily and started swallowing pieces. I dipped it's beak in the water and it started drinking like it was dying of thirst! I have never had to show a chick how to eat and drink before, but it has nobody. It was starting to act funny, but this morning it is acting like a normal active curious hungry chick. I still would like to find another one though, if anybody comes across this
About guineas, My mom had them, but she got them half grown and they would not stay home. They ran all over her neighborhood and turned up almost a mile away in one case. A couple got picked off and eventually she stopped seeing them or hearing about them from people in town. It was really sad. On the upside though, everyone in the neighborhood loved them! Nobody complained, people were feeding them and taking pictures of them. They really helped with the ticks. She learned that the trick with guineas is to raise them from chicks in the same place you want them to be when they grow up and then they will always come home. And they like to roost up high. Like in the trees and rafters. Some people build them their own coop way up on a pole or stand, or on top of their coop, or in the little hayloft door people have in barns and garages, and that works well. I saw them along the interstate betwern howland and lincoln alot one year. Not anywhere near anything! They are great but very different from chickens, you have to make things work for them. I love them.
About guineas, My mom had them, but she got them half grown and they would not stay home. They ran all over her neighborhood and turned up almost a mile away in one case. A couple got picked off and eventually she stopped seeing them or hearing about them from people in town. It was really sad. On the upside though, everyone in the neighborhood loved them! Nobody complained, people were feeding them and taking pictures of them. They really helped with the ticks. She learned that the trick with guineas is to raise them from chicks in the same place you want them to be when they grow up and then they will always come home. And they like to roost up high. Like in the trees and rafters. Some people build them their own coop way up on a pole or stand, or on top of their coop, or in the little hayloft door people have in barns and garages, and that works well. I saw them along the interstate betwern howland and lincoln alot one year. Not anywhere near anything! They are great but very different from chickens, you have to make things work for them. I love them.
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Oh my god, that's adorable!!someone posted this and I just had to share. chicken sweaters!!
Welcome, Dita Von Cluck! I just joined a while ago, as you can see and learning alot. Right now, I have 3 Barred Rocks and am thinking about getting a few more, in the spring. I'm also thinking about the Wyandotte, but really like my Barred Rock girls. They are so friendly and 2 of them have been giving me an egg/day since November. One of them hasn't started laying, yet-not quite sure what's up with her.
Thank you!
I think I just might have to add barred rock to my wish list. I don't know if I should get all the same breed to start or if I should have a mixed group. Thoughts? I think I'd like to start of with 3 chickens. Seems like a good, manageable number!
I love the chicken sweaters. I need something like this that is a chicken hat for combs. I know a woman in BYC made them... got to make them to size though.
I can't wait for all this cold to go away. My chickens are not laying. My waters (not on tin warmers) are freezing again and I have no snow to give them instead.
I would love to see and maybe steal some of your chicks SCG lol The Houdans are totally on my radar.
I can't wait for all this cold to go away. My chickens are not laying. My waters (not on tin warmers) are freezing again and I have no snow to give them instead.
I would love to see and maybe steal some of your chicks SCG lol The Houdans are totally on my radar.
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