Meyer Hatchery Chicken pics anyone??

[kbh82310]

He really does, my dogs came running when I played it thinking it was their toy

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

He's one-third pound of pure manliness now, though:



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[kbh82310]

He is too cute!! He still being rough with the girls?

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Well, he's never been as rough with them as the EE bantam was. The little girls aren't really squatting yet, so when Po grabs them, they flee, and he ends up plucking feathers as a result. He's very gentle otherwise, he just needs more cooperative girls.

 

[trsturself]

Thank you, to both of you.

It was definitely very shocking for us to just have her tongue fall out like that. It happened yesterday afternoon. She seems good this morning. Her mouth seems sore, but she is chattering and picking at little things in the yard right now. We made her a scrambled egg to see if she was able to eat it, and it's most likely going to take her a long time to adapt to not having a tongue. She managed to swallow one piece, and the rest continued to fall back out of her mouth. So we pureed it with some yogurt and chicken feed and tube fed her. Hopefully once the tiny bit of her tongue that is left heals, she will be able to start eating on her own. She is at least trying again, and she hasn't done that in over a month. It probably feels good to have that painful tongue out of there. Poor girl...

Wow! That was not the ending I expected from that saga! I'm so glad it is figured out and she can be on the mend now.
Good job!

My Easter-egger bantam started crowing at about 3 weeks old. If I remember correctly, Po was closer to 6 or 7 weeks. I'll go look it up for you.

ETA: He was 7 1/2 weeks old and he sounded like a squeaky toy.

That is just too cute. We have a little sizzle roo staying with us until we find him a new home. He's 11 weeks old now and no crowing. Though my friend that had him before said someone on her porch was trying to crow. Maybe it was her EE roo chick. I would laugh my head off if I heard that.


While you read the rest of this post keep in mind that we live in a very suburban neighborhood with houses all around us...

We had a scare today. My daughter had the chickens out free ranging in the backyard. She was out there playing with them and I heard a scream. I jumped up, threw my sandals on and when I got outside she was carrying our rabbit across the yard yelling "hawk". We have had a hawk circle our yard before and land in a nearby tree so I thought maybe that was it. But then she started saying "it got Pippi" (our little GL polish). I of course was already down the steps to the yard by this point and she was pointing toward the tree inside the chicken run. I went over and there was a hawk sitting on a branch about 10 feet off the ground right inside the chicken run! We had a tree saw leaning against the tree so I grabbed that and poked toward it and it flew to the next tree. I started throwing rocks at it and it went from tree to tree around our yard with me throwing rocks at it, then disappeared out front. While I was doing this my daughter put all the chickens in their covered pen and they all hid under their coop. My daughter ran in to get my husband. He came out and we told him what happened. As we were talking we saw something out of the corner of our eye fly into the tree just outside their run. I looked and looked but couldn't see anything. I was walking toward the tree later and happened to look up and there it was sitting in a low branch. My husband ran inside and got his little pellet gun and shot it. It's only a little plastic pellet and the gun has lost a lot of it's power so it wouldn't break the skin but I'm sure it stung when it hit it's throat. It flew to a tree in our neighbors yard and he threw the gun to me. I shot close to it and it took off to another tree. It was in a great area for my husband to shoot it with the 22 but I said no. I didn't want him only injuring it and then our neighbor having to deal with an injured hawk in their yard. So I shot at it again with the pellet gun and it took off.
I've always thought the chicken run was safe because it is almost completely covered by branches of a huge tree so I didn't think hawks would see them as they flew over. But now that I saw that hawk sitting right there at the bottom of their tree I knew we had to do something. We ran out and got some netting and hung it up over their run. I have 2/3 of it done but ran out of netting. We also picked up a stronger bb gun.
The chickens took a little while before they came out from under their coop but they are all running around now.
Oh, Pippi was fine. My daughter saved her by running at the hawk and throwing rocks at it. Luckily Pippi was able to grab hold of a branch she was standing near and the hawk couldn't take off with her. She only has a couple little scratches on her.

 

[MsChickenMomma]

Wow! That was not the ending I expected from that saga! I'm so glad it is figured out and she can be on the mend now. 
Good job!


That is just too cute. We have a little sizzle roo staying with us until we find him a new home. He's 11 weeks old now and no crowing. Though my friend that had him before said someone on her porch was trying to crow. Maybe it was her EE roo chick. I would laugh my head off if I heard that. 


While you read the rest of this post keep in mind that we live in a very suburban neighborhood with houses all around us...

We had a scare today. My daughter had the chickens out free ranging in the backyard. She was out there playing with them and I heard a scream. I jumped up, threw my sandals on and when I got outside she was carrying our rabbit across the yard yelling "hawk". We have had a hawk circle our yard before and land in a nearby tree so I thought maybe that was it. But then she started saying "it got Pippi" (our little GL polish). I of course was already down the steps to the yard by this point and she was pointing toward the tree inside the chicken run. I went over and there was a hawk sitting on a branch about 10 feet off the ground right inside the chicken run! We had a tree saw leaning against the tree so I grabbed that and poked toward it and it flew to the next tree. I started throwing rocks at it and it went from tree to tree around our yard with me throwing rocks at it, then disappeared out front. While I was doing this my daughter put all the chickens in their covered pen and they all hid under their coop. My daughter ran in to get my husband. He came out and we told him what happened. As we were talking we saw something out of the corner of our eye fly into the tree just outside their run. I looked and looked but couldn't see anything. I was walking toward the tree later and happened to look up and there it was sitting in a low branch. My husband ran inside and got his little pellet gun and shot it. It's only a little plastic pellet and the gun has lost a lot of it's power so it wouldn't break the skin but I'm sure it stung when it hit it's throat. It flew to a tree in our neighbors yard and he threw the gun to me. I shot close to it and it took off to another tree. It was in a great area for my husband to shoot it with the 22 but I said no. I didn't want him only injuring it and then our neighbor having to deal with an injured hawk in their yard. So I shot at it again with the pellet gun and it took off. 
I've always thought the chicken run was safe because it is almost completely covered by branches of a huge tree so I didn't think hawks would see them as they flew over. But now that I saw that hawk sitting right there at the bottom of their tree I knew we had to do something. We ran out and got some netting and hung it up over their run. I have 2/3 of it done but ran out of netting. We also picked up a stronger bb gun. 
The chickens took a little while before they came out from under their coop but they are all running around now. 
Oh, Pippi was fine. My daughter saved her by running at the hawk and throwing rocks at it. Luckily Pippi was able to grab hold of a branch she was standing near and the hawk couldn't take off with her. She only has a couple little scratches on her. 

Oh my gosh! That must have been so terrifying. I'm glad Pippi is okay.

 

[NanaLynn]

Wow! That was not the ending I expected from that saga! I'm so glad it is figured out and she can be on the mend now.
Good job!


That is just too cute. We have a little sizzle roo staying with us until we find him a new home. He's 11 weeks old now and no crowing. Though my friend that had him before said someone on her porch was trying to crow. Maybe it was her EE roo chick. I would laugh my head off if I heard that.


While you read the rest of this post keep in mind that we live in a very suburban neighborhood with houses all around us...

We had a scare today. My daughter had the chickens out free ranging in the backyard. She was out there playing with them and I heard a scream. I jumped up, threw my sandals on and when I got outside she was carrying our rabbit across the yard yelling "hawk". We have had a hawk circle our yard before and land in a nearby tree so I thought maybe that was it. But then she started saying "it got Pippi" (our little GL polish). I of course was already down the steps to the yard by this point and she was pointing toward the tree inside the chicken run. I went over and there was a hawk sitting on a branch about 10 feet off the ground right inside the chicken run! We had a tree saw leaning against the tree so I grabbed that and poked toward it and it flew to the next tree. I started throwing rocks at it and it went from tree to tree around our yard with me throwing rocks at it, then disappeared out front. While I was doing this my daughter put all the chickens in their covered pen and they all hid under their coop. My daughter ran in to get my husband. He came out and we told him what happened. As we were talking we saw something out of the corner of our eye fly into the tree just outside their run. I looked and looked but couldn't see anything. I was walking toward the tree later and happened to look up and there it was sitting in a low branch. My husband ran inside and got his little pellet gun and shot it. It's only a little plastic pellet and the gun has lost a lot of it's power so it wouldn't break the skin but I'm sure it stung when it hit it's throat. It flew to a tree in our neighbors yard and he threw the gun to me. I shot close to it and it took off to another tree. It was in a great area for my husband to shoot it with the 22 but I said no. I didn't want him only injuring it and then our neighbor having to deal with an injured hawk in their yard. So I shot at it again with the pellet gun and it took off.
I've always thought the chicken run was safe because it is almost completely covered by branches of a huge tree so I didn't think hawks would see them as they flew over. But now that I saw that hawk sitting right there at the bottom of their tree I knew we had to do something. We ran out and got some netting and hung it up over their run. I have 2/3 of it done but ran out of netting. We also picked up a stronger bb gun.
The chickens took a little while before they came out from under their coop but they are all running around now.
Oh, Pippi was fine. My daughter saved her by running at the hawk and throwing rocks at it. Luckily Pippi was able to grab hold of a branch she was standing near and the hawk couldn't take off with her. She only has a couple little scratches on her.

Wow, that is crazy, glad all your chickens are okay. We've had hawks around here too lately, it must be their hunting season. Our run is completely covered with hardware cloth, so they're safe there, but I do let all 22 chickens free range in the garden, so I am always on constant alert and lock them up when we leave. Hawks are beautiful birds until they come after my chickens, then they are scary and ugly. We've been covering areas of our garden area with bird netting too and I plan on hanging up thin rope soon to have more things to block those predators from having a good landing. I heard hanging up old cd's or anything that will reflect light helps to keep them away too.

I hope you and your husband scared it away though.

 

[trsturself]

We didn't see it back the rest of the day, hopefully it won't come back. I love hawks too but I don't like anything that is going after my girls!
We never leave them free ranging when we aren't home, but we weren't as vigilant about being out there with them before. Now if the little ones are out, we will be out. I'm not as worried about our big girls. I haven't seen that large of a bird in our area before. I have seen some Bald Eagles and Osprey in this state, but never in a residential area. I'm most worried about the polish since they can't see overhead. The rest of the girls usually call the alarm and run under the deck. Those polish seem to be pretty ditzy though.

 

[kbh82310]

We didn't see it back the rest of the day, hopefully it won't come back. I love hawks too but I don't like anything that is going after my girls!
We never leave them free ranging when we aren't home, but we weren't as vigilant about being out there with them before. Now if the little ones are out, we will be out. I'm not as worried about our big girls. I haven't seen that large of a bird in our area before. I have seen some Bald Eagles and Osprey in this state, but never in a residential area. I'm most worried about the polish since they can't see overhead. The rest of the girls usually call the alarm and run under the deck. Those polish seem to be pretty ditzy though. 

I'm glad your GL is ok. Good thing your daughter was out there. Hopefully he won't come back. I've never had a problem with hawks ex my hubby and I saw one eating a bird outside the kitchen window about 6 months ago. We have turkey vultures to worry about but we live on a highway so there is plenty of road kill for them to fill up on.

Well, he's never been as rough with them as the EE bantam was. The little girls aren't really squatting yet, so when Po grabs them, they flee, and he ends up plucking feathers as a result. He's very gentle otherwise, he just needs more cooperative girls.

We have the same problem with our silkie Roos but we only have 1 hen and 3 Roos. They try to grab her but pearl lets the boys know how she feels and one of the other Roos go after whoever is trying to grab her. They don't do it often tho I guess because they are slow to mature.

 

[MsChickenMomma]

I'm glad your GL is ok. Good thing your daughter was out there. Hopefully he won't come back. I've never had a problem with hawks ex my hubby and I saw one eating a bird outside the kitchen window about 6 months ago. We have turkey vultures to worry about but we live on a highway so there is plenty of road kill for them to fill up on.
We have the same problem with our silkie Roos but we only have 1 hen and 3 Roos. They try to grab her but pearl lets the boys know how she feels and one of the other Roos go after whoever is trying to grab her. They don't do it often tho I guess because they are slow to mature.

We have a lot of Turkey Vultures here. We live by the woods and on a gravel road, so there is plenty of road kill for them. About two weeks ago it rained and one of the vultures came and sat on the telephone pole by my barn to air out it's wings. My chickens we inside, and they were chattering and the roosters were growing, and the vulture didnt seem to take any interest in them. A few times I have seen as many as 25-30 flying around in circles over the woods.

We have one large hawk that live out in the woods somewhere, and it occasionally comes flying around our yard screeching and screaming. Whenever I see it I just round up the girls and close them in until it goes away. I think the hawks nest is pretty far away from our house, because I only see the hawk maybe 3 times a year.

Where we used to live we had massive amounts of hawks. We never had any get my chickens, but several times they would fly in circles around my barn. We will most likely be moving in the Spring, and I'm really hoping the new house won't have hawks. We are hoping to find a house with a good amount of acerage for more privacy and so we don't have to deal with neighbors who hate my chickens anymore. I'm sure my noisy rooster labeled us as the "annoying neighbors". We live in the country, and I'm allowed to have roosters here, so people need to get over themselves. If you live in the country, expect to hear animal noises. I keep telling myself I need to get a sign like this one.