Michigan

[babigyrl22]

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I wish they would! lol

Moving a wood pile today, I scared out a mouse. The mouse made a run for it and all of a sudden 5 chickens were chasing it down. Mousy got away but he no longer has a tail.

that is awesomesauce

 

[Chickmate]

Couldn't ask for more beautiful weather the last couple of days. We deserve it after all the rain we've gotten. Perfect for cleaning out the shed and getting rid of junk. I don't know about anywhere else, but around here if you put stuff out by the road, especially the night before trash pickup, someone will stop and pick it up. Now I have room for my new lawn tractor!

 

[keyt1969]

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I wish they would! lol

Moving a wood pile today, I scared out a mouse. The mouse made a run for it and all of a sudden 5 chickens were chasing it down. Mousy got away but he no longer has a tail.

Mice have no chance here. Between my speed demon serama rooster and my sumo wrestling looking cochins and everyone else in between, mice know better than to go anywhere chickens are. They just stay where the straw is piled and the tool boxes on the other side of the barn. If one is dumb enough to go in the chicken areas, you'll hear all the chickens alerting each other and the chase is on!

I always wondered how my sister had barn cats that killed critters in all her barns. I'd love to have one but I'm afraid it would kill my birds!

 

[keyt1969]

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Thanks! I'm going to do that right now, it's one thing I can do sitting down! I get the house all to myself for the next 3 hours while Aric and Angellica go do laundry!

 

[RaZ]

Funny thing happened here this evening...My dogs spooked the big chicks (11 weeks) and the leghorn roo took flight over the fence into the neighbor's yard. We rounded him up and he flew back into my yard but landed in the pen with the little chicks (5 weeks). The little male Buff Orp protected the other girls and pinned down the big bad leghorn until I could fetch him out of the pen. The leghorn is twice the size of the BO, but was cowered by the little one, half his size. When I went in to seperate them, the leghorn jumped on my shoulder. Little BO went back to the girls and I swear he was bragging about how tough he was.

Mister leghorn decided that it was time to go to the coop.

I'm still laughing about this odd chicken behaviour.

 

[RIRJen]

just put in the last hatch for chickenstock...over 150 eggs in my bators that will start hatching every friday between now and then starting next friday! Going to be polish, speckled sussex, silkies and some fun chicks for a friend. And to think I was going to try to hatch out duck eggs for chickenstock...I obviously just need another incubator

 

[keyt1969]

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That's awesome!!! I have a little Serama roo that thinks he's bigger than everyone, when he's really only a quarter their size. EVERYONE is scared of him, even my huge BLRW roos! When it's time to roost, he will be the only roo on the roost and he'll have 10-15 hens up there with him! If someone, especially one of the big BLRW roos is acting up, like trying to "get with" one of his girls, he will jump on them or cackle at them and chase them around the run. It's absolutely hilarious!

I got him from vicki last summer along with a serama hen. He no longer pays attention to her so she's always on her own. I call him Pretty Boy because he struts around like he's 10 feet tall!

Speaking of chicken behavior, a little while ago I mentioned an Old English bantam I had that took care of a sick chick, always laying with her or crying out when she was laying down sick again. Well, after that guy bought all my chicks, I had 2 two week old bantams I hatched out left so I put them in with that OE. I went in there tonight and she was laying with one chick under each wing. In fact, I thought they got out but they were totally underneath her! When she gets older she just might be a good candidate for sitting on some bantam eggs!

BTW, forgot to mention Aric finally built the breeding pens for me in the barn!!

. They are beautiful and perfect! I have the ducklings and 2 remaining EE in one and the chicks in the other with heat lamps. Aric said he built it to look just like when his grandpa had chickens in there. Funny thing is, it looks like a garage but it's been a barn (55 yrs ago when it was built, 25 yrs ago and now), a game room, storage shed and man cave, but never a garage LOL

 

[chickendales]

finally got a clutch of chicks to hatch under one my hens ya fist hatch of the year and first hatch sence i got back in to chickens

 

[Opa]

Sitting here drinking coffee and waiting for morning to officially start. What better way is there to start your day than with a cup of coffee and a pulse?

 

[1muttsfan]

Beautiful light rain during the night here, first rain for a week and much needed

My chickens think that mice are large and particularly juicy bugs, they only last a few seconds if captured by the hens

. At least it is over quickly.