Michigan

[michickenwrangler]

After two years and many failed hatches, I finally got 2 chicks out of my own chickens ... I'm grateful for my broodies!

The bluish one is a purebred cochin (blue x partridge cross) and the other is a cochin/black star cross.

 

[DaughterOfEve]

Coop cleaning day today. I threw all the new and old together outside today to figure things out. Took down the divider in the coop and tonight none of the newbies could figure out where to go. I had to lift all the wyndottes onto the roosts one by one. Sang them to sleep and will get out there earlier than usual in the a.m. I am such a worry wart.

My two male ducks are fighting over the chickens really bad and trying to grab at them. I had to separate them today. Will this wear off? There are no lady ducks for them here just hens. (oh and me, they are grabbing at me now too)

 

[keyt1969]

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Drakes are awful that way. Sorry to say but most don't grow out of it. So either get a hen or separate your ducks and chickens.

I have too many drakes here so I know the feeling!

 

[ChicwannaB]

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Let me know how it goes with the ducks, I too have only 2 males and they drive my Chante's away from food. Im wondering if I should get mine a lady or two, or give them new homes??? I'd really just rather keep to chickens now that I have them, but do love the boys and it would be hard to give them away. They're probably getting close to 3 months old. Would anybody on HERE like 2 Pekins? I don't want to advertise in the local news and have them end up on dinner plates.

 

[keyt1969]

Drakes are very difficult to re-home. I have 3 I have been trying to re-home for a few months, but Aric insists that the 3 need to go together, blah, blah, blah. They're terrible. As soon as a hen gets in the water, they tag team her. One will pull the feathers on her head, another will grab her neck while another does the duty. All of my other drakes have normal behavior that I can deal with. I have 3 drakes from Kim (Mom2EmAll) that had the same problem when they were with her, but they happen to be my best behaved.

Sadly, finding homes for drakes is difficult, but it's my experience most people who buy Pekins take them for one reason, and it's not for pets. I wish you the best!

 

[ChicwannaB]

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perhaps the rest will follow

 

[tsparrow]

I hope so, I can't sleep. I keep thinking I hear them calling, but it isn't. I hate having them cooped up, I think that all my birds need to be out and eat the bugs and grass during the day. I guess I have a lot to learn yet. Thanks chicwannaB

 

[ChicwannaB]

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we all start someplace, I'm still learning every day.
I know how you feel, I've lost dogs many times in my lifetime, I SWEAR I hear the toenails on the l inoleum floor even after they're gone, so haunting. I suppose their spirits stay with us because we've loved them.

 

[KrisRose]

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Congrats on your two little chicks!!!

 

[Mom 2em All]

Good Morning all!
I worked during the storm yesterday- watched it from my work windows- and hoped all was well here. And worried about my cat.

I got her back!!!

I printed out one hundred fliers and had my daughter put them in all the mailboxes here. When she gave out the 98th one, a man told her that a grey smush-face cat had been hding out under the abandoned house across from him for the past four days.

Tiffany called me, and I came over there and we searched. I called her and called her. Then I decided to get the live trap and we would set it and check it after dark. When leaving the house, she was sitting by the tree- looking for me- or for where the "keekeekee" had been coming from. She ran to me as I squatted down. Got her home inside the house, and she ate for about thirty minutes. Drank a ton of water. And has been acting like she never left ever since.

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She is alot thinner than she was- she was only five pounds, i am sure she is much less now but I will get her weight back on her.

The screens have been secured and reinforced in the bedrooms- no more escaping!

My goofy silkies must have stayed out in the storm- they hate my coop and every night I have to collect them from my garden bench and put them inside the coop. So, I figure that during the storm they must have ran around like crazy birds and not known what to do- because no way were they going to go inside there on their own. The other chickens were dry and looked they had shelter during the storm.
The geese never seem to realize its storming out.