Michigan

[SillyChicken]

TGIPF!!!

I'm off to get a coffee!!

I think I'm gonna build me a brood box this weekend... I'm always gonna have chicks of some sort right!

Welcome all the new folks...

I went out to check my turkey nest boxes..... there are two nests.



loaded with eggs! Here's one of them...the BBW hen (on left above) is sitting on this clutch. I hope she doesn't crush them this time. (that one egg on the top right is HUGE!)



Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Ha! I just noticed, the eggs, are arranged in the shape of the turkey belly..... looks like she's doing a good job trying!

 

[Mom 2em All]

I am at this overcrowded stage- banties too small to join my brother-in-laws flock, too many to be here....

So, I look like a chicken hoarder. In my illegal barren backyard.

I just took the four week? olds BACK outside. Too crowded in their brooder now. I just put them with the six week olds. I did it before, but wimped out and brought them inside at night.
I will have my daughter make sure everyone is tucked in tonight. Right now, Toes, my banty roo ,is busy flirting crowing and picking on everyone.
At six weeks nobody wants anything to do with him. Scared of him.

He is adorable, though...tiny squeaky crow.

I understand natural selection better, as well. Mama Hen has one very dumb chick. She took her four? week old babies out into the yard..except one. It was lost and running around crying and trying to find her. But it kept avoiding the gate. Running farther away from her- and I tried to 'guide' it...it wouldnt go- it went everywhere BUT where it needed to go.

Finally got it just one gate away from her- it could see and hear her...and the other babies..but it wouldnt go to the end with the gate. SO, again I tried to herd it, and it ran the opposite direction back up and then into the coop...lol. I gave up. In a real farm situation it would have been hopelessly lost and lunch for something.
They are back together now. Its one brain cell kicked in, and it ran straight out both gates and joined her in the yard. lol

 

[SillyChicken]

I am at this overcrowded stage- banties too small to join my brother-in-laws flock, too many to be here....

So, I look like a chicken hoarder. In my illegal barren backyard.

I just took the four week? olds BACK outside. Too crowded in their brooder now. I just put them with the six week olds. I did it before, but wimped out and brought them inside at night.
I will have my daughter make sure everyone is tucked in tonight. Right now, Toes, my banty roo ,is busy flirting crowing and picking on everyone.
At six weeks nobody wants anything to do with him. Scared of him.

He is adorable, though...tiny squeaky crow.

I understand natural selection better, as well. Mama Hen has one very dumb chick. She took her four? week old babies out into the yard..except one. It was lost and running around crying and trying to find her. But it kept avoiding the gate. Running farther away from her- and I tried to 'guide' it...it wouldnt go- it went everywhere BUT where it needed to go.

Finally got it just one gate away from her- it could see and hear her...and the other babies..but it wouldnt go to the end with the gate. SO, again I tried to herd it, and it ran the opposite direction back up and then into the coop...lol. I gave up. In a real farm situation it would have been hopelessly lost and lunch for something.
They are back together now. Its one brain cell kicked in, and it ran straight out both gates and joined her in the yard. lol

I could think of worse things to be called!!

 

[taprock]

Watching the kissing parrot video reminded me of something I wanted to ask here.
Does anyone living up around the Petoskey area know if the pet store Tropic Cove takes in rescue animals to find new (better) homes for them?

They didn't but it's been a while since I was in on a regular basis so that could have changed. After the lizard died I no longer had to make the weekly cricket stop.


My eggs arrived this morning so the incubator is warming up while the eggs sit for a bit. There are still stripes of frost out back where the sun hasn't hit it yet. It is supposed to warm up today. However I will be stuck in the house decorating baby cupcakes for a shower that is tomorrow.

 

[Wickischickies]

Ok...so my Georgia silkie eggs are in the hatching bator now on lockdown and we're still waiting for signs of piping from the 1st batch. lots of shaking...no pipping yet. Almost all of my silkies are going broody on me...which sucks cause it's cutting back on my eggs and I want to show them at the end of the month and can't do that if they've lost condition from wanting to sit. Any tips on getting a broody to knock it off?

It sounds mean but I put icepacks in each nesting box. I had two hens who were always broody from a breed that isn't known for going broody.

 

[1muttsfan]

Good morning Michigan frosty but a beautiful sunny morning, I can hear the geese honking by the lake over across the road.

Ugh that horrible champing thing

3 chicks out, although one is weak and does not look like it will make it, and 2 more pips- wheaten/blue wheaten Ams with beautiful blue eggs

 

[Opa]

Ugh that horrible champing thing

It's difficult to keep one mouth closed while eating when your mouth is full of rabbit.

 

[RIRJen]

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RIRJen... Or anyone else...
Would you be interested in selling and shipping a few silkie eggs around May? I am wrestling myself over whether I want quail or silkies!!! Really, I want both I am pretty sure my bf will kill me though! What colors do you get?

I am having an excellent hatch rate right now on my silkie eggs! Give me a week or two notice on what day you need them and it wouldn't be a problem. Just PM me. I get white, black, blue, splash.

It sounds mean but I put icepacks in each nesting box. I had two hens who were always broody from a breed that isn't known for going broody.

I'm willing to try it...might not work because if I kick them out of the boxes they just lay on the ground LOL I might stick them in rabbit cages without anything to sit in and see if that works. Little snots need to knock it off so I get eggs to hatch and they stay in condition for the show!

 

[RIRJen]

Was hoping really bad I'd wake up to chicks in the bator...no luck. (strums fingers) oh well...maybe by the time I get home!

 

[babigyrl22]

My meaties are getting big. Sheesh. I think they may grow out of the hutch I have them in before it's time to send them to "the farm" (litterally they are going to a farm to be processes lol). I was cleaning out the hutch and one of them attempted to fly out. ATTEMPTED. It was pretty sad. Her big butt couldn't fly out of the hutch LOL

So, can sixteen chicks snuggle under a silkie?? Why YES THEY CAN! When I went to close up the chickens last night, I was frantically looking for the chicks becuase none of them were bathing under the heat lamp as usual. I realized that they had all stuffed themselves under Mavis.

Hopefully our nights will warm up soon.