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duluthralphie said:
And just for you Holm, I have a new Mom Story.

The guineas hatched while I was stationed in Togo for 2 nights. My DW and my Mother checked on them and found the babies. I use a plastic milk jug case on it's side with board on the bottom to hold the eggs and nest together. The one the hen was in happened to have "lattice" work on the sides.

When they were there one of the babies got scared and put its head in the lattice work. They talked about it and hoped it would not "hang" itself, as in Minnie's conversation. Later that evening my wife went back to check on them again, my Mother saw her and went to check too.

This is the conversation as I get it. I should mention there was a piece of duct tape over one square/diamond of lattice.


DW: Why is that tape in the nest?

Mom: to keep the babies from choking themselves..

DW: why is it only on the one square?

Mom: Because that is the square I saw the chick stuck in...
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You have an awesome Mom. You are so lucky to be able to have her there.
 
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I love the lattice story. Ralphie I'll take your mom here for a while. She's good humor.

Welcome @sevenbabychicks I think Minnie has most of the breeds your looking for. Her birds are gorgeous and of the quality you're looking for. What part of Montana did you leave? I lived in Belgrade for a year-- many moons ago but made friends with good folk, and still remain in contact.

Sadie Is tenacious and she is already swimming! Her predacessor was harder to get adjusted to water. We needed to start crate training her. She pees and poops every 3.2 minutes. And when she's not making excrement she's chewing on you or something else. High maintenance! She also has not settled into crate traing. Yelping and crying. Ugh. Have I said I want my old dog back?!?!
 
Minniechickmama said:
I am sure you know, alfalfa is not a grass but a legume ;)

The chickens will love it and eat the leaves at least, or they should.  It his protein rich, so good for them.  Clover also is something they like.
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Thank you minne. I put some in the coop tonight and they sure did scratch around in it. I think they enjoy it quite a bit. I said alfalfa grass because its an 80/20 mix. 80% alfalfa and 20% grass mix.
 
took this video a few days ago when one of my ten broody hens couldnt take it anymore
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I'm thinking about moving my brooder crew to the coop. My Jersey Giants are three weeks old, the four others are a week older. Whenever we open the brooder, at least one will jump out.

I'd set up a separate enclosed area in the coop. There is plenty of room and it would be warm enough. Plus they'd have lots of "getting to know you" time with the teenagers.

Any thoughts?
 
FFC, I loved that video. The poor cat has a WT? look on her face. Some chickens just wanna be Mommas!



scandiafowl said:
I'm thinking about moving my brooder crew to the coop. My Jersey Giants are three weeks old, the four others are a week older. Whenever we open the brooder, at least one will jump out.

I'd set up a separate enclosed area in the coop. There is plenty of room and it would be warm enough. Plus they'd have lots of "getting to know you" time with the teenagers.

Any thoughts?
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Do you have a "covered run" attached to your brooder? I seldom ever open mine as I have a run on it for them to come and go at will. I do have a large rould plastic stock tank I use for the real young ones without a run but at about 2 weeks old I move them to the other one.


This is a picture of one of them, they are not fancy, the only difference is they are painted and I have 1/2 hardware cloth on the run portion after my predator troubles.

The blue "tub" is screwed down lightly in four places under that I have a hole large enough to hang the heat lamp, The tub prevents it from getting wet in rain. I have started making them a little different but they look the same. I now make panels that are 2 feet high and I can screw them together to assemble any size brooder run I want.

They work well, and I thought maybe you could adapt something like this to your needs and property.


These are old pictures, I have changed the area with the "chain". I use it slide it to new areas so they have new grass and dirt.
 
@duluthralphie

The brooder is in the sunroom in our house, not outside. My dear mother wants to reclaim it for the human living space it was intended for.

I like your idea, but would not want them outside the coop at night. My main coop is very large and safe. I could easily put the brooder in there.
 
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scandiafowl said:
@duluthralphie

The brooder is in the sunroom in our house, not outside. My dear mother wants to reclaim it for the human living space it was intended for.

I like your idea, but would not want them outside the coop at night. My main coop is very large and safe. I could easily put the brooder in there.
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I think your Mother is being totally unreasonable!
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If we had birds in the house, and we must not because my DW says they do not belong in the house, we would use a cut off cardboard barrel with an oven grate over it, that looks a lot like the barrel and grate in the living room. But of course we would never use it for birds cause my wife said they don't belong in the house. I keep fuzzy cute little goldfish in it now,
 

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