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[AQHAchick22]

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I'm sorry you're going through that I had a hen that was very similar. I would always find her hiding because she was picked on. She dug herself a hole and hid under the ramp into the coop, or she would hide between boards in the coop to escape them. Eventually I found her dead out in the run and I'm convinced it was from another hen or one of the roo's picking on her. She never laid an egg either and just in general wasn't a healthy hen. I regret not doing something about it sooner like rehoming her or just culling her. It's a hard decision to make though, especially when she's your son's favorite...Good luck!

 

[Sweetpea3829]

Quote: I would really like to rehome her, but she's a tough sell...lol. Offer: Free hen to good home. Doesn't lay eggs. Looks like Abby Mallard from Chicken Little. Missing many feathers. Pecks at your hand when you try to be nice to her (because the poor girl...SOMEbody's got to be beneath her in the order, right?). Hides all of the time. Strange.

Poor girl. I think I will have my husband cull her when we add our rooster to the freezer. I was hoping once the winter was done and they were free-ranging, she'd perk up, but so far, all she has continued to do is hide. And the moment she's near anybody from the flock, they brutalize her.

She does crouch for the rooster, though she screams horribly when he mounts her. You would think she'd lay an egg, as she clearly is engaging in mating behaviors. But so far...nada. And she'll be a year old at the beginning of June.

 

[marquisella]

Anyone have Kacky Campbell ducklings or ducks for sale? Iam selling my trio of Cayugas, and would like the Kackis or Appelyards instead.

 

[Lynzi777]

Anyone have Kacky Campbell ducklings or ducks for sale? Iam selling my trio of Cayugas, and would like the Kackis or Appelyards instead.

I might have ducklings at the end of this hatch. However I won't know if they're pure KCs or not until they hatch. They may be mixed with Indian Runner. I have no idea who's mating with who out there.

 

[bakingintherain]

Evening all! Checking in from work. Today was beautiful but thanks to an error on behalf of my English teacher, whom I want to strangle, I had to spend the whole day rewriting an essay I had worked on for two weeks. Got it done though. And I did find some time to sneak out and spend with the chooks. Drone is shaping up to be a great rooster and is taking right after his father. When I was tossing out pizza crust for them today he was calling all the hens over to eat his pieces. He's terrible at mating though and watching his attempts is hilarious. Honey usually manages to knock him off before he even gets to that point though. Silly boy needs to learn to try when his daddy is NOT right there.

Metella, Bleu gave me the stink eye today while I was changing his water. I'm so glad that the coop should be done by Tuesday or I'm worried he would start planning my demise. And Baking, not sure if you saw my post about the quail on the other site, but would you be willing to take my one lone baby back? I feel bad for it all alone with just the bantams to keep it company. I'll try again with quail at some other time.

yeah i would give you a couple but i already so short on the amount i was hoping for, Gimpy passed away the next morning but squishy is still holding strong, but i lost one lower on the totem pole

do you still want to meet for music tonight say 8:30? i will try calling too my phone is being a P of S&*%

 

[SunnysideupstateNY]

I might have ducklings at the end of this hatch. However I won't know if they're pure KCs or not until they hatch. They may be mixed with Indian Runner. I have no idea who's mating with who out there.

Sorry, I'm being immature tonight. This made me laugh.

 

[Lynzi777]

 Sorry, I'm being immature tonight. This made me laugh.

Lol I guess it would be easier if I had just one breed of duck but I cannot give up my KCs. I finally have them eating out of my hand whereas the runners dart off the minute I move. I know then drakes are mating with the girls but I'm sure they're not sticking to their own kind. ;-)

 

[bakingintherain]

I have to be honest.  I LOVE the sound of a rooster crowing.  My Barred Rock, Pseudo-Bob (long story on the name) comes up to the back door with his ladies and crows and crows all day long.  Pretty sure he's asking me to throw out treats.  ;-)  

Everybody around us has chickens and other livestock, so crowing roosters are quite common.  Mine hears the neighbor's crow the the left, right and behind.  You can tell he's listening...one of them will crow and he'll perk up all interested and then crow himself.  And then the other neighbor's rooster crows...lol.  

My absolute favorite though, is when the cockerels are JUST learning how to crow.  Oh my word...so funny.

When hubby and I moved here three years ago, we moved out of a suburb in RI...hadn't really ever heard roosters crowing, etc.  Well when we first heard the cockerels practicing we were like, "WHAT in the world is wrong with that rooster???"  So funny.  

So you guys put up new coops pretty readily.  For us, expense is a big factor in why we DON'T put up more coops.  Plus, I want my coops to enhance the look of the property, kwim?  But from what I can gather, there are some pretty inexpensive ways to put up a coop?

Hubby and I were thinking of adding a couple of turkeys for Thanksgiving.  But I'd want to keep them away from my chickens.  Which would mean another pen and coop of some sort.  

And maybe I might like to do quail.  And if I put a small coop over by our swamp/marsh, I could add ducks.  

So many possibilities.  :-D

I love having ducks, a lot of our land is marshy which makes them happy

I was outside all day putting a new "roof" on the coop. I got a billboard for free for it and the used some clear plastic for the ends. It's actually attached in both these pics but its so clear you can't tell. And it's super thick, like windows in a pop up camper, so it def will hold up to our weather

3 of the girls making sure we don't misplace their favorite treat. Nana crack . (Nana is what my son calls my mom)

Very cool, wish they had billboards around here just for that reason,but like that I drive around and don't see any (I live in Vermont)

Yeah - it is the crow fest that I am not enjoying now - I have 4 roosters crowing with some from the bachelor pad that chime in sometimes.   Too much.

Pyxis - pick Bleu up a little and give him some hug punishment ... he's had a difficult week of confinement - and he may blame you on it all - since you are the one around ....  His brother is in with the ravens right now ....   He hates it when I hold him - so that may take him down a peg and save your ankles.   I wouldn't worry about his fundamental temperament though - he was great all winter - even in a coop with many other roos ....   it is just spring time and that week of confinement ....

Yay ravens! You should post a recent pic of them

Morning All,
Well I broke down and bought and dog house yesterday for the ducks-did I mention that already?! The bottom of their house kept getting soaked and I couldn't figure out why. Tried fixing it yesterday and the bottom of the legs were just so ruined that anything I added to the bottom for flooring would have fallen off if I ever tried to move it. So I bought them a Petmate "Petbarn" it's called. Had to figure out how to put a door on it, not happy with the door but it'll have to do until I can come up with something more durable. Anyway, I went to corral the ducks and get them in it last night and my blue runner took off up the woods. It's a pretty steep ledge so I'm surprised she even flapped her way up there. I sure as heck wasn't getting up there in the pitch dark! After waiting till about 10pm for her to come down I finally went to bed. Didn't hear her quacking or rustling about out there so I figured she had found a spot to hide and go to sleep. I even the run the Orp coop/pen open so she could bunker down under their coop which is right in front of the duck house. Midnight I wake up when my husband gets home from work and hear her quacking in the front yard thru my bedroom window! Sent my husband out there with the flashlight to scoot around back and woke up to her this morning sleeping under the Orp Coop! (Phew) she's now resting in the backyard after the all-night we she pulled last night. Oh and because she was out of the coop this morning, I now know that SHE is the blue egg layer of the three female ducks. Two white ones were waiting for me in the duck coop this morning.

I'm shipping out my first batch of eggs today as a "test batch" to see how well I pack them and how well they hatch. Fingers crossed!

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3544 mark.

Glad she came back safe and good luck on the eggs

 

[pharmchickrnmom]

rain

 

[wny egger]

rain,snow ..fell on my way out to the coop this morning..ugh ..gunna be one of those days I guess..so goes life in the great state of ny ..