NY chicken lover!!!!

[Gramma Chick]

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I want to wear a bug Zapper ! The little black flies have been crazy this year .
I have little bug bites on my arms & legs ...Chicken scratches & tree scratches on my arms ( cleaning up trees brush , etc )
I look like I have been in a battle .oh yah and sunburn on my shoulders .I am a mess ..
Does any one else have these small black flies ..? anything that you put on that is not toxic ?
I am chemicially sensitive ..so I dont wear off or any of that stuff

Also Ive been putting up chicken fences ..around our garden where we are planting..
And On the side of our yard ..the house next door used to be my mother in laws house ...there are renters in it now ..
The first tenant barely came out of the house ...So the chickens thought it was their yard too .
The new tenant is a flower / plant person .. We cleaned out some old shrubs so she could plant what she wanted ..
She got a nice arrangement set up ...then she put out dark mulch ...around everything ..
Well talk about a Bulls-eye .! that mulch draws the chickens like a magnet ...digging & scratching .
Sunday afternoon alls I did was chase chickens out & fix it back up ..

 

[Gramma Chick]

Went to close the coop up and caught Pearl roosting on the spare food dish I had. It's one of those that mounts on the side of the dog crates for food/water.

She made her own roost ..LOL
pretty poop board ...what is the reason for a poop board ? other than catch poop of course ..

 

[JLaw]

Ok so I posted my bantam pics on april 20th so I believe that's the day I got them. Now they was all fresh in last of tsc's chicks so I figure less than a week old. Should they? Would they? Could they? Be trying to crow already I got a video of it uploading to youtube as I type this.

Now for the show it's the little white one on the left. I thought it was doing it longer when I was in the other room but not sure.


Now if that's a crow that is sooooo not the chick I thought would be a roo. One of the other white ones is like 1.5 times the size of the others and they was all about same size at store I figured that would have been my roo. Think the bigger one is in bottom right of screen or the other one at the feeder cant really tell on this video.

And now for the rest of the news. I moved 11 of my 22 birds outside today. I come home to find them all on ground by the door not even on the 3 roosts I made for them grrr. I cleaned they're brooder out tossed some DE and shaveings in and moved the bantams in there. Video is bantams in there. Now if bantams would stop perching on that dag on feeder there I tried raiseing it some since they scratch so much.

When I took the ladies out to the coop they jumped all around at each other, pecked each other, and raced each other. When I moved the bantams to the bigger brooder they did the same thing. So I got thinking and wondering. Has anyone with multi coops tried moveing they're chickens around just to watch what they do? Seems like they have to reestablish they're pecking order when they move. Or is my birds just that messed up?

That silkie that I have that has puff on head that I feel sorry for cause it gets bleeding feet sometimes and pooped on a lot, well now I feel sorry for it again. Seems I set my first roost bar just high enough for it to not see and hit it's head on. It sat there moveing head side to side trying to look at the roost bar for a few min. I think I may have to break down and trim it's frontal blind spot like I do my dogs eyes. Set my roost bars 16 up/back with a cut up wooden ladder along one side from floor to top bar.

I brought chicks last year and one was the only Lavender I had. Plus hatching eggs. This year I'll bring a surprise chicken box. Inside will be every rooster chick that hatched.

Well unless you have auto sexing chicks we will at least get half raised chickens for the freezer camp

Well that's the news for me today.

Jlaw

 

[Gramma Chick]

Ok so I posted my bantam pics on april 20th so I believe that's the day I got them. Now they was all fresh in last of tsc's chicks so I figure less than a week old. Should they? Would they? Could they? Be trying to crow already I got a video of it uploading to youtube as I type this.

Now for the show it's the little white one on the left. I thought it was doing it longer when I was in the other room but not sure.


Now if that's a crow that is sooooo not the chick I thought would be a roo. One of the other white ones is like 1.5 times the size of the others and they was all about same size at store I figured that would have been my roo. Think the bigger one is in bottom right of screen or the other one at the feeder cant really tell on this video.

And now for the rest of the news. I moved 11 of my 22 birds outside today. I come home to find them all on ground by the door not even on the 3 roosts I made for them grrr. I cleaned they're brooder out tossed some DE and shaveings in and moved the bantams in there. Video is bantams in there. Now if bantams would stop perching on that dag on feeder there I tried raiseing it some since they scratch so much.

When I took the ladies out to the coop they jumped all around at each other, pecked each other, and raced each other. When I moved the bantams to the bigger brooder they did the same thing. So I got thinking and wondering. Has anyone with multi coops tried moveing they're chickens around just to watch what they do? Seems like they have to reestablish they're pecking order when they move. Or is my birds just that messed up?

That silkie that I have that has puff on head that I feel sorry for cause it gets bleeding feet sometimes and pooped on a lot, well now I feel sorry for it again. Seems I set my first roost bar just high enough for it to not see and hit it's head on. It sat there moveing head side to side trying to look at the roost bar for a few min. I think I may have to break down and trim it's frontal blind spot like I do my dogs eyes. Set my roost bars 16 up/back with a cut up wooden ladder along one side from floor to top bar.


Quote: I am surprized that more people dont trim around the silkies eyes .
I dont know how the poor things even see ...
It must be their Alien X - Ray Vision

The behavior is normal ..They get excited when they are let out ...They Act out more ..

 

[miquwid]

My first Egg! We picked up an older girl from another farm who I found on craigslist "free to good home." She's been a great mom to our 6 week old chicks and has taught them how to scratch, eat stuff other than feed and best of all roost (they have been huddling up in a corner instead). She also seems to like all the fresh grass our mobile coop offers since her old run (though large and full with goodies) didn't have any fresh greens. I'm so excited and happy to finally have chickens, I even let the cranky hubby have the first 2 for breakfast. I finally got to eat one this morning. Mmm Mmm Good!

Rock on that's awesome!

 

[miquwid]

Good morning everyone!

 

[pharmchickrnmom]

Morning all. Looks like rain and we sure can use some. My lawn and runs are so dry they are actually cracking. I also need the rain to wash all the chicken poop into the soil! Babies are off light and heat and are growing like weeds. I throw them out every day when I get home so they get fresh air and sunshine and can do chicken things. Cant wait for the big girls to go to their forever home so I can move these ones out of my basement.

I think Olaf will be going to freezer camp soon. He is getting on dh;s last nerve and the poor girls are all raggedy and half naked from his attentions. He is raggedy looking from the girls feather picking him. Perhaps this change will do everyone some good. I know I have at least one if not two boys in the brooder so thats not an issue.

Jlaw---do your silkie a favor and trim the feathers around its eyes. I do my silkies every month so they can see well. Make sure you do above the eye and the cheek puffs below the eye. Makes a whole lot of difference for them. I also trim butts for breeding and cleanliness purposes and I trim their nails. I find silky nails can grow quite long and they dont wear them down as well as large fowl do. I use dog clippers.

Had to put my car in the shop for repairs and the dealer gave me a 2013 version as a loaner to drive. I think they should just keep mine and I will keep this one and we can call it even and a day. Thank goodness for my warranty otherwise I would be flat broke busted trying to pay for these repairs!

I see that someone is thinking of hosting a get together this year. I would love to go if it isnt too far away. It would be nice to put faces to names. Okay--back to the salt mines.

 

[rancher hicks]

bug

guts.

 

[rancher hicks]

I want to wear a bug Zapper ! The little black flies have been crazy this year .
I have little bug bites on my arms & legs ...Chicken scratches & tree scratches on my arms ( cleaning up trees brush , etc )
I look like I have been in a battle .oh yah and sunburn on my shoulders .I am a mess ..
Does any one else have these small black flies ..? anything that you put on that is not toxic ?
I am chemicially sensitive ..so I dont wear off or any of that stuff

Also Ive been putting up chicken fences ..around our garden where we are planting..
And On the side of our yard ..the house next door used to be my mother in laws house ...there are renters in it now ..
The first tenant barely came out of the house ...So the chickens thought it was their yard too .
The new tenant is a flower / plant person .. We cleaned out some old shrubs so she could plant what she wanted ..
She got a nice arrangement set up ...then she put out dark mulch ...around everything ..
Well talk about a Bulls-eye .! that mulch draws the chickens like a magnet ...digging & scratching .
Sunday afternoon alls I did was chase chickens out & fix it back up ..

I have one of those mosquito things with the little fan that you hang on yourself. It seems to work ok. Long sleeves and a little bug spray work ok in addition. I personally thing folks put to much of that junk on. I also spray my ball cap that I wear. If you don't wear a sun hat when you are in the yard you should. Unless you'd like to eventually look like a piece of bacon.

 

[Tough Old Bird]

Hooray for Cooped Up Chick and Iklik's new eggs!

Our new girls are settling in. Still nervous, but not as much as they were. I even got them out for a couple of hours at the end of the day yesterday in a large dog portable pen, just so they could get some fresh air and scratch around in the grass. They loved it! Catching them each time to put them in and out was not so fun for either of us, but the pen isn't done yet, so if I want to get them out, this will have to suffice for a little while. They have to get used to be being handled anyway.

I will post pic's soon. Names are falling into place. The Maran is the boss lady and has been dubbed "Aunt Helen" after my father's oldest sister who was quite the firecracker. I think she would be amused by her new namesake.

The Columbian Rocks are gorgeous; they have hawk-like faces and beautiful eyes. My favorite is the Del, I think, just for pure sweetness factor.

Must run. Lots to do today including taking my best friend in for her post-chemotherapy injection.

Everyone have a GOOD DAY!


TOB