NY chicken lover!!!!

[Gramma Chick]

A movement called Free Range Parents. ?
Sure but do they lay eggs?

Maybe !

Seriously? I think it's just foolish and hope they don't expect me to feel sorry for them if something happens to their kids.
I will feel sorry anyway ...you cant choose your parents
Anyone remember Sarah Wood?

Yes I do ...Remember the little darling ..my boys were young when it happened ...
I didnt let them out of my sight ..and told them if anyone ever tried to get them in a car dont listen to them...run as fast as they could

Did you see the news story ?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...06c0be-9c0f-11e4-bcfb-059ec7a93ddc_story.html

Im 1/2 + 1/2 I feel a mile away from home is a little long away for 2 kids - 10 + 6 years old ( even together )
..But I think they should have some freedom ..One of the mothers said how else would her kids learn street smarts ..
I just hope they dont have to learn it the hard way ..at their expense

 

[Gramma Chick]

GRAMMA,

Thx for the tips on the yogurt.....and the encouragement regarding my photo's.

What kind do you feed? Plain, not flavored, right?
I can just picture this "feeding frenzy" -- and their messy faces!

They dont get very messy with the fermented feed coz it is usually drained ..
But Yougurt is more liquidy & they do make a mess ...stand back if you do it ..it will get on everything near them

 

[Pyxis]

So sorry...Poor Babies... Are these babies in the cellar now too?

I don't have a cellar. The four survivors are in the coop still, which now has two heat lamps going, just in case. The cemanis and the project birds I've been hatching are in my bedroom, and I'll have to get used to them being in here for a month and half longer I guess. No way I'm chancing them outside after this, even with a backup bulb. Once it gets to the forties I'll boot them out, so March sometime.

 

[Gramma Chick]

Well I had a adventure today ..
I went down the the stream to break the ice open ..for the duckies ..



I was carrying my favorite chicken ..
Marker the same little baby that took a shower with me when it was a day old ..



I stomped on the ice & went through up to my boot ..went down on my other knee to catch myself ..
STILL HOLDING MY CHICKEN !
a couple of tries I got my stuck boot out & stood up & got away from the stream.
STILL HOLDING MY CHICKEN !
Got a good scrape on the leg that went in & a bruise on the knee that went down on the ice ..
BUT MY LITTLE CHICKEN was SAFE & DRY

She didnt even...swack..she was with MOM she felt safe
I learned my Lesson ...Dont stomp on Ice while holding a chicken ...

 

[Gramma Chick]

Quote:
oh I just assumed ..cellar coz you said inside ..They will really get tame if they sleep with you ...

Now the thing will be ...can you sleep with them in there ?

I think they would wake me up .
I know some people have used a bathtub for a pen

 

[Beer can]

I tried fermented feed once, but had to stop because I had no way to keep it warm over the winter. Does anyone do theirs outside or in the coop and have a way to keep it warm enough to continue to ferment over the winter? Also, I had a heat bulb blow last night in the chick coop and lost almost all of my cream legbar babies. It was only out for maybe five hours, but it was enough. I still have two pullets and two roosters, so I can still breed them, but I had had 14 pullets and seven cockerels so it was a big loss

They were 11 weeks old too.

In happier news, my cemani babies are in the house and doing well, and after this happened, they will REMAIN in the house until March. They're so personable and I think my favorite breed that I have now. People say they're skittish but they must not be raising them in contact with people because mine are great. I have one little one in particular who flies up to perch on the edge of the brooder whenever I walk over so he can say hi and hang out. Never leaves the brooder either, just perches there when I come over to check on everybody.

Also, just noticed this is my 3,000th post! Would you look at that.

Yikes! I couldn't imagine! Sorry.

That cancels my thought of ever putting little ones in the garage with a heat lamp. In house only for me after reading that post, even if the wife complains. I don't think I would trust any form of heat outside.

 

[boskelli1571]

I can just picture this "feeding frenzy" -- and their messy faces!

TOB

My girls love warm oatmeal with a great big dollop of yoghurt mixed in - and you're right! don't stand too close you'll get hit with flying oatmeal!!

 

[Metella]

Pyxis - that is second time the shed has dropped a light for you ..... so when you build a new place - make sure you have a back up light on a different circuit because if it is the electric and not a bad bulb - it will happen a third time !!! In the meantime, if you put any babies out there again - can you rig it so the lights on different circuits ? The electric may not go out - but might be surging and busting the bulbs ... Who knows? Time for some detective work .....

You will have to figure out what is going on so that your investment doesn't drop again - as I know you are putting a lot of time and money into this .... But it is so early in the year - I think you should get another incubator full of CCLB and start them now ..... Just go out to your brooding area when it is warmer and start to do some major trouble shooting !!!

I'm getting baby fever - but I still have a mess in one spare bathroom from brooding peeps and will never let them in the house again - so it is WAY too early for me now .... If I were ever to get into it seriously - I would get a small solar panel - and heat a shed that way .... I'm all touchy about electric since my barn fire.


Congrats on your 3K post ! and it is extra cool too - because you don't just blabble and post to post - you really only post when you have something to say.

 

[Lapeerian]

Yes I do ...Remember the little darling ..my boys were young when it happened ...
I didnt let them out of my sight ..and told them if anyone ever tried to get them in a car dont listen to them...run as fast as they could

Did you see the news story ?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...06c0be-9c0f-11e4-bcfb-059ec7a93ddc_story.html

Im 1/2 + 1/2 I feel a mile away from home is a little long away for 2 kids  - 10 + 6 years old ( even together )
..But I think they should have some freedom ..One of the mothers said how else would her kids learn street smarts ..
I just hope they dont have to learn it the hard way ..at their expense

Didn't read the article, but agree. The world has changed, and not for the better. There are too many creeps that like to do horrible things to children. Little girl has no stranger danger and it scares me. She has been taught at school and at home, but being 4 it just doesn't sink in. She stays within eyesight when we are outside. And Harvey the SPCA dog has become her protector.
I keep seeing news story's about the Amish children being killed, and I can't feel sorry for them after I watch them here. They sled down the middle of the road. They wear dark clothes while walking in the road at night. People stop all the time to offer them rides, and they get in. This fall one of the boys was kicked in the chest by a draft horse. They took him to the hospital the next day because he wasn't feeling good. He had internal bleeding and had to be rushed to Syracuse.
I agree children need freedom, but you still need to be a parent and watch out for their safety.

 

[Beer can]

I guess that is where good mothering broody hens would sure come in handy. I had two White Cochins I was hoping to have for broodies but they ended up roos. :-(