Official Squatch Watchers

[FlyingNunFarm]

@apryl29 so cute! Hoping for 2 girls for you. As for the sexing of the orps— a agree that the 2 on the left look like boys— but I had seen a video about sexing orps by tail. Supposedly the boys get tails first. So a boy would have a tail like the lavender on the right....

Can’t they all just hatch with a little sign or appropriate colored ribbon! LOL

 

[apryl29]

@apryl29 so cute! Hoping for 2 girls for you. As for the sexing of the orps— a agree that the 2 on the left look like boys— but I had seen a video about sexing orps by tail. Supposedly the boys get tails first. So a boy would have a tail like the lavender on the right....

Can’t they all just hatch with a little sign or appropriate colored ribbon! LOL

Very interesting. I know I had a horrible time w Steve b/c I swore he was a girl... maybe I'll keep them for a while longer to see what their feathers do. I agree, little tiny signs would be really helpful. Thanks for the info.... I'd be super ticked if I ended up getting rid of the 2 girls. I'd be ok if it was 2 girls and a boy b/c then I'd get rid of a pair which would likely be easier to do.

 

[apryl29]

My giant human and her dance team... This video is from a few months ago and is the routine that won nationals, but it wasn't as clean. My kid is on the back right.. she trips over some tape of the floor at one point. I have another video, but they were missing a dancer and it was even earlier on so they were very out of sync. They have a video from nationals that I'll probably buy after I get paid.

 

[Redhead Rae]

Oh, apparently, my first broody hen, a Dominique/Buff, has been broody, but has been much smarter than any of my other broodies about placement of her nest. We moved the chickens this evening to a new patch of ground and we found she was under one of the mobile coops on a pile of a dozen eggs. We discarded the eggs because they were poopy from being under the mobile chicken coop (we have a mesh floor under our coop), I don't want to hatch any more intentional mutt birds at the moment, and I don't have a good way to house her and her eggs right now. I think I'm going to try to cobble together some way to house her and put her on fake eggs until I have another incubator hatch in 2 weeks. I think the heat we've been having recently, is what is causing all the problems I've been having with bad eggs in my broody hatches. So I'm going to suspend giving eggs to broodies until it cools off some. I'll keep hatching in the incubator and giving the chicks to any hens that go broody. Hopefully, I can avoid having to brood any more chicks (except for a few days in the house maybe) for the rest of the summer.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Well dammmmit.
So sorry.
I probably would have lost a bantam Cochin chick if I hadn’t gotten home when I did. It was stuck in the chicken wire, half way in its own pen, half in another. I had to push its little butt thru. It lagged around for a while after that, but finally got back up to speed.

They sure can get themselves in trouble fast!

 

[CapricornFarm]

All these birds need to quit that random dying stuff!!

I am so sorry Cappy.

This morning a poor little dog got hit 2 doors down from me. The guy who hit it was very very shaken up. He started going door to door til he got here. Big ole tough guy totally in tears.
I am glad I am good at dealing with the critical then freaking out in private. I told him I would handle it, that it wasn't his fault, and not to worry.
He moved the poor puppers to a shady spot. I covered it with a towel and got animal control called. That poor man had a really tatery monday.
I covered the poor thing so the owners if they came by wouldn't see it.

God I am glad I went extreme with my fences.

I probably should have kept that part of the day to myself. It really messed me up too.
Poor little doggie.

Yeah, the owners needed a better containment system for that poor dog. Rough way to go, poor thing.

 

[CapricornFarm]

@apryl29 so cute! Hoping for 2 girls for you. As for the sexing of the orps— a agree that the 2 on the left look like boys— but I had seen a video about sexing orps by tail. Supposedly the boys get tails first. So a boy would have a tail like the lavender on the right....

Can’t they all just hatch with a little sign or appropriate colored ribbon! LOL

That is a great feature of Crested cream legbars, you know how many roos right away.

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

That is a great feature of Crested cream legbars, you know how many roos right away.

If you'd like to send some girls my way I'd take them! I need crested birds. I have bearded, flowered, feather legged and barred. LOL

 

[CapricornFarm]

If you'd like to send some girls my way I'd take them! I need crested birds. I have bearded, flowered, feather legged and barred. LOL

Hee hee, i paid $55 for 2 dozen eggs. One dozen gave me 2 chicks, one male, one female. The other dozen gave me 2 male and i think 5 females. Nice of you to offer, but i am keeping all my girls. Probably one of the boys will be sold.

 

[Anansi]

It would be nice if Gurtrude would decide if she's going to molt or not. Right now she's getting feathers in, but is still trying to lay eggs, which isn't working to well. How much extra calcium do I need to give her so she will have eggs with shells when she does lay. She's only had 2 that have not broken out of the last 8 or so, and most of the rest have been a surprise to her, which she then eats because they break on impact and are never in the nest box. She actually lashed one on DH's chair, no shell, and it broke immediately. I didn't realize she had laid it , say down next to her, and ended up with egg on my backside. DH will never know about the egg in his chair, he doesnt like her to be on the arm of it, let alone the seat, lol. What he doesn't know won't hurt. I have tums with 1000 mg calcium, and it mixes well with baby food, so I can get it in her, I just need to know how much. Shes also being finicky about eating her oyster shell, apparently because she doesn't know if she's molting or not.

Oh the fun of the indoor chicken. Kinda makes me wonder if other chickens get the same issues when they molt, but it doesn't get noticed because they're outdoors and the eggs are easier to miss or have been completely devoured before they can be noticed. I've noticed she only eats the ones that are broken, she doesn't break them open.