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Redhead Rae said:
So, I just had to deal with a minor chicken emergency. I looked outside this morning and I didn't see Fat Daddy (my Dark Cornish cock bird). I went out and looked for him and he was standing in the middle of the coop and couldn't figure out how to leave. I pick him up and look at him. His eyes were stuck shut and swollen. I brought him inside, and cleaned him up with warm water on a rag and unstuck his eyes. Fortunately, his eyes are just fine. He was perfectly well behaved and even put up with Thing 1 petting him. We put him in one of our broody setups by himself but inside the garden with the rest of the flock until he heals up a bit. Poor guy has had a rough time.
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What do you think caused it?
 
Redhead Rae said:
I like the Dark coloration. It really emphases his shape without making him look bulky. I'm going to try my hand at some whites as well (because they dress neater) but I think I'll always be partial to the Darks. I love the coloration of the females too. The sexual dimorphism in their colors really helps early in determining pullets from cockerels.

This girl's background color is a little light for me to use her as a breeder, but her lacing is gorgeous.
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Beautiful bird
 
21hens-incharge said:
My guys won't eat my birds either.

Kinda makes me mad cause they scoff at my garden harvests, eggs and meat from my birds.

Seriously, they will eat store bought produce that ever sick person that passed through the store contaminated but not my garden goodies.

Imma give em a good :smack . I am not going to buy ANYTHING I can grow this spring/summer.

edited again because auto-incorrect decided I needed entire extra words I didn't even type.
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Mine will eat the garden stuff, actually, they're more into it than I am. They're just weird about meat. C'mon, guys, if you're going to feel sorry for the nasty extra roosters, feel sorry for the millions of poor CXs that had just as much life as these ones.
 
BantyChooks said:
Mine will eat the garden stuff, actually, they're more into it than I am. They're just weird about meat. C'mon, guys, if you're going to feel sorry for the nasty extra roosters, feel sorry for the millions of poor CXs that had just as much life as these ones.
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Seriously.
 
One thing that I have been trying to do when growing my own is to eat what is in season.

I think the guys are to used to a salad including cucumbers, bell peppers, radish, tomatoes and more. Those are rarely ALL ripening at the same time.
 
You eat what you get here, if you don't like it tough tits go hungry.
If your belly is getting filled then your mouth should stay shut.
I just channeled my Mom and Gran at the same time. :lau
21hens-incharge said:
My guys won't eat my birds either.

Kinda makes me mad cause they scoff at my garden harvests, eggs and meat from my birds.

Seriously, they will eat store bought produce that ever sick person that passed through the store contaminated but not my garden goodies.

Imma give em a good :smack . I am not going to buy ANYTHING I can grow this spring/summer.

edited again because auto-incorrect decided I needed entire extra words I didn't even type.
:rolleyes:
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Apryl said;

My guess for the 2 w/ beak issues is that they got it caught on something, could be the fencing, or forgot to duck coming out the pop door. Did you see blood anywhere else? I wouldn't think they'd be able to get to each other well enough through the fence.


I don't know, I didn't see any blood anywhere else. It was weird. My pop door is nice and high, can't be that.

Suzi is healing nicely! She actually ate (devoured) some egg last night, and this AM was able to eat some of her regular food. :) She is the sweetest thing, Suzi. She's the size of a small pigeon and loves to fly onto me. I love her. :loveI put Flower in with her so she'd have company, and because I'm paranoid about leaving her outside until DH fixes the run.

He is still insisting a raccoon didn't do it (DENIAL!!) My next door neighbor *feeds the raccoons*, hello.

We have a big grey feral cat that DH said was in the backyard today, and insists that is what killed my chickens. I said the pattern of how they were killed were consistent with a coon. How do cats kill chickens? (I mean the pattern of carnage after?)

Hey, how is your tiny human and the dizziness? And the other stuff? Is she OK? My awful dizzyz-spells-during-driving subsided as soon as I went back on my regular dose of meds, thank the gods, it was really freaking me out!!
 

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