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[MacGuyver]

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D'awwwwww! So cute!

 

[MacGuyver]

Hi, I am Hannah and new to raising chickens. I moved to Oklahoma 3 years ago and LOVE THIS PLACE, I live right outside of Tulsa. My guy bought me a few chickens at a local flea market late last summer, we go to the market almost weekly, and ended up with a few more. I lost 2 in one night to a racoon, and another the next night. It broke my heart!!!! My guy set live traps out and for the next week we caught a coon a night, he took them off when he left for work, I never asked and he never told me what happened to them. A few weeks later he came home with a surprise, 8 Bantam Cochins, 3 blue-3-black-an 2 white!!!!! I was IN LOVE!!!!!!! They were stunning. I now had a white rooster and a blue rooster the rest were all girls. I had a two story rabbit hutch for the first chickens, but we needed something bigger so. . . We purchased a small coop from Atwoods and it served us well threw the winter. I had The blu an blk in the new coop an the wht pair with one small blu hen in the hutch. I was happy, I fed them, kept them with fresh water, and LOVED THEM bunches!!! A week into them being HOME, I realized my wht hen was blind or dang near to it. I had to go out several times a day to splash her water pan and shake her feed so she could eat. Now she does really well and has some sight back. She is my best girl-friend, if i am outside she is with me or trying to find me.

Early this spring we built them a larger coop, Thinking I was going to be the best chicken mamma ever, and was really trying. I moved the big group to the new coop, and the 3 amigos got the Atwood coop. Everything was perfect till. . . . .we picked up another random choice 6 a the flea market. An added them to the large coop. Apparently someone was sick, I blame my lil rosecomb. She had always sounded diff, we (not knowing a thing about chickens) thought it might be the way that breed of chicken sounded. I love my birds I really do. I just had no clue. . . . Well, I noticed Big Daddy Cain - blu roo- was congested, so got on line and started looking for help, I found byc!!!! Has been a real EYE OPENER!!! Thank goodness. I have now treated all of my flock with meds, thru out all of this I have treated for lice an mites. The last 6, brought in. . . .Grrrrr. I now know to not add birds to my flock unless they have been kept apart for a month or more, if I ever get another grown bird. I have wormed them all also, just for good measure. I went from proud momma to so ashamed of my self, for not learning more before I got them. I hope to be on the right track and I am trying to learn as much as I can. I can not keep my girls from setting, I have hatched 12 chicks so far, I believe to be all cochin except one. As soon as they were dry I removed them from the coop and have been raising the in a welping box in the garage. That is my chicken tail thus far. . . . . And I am in need of Good Chicken PEEPS!!! lol I have learned that the feed store is not always the best place for info. Ugh. . . . . So once again HI, an my name is Hannah.

Don't feel too bad. I got burned that way with my first chickens too. Bought one that was sick and should have known better but didn't. I had to depopulate my whole flock and start over.

 

[bfrancis]

Here is some new buckeye chicks from a broody



and they say Buckeyes don't go broody, lol!

 

[prettychicks]

Quote: Me too! They are Hinkjc and Ramsley English bloodlines. Should be very pretty if they look half as good as their parents did. Thanks.

 

[MacGuyver]

Welcome! We moved to OK 8 years ago and it has really grown on us too.
I am a HUGE Cochin fan too - I have 35 adults and aprox. 50 chicks, 7 more hatched today.

. Cochins are sometimes very broody. The Cochin thread in "Breeds and Genetics" is a busy one with lots of folks and some very nice, serious breeds that kindly share their knowledge

Edited to change the chick count - i have 47 in the garage and 22 outside! That doesn't count the ones that i already sold!

She has NICE cochins.

 

[MacGuyver]

Here is some new buckeye chicks from a broody



and they say Buckeyes don't go broody, lol!

So cute!

 

[prettychicks]

Quote: Yeah, we all have our own horror stories to tell whether it be them getting killed by some animal or disease. It happens. We learn as we go. There is alot of valuable info here to read and learn rather than live it though.

 

[prettychicks]

Cute baby chicks guys!

 

[NanaKat]

Going back to read the posts from today...
Daughter is recovering in hospital after surgery today. Robotic surgery for hysterectomy took longer than normal because she had big issues to deal with....The new procedure brings recovery time to 2 weeks instead of the 6 weeks.

 

[prettychicks]

Going back to read the posts from today...
Daughter is recovering in hospital after surgery today. Robotic surgery for hysterectomy took longer than normal because she had big issues to deal with....The new procedure brings recovery time to 2 weeks instead of the 6 weeks.

Praying for a speedy recovery for your daughter.