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[BBAcres]

Someone is finally growing in their feathers like the rest of them....He ( I'm guessing) sure is a bully!! But so is the other Brahma's lol

 

[artsyrobin]

morning guys.... i have quite a group coming to the swap next month- question, if the roo is an ee, does that make all chicks EE's? i have a mixed flock.... like a brahma/ee chick, so he he an EE?

 

[Oceanseve]

Oh no!!!! I have some EE's hatching now you are welcome to a few if you want. Not 100% sure what they will look like. We traded a friend for her cool green eggs. The mommas are all EE's but she has 3 roos so not sure who the baby daddies are, lol. But they are hatching out now as I type so I am sure we have a few to spare.

Thanks oakie, I don't know if we're going to get more this year. We had had no chick deaths this year till this. I think it's a sign to stop. I'm trying to take care of too much at the same time. Besides, wasn't it you that had the puppies? I'm afraid if I come to your place I might leave with more than just chicks!

All I've heard since saturday is "I fell in love with those puppies mama" "Grandma, there were puppies there and I just loved them!" "Remember those puppies they were so cute. I'm in love with them."

 

[RetiredArmyWife]

Good morning okies, well yesterday was every chicken lovers nightmare for me. someone had let their dogs roam free and they came over to my place about
6am and killed all my 2 month old marans and americaunas. There were 40 marans and 10 blue ams. As you can imagine im a little emotional about it. Lots of anger and some regret. You always have feel like its your fault, like you could have done more. On the up side I did hatch out 5 of my bantam blue americauna

Dang I'm sorry. So much loss on the list lately. Congrats on the hatching though.

 

[Oceanseve]

Anybody know how I can get a hold of FunChick? Wasn't it her that was selling the bracelets? A relative saw the bracelet we got and wants one, but I don't know how to contact her? I PMed her, but I'm guessing she doesn't get on much.

 

[RetiredArmyWife]

I have a question that sounds kind of strange. Can a rooster break a chickens neck trying to breed? My OEGB died yesterday. She was in the chicken yard when hubby found her. just laying there dead. Hubby said her neck looked broken. All the other chickens were fine and I was home all day and didn't hear them get upset. Zebra usually left the small chickens alone, but I noticed him trying to mate with my RIR yesterday and she is way too small/young. He is a big Barred Rock and isn't having any luck trying to mate with the bigger chickens. I think he's trying to move on to the smaller chickens thinking they'll be easier to mate with. Should I seperate him from the smaller chickens?

 

[Oceanseve]

I have a question that sounds kind of strange. Can a rooster break a chickens neck trying to breed? My OEGB died yesterday. She was in the chicken yard when hubby found her. just laying there dead. Hubby said her neck looked broken. All the other chickens were fine and I was home all day and didn't hear them get upset. Zebra usually left the small chickens alone, but I noticed him trying to mate with my RIR yesterday and she is way too small/young. He is a big Barred Rock and isn't having any luck trying to mate with the bigger chickens. I think he's trying to move on to the smaller chickens thinking they'll be easier to mate with. Should I seperate him from the smaller chickens?

Sorry, I've heard they can do serious damage, but never heard of a broken neck.

 

[Ksane]

Good morning okies, well yesterday was every chicken lovers nightmare for me. someone had let their dogs roam free and they came over to my place about
6am and killed all my 2 month old marans and americaunas. There were 40 marans and 10 blue ams. As you can imagine im a little emotional about it. Lots of anger and some regret. You always have feel like its your fault, like you could have done more. On the up side I did hatch out 5 of my bantam blue americauna

Oh my God, that's terrible. I'm so sick to death of loose dogs. I'm not sure I could continue on with chickens if I lost that many in one day.

Woke up to one baby out and another popped up a few minutes later. One is working it's way out. But It's been working on it's way out since yesterday. Still wiggling and peeping. Idk I'm going to just let it be I guess,

Is that one of the pheasant babies?? Too cool.

Someone is finally growing in their feathers like the rest of them....He ( I'm guessing) sure is a bully!! But so is the other Brahma's lol

The males supposedly take FOREVER to grow their feathers in. I swear to God, I didn't know he was a male! It's pretty obvious now though. When you took him they all 5 had the same pretty lacing all down their feathers that were coming in. I thought all 5 were girls. Course 3 wks is pretty early to sex them but they all looked the same then!

morning guys.... i have quite a group coming to the swap next month- question, if the roo is an ee, does that make all chicks EE's? i have a mixed flock.... like a brahma/ee chick, so he he an EE?

That's a good question......I know with a true Ameraucana cross all the chicks are EE's and will lay blue or green eggs. I'm not sure how that would work with an EE since they're already a mixed breed to start with. If she/he's got the beard, I'd call it an EE.

 

[Kassaundra]

Sorry

to everyone w/ chicken losses over the past couple of days

 

[Ksane]

Oh, RetriedArmyWife-I suppose it would be entirely possible because the roos grab them by the top of the head to breed them. What makes him think the neck was broken? They're so floppy after they die and babies are so fragile anyway I'm not sure if you'd be able to tell if the neck was broken or not.