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Cookie, with one of her new babies peeking out, courtesy of fisherlady :) she seems to have accepted them without any fuss whatsoever. This little one peeking out has already been pecking at Cookie's face and eye and she just has that contented mommy look lol
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That's awesome! And happened quickly! Cookie looks pleased with herself! :lol:
 
AnneInTheBurbs said:
That's awesome! And happened quickly! Cookie looks pleased with herself! :lol:
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I'm thrilled with how quickly she accepted them. I was a bit worried since the last time she had babies, she would thoroughly attack any babies that weren't hers. I guess that she was just ready for babies this time and it didn't matter where they came from lol :)
 
We lost a foster chicken today... I'm not sure what happened. Yesterday I noticed a poop in the chicken tractor that had a bit of blood in it but everyone looked fine so I had no idea who it came from. This morning I noticed the RIR roo (sorry @speney !) had a little bit of a dirty butt, but he looked and acted fine otherwise. I even spent some time in the tractor with the birds this morning, working on petting them and hand-feeding them and he seemed just fine. I went down this afternoon when the kids got off the bus and he was dead in the middle of the run :( His head/neck was arched back but I couldn't see any injuries. No lice or other parasites that I could see. The back of his neck was plucked, but I'm guessing that happened post-mortem by his former friends - there weren't any injuries on his neck. His comb looked weird, like the color was drained out of it.

The only thing I could think of is that hubs spread some DE in all the chicken areas a few days ago and he isn't very careful about not making a big cloud of it in the air. They would have breathed it in when he spread it down and some got in their waterer but settled to the bottom. Could that have affected them? Any other reason a chicken would get blood in their poop and drop dead the next day??? I'm hoping we aren't looking at anything that could spread to the other chickens. ***And sorry about your roo @speney , if it is an illness it's probably better that it happened here while they are quarantined in a tractor.
 
RedRaptor13 said:
So it turns out one of the 16 Australorp chicks keeled over in the night. We found him buried under his brethren. I feel bad, afraid he might have been crushed even though we had the heat lamp positioned right. I think it was right. The chicks did spread out and didn't pile up except when we were handling them. He was a big one, too. RIP

One chick is spraddle-legged. Well, one of her legs is spraddled. One is straight. We followed an online tutorial we found here using band-aids to fix her little crooked leg, but she keeps ripping it off! Suggestions?

Lastly, I'm starting to worry our new 7-month-old RIW roo may be gay, or at least has the mentality of a 5-year-old child.

My hen: "Good morning, handsome. You're looking particularly roostery today." *peck peck*

My roo: "Oh my god, it's touching me! It's touching meeeee!" *flees in abject terror*
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For my two cents...give it some time....my four older girls kicked my young roo's tuckas for months...but, now he's the stud muffin and he's got them girls all in line....
 
When I pulled out this week's eggs for lockdown, I realized that my incubator is now about half empty !!
It has been full to the brim since February. I just put 102 eggs into lockdown, but it's so weird to have room in the incubator.

On a related note, if anyone wants eggs for hatching, I have some now I wouldn't part with before, like CCL's and Welsummers. Going to start eating those after this Saturday's final setting of the year
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I'm a bit sad and maybe also a bit relieved. A lot of the chicks I'm hatching from here on out will probably end up free ranging on the farm. Inquiries about buying chicks have dropped off dramatically.
 

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