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LisaYolkUm said:
oops----I meant to say 20 WEEKS or 24 WEEKS ..............not months!
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I'm not sure, but I think if they reach POL this time of year, you may have to wait till spring for eggs…
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If if makes you feel any better, I have Orps that were hatched in mid April….not an egg yet! But they sure are nice to look at….




So I had a HUGE hawk terrorizing my birds today. I was out with them most of the day doing work and couldn't figure out why they were all so skittish. Then I went in for water and heard amazing commotion. They were all hiding so well, I couldn't find them to count heads. I found a traumatized chick around 4:30, she has some scales scraped off one leg and a small wound under her wing…poor thing. I put some triple antibiotic ointment on her wounds.

Oh, and here's my guardian…snoozing on the job.


 
Blarneyeggs said:
I'm not sure, but I think if they reach POL this time of year, you may have to wait till spring for eggs…
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If if makes you feel any better, I have Orps that were hatched in mid April….not an egg yet! But they sure are nice to look at….




So I had a HUGE hawk terrorizing my birds today. I was out with them most of the day doing work and couldn't figure out why they were all so skittish. Then I went in for water and heard amazing commotion. They were all hiding so well, I couldn't find them to count heads. I found a traumatized chick around 4:30, she has some scales scraped off one leg and a small wound under her wing…poor thing. I put some triple antibiotic ointment on her wounds.

Oh, and here's my guardian…snoozing on the job.


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cute chooks-n-cute pooch....be glad 'he's' not attacking your leg.....lol
 
sharron said:
are you sure that millie is a cochin? looks like a dark brahma pullet:idunno
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The girl we got her from claims to had about 47 cochins and has downsized to 19 for the winter. I crept through her social media and found pictures of her 2 cochin roosters and lots of hens/pullets. They were cochins. I looked up dark brahma pullets, and their penciling seems to be much more defined and clear.

I actually lost her and have no clue where she's at. I was planning on keeping her in tonight because it'll only be 34. She's 3 and a half months. I fell asleep on the couch at 3 and woke up at 630. I hurried up and went outside and she wasn't in the coop. We (my whole fam and neighbors) searched every possible places we could think of, going from yard to yard. We couldn't find her. I'm beside myself. I love her so much and I'm so mad at myself for sleeping too long. She's small and so vulnerable, and we have a GIANT fox and quite a few raccoons. I'll be up at the crack of dawn tomorrow out looking. The problem is, she doesn't consider MY flock HER flock and doesn't consider the coop home yet obviously. When she wakes up, she'll be out looking for food. My neighbors have chickens, and they have roosters. I hope if she hears them crow she'll go to them. I told my neighbors to keep an eye out.
 
chippysmom327 said:
The girl we got her from claims to had about 47 cochins and has downsized to 19 for the winter. I crept through her social media and found pictures of her 2 cochin roosters and lots of hens/pullets. They were cochins. I looked up dark brahma pullets, and their penciling seems to be much more defined and clear.

I actually lost her and have no clue where she's at. I was planning on keeping her in tonight because it'll only be 34. She's 3 and a half months. I fell asleep on the couch at 3 and woke up at 630. I hurried up and went outside and she wasn't in the coop. We (my whole fam and neighbors) searched every possible places we could think of, going from yard to yard. We couldn't find her. I'm beside myself. I love her so much and I'm so mad at myself for sleeping too long. She's small and so vulnerable, and we have a GIANT fox and quite a few raccoons. I'll be up at the crack of dawn tomorrow out looking. The problem is, she doesn't consider MY flock HER flock and doesn't consider the coop home yet obviously. When she wakes up, she'll be out looking for food. My neighbors have chickens, and they have roosters. I hope if she hears them crow she'll go to them. I told my neighbors to keep an eye out.
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Chippy:

I played that game with one of my marans a few months ago....she refused to go into the coop and was roosting 5' off the ground where the pen's fence meets the coop....I wandered through rain storms for hours with a flashlight....she always showed up in the morning and ultimately I found out she wasn't hiding under bushes all night....I was really worried the same as you....but she never left....Hope you find her well....
 
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Chippy:

I played that game with one of my marans a few months ago....she refused to go into the coop and was roosting 5' off the ground where the pen's fence meets the coop....I wandered through rain storms for hours with a flashlight....she always showed up in the morning and ultimately I found out she wasn't hiding under bushes all night....I was really worried the same as you....but she never left....Hope you find her well....
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Thanks! Do you free range too?
 
I found her I found her I found her I found her
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She was smashed in under my lilac bush. And when I say she was crushed in, she was totally crushed in. The bottom of it has a lot of thin sticks, but they're all sooo close together and thick. It's funny because I asked my one dog (very smart and good at finding things. One time when my older dog was younger, she ran into the woods [she was part beagle, so once she was off her leash, good luck finding her, especially in summertime woods] and we told him "go find Lizzie" and sure enough he went in and came back out about 5 minutes later with her) "go find the chicken! Where's the chicken?" and he kept pointing to that lilac bush and jumping around and getting excited. I crawled around on my hands and knees and looked and looked and told him no, she wasn't in there. Everytime I'd ask him, he'd run back to the bush and jump around. I thought "she has to be in here" so I looked some more REALLY hard. She wasn't in there. We called off the search. My dad came home from work, and he was looking all around too. He said "I found her!" and sure enough, she was in the very middle if the lilac bush. Her body was still warm. I brought her inside anyway. To thank me she pooped on my coat. Yay. My mom says I should rename her Lila but I said she looked more like a Millie.
 
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chippysmom327 said:
I found her I found her I found her I found her
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She was smashed in under my lilac bush. And when I say she was crushed in, she was totally crushed in. The bottom of it has a lot of thin sticks, but they're all sooo close together and thick. It's funny because I asked my one dog (very smart and good at finding things. One time when my older dog was younger, she ran into the woods [she was part beagle, so once she was off her leash, good luck finding her, especially in summertime woods] and we told him "go find Lizzie" and sure enough he went in and came back out about 5 minutes later with her) "go find the chicken! Where's the chicken?" and he kept pointing to that lilac bush and jumping around and getting excited. I crawled around on my hands and knees and looked and looked and told him no, she wasn't in there. Everytime I'd ask him, he'd run back to the bush and jump around. I thought "she has to be in here" so I looked some more REALLY hard. She wasn't in there. We called off the search. My dad came home from work, and he was looking all around too. He said "I found her!" and sure enough, she was in the very middle if the lilac bush. Her body was still warm. I brought her inside anyway. To thank me she pooped on my coat. Yay. My mom says I should rename her Lila but I said she looked more like a Millie.
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Chippy:

Congrats on finding her...and, yes I free range sort of, I have a 1/2 acre fenced and they get let out in the morning and aside from my basque they all put themselves to bed and I just close the pen at dusk...

PS: remember that spot if she goes missing again, there's where you can find her....
 
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