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[18angovem]

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I am very impatient and want to plant plants but I know they would just die. And this year I splurged and bought expensive organ disease hardy blah blah blah plant seeds online. I doubled the garden size this year.

 

[chiques chicks]

Sounds like a potential new reality show "The Chicken Nanny" . . .

I have done this with some local families that can't have (or don't want) chickens outside, but have kids with a lot of energy for playing with chicks. It's educational and teach responsibility, and it's a pet that is designed to be temporary, no issues with mom or dad having to care for the pet after the kids have lost interest (not implying you'd lose interest, but kids sometimes do).

Of course sometimes the kids fall in love with "Belle" (the actual name of one that came back to us because "she" started crowing) and want to keep them forever.

Working the same angle.

Gave nephew eggs and incubator for his kids to watch them hatch.

A friend of theirs wanted to raise the chicks so the kids could watch them grow.

A friend of that person wants to start raising chickens!

I may sell chicks without ever seeing them!

I did, however, offer to take them at any time and to take the roosters off their hands if they don't want them. As long as they don't ask where they are going.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Any tips for breaking a stubborn broody? Little Cookie has been in a "broody breaker"box for a week now and I feel bad but she still hasn't laid an egg yet. The girl was being ststubbornly broody for a good two weeks before I put her in it. I kept tossing her out of the best and kicking her out of the coop but that didn't work. My broody breaker is just a dog crate up on little pieces of 2 x 4s so there's air flow on the bottom too and a branch shoved through it for a roost. Today I actualy the Chip in with her, hoping he'll mate her to get her back into laying but nothing so far. This girl is driving me crazy!

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Working the same angle.

Gave nephew eggs and incubator for his kids to watch them hatch.

A friend of theirs wanted to raise the chicks so the kids could watch them grow.

A friend of that person wants to start raising chickens!

I may sell chicks without ever seeing them!

I did, however, offer to take them at any time and to take the roosters off their hands if they don't want them. As long as they don't ask where they are going.

isn't it funny how certain people only want certain parts of chickendom? I sold 12 chicks to a couple last week who are very excited to get chickens again BUT they don't want to keep them over the winter so they're giving them back to us around November. They won't even get to laying age until at least October! So, we don't even have to raise them and we'll be getting back point of lay girls and full sized boys (for the freezer)

 

[AnneInTheBurbs]

Sounds like a potential new reality show "The Chicken Nanny" . . .

I have done this with some local families that can't have (or don't want) chickens outside, but have kids with a lot of energy for playing with chicks. It's educational and teach responsibility, and it's a pet that is designed to be temporary, no issues with mom or dad having to care for the pet after the kids have lost interest (not implying you'd lose interest, but kids sometimes do).

Of course sometimes the kids fall in love with "Belle" (the actual name of one that came back to us because "she" started crowing) and want to keep them forever.

My reality show would b so boring it wouldn't last. That sounds like a great option for a lot of parents whos kids want the experience. I'm so excited to have chicks again!

Working the same angle.

Gave nephew eggs and incubator for his kids to watch them hatch.

A friend of theirs wanted to raise the chicks so the kids could watch them grow.

A friend of that person wants to start raising chickens!

I may sell chicks without ever seeing them!

I did, however, offer to take them at any time and to take the roosters off their hands if they don't want them. As long as they don't ask where they are going.

Wow, that's a great setup too.

Any tips for breaking a stubborn broody? Little Cookie has been in a "broody breaker"box for a week now and I feel bad but she still hasn't laid an egg yet. The girl was being ststubbornly broody for a good two weeks before I put her in it. I kept tossing her out of the best and kicking her out of the coop but that didn't work. My broody breaker is just a dog crate up on little pieces of 2 x 4s so there's air flow on the bottom too and a branch shoved through it for a roost. Today I actualy the Chip in with her, hoping he'll mate her to get her back into laying but nothing so far. This girl is driving me crazy!

You know the answer to this one... Give her some eggs to hatch out!

 

[OneMountainAcres]

some of the girls found the compost pile they were collecting the potato peels I just threw in lol.

 

[LadyBehir]

I may be doing this all wrong, but I don't have a separate compost heap any more. I just throw all the stuff into the run. I plan on digging it out later, after it has passed through the chicken filter. I put kitchen waste and yard waste in there.

 

[troyer]

Any tips for breaking a stubborn broody? Little Cookie has been in a "broody breaker"box for a week now and I feel bad but she still hasn't laid an egg yet. The girl was being ststubbornly broody for a good two weeks before I put her in it. I kept tossing her out of the best and kicking her out of the coop but that didn't work. My broody breaker is just a dog crate up on little pieces of 2 x 4s so there's air flow on the bottom too and a branch shoved through it for a roost. Today I actualy the Chip in with her, hoping he'll mate her to get her back into laying but nothing so far. This girl is driving me crazy!

Give her a dozen eggs, let her hatch and take care of them for a few weeks and then take the chicks away from her when they are feathered out enough to be on their own.

 

[chiques chicks]

I'm not supposed to have the wood stove going at this time of year!

 

[emorems0]

We lost a bunny... maybe 3. Went out to fill the waters this afternoon and almost all of the straw was out of the nest. One was completely unresponsive and stiff, two others were barely responsive. The other 3 seemed okay. I removed them all from the nest box and filled it back up with straw, put the 3 back in and tried to warm up the other two in my hands a little. I debated bringing them inside to warm up, but figured they'd be better off with their siblings and momma (maybe she'd hop in to warm them up and feed them?). Heading out to 4H now so I won't be able to check on them until tomorrow.