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Is it weird that I'm sitting on the living room floor watching the opening ceremonies of the Olympics with a rooster falling asleep on my lap? Lol. Jazz, the boy in my avitar spends a lot of time alone, indoors right now since he and my other serama roo don't get along. Neither one of them are suited to or used to the cold so they take turns with the ladies. Jazz is very social so I end up holding him a lot when it's his turn inside. I'd say he's getting rather spoiled and very used to this treatment lol
 
Auroradream26 said:
Is it weird that I'm sitting on the living room floor watching the opening ceremonies of the Olympics with a rooster falling asleep on my lap? Lol. Jazz, the boy in my avitar spends a lot of time alone, indoors right now since he and my other serama roo don't get along. Neither one of them are suited to or used to the cold so they take turns with the ladies. Jazz is very social so I end up holding him a lot when it's his turn inside. I'd say he's getting rather spoiled and very used to this treatment lol
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Not weird at all...or else we are all weird too, lol...It is rather rare anymore for us to NOT have a bird or two in the house for some reason over the winter. And we have dedicated treat dishes for them, along with feeders and waterers. LOL
 
troyer said:
Just decided to check in today. We have some serious snowy weather lately, and c-c-cold!!
But hey, lets think spring.
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So nice to see you! Hope all is well. We miss your lovely photos.

Auroradream26 said:
Is it weird that I'm sitting on the living room floor watching the opening ceremonies of the Olympics with a rooster falling asleep on my lap? Lol. Jazz, the boy in my avitar spends a lot of time alone, indoors right now since he and my other serama roo don't get along. Neither one of them are suited to or used to the cold so they take turns with the ladies. Jazz is very social so I end up holding him a lot when it's his turn inside. I'd say he's getting rather spoiled and very used to this treatment lol
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Haha, no, I think we all understand that. We went out for a date night tonight, my first hockey game. It was a lot of fun, but in the way home, I was only thinking about locking down my eggs and upping the humidity.


fisherlady said:
Not weird at all...or else we are all weird too, lol...It is rather rare anymore for us to NOT have a bird or two in the house for some reason over the winter. And we have dedicated treat dishes for them, along with feeders and waterers. LOL
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So true. I have the two leghorn girls that will be moved out to the coop tomorrow, thankfully because of the warm up. But in a few days, I will hopefully have more chicks to keep in a brooder. You know, that new updated brooder I have been meaning to make before the eggs hatched...
 
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Speaking of eggs, this will be a rough hatch. These were shipped eggs, and some have wonky saddle air cells. Then I added about a dozen eggs two days later for a friend. Tonight was lockdown, so I removed some trays from the turner, and laid them on their side in the Bator. I also upped the humidity.

Hopefully, I can get a few females out of these Biele eggs.
 
Almost forgot, does anyone else have lingering ice still? We have a lot of ice here after over a week. It seems to melt a little on some days, then just freezes up again at night. This weekend should melt it thankfully.

It has been comical to watch the poor girls slipping and sliding on the ice rink though! Today, the dog was playfully running around and spooked one of my BR turkeys. She flew straight up into the air, and when she landed, her feet went right out in front of her and she landed on her butt instead. It was hilarious. Thank goodness they have their wings to catch their balance fast.

I’m still thankful that @Auroradream26 advised me to elevate my coop so that they could run around underneath it, and so that I could reach them also. It has been the only dry place lately, and they have still been able to dust bathe.
 
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Speaking of eggs, this will be a rough hatch. These were shipped eggs, and some have wonky saddle air cells. Then I added about a dozen eggs two days later for a friend. Tonight was lockdown, so I removed some trays from the turner, and laid them on their side in the Bator. I also upped the humidity.

Hopefully, I can get a few females out of these Biele eggs.
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Good luck on your hatch!

AnneInTheBurbs said:
I’m still thankful that @Auroradream26 advised me to elevate my coop so that they could run around underneath it, and so that I could reach them also. It has been the only dry place lately, and they have still been able to dust bathe.
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I'm so glad that it's working out well for you! I know that I couldn't live without mine being up off the ground.
 
Busy busy morning here this morning. Played brooder shuffle all morning. The Marie mixes that I hatched are WAY too big to be in with the other babies so they've been moved to their own brooder. The brooder they were in got competely cleaned out and fresh bedding put in since those monsters poop a much as regular meaties. The babies in the house were getting way too big to be in the baby brooder so they were moved out to the brooder that the meaties were in with all the rest of the older babies. The new babies that hatched overnight (2 turkey poults and a CCL pullet) got to move out of the incubator and in to the house brooder. The serama babies went in with the adults but the adults aren't being nice so they're going to get their own brooder here in a few minutes. The turkey coop door needed shoveled out so I could open it the whole way and prop it open. I'm exhausted already! But not done yet. Gotta set up the little serama brooder and run to TSC then probably making up some more turkey saddles. One of my toms is a rough breeder :/ He won't be staying for long.
 
Auroradream26 said:
Busy busy morning here this morning. Played brooder shuffle all morning. The Marie mixes that I hatched are WAY too big to be in with the other babies so they've been moved to their own brooder. The brooder they were in got competely cleaned out and fresh bedding put in since those monsters poop a much as regular meaties. The babies in the house were getting way too big to be in the baby brooder so they were moved out to the brooder that the meaties were in with all the rest of the older babies. The new babies that hatched overnight (2 turkey poults and a CCL pullet) got to move out of the incubator and in to the house brooder. The serama babies went in with the adults but the adults aren't being nice so they're going to get their own brooder here in a few minutes. The turkey coop door needed shoveled out so I could open it the whole way and prop it open. I'm exhausted already! But not done yet. Gotta set up the little serama brooder and run to TSC then probably making up some more turkey saddles. One of my toms is a rough breeder :/ He won't be staying for long.
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We have been busy, but not more than normal with chicken stuff... We are moving a kitchen to a new spot in the house as the next renovation stage and doing new floors as part of the process. Our best friends were in a head on car crash and seriously injures almost 2 weeks ago so days off of work have involved hospital trips and we have their 100 lb dog living with us now and when they are released from rehab they will probably be living with us for a few weeks since we have a 1 story house and theirs is a two story with steps to entrance and they can't do that for a while. Has been hectic trying to get things in working order. .
 

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