people with house chickens

[Tacampbell1973]

Pepper sure is pretty! What breed is she?

Thank you, thank you. Pepper and brothers are Bantam Gold Laced Cochin. Raised them from three weeks old. Such fluffy little things too. I have managed to keep all three brothers so far and they sort of communally watch the flock as a team. I looked out on them one day and each boy was facing a different direction checking for any danger. I am hoping and praying the boys continue to get along as I don't want to have to make a choice. Ironically I have three human sons also, so it would be like trying to pick which ofmy human sons to keep, couldn't do it.

 

[MaddiesMum]

For lice i just do the ivomec to the back of the neck. Takes about 3 days then they are all gone.

I am planning to adopt out much of my flock next spring, looking for the rifht family. I have decided that with work 6 days a week a little over a trio would be perfect

This means if i don't get swamped with bills i can maybe build a take apart 3x6 coop that is predator proof, use it for the house ones then spring i'll have my coop.... spring fever already!

I have never heard of ivomec! I searched it up and have heard good things. Perhaps I will give it a try when I have my own bird(s) again.. sounds much easier than the possibly toxic powders that are usually used, especially for the people here with birds in the house.

And good luck with finding some loving homes, I'm sure there are lots out there!

 

[MaddiesMum]

I made a little memorial ornament for my Maddie girl last night, wish I had some more feathers of her to fill it up but it is kind of nice how the feathers can flow around in there as well.
I'm gonna tie some fishing line to it and hang it from the ceiling in a nice spot.

 

[MsChickenMomma]

I made a little memorial ornament for my Maddie girl last night, wish I had some more feathers of her to fill it up but it is kind of nice how the feathers can flow around in there as well. I'm gonna tie some fishing line to it and hang it from the ceiling in a nice spot.

That is really cute. I want to do something like this for my Sunni Bunny (Sunni's nickname), but I'm thinking I should make a scrap book. With pictures of her as a baby, when she was sick, her progress, how she is now, etc. Just something to full up over the years so I'll have a piece of her when she passes on some day. Oh and I'll have to make sure and tape the screw in their that she ate a while back that we had to stick long magnets down her throat to get it out. (yes I still have the screw ) When Sunni was starting to learn how to eat on her own again, she was so excited about finally being able to eat, that she ate anything and everything that she could get down. One of those things just happened to be a half inch screw. *sigh* We spent over and hour trying to get it up with magnets, because I didn't want the screw to do any internal damage to her, like the horror stories I read about screws on this forum. Lets just say I have been through a LOT with this girl. Lol

 

[MaddiesMum]

That is really cute.

I want to do something like this for my Sunni Bunny (Sunni's nickname), but I'm thinking I should make a scrap book. With pictures of her as a baby, when she was sick, her progress, how she is now, etc. Just something to full up over the years so I'll have a piece of her when she passes on some day. Oh and I'll have to make sure and tape the screw in their that she ate a while back that we had to stick long magnets down her throat to get it out. (yes I still have the screw

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When Sunni was starting to learn how to eat on her own again, she was so excited about finally being able to eat, that she ate anything and everything that she could get down. One of those things just happened to be a half inch screw. *sigh* We spent over and hour trying to get it up with magnets, because I didn't want the screw to do any internal damage to her, like the horror stories I read about screws on this forum.

Lets just say I have been through a LOT with this girl. Lol

Haha that is an awesome idea! I can't believe she ate a screw.. then again I can hahah. I would keep the screw too, I keep everything for memories sake.
That must've been scary with the magnets.. I'd be scared of getting it caught on something, yiiikes!

 

[MsChickenMomma]

Haha that is an awesome idea! I can't believe she ate a screw.. then again I can hahah. I would keep the screw too, I keep everything for memories sake.

That must've been scary with the magnets.. I'd be scared of getting it caught on something, yiiikes!

It was very scary. But I had my parents help me hold her, which made it easier to get the long telescoping magnet down safely. At first we were using refrigerator magnets on either side of her throat to try and guide it up, but that wasnt working.

Thankfully my dad used to build machines, so he had the really strong telescoping magnet.

 

[Tacampbell1973]

Wow those are both really neat "keepsake" ideas for your feathered babies. I have been saving a ziploc baggie ofall their baby feathers since I have had them. Not quite as noble as an ornament, but I started a scrapbook and then stupidly didn't write whose featherswhere whos so its kinda a crapshoot whos is whos.

 

[MsChickenMomma]

Wow those are both really neat "keepsake" ideas for your feathered babies. I have been saving a ziploc baggie ofall their baby feathers since I have had them. Not quite as noble as an ornament, but I started a scrapbook and then stupidly didn't write whose featherswhere whos so its kinda a crapshoot whos is whos.

I bet it's still a pretty scrapbook!

 

[Tacampbell1973]

hello forum friends, I just had a question, Maddies mum maybe you can tell me or someone, the feather in your ornament, how it is colored, what do you call that feather patterm. Is that considered "penciling"? Reason I ask is that my game bird cross Agnes has that same feather pattern and I am curious how to describe it. She is all over a cream color, but her feather patterns change from her neck to saddle to tail. The colors alternate and then change place. What I'm trying to say (and failing miserably) is that at her head she is cream with the darker chocolate brown tips of the feathers, but somewhere around her neck/cape area it switches almost seamlessly to chocolate with cream tips and then changes pattern again by her tail. It is really beautiful and I can' t get a decent picture of her as she is really distrustful of the camera. Iwill include the best one I can here.

She has a very predatorial almost raptor look to her face, like an eagle..

This one above here is the best I think to show what I mean....

She is a real pretty bird but no idea what to call the coloring...

 

[MaddiesMum]

I'm not sure, Maddie was a polish silkie mix from what I was told (maybe there was more mixed in somewhere) It does look similar to penciled feathers though. Pretty girl by the way!