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[finnfur]

Great picture Tom! I've seen it before, but it's alway fun to see it again. Gotta love a rooster with such confidence....though I'm not sure his girls share his confidence in the route to get to said greener pastures! LOL!

or maybe the girls were ganging up and making him walk the plank

 

[catdaddyfro]

or maybe the girls were ganging up and making him walk the plank

yeah I had sorta the same thought I thought maybe they were sending him back to the henhouse LOL

Jeff

 

[finnfur]

yeah I had sorta the same thought I thought maybe they were sending him back to the henhouse LOL

Jeff

Or the Doghouse

 

[Serrin]

LOL! Well, I hadn't thought of it in those terms, but, now that you mention it...........Yeah, that could be just what the ladies are thinking....."Some rooster you turned out to be bub! You couldn't even find us some good bugs! Back to the coop with you!"

 

[rancher hicks]

Yep them critters are hungry - Both of my Enets got a strand chewed presume before it got hit with the 5k hi voltage. LOL
No penetration. Did find fresh rabbit fur out side the fence so he must have settled on rabbit instead of chicken.

Friend sent me a email with this Pic and thought it was cute.

Ok ladies , follow me . The grass is greener over here !

I can't be sure but I think I've seen the pic before, except they were going in the other directions. Must have been after they ate all the bugs and were on their way home.

 

[rancher hicks]

or maybe the girls were ganging up and making him walk the plank

Wonder what he did to get exiled?

 

[rancher hicks]

Since this is the Del thread. I'm sorry to say I set a whole incubator 35 of eggs and only two are fertile. One is an EE too. I'm letting them go in hopes that both will hatch. I've debated pulling the plug but for that one Del egg.

Now George had gotten sick and was being picked on, I think by the young roo. I don't intend to keep the young one but had moved George to himself and he's doing much better after some Duramycin. Poor thing needs to grow back his feathers.

He is now with newly named Gracie who had been waddling around for some time. She was eating so I just left her and she's now walking okay. So what every was the problem it has passed. I did mix a lot of grit in the crumble mush they've been on since the young ones hatched. Too she was getting up on the roost each night so I figured she wasn't too uncomfortable. I saw her poop last night so she much be working things out alright. Don't know that she'll lay but she's alive for now.

We've had some snow yesterday and I am not happy. The temps of course a low and my arthritis is giving me grief. I've heated waterers in some coops but still drag out fresh. I just can't seem to get used to not doing so. Chickens need lots of clean water.

In the winter my garage has the snowblower in one lane and the wagon with water jugs in the other. Aimed at the door ready to go.

Still lots to do though.

 

[finnfur]

Sorry to hear about the low fertility on the eggs. Maybe George is not doing his job.
But glad they are all turning the corner to wellness.

We don't have the freeze problem here [ 28 last night] but I have a hose from my freeze free undergrounds and when I go to feed turn it on and it puddles on the ground .They all flock to the puddle to water up over the FF I put in the trough . Seems they like that water on the ground more than the waterers in the coop which I now only change once a week in winter and twice in summer. I figure they getting fresh daily.

 

[rancher hicks]

Sorry to hear about the low fertility on the eggs. Maybe George is not doing his job.
But glad they are all turning the corner to wellness.

We don't have the freeze problem here [ 28 last night] but I have a hose from my freeze free undergrounds and when I go to feed turn it on and it puddles on the ground .They all flock to the puddle to water up over the FF I put in the trough . Seems they like that water on the ground more than the waterers in the coop which I now only change once a week in winter and twice in summer. I figure they getting fresh daily.

I think that when there is more than one rooster in a confined area one dominates and the older is soon ousted by the younger one. When I put Gracie in with George he perked right up. I will be giving him his own coop and flock. Things should improve then. I hope to put a more concentrated effort into developing my line.

 

[Serrin]

Those silly birds of mine do the same thing, Tom. I can spend every bit of a half hour scrubbing their buckets each morning in the summer [algae growing on the sides and bottoms of their buckets is a constant problem] fill them up with yummy fresh cold water, and what do they want to do? Drink from the puddles on the ground!

Why do I half kill myself, just to have them drink mud?!?!? I guess it's just tastier when it's straight from the ground.