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[Braclin]

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Most welcome!! They are very spoiled

I was on the phone with the gas company yesterday morning when Boone decides to start crowing. I tried going in the bedroom to get away when there was an awkward silence on the other end. THe lady says is that a rooster? I say yeah a baby. I guess she missed the yeah part and I wasnt very coherent, too early, lol and she says sounds just like a rooster. Few minutes later he crows again and she starts laughing and says that baby sounds just like a rooster. I say yeah its a baby rooster and she starts dying laughing. People think i'm a freak, lol.

Anyway Im gonna try and put the chicks that are suppose to hatch in 10 days with my hen thats just went broody. So i've got to finnish this brooder pretty quick.

 

[Serrin]

Cetawin, please pass along my condolences to Cheyenne.

I'm sorry that y'all lost Esme. She was a little cutie. God in heaven but I hate loosing them so young! It's one thing when they've been around the block quite a few times, but to go before she even began to lay: That's just heart breaking!

Redfeather, please give your boy a chance! Everyone, including roosters, are allowed to have bad days now and then. And like Cetawin said, it might be that you startled him accidentally. If you have time in the morning, take him out a nice big dish of cooked oatmeal with some yogurt and berries in it. Kind of a peace offering. Make a fuss over him and tell him how much you love him. He sounds like his ego has maybe been bruised a little somehow. If you show him how much you care about him, he'll likely settle down and return to being a sweetheart again. How old is he?

My Chief goes through moments of just not wanting to have anything to do with me. Heartbreaking as it is for me to accept those moments, I know that they aren't permanent and that eventually, he'll come back around to wanting some quality Mama/Chief time!

If I've learned one thing with these big silly boys, it's that you have to have patience with them. Some of them really do have very tender egos!

So sorry, no new pictures of Maggie and the girls today. Just as I was about to head outside and get some, DH decides it's time to go out for the afternoon hunt!

Thanks a peach there husband!

Yeah, I want to go hunting too. But I had already made up my mind that what I really wanted to do with my afternoon was to spend it with sweet little Maggie, Lisette and Cosette, and get some much needed pictures of their lives here at the Blue Feather Ranch!

Kathy? Are you SURE these two are little girls? Any chance that Cosette might actually be a Claude?

Great garden o' peas as Tim would say, I so hope I'm wrong about this! I really can't have a FIFTH roo!

Just keep your fingers crossed and good Karma thoughts for Cosette to be a pullet folks. It would just make my life a thousand percent easier to deal with!

I'll try again tomorrow to get some good pictures of mama Maggie and the GIRLS! We're only going to do the morning hunt, or so DH tells me. That should leave me with plenty of time in the afternoon and the weather forecast looks good. I just might get some really nice shots!

In the mean time, I hope y'all have a pleasant evening and a great day tomorrow. As for me, it's bed time as 4:00 am comes so ridiculously early!

 

[muddstopper]

Cynthia, I thought I would post a pic of little Maxie at three wks. I think it might be a roo, but they grow so fast, I aint sure yet. The other chicks are 1wk old buckeyes and some cuckoomaran/black australope cross. Sorry for the poor pic, the buggers wouldnt stand still.

 

[redfeather]

I dunno, I guess I was having a bad day, but he's never acted like that before... (and I used to go in and stroke him waaay after dark, and he always seemed to enjoy it)... like I said, maybe it's moulting season grouchiness. He is... oh boy... 2-3 years old? I really have lost track. I will tell you, though, he has massive, sharp spurs, and a massive comb and wattle.


One of the things for me, I was thinking the hatchery, because the Delawares would be sexed, which would be nice, and I don't really have very much money... I can't pay for a lot of shipping and stuff right now. I don't think I'll be able to be getting a job this year.... I dunno. I guess this is putting me off them now.

Yeah, I heard that (btw, what is the difference between an ameracauna and an auracana????) lots of places will sell really mutty auracana/ameracaunas.... it's so confusing!

 

[Cetawin]

Well an Araucana is a rumpless bird and an Ameraucana has a tail check out this site

here is some info for you:

http://feathersite.com/Poultry/CGA/Arau/BRKAraucanas.html

 

[speckledhen]

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Thank you, Bill. Male or female, that is Maxie's last baby. Maxie didn't have much color, but she had a very nice comb so with Isaac as it's dad, that one ought to be set in the comb dept. Not sure of the sex of that one yet, but males usually have smut all down their backs and on the shoulder area. The stance sure seems like a boy, though, doesn't it? Another week or two should tell the tale.

 

[Serrin]

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Soooooo.....Does that apply to Delaweggers too??

Inquiring minds really want to know!!

 

[NellaBean]

Okay, surprisingly enough........the poorly acting chick from last night made a huge turn around and looks 100x better this morning. The 4th chick also hatched......so that gives Cetawin's little bantam cochin henlady 4 little chicks of her own. 1 black, 2 yellow (1 with black spots on its head) and one chipmunk looking fluffy chick (the one with the neck thing)....2 hatched out of olive eggs, 2 hatched out of nice darkish brown eggs. . I took the rest of her eggs (4 or 5, can't remember) and stuffed them under my big RIR/Cochin broody. Now she has either 20 or 21 eggs, LOL. So I will candle them tonight and uh, er....pull out any bad ones? Those darn olive eggs are SO HARD to candle cause they are daaaaark.

 

[speckledhen]

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Soooooo.....Does that apply to Delaweggers too??

Inquiring minds really want to know!!

No, sorry, Amy. Their sexing is a bit harder.

 

[Cetawin]

Go little cochin mama Go

That's great about the other one Nella...I am glad it has turned around. So she 4 babies now....we need pics.

Off on the chicken, dog, duck, and cat food run. Plus some Joleta shopping. Picking up the wood for her stall and YES I AM EXCITED only a few more days!