Shark snipers Wine dots NEW HATCHES and puppies 1/24/2011 update

[sonew123]

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Im with Mary-no breeding for her I mean at least no icubating or selling her eggs for anything other that eating. I have a girl with a funky toe--bent out a little and I wont use her for breeding-she is one of the free rangers tht has yet to lay eggs-I think she 4 months old? Either way she's sweet so she stays to sweeten the egg eating pot

 

[blessedchickenmama7]

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Thanks, Mary. She is an SF. I only had 3 hatch. They are 5 to 6 days old. And all three are getting black coloring on their wings. Please, not three more roos. I now have 16 chicks in all. And this will make 9 roos!

SF people, if they are showing black this early, it means roos, right?

 

[blessedchickenmama7]

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Yep, sure is. I just looked again and went back and read again and looked at pics. I think I may be seeing the normal brown that they get (even the girls get a bit) and possibly blue. I'm not going off the deep end just yet. I should be able to tell for sure in a couple more weeks.

 

[sonew123]

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Yep, sure is. I just looked again and went back and read again and looked at pics. I think I may be seeing the normal brown that they get (even the girls get a bit) and possibly blue. I'm not going off the deep end just yet. I should be able to tell for sure in a couple more weeks.

yeah well you know how they say chicks whos feathers grow out alot faster than the others are girls? Like oprs? Well I have 9 orp chicks and 2 have feathers thats are twice as grown in than the other 7-so that would make it 7 roos and 2 pullets!!! oh crapola!

 

[hoppy]

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sorry blessed, I have kids and went through the same thing. I no longer keep any roos that are mean, ever! there just simply are too many nicer ones out there and don't use him in the breeding, you'll only add more chicks with his temperment.

 

[blessedchickenmama7]

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Yep, sure is. I just looked again and went back and read again and looked at pics. I think I may be seeing the normal brown that they get (even the girls get a bit) and possibly blue. I'm not going off the deep end just yet. I should be able to tell for sure in a couple more weeks.

yeah well you know how they say chicks whos feathers grow out alot faster than the others are girls? Like oprs? Well I have 9 orp chicks and 2 have feathers thats are twice as grown in than the other 7-so that would make it 7 roos and 2 pullets!!! oh crapola!

Goodness, Nat! Hopefully that will change. How old are they?

 

[blessedchickenmama7]

I am so hoping Imelda is a girl, because I can keep her in the mixed pen and just let her lay eating eggs. But if she's not a she, and has the deformed feet, then the "not breeding" becomes tougher and I'll have to have a bachelor pad for him. Either way, I'm keeping that chick. I've been told I'll learn the hard way about trying to keep the "problem chicks" but I have to.

Now mean chickens, that's another question. And I agree with you, Hoppy. I can't keep anything that's mean. But I can't get rid of something because it has a defect if it can live a halfway decent life with some modifications made for it.

My friend tells me so many chicks have problems I'll end up being the chicken rehab lady and spend too much on food if I keep this up. What do y'all think? Would y'all keep her/him?

 

[Phage]

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Our coop is full of runts and rejects, they are all super friendly, lay great eggs and we love each one very much!!!

 

[seminolewind]

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Too bad about freezer camp, too bad he can't come to camp seminole for behavior modification.

I didn't do the behavior modification. I think the duck is gonna handle it for me. I put the babies in the big pen but still in their brooder for a couple days so the old roo and the duck could get used to them. Then yesterday I let them out. Well, Little Meanness went straight for the duck and had him backed in a corner. Crazy, cause the duck is way bigger than that little roo. Anyway, the duck was terrified, for about two or three minutes. And then he'd had enough. Bit the daylights out of him. He sqwaked and came running. I wasn't in the pen, so I couldn't pick him up, but I watched. He got beaten around a bit then they left him alone. And he went back for more!!! He'll figure it out. The big roo finally had enough of the little roo running around and acting like that and put him in his place.

Today, they seemed to have established an order, and he's no longer the head roo at all. (Seriously, at this age could he already have been head roo??) Today, he was calm and docile and much more normal. So hopefully, this is going to help. I am also picking him up and carrying him. Until today, all that had gotten me was some extra efforts at biting. I've read that if you do that it helps them to see you as the dominant one. Not sure, but I'm hoping it works.

What do you do for behavior modification? It's gotta happen soon, because I have small children around and we can't have him acting like that around them. And since we let them out to range some, it could be dangerous for the kids if he continues this aggressiveness. He's just worrying me because he's the worst I've seen.

I've done a few roos with real good results. The big Barred Rock next door was attacking the neighbor, so I went over there and demonstrated, of course the neighbor is clueless and he's a "man" so he really doesn't listen to women. (so also, after telling him 100 times that hens do not eat scratch and scratch only, one of his hens broke her leg due to rickets, then he finally now feeds them layer, and I got the hen, heehee).

But his roo won't come after me anymore. My silkie roo was attacking me, and I cured him as well. First off, you never back away. And you don't get into a fight with him like with a stick. You put on some heavy clothes, and go and make him move off his spot, and keep walking behind him making him move and move and move. Then you don't let him go to eat, you shoosh him away with your foot, just like pushing him along. The same with the water. You have to show him that you dictate what he does. I would do this for about 10-15 minutes a day. It makes you alpha roo. Just keep walking toward him and shooshing him along with your foot without being mean, if you're mean you give him reason to fight. Then I would just pick him up and pet him because I can. He became my my moosh mouse, and he would wait for me every night to tuck him in. Sadly he died, I think it was latent Marek's, he was 2 1/2 years old.

But it gives you great satisfaction to modify a roo. I had 5 roos and no problems. I like your duck story, LOL

 

[Brindlebtch]

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Too bad about freezer camp, too bad he can't come to camp seminole for behavior modification.

I didn't do the behavior modification. I think the duck is gonna handle it for me. I put the babies in the big pen but still in their brooder for a couple days so the old roo and the duck could get used to them. Then yesterday I let them out. Well, Little Meanness went straight for the duck and had him backed in a corner. Crazy, cause the duck is way bigger than that little roo. Anyway, the duck was terrified, for about two or three minutes. And then he'd had enough. Bit the daylights out of him. He sqwaked and came running. I wasn't in the pen, so I couldn't pick him up, but I watched. He got beaten around a bit then they left him alone. And he went back for more!!! He'll figure it out. The big roo finally had enough of the little roo running around and acting like that and put him in his place.

Today, they seemed to have established an order, and he's no longer the head roo at all. (Seriously, at this age could he already have been head roo??) Today, he was calm and docile and much more normal. So hopefully, this is going to help. I am also picking him up and carrying him. Until today, all that had gotten me was some extra efforts at biting. I've read that if you do that it helps them to see you as the dominant one. Not sure, but I'm hoping it works.

What do you do for behavior modification? It's gotta happen soon, because I have small children around and we can't have him acting like that around them. And since we let them out to range some, it could be dangerous for the kids if he continues this aggressiveness. He's just worrying me because he's the worst I've seen.

You shouldn't keep a mean roo, he will NEVER be dependable around your kids. And why would you want to breed a mean roo? Lots of nice, sweet roos out there. Mean roos taste really good.