She said/He said Who's right? Who's wrong? No one!

[WVduckchick]

From that angle they look about right. My boys had a Napoleon complex, when I came into the coop they would fly up to be at my eye level.

Of the 3 OEGB's, I've got 2 boys and the 1 girl. They are all 3 the sweetest things, and friendly. The sebrights are still very skittish, but getting better. The little Jap is friendly once I catch her, but goodness, she's quick! So far, the only Napoleon complex I seem to have is the sebright/modern mixed boy!

 

[Pyxis]

I hope no one minds me sharing a couple pictures I snapped this morning.

Ravyn, here's Snap Dragon, as you dubbed her, guarding her nest. Take a look at that glare I'm getting!

One of my cemani hens.

I really like this picture. Debating about making it my avatar.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

I hope no one minds me sharing a couple pictures I snapped this morning.

Ravyn, here's Snap Dragon, as you dubbed her, guarding her nest. Take a look at that glare I'm getting!



One of my cemani hens.



I really like this picture. Debating about making it my avatar.

Both beautiful, but that cemani pic is great!

 

[OldMissionChick]

They are about 5-6" tall, I'd say. Maybe the perspective is just off, because I feel like they are tiny! Even compared to my bantam cochin, these look little. That's a 50# bag of feed behind them, and that log is maybe 3" diameter

our oldest wants bantams so bad! We had a pair thatwe bought on a whim from the Strawberry Festival. Unfortunately one was a rooster and loved crowing at 5am. At the time city ordnance was no chickens & we were in the process of moving shortly after the purchase. So they made their way north to the farm at my FIL. Unfortunately his golden retriever (dubbed the golden eagle) didnt take well to them being a bird dog my in laws insisted on not telling the girls what really happened because they didn't want them to hate the dog. So we are thinking because we have a proper setup and the right location we would maybe get some in the spring.

 

[meganhundley]

Were you planning to breed her?  If so, that sucks. 


How about an update on the little ones?  Did the loud mouth finally settle down?

Yes, Grata Barn (Cry Baby in Icelandic) finally settled down and is 1 of my quietest and she still loves to be held and cuddled, everyone else scatters when I put my hand in the bator, she sits there and waits for me to pick her up, lol. The little black 1 died in the middle of the night lastnight I don't know what happened. Around 11 he started crying and just wouldn't quiet down for any length of time, I fed them thinking maybe he was hungry and he ate like normal and he had been drinking water with Poly-Vi-Sol in it. Something just looked off about the scab on his naval. It looked like it had gotten bigger. I think it had started to ooze at 1 point cause when I checked all their navals around 8 lastnight he had crusty stuff around the scab on his that hadn't been there before so I put another dab of iodine on it and some Neosporin and left it be. His belly felt kind of hard up above his naval though. I'm thinking maybe his naval had gotten infected?
All the others are doing great. I'm that they stay that way.

 

[WVduckchick]

I hope no one minds me sharing a couple pictures I snapped this morning.

Ravyn, here's Snap Dragon, as you dubbed her, guarding her nest. Take a look at that glare I'm getting!



One of my cemani hens.



I really like this picture. Debating about making it my avatar.

We love pics around here... share often, please. And Yes, that would make an awesome avatar... simply fabulous!

our oldest wants bantams so bad! We had a pair thatwe bought on a whim from the Strawberry Festival. Unfortunately one was a rooster and loved crowing at 5am. At the time city ordnance was no chickens & we were in the process of moving shortly after the purchase. So they made their way north to the farm at my FIL. Unfortunately his golden retriever (dubbed the golden eagle) didnt take well to them being a bird dog

my in laws insisted on not telling the girls what really happened because they didn't want them to hate the dog. So we are thinking because we have a proper setup and the right location we would maybe get some in the spring.

Cool! I say do it!

 

[Kraftcrazychick]

Lol, want them? She's laying an egg a day now and it seems a waste to let them go as eating eggs, I might have to sell some or something

Perhaps offer them as a prize in one of the Halloween hatch a long contests. Something! It just seems a shame to eat them...

I bet people would line up for those lovely eggs. Whatever you do with them is up to you, though but *pssst* call me.

That's my husband's new favorite there.

And WV has my new favorite.

Lacie is lovely! Sorry about all the troubles. I lost 6 of my last hatch, at less than a week old, when the brooder light bulb burned out and they trampled the smaller ones.

And its quite nice of you to not be too mad at the breeder, but I'm thinking a good breeder should have been able to tell these weren't pure, right? Maybe he might refund part of your money??

I think regardless you should let him know. It could be intentional or not but you will never know until you gauge the reaction. The way he handles it may very well help or hurt his name so it's in his best interest to respond.

I hope no one minds me sharing a couple pictures I snapped this morning.

Ravyn, here's Snap Dragon, as you dubbed her, guarding her nest. Take a look at that glare I'm getting!



One of my cemani hens.



I really like this picture. Debating about making it my avatar.

Love the pictures.

Yes, Grata Barn (Cry Baby in Icelandic) finally settled down and is 1 of my quietest and she still loves to be held and cuddled, everyone else scatters when I put my hand in the bator, she sits there and waits for me to pick her up, lol. The little black 1 died in the middle of the night lastnight

I don't know what happened. Around 11 he started crying and just wouldn't quiet down for any length of time, I fed them thinking maybe he was hungry and he ate like normal and he had been drinking water with Poly-Vi-Sol in it. Something just looked off about the scab on his naval. It looked like it had gotten bigger. I think it had started to ooze at 1 point cause when I checked all their navals around 8 lastnight he had crusty stuff around the scab on his that hadn't been there before so I put another dab of iodine on it and some Neosporin and left it be. His belly felt kind of hard up above his naval though. I'm thinking maybe his naval had gotten infected?
All the others are doing great. I'm

that they stay that way.

Sorry to hear about your black baby. I think you did everything that you could.

 

[RubyNala97]

Sorry to hear I just took mine in for her wellness checkup and to get her some wormer since I suspected she had pinworms, which she did. She is brumating so she was quite grumpy about the whole thing but the vet loved her and even took her picture. Here's the little grumpasaurus in her Halloween costume:

What are your son's dragon's symptoms? Thank you! Also, this was my 5000th post! Woo!

Love the pic!! To be honest, reptiles were not my thing, so to speak. My youngest sons dad said he was quite the reptile expert and had raised them all his life. So I never really looked into her care that much, I thought it was under control. Then when she was sick and suffering, I took over. Her care was "okay" but now that I've done my homework, if I can get her healthy again, she will become MY pet and get the absolute best care. Vet called with all the results this morning. Her fecal was clear, no parasites. But her wbc was sky high. She is having trouble breathing, a head tilt, walking in circles and no appetite and was not going to the bathroom. The last few weeks, I thought she was going into brumation too (and she probably is). I know she has a respiratory infection. Im hoping the head tilt/circles is an inner ear infection. The labs showed inflammation too. She's on once a day intramuscular antibiotic, and once a day metacam for pain/inflammation and calcium, both oral. And I'm force feeding her, soaking her in warm water, changed all her UVB bulbs, put 3 calibrated thermometers around her tank, and bought new greens and some pinky mice. I'm planning on getting those mercury vapor bulbs. Do you use a red light at night and/or a heating pad under the tank? Any info is greatly appreciated! She is 2 & 1/2 and laid 2 clutches of 30 eggs this summer. Housed alone. 60 gal aquarium. Doesn't like veggies much but likes crickets and worms. Basking light and UVB on top of screen lid.

Well, two people have confirmed she's a Canada goose cross. Kinda neat, probably not a lot of them in existence. But it does mean she and her sister are most likely sterile.

Why sterile? Because she's a hybrid? Is she? I've fallen in love with geese!

Just wanted to share this pic I took this morning, when I left for work. The trees are looking so gorgeous in all their colors!

Beautiful! Looks just like my backyard!

Luckily she and her sister were bought mostly just to keep my other goose, Lacie, company. Lacie is a human imprinted goose (imprinted on me) and her mate died in transit. I tried to hatch her companion geese the year after I got her, and succeeded, but somehow they had mycoplasma - still not sure if they were born with it or somehow caught it living in my indoor brooding area - and they had to be culled, along with all the chicks I had had that year and my marans flock, which it spread to before I got it contained. Then this year I bought some sebbie babies at the NH chickenstock and hatched a few from a local breeder and a freak accident killed them all. A one gallon waterer in their brooder sprang a leak, flooded it, and they all died from being chilled before I noticed. Then these two showed up on craigslist and I jumped at the chance to get Lacie some friends. I paid a pretty decent price for them too, since their breeder is actually head of a poultry fanciers club in my area and his birds are show birds :/ So really they are serving their intended purpose as friends for Lacie, even if they aren't as friendly as I would like. I'll be ordering a gander this year and raising it to be friendly, and then Lacie will have a mate. These two will also probably breed with him but their eggs will never hatch. Some pictures of Lacie:

As you can see, she really enjoys chewing on my camera strap, and she was an adorable baby. Followed me around everywhere. She is pictured here 'helping' me build a coop for someone who was buying it from me. So she's the real reason I bought them, and if she's happy, I'm happy. Still a bit irked I paid good money for purebred showbirds and got crosses, but the seller likely didn't know his female had cheated on her mate with a wild goose, so I'm not mad at him.

Love the pictures! Post more whenever you want!! I learned a lot about imprinting when I hatched peachicks for the first time this summer! That's great that she has friends now!

I'm not being condescending, or belittling. I've greatly reduced my role in this thread, and I'm only commenting because you know I have a lot of experience with broodies. I'm very sorry about your chick, such a cute little thing. Don't be so hard on mama. Just the fact that she sat through to the end on her first clutch means that she has good potential as a broody. I have cuckoo marans that evacuate the nest as soon as they pip. Chicks also get kicked a few times as they gather around mama while she teaches them to look for food. I've never had one injured that way, and they learn not to get directly under her. Again, the fact that she is teaching them to search for food is a sign of a good broody. Chickens are also programmed to take care of the chicks that they have, not the ones that get away. Say I have a broody with 4 chicks, and I sell three of them. After I remove those 3, she doesn't spend hours searching for them. She takes care of the one she has. In the wild, she couldn't sacrifice the one that was safe to search for the ones that are missing. If you hatch and sell a lot of broody chicks, this is a good thing. It lessens the guilt of taking their babies from them. You said yourself that your run is not suited for little ones. My runs are, because I hatch in the pens all the time, but if there is any place they can get between, through, or under, they will find it, especially bantams. I've lost several chicks that way. Once a chick gets outside the pen, the predator list is twice what the predator list for big chickens is, and they can disappear quickly, especially if there are cats or dogs around. Mama's job is to take care of the chicks inside the pen. If a chick gets out, that is my fault. Predator protection is about keeping things out. Once you start hatching in the pens, you have to look at protection from a whole different angle. It's about keeping things in. I have a 3 foot tall run of hardware cloth around every pen that may have chicks, attached from the inside so that the hogwire gives it a solid backing. I used to use bird netting, but it was too easy to tear, and the could get under it if it wasn't anchored to the ground. Bantams could even slip through it. Knowing that you aren't wild about the thought of broodies in the first place, I would recommend either chick proofing your runs, hatch and brood in a smaller, chick safe pen, or break your broodies. I love having broodies, and watching the mama with the chicks is one of the great joys of raising chickens, but there is a whole new set of obstacles once you start down that road

Great points! I'm sure I will have a lot of Broodies next year, so I will have tons of questions!

And its quite nice of you to not be too mad at the breeder, but I'm thinking a good breeder should have been able to tell these weren't pure, right? Maybe he might refund part of your money??

X2

I hope no one minds me sharing a couple pictures I snapped this morning. Ravyn, here's Snap Dragon, as you dubbed her, guarding her nest. Take a look at that glare I'm getting!

One of my cemani hens.

I really like this picture. Debating about making it my avatar.

Both beautiful pics! The first reminds me of my all time fav pic of a hen on a nest with a baby sticking out. It's just a Google pic, not mine but the hen looks exactly like that top one!

 

[RubyNala97]

Here's some pics! First one is my dark silkie, who I thought was a pullet but started chest bumping. It's so hard to tell with silkies. She's around 19 weeks. What do you guys think, boy or girl?

And these are pics of where I blocked off a section of the run for my 3 week old chicks with a MHP. I want to leave them out overnight but I'm very scared. What do you guys think?

 

[WVduckchick]

Love the pic!! To be honest, reptiles were not my thing, so to speak. My youngest sons dad said he was quite the reptile expert and had raised them all his life. So I never really looked into her care that much, I thought it was under control. Then when she was sick and suffering, I took over. Her care was "okay" but now that I've done my homework, if I can get her healthy again, she will become MY pet and get the absolute best care. Vet called with all the results this morning. Her fecal was clear, no parasites. But her wbc was sky high. She is having trouble breathing, a head tilt, walking in circles and no appetite and was not going to the bathroom. The last few weeks, I thought she was going into brumation too (and she probably is). I know she has a respiratory infection. Im hoping the head tilt/circles is an inner ear infection. The labs showed inflammation too. She's on once a day intramuscular antibiotic, and once a day metacam for pain/inflammation and calcium, both oral. And I'm force feeding her, soaking her in warm water, changed all her UVB bulbs, put 3 calibrated thermometers around her tank, and bought new greens and some pinky mice. I'm planning on getting those mercury vapor bulbs. Do you use a red light at night and/or a heating pad under the tank? Any info is greatly appreciated! She is 2 & 1/2 and laid 2 clutches of 30 eggs this summer. Housed alone. 60 gal aquarium. Doesn't like veggies much but likes crickets and worms. Basking light and UVB on top of screen lid.
Why sterile? Because she's a hybrid? Is she? I've fallen in love with geese!
Beautiful! Looks just like my backyard!
Love the pictures! Post more whenever you want!!

I learned a lot about imprinting when I hatched peachicks for the first time this summer! That's great that she has friends now!
Great points! I'm sure I will have a lot of Broodies next year, so I will have tons of questions!
X2
Both beautiful pics! The first reminds me of my all time fav pic of a hen on a nest with a baby sticking out. It's just a Google pic, not mine but the hen looks exactly like that top one!

Wow, that sounds like excellent (above and beyond!) care of a reptile! Good luck! I had a neighbor once that had one. That thing was mean. LOL I do not have fond memories...

Here's some pics! First one is my dark silkie, who I thought was a pullet but started chest bumping. It's so hard to tell with silkies. She's around 19 weeks. What do you guys think, boy or girl?


And these are pics of where I blocked off a section of the run for my 3 week old chicks with a MHP. I want to leave them out overnight but I'm very scared. What do you guys think?

Hmmm... I think I'm feeling female on the dark silkie, but if she turns out to be a boy, I'll take him off your hands!

And your little sectioned off area looks great! Just one question... is that an open gap above that one section? The side closest to the green waterer? Could they reach it to get out, or could the bigger ones get in through there? I know they aren't the most nimble, so maybe not.


I moved my 7-week-olds to the small pen yesterday, so last night was their first night without heat, but it only got down to about 50. That pen has a cut-out in the fence between it and the bigger run. I stitched it back up with wire, but apparently not enough, because hubby called and told me one of the babies was on the wrong side of the fence, and Katherine had the baby trapped in the corner! Not an issue for the larger birds, but I guess the little ones can still squirt through the gaps. Guess I have some "sewing" to do!