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[yinepu]

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in regular duck breeds (non muscovy) the boys have a raspy quack... the girls have a much clearer brighter sounding quack

you can also look for the curled tail feather.. boys have it (again.. non muscovy) and the girls don't

 

[Deedee]

Good morning my Texas peep!! It's been years since I've said GM here on BYC so nice to be back.

Recently just add a turkey poult to our family and going to need some advice with the lil' bugger.

 

[Cockle-Dood]

Good morning my Texas peep!! It's been years since I've said GM here on BYC so nice to be back.

Recently just add a turkey poult to our family and going to need some advice with the lil' bugger.

Good morning and welcome back!

 

[Kilsharion]

Good morning my Texas peep!! It's been years since I've said GM here on BYC so nice to be back.

Recently just add a turkey poult to our family and going to need some advice with the lil' bugger.

Good morning. Welcome back to the craziness

 

[TexasLisa]

Good morning my Texas peep!! It's been years since I've said GM here on BYC so nice to be back.

Recently just add a turkey poult to our family and going to need some advice with the lil' bugger.

Good Morning and welcome back!!

Lisa

 

[Tamma]

Hi everyone from (near) San Antonio! I have 3 red sex link hens over a year old and 4 polish chicks 2 months old. I have never been to a chicken show before and 4H is having one in San Marcos tomorrow. I am so excited! Going to take my mom with me. She's one of the only ones whose eyes don't glaze over when I talk about my chickens (which I love to do).

Have had my big chickens since Feb 2012 and saw something yesterday I have never seen. I was watching my red hens out the window like I love to do. They are under a huge tree canopy and the birds in the trees started chirping a lot. All 3 hens FROZE (and I mean FROZE)! They were not even that close together and they froze simultaneously. They stayed like that for almost 2 minutes!! Not moving a muscle. I timed them! The birds in the trees didn't sound in distress at all to me but they obviously must have seen some predator. I don't have a rooster to alert the hens so I guess they freeze when threatened. Didn't know that....

Anyway, have been loving keeping up with this thread. So nice to find other people with chicken obsessions..

 

[bnjrob]

Okay, What age does a chick start to try and crow if it is a rooster?

The books always say older but I have found that chickens don't read books. Hubby told me that he heard the strangled sounds of a first crow coming from the brooder this morning. The one in there that would be doing it is about 2 months old. The others that are in there with him are even younger. One that we hatched in January started young also. However when we moved them outside where he could hear all the other cocks that crow, he has actually stopped doing much crowing now.

 

[bnjrob]

Well, I just got back from the book sale with my grandmother and Mom. Me and my Mom did great and walked away with 2 paper bags of books and only spent $20 that is including the $5 per person fee to enter this evening. My grandmother walked away with 3 bags of books. I am soooo happy I found what looks like a good herb gardening book, along with some philosophy books. Also I found a ton of the classic literature books for my cousins children when they are old enough to read them. Which shouldn't be but a few more years. This had to be one of the best birthday outings I have had in a while.
I couldn't find any chicken books though

I was looking too.


On a duck note, I finally caught my ducks on video doing their grown-up quack talk.

I had to trick them and make them think the camera wasn't on. Hehehehe I am going to upload it sometime tonight after I figure out how to edit it for just that clip. I am trying to figure out if they are male or female.

Ah books. How satisfying.

 

[yinepu]

Good morning my Texas peep!! It's been years since I've said GM here on BYC so nice to be back.

Recently just add a turkey poult to our family and going to need some advice with the lil' bugger.

Welcome back!

turkey poults are easy.. so long as you keep them warm & dry!

 

[Kilsharion]

Hi everyone from (near) San Antonio! I have 3 red sex link hens over a year old and 4 polish chicks 2 months old. I have never been to a chicken show before and 4H is having one in San Marcos tomorrow. I am so excited! Going to take my mom with me. She's one of the only ones whose eyes don't glaze over when I talk about my chickens (which I love to do).

Have had my big chickens since Feb 2012 and saw something yesterday I have never seen. I was watching my red hens out the window like I love to do. They are under a huge tree canopy and the birds in the trees started chirping a lot. All 3 hens FROZE (and I mean FROZE)! They were not even that close together and they froze simultaneously. They stayed like that for almost 2 minutes!! Not moving a muscle. I timed them! The birds in the trees didn't sound in distress at all to me but they obviously must have seen some predator. I don't have a rooster to alert the hens so I guess they freeze when threatened. Didn't know that....

Anyway, have been loving keeping up with this thread. So nice to find other people with chicken obsessions..

I'm going to be there picking up my Muscovies.

My chickens are nuts....we have tiny finches around here. They will hop down and start scratching around on the ground. When the chickens see them, they charge at them.

At least they don't try charging the hawks....We saw The Girls just *poof* disappear and Dinner was up under the awning of the hotel, hunkered down and watching the sky. I looked up and - yup - there were our neighbourhood hawks. Not on our property; but, cruising our neighbours' place. They are beautiful...but, man, I wish they'd find somewhere else to be.