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[yinepu]

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lol.. yeah they do.. I was disappointed in the marans and jersey giants though.. really poor hatch rates on them

 

[showbarnmom]

sorry about your little guy.. Are there any feed stores in your area?

If you have a reason to come to San antonio area I'vegot 7 game bantam mixes in the brooder that I would give you 4 of.

Eta: sorry wrong quoted. But you get the point.

 

[RachaelS]

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Just the hens, but they are laying fertile eggs, so for about month you can hatch from them.

 

[RachaelS]

Okay, I got some bad news. I was working on trying to help a little chick that had slipped tendon. He gave up on me yesterday. He was my husbands favorite chick, he personally would wake up through the night to take care of the little guy (which I can barely get him awake to go to work....). The chick went a whole day without water and had finally decided even food wasn't what he wanted. So I put him down today. I am sad but my husband is in tears.

I was wondering if anyone out there knew of someone that has black/dark brown chicks. I really would like to get him one. He thinks their little faces, "Are just too cute!" But he doesn't like the yellow colored chicks. I found some of those but he doesn't want one. He likes the darker colored chicks. And I don't want anymore from tsc. For one I don't want six more chicks! The most I could go is four. If anyone is around the Glen Rose, Granbury, Cleburne, Burleson areas and has dark colored chicks for sale please let me know. I am very much interested in buying. I hate seeing him this sad.

Just so this, soooooo sorry

It is funny how some chickens are just "chickens" but other worm their way into our hearts and it is just devastating to lose them. Got an email today from someone I placed 3 of my fav hens with, they were getting beat up and the "extra" coop I had was just to small, so I gave them away to have a better life. Any way she emailed me today to let me know that the storms last night scared her dog, who broke out of it's pen and broke into the chicken coop and killed all 3. I was heartbroken, I know it is not her fault and she is just as upset as me, but I feel guilty thinking "if only I could have done something better". Some just really touch your heart and losing them is awful!

 

[showbarnmom]

Just the hens, but they are laying fertile eggs, so for about month you can hatch from them.

I will PM you tomorrow when I know my schedule. I would be interested in them. Do you think they wouldmix in well with 4 month old hens?

 

[StelleKitten]

sorry about your little guy.. Are there any feed stores in your area?

Yes, but all the chicks they have are yellow. I don't really care about the breed but this one was a turken. He just texted me that he is on his way home and asked if the little guy was already buried. He wanted to bury him with his little blanket. I didn't think about it and washed the blanket (which is really a piece of a larger blanket that he cut out to fit the size of the chick). I feel bad for him. I get sad but I kind of knew it would be this way, he thought if he loved it hard enough and cared for it around the clock that it would survive. He would be furious to know I put the chick down, but I didn't want to see the little guy go through tube feeding. Which is what was about to get to happen since he didn't want to eat on his own anymore. It saves a lot of chickens but he was sooo small that it would be really hard to make sure you got the tube in the right spot. On bigger chickens you can listen in the tube and hear breathing, if you hear breathing it's in the wrong spot.


*edited to add the pic of the little guy

 

[RachaelS]

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StelleKitten,
Maybe you could convince him to drive down to San Antonio for some cute little game bantams and just pick up the my girls while you are passing through.

 

[RachaelS]

He just texted me that he is on his way home and asked if the little guy was already buried. He wanted to bury him with his little blanket.


*edited to add the pic of the little guy

This brought tears to my eyes, I am so sorry you guys have to go through this.

 

[StelleKitten]

StelleKitten,
Maybe you could convince him to drive down to San Antonio for some cute little game bantams and just pick up the my girls while you are passing through.

Hrm, I might could. We are due for a road trip sometime, just to go see things. I'll talk to him when he comes home and see what he thinks about it. Might get his mind off things for a bit. It wouldn't be until Monday (his only day off this coming week).

This brought tears to my eyes, I am so sorry you guys have to go through this.

It's part of keeping chickens. I just wish I hadn't let him get so attached. :\ Next time (and I am sure there will be) I will be careful about letting him be around an iffy chick. His first chicken got out of the coop and was killed by a dog. It seems every chicken he has gotten attached to has had something happen to it. Dogs too. We got one and she jumped out of the window of our house (broke the glass and everything) and hit her head on the way down. She was special needs from then on. She got a brain injury and would have seizures every now and then. He just has bad luck with animals.

 

[showbarnmom]

Well, if you do just let me.know hen at work had 17 chicks. Lol so I have some to spare.