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[Kilsharion]

Oh congrats! I do know how you feel! I have 8 g-kids currently living in Florida. My oldest SS has 7, he's in the Air Force so they are on the move alot, but have not lived close. My second SS lives in Orlando and has one that we rarely see of course. Then our younger son has one and lives 15 mins away(dancing) I love the Nanna thing! That is Tomas in my avatar, he loves to help his Nanna do chores. Especially collecting eggs, then eating them.

Well, we went and bought pine shavings for inside the coop. The girls FREAKED. They didn't know what it was and flew right back out of the coop the first time they went in from the run. Added some girlie touches with the cloth strips too.

Question, only two of the girls slept on the roosting pole. All the rest of the girls slept in the shavings. Why won't they be big girls!?

Love it Be absolutely certain those cloth pieces can't fray, though. We had one poor gal get her tongue stuck between the fibers in a thread that had worked loose in our curtains in the hotel...that was a mess.


The red golden pheasants that I accidentally won (put the period in the wrong place...yeah sucks) were in the incubator and I had kinda forgotten about them. I wasn't sure what in the world to do with them, so I just stuck them in with the chicken eggs and then left them alone. Never weighed them, candled them once....maybe twice?....I can't remember, but it wasn't much. Yesterday, I went to get a second cup of coffee and heard peeping coming from the incubator. I thought it might have been the hatcher I was hearing but realized the direction was definitely the incubator. I look in there, and my pheasants were almost totally zipped. So...apparently I'm the proud "pheasant mama" of some red goldens. This should be interesting

We have an area perfect for them. I'm looking forward to seeing them grow up....and, the best thing is - I don't have to worry about potential "who's the baby daddy?" with my chickens.

 

[GFamily]

I lost my first chicken to a raccoon last night. Mo, my barred rock, found feathers every where and her laying half eaten in the middle of their run.

Still not super sure on how the coon got into their coop, going to have to go investigate more when the rain lets up again.

I'm concerned for my other girls, Mo was top hen, and led the flock. Will they be ok? No one has ever bothered to challenge her, so who will take her place?

I'm devastated

Oh my! I am so sorry to hear that! How sad!

 

[yinepu]

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I have about 10 brooders in the house right now.. plus the baby coops outside (where everyone is mad because it's raining and I won't let them out)

took a few quick pics of two fo the brooders (before feeding and cleaning on the older babies)

older chicks (who need to be banded and are also mad since they can't go out and play today):




one of the baby brooders.. just hatched out yesterday and the day before.. waiting on their food and water

 

[GFamily]

Kilsharion - One more thing to be worried about withthese girls. I honestly used regular cotton fabric that I had used on some girls homemade pillows a while back. I didn't know what to do with the rest of the fabric so that's what I used it on. It's never frayed since I have had it though. But, I'll keep my eye open so that if it starts to I can switch it out. Thanks for the heads up.

On another note, lucky you on your cute Pheasants! What a great surprise!!!!

 

[GFamily]

I have about 10 brooders in the house right now.. plus the baby coops outside (where everyone is mad because it's raining and I won't let them out)

took a few quick pics of two fo the brooders (before feeding and cleaning on the older babies)

older chicks (who need to be banded and are also mad since they can't go out and play today):




one of the baby brooders.. just hatched out yesterday and the day before.. waiting on their food and water

OH my goodness! How cute!

 

[yinepu]

Mirco duck with a "normal" cayuga duckling and a silkie chick




normal cayuga


and micro duck




micro has grown a lot over the past few days.. the silkie chick is actually a day older than micro & cayuga
(cayuga and micro hatched out the same day)

cayuga weighs just over twice of what micro weighs.. even the silkie chick outweighs micro (just by a smidge though).. .

none of the ducklings were happy about the photo shoot

 

[yinepu]

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it's never big enough!... we used to have 9 horses.. finally downsized to the two minis (mini donkey and mini horse)

 

[yinepu]

I lost my first chicken to a raccoon last night. Mo, my barred rock, found feathers every where and her laying half eaten in the middle of their run.

Still not super sure on how the coon got into their coop, going to have to go investigate more when the rain lets up again.

I'm concerned for my other girls, Mo was top hen, and led the flock. Will they be ok? No one has ever bothered to challenge her, so who will take her place?

I'm devastated

sounds like it's time to set a live trap

 

[Kilsharion]

I lost my first chicken to a raccoon last night. Mo, my barred rock, found feathers every where and her laying half eaten in the middle of their run.

Still not super sure on how the coon got into their coop, going to have to go investigate more when the rain lets up again.

I'm concerned for my other girls, Mo was top hen, and led the flock. Will they be ok? No one has ever bothered to challenge her, so who will take her place?

I'm devastated

Oh dear, hon. I'm so sorry

 

[Cockle-Dood]

kili, i almost bit on some red-golden pheasants at the swap the other weekend! other than looking amazing i had no idea what it took to raise or house these guys! i have read to house them like pigeons...but i dont know anything about them either! so i walked away from the table