I can't believe your hens pick on them. Mine dont. But the chicks go to the coop once hatched with mom or go straight to the coop in a fence with food and a heat lamp. The wire is 1 inch wide and 3 inches tall and they have to go out with the hens to drink and free range.
The Evolution of Atlas: A Breeding (and Chat) Thread
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These hens are old and cranky for the most part. Only one of them has raised chicks herself, Panda.
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Had a "Tiny" incident. Again, she almost got her neck snapped and would have deserved it, evil witch. Too long to write, but she got thrown in with Deacon for a few minutes, that's how bad we needed her to be put in her place. She got in a fight with Emily and Caroline had to break it up like the good head hen she is, tried to hurt the chicks, flew off the nest box at DH, etc. Crazy wench.
Took what I hope isn't, but fear might be, the last photo of my beautiful Nugget. She turned 7 years old in April, hasn't laid in going on 3 years now, though she took numerous broody breaks to raise chicks. She doesn't show her age at all.
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Some yahoo on another site saw this photo of Atlas and told me that he was "sunburned". I was trying to help a woman friend of Ladyhawk's with her hatchery type BRs, to pick her keeper male and we had been discussing that he had a brown in his sickles and saddles. This is a chick, not an adult whose spent ages in the sun. And it was brown off-color plumage, not uncommon in hatchery Rocks. So, in the discussion, photos of the original Rex and of Atlas were posted. The yahoo (nice name, could be meaner here) was saying they were pure, just "sunburned" and topped it off by telling me Atlas had sunburn. Guess he's never seen Georgia red clay and birds who use it as their dustbath. The term is "brassiness", not sunburn, of course. And the Stukel line does not seem prone to that at all. Atlas does love his grooming sessions in the red powdery stuff under the coop, but naturally, he cannot reach the back of his head and neck to groom. Some people, sheesh. Just one of those folks who wanted to school me in "sunburned chickens", among other things, and was quite nasty about it. You know the type, the ones who list their dubious credentials yet would give a blue ribbon to an EE in the Ameraucana class at a show. Big eyeroll here. I wish you could just be helpful without the "know everything know-nothings" butting in their ten cents, topped with big bad attitude. No need for that. Doesn't help anyone. Oh, my, guess I'd best go out and put some aloe vera on Atlas's "sunburn", LOL.
Hawkeye was almost completely gold in the hackles when I got him, but it wasn't from sun. He was living in a dark, wet pen in the woods. It was from an all-corn diet. Within a month of proper nutrition, it was back to proper coloring. He did tend to brassiness in the sun later on, but that is a genetic tendency. I've seen it in Delawares. Funny that my Delawares don't have that, either. Georgie is bright white and Isaac only has his "Georgia Clay Coating" when he does a lot of dustbathing, but he doesn't yellow in his plumage like I've seen others of that breed do.
Took what I hope isn't, but fear might be, the last photo of my beautiful Nugget. She turned 7 years old in April, hasn't laid in going on 3 years now, though she took numerous broody breaks to raise chicks. She doesn't show her age at all.
The kids:
Some yahoo on another site saw this photo of Atlas and told me that he was "sunburned". I was trying to help a woman friend of Ladyhawk's with her hatchery type BRs, to pick her keeper male and we had been discussing that he had a brown in his sickles and saddles. This is a chick, not an adult whose spent ages in the sun. And it was brown off-color plumage, not uncommon in hatchery Rocks. So, in the discussion, photos of the original Rex and of Atlas were posted. The yahoo (nice name, could be meaner here) was saying they were pure, just "sunburned" and topped it off by telling me Atlas had sunburn. Guess he's never seen Georgia red clay and birds who use it as their dustbath. The term is "brassiness", not sunburn, of course. And the Stukel line does not seem prone to that at all. Atlas does love his grooming sessions in the red powdery stuff under the coop, but naturally, he cannot reach the back of his head and neck to groom. Some people, sheesh. Just one of those folks who wanted to school me in "sunburned chickens", among other things, and was quite nasty about it. You know the type, the ones who list their dubious credentials yet would give a blue ribbon to an EE in the Ameraucana class at a show. Big eyeroll here. I wish you could just be helpful without the "know everything know-nothings" butting in their ten cents, topped with big bad attitude. No need for that. Doesn't help anyone. Oh, my, guess I'd best go out and put some aloe vera on Atlas's "sunburn", LOL.
Hawkeye was almost completely gold in the hackles when I got him, but it wasn't from sun. He was living in a dark, wet pen in the woods. It was from an all-corn diet. Within a month of proper nutrition, it was back to proper coloring. He did tend to brassiness in the sun later on, but that is a genetic tendency. I've seen it in Delawares. Funny that my Delawares don't have that, either. Georgie is bright white and Isaac only has his "Georgia Clay Coating" when he does a lot of dustbathing, but he doesn't yellow in his plumage like I've seen others of that breed do.
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Lord have mercy! Even me being the newbie that I am can see that is dirt from dust bathing on Atlas. That person was probably sitting in their Momma's basement pretending to have all of those credentials.
Nugget is GORGEOUS! Why can't they live to be 17 and 18 years old like cats?? She is breaking my heart with that sweet little look on her face that Buffs have.
You know the Tiny terrorist will probably be with you longer than any other chicken right? LOL!
Nugget is GORGEOUS! Why can't they live to be 17 and 18 years old like cats?? She is breaking my heart with that sweet little look on her face that Buffs have.
You know the Tiny terrorist will probably be with you longer than any other chicken right? LOL!
Pay no attention to such trolls - they are just looking for attention.
Bad girl Tiny, better watch out or your days may be cut short
Bad girl Tiny, better watch out or your days may be cut short
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I've said that very thing. And it's a scary thought. When she flew off the nest at Tom, after biting him repeatedly while he was tending to little Jet below her roost bar, he threw her across the room in self defense. The other hens hate her, with good reason.
I agree that Nugget is a beauty. I wish she would stick around a few more years. Sure love that gal. Such a great mama.
I have a fairly thick skin from being a moderator here for years. I've been called worse by better (and called worse by worse, LOL!).
TINY knows where you guys sleep. I would get burglar bars ,backed by 1/2" hardware cloth, on the bedroom windows, dead bolts on the door and a motion detector with alarm in your hallway. She got a good look at your husband - he shouldn't go back there without a stun gun. I'm afraid of her and she doesn't even know where I live. Her reputation precedes her
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TINY knows where you guys sleep. I would get burglar bars ,backed by 1/2" hardware cloth, on the bedroom windows, dead bolts on the door and a motion detector with alarm in your hallway. She got a good look at your husband - he shouldn't go back there without a stun gun. I'm afraid of her and she doesn't even know where I live. Her reputation precedes her
After today's cat fight at 5:30 a.m. where Finn ran some stray gray tabby 20' up an oak tree and followed him almost as high, I think maybe he would dispatch Tiny if she attacked in his presence. At least, that's what I'm counting on.
TINY knows where you guys sleep. I would get burglar bars ,backed by 1/2" hardware cloth, on the bedroom windows, dead bolts on the door and a motion detector with alarm in your hallway. She got a good look at your husband - he shouldn't go back there without a stun gun. I'm afraid of her and she doesn't even know where I live. Her reputation precedes her
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I honestly cannot believe she lived to be 5 years old, not with all she's put us through. We were trying to herd the youngsters in through the pop door and they were scared of the old hens who were always reaching out to thunk them in the head so Tom was in the pen trying to herd them through the opening, I was trying to keep the evil women away from the pop door and all of a sudden, a huge commotion breaks out behind me. I see Tiny and Emily, my big black Rock who is Tiny's age, locked together, but their heads are underneath a little ramp we have that goes to the first roost bar/launch bar so I could not tell who had who (I suspect Emily had Tiny and was thrashing her under there and Tiny couldn't get away).
Caroline comes flying across the room, at first not quite able to figure how she'd get to them under there, then she worked it out and she was thrashing both of them-GO, CAROLINE! Love my big old Brahma gal. She will not tolerate such drama. So, needless to say, it was a crazy scene. When DH pulled Tiny out of there, she began biting so he had to hold her like a football, one hand on the neck, pushing her down so she couldn't get her beak on him. When he put her on her special roost in front of the big window, she kept reaching out for him to bite.
Thinking she was bothering the chicks earlier because they were in the nest she always lays in, I removed them and DH tried to put here there. That's when she flew off the nest edge directly at him, flogging and biting. She's a loon, a complete loon.
Caroline comes flying across the room, at first not quite able to figure how she'd get to them under there, then she worked it out and she was thrashing both of them-GO, CAROLINE! Love my big old Brahma gal. She will not tolerate such drama. So, needless to say, it was a crazy scene. When DH pulled Tiny out of there, she began biting so he had to hold her like a football, one hand on the neck, pushing her down so she couldn't get her beak on him. When he put her on her special roost in front of the big window, she kept reaching out for him to bite.
Thinking she was bothering the chicks earlier because they were in the nest she always lays in, I removed them and DH tried to put here there. That's when she flew off the nest edge directly at him, flogging and biting. She's a loon, a complete loon.
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