The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

[potagergirl]

Very cute little song only problem is I now have it rolling around in my head
over and over again

 

[potagergirl]

I finally have the boys and girls settled in their new brooder which is big enough to hold them
for a while.
Now I need to know when will they stop running and chirping loudly when we enter the room?
Maybe it is an odd question but we have them kind of between two rooms in an extra space
smallish room. So when traveling from the kitchen to the back door you pass right by them
and there they go chirping as though the sky were falling and running to the far side of the
brooder.
How do I start hand training them? Maybe it's too soon?

I'm sure all of this has been answered before but I'm still reading through several old forum
posts and have not crossed it yet.

Smile it's a long holiday weekend

 

[Leahs Mom]

How old are the kiddos?

 

[Sally8]

Smile it's a long holiday weekend

x2

 

[Scott H]

Here's some pics of Tina and her chicks...these were taken thru a chicken wire pen in the coop.



Here's where you find food.....











Pan was filled with "natural" grit....





Day 6 she got most of them out of the coop...I had to "help" two of them who couldn't figure out the ramp I cobbled together for them. LOL




















Then my wife got home and took some decent pictures....













The two yellow ones are Blue Partridge Brahmas and the three little chipmunks are Wyandottes....Sorry about all the pics but we are kinda tickled with the little buggers.

 

[mlowen]

Here's some pics of Tina and her chicks...

Do not apologize! They are just precious! Tina is gorgeous. This picture is my favorite, but I loved getting to see ALL of them!

 

[misbhaven]

I have some kind of critter around here I suspect the two legged man type, I have a meatie pen right outside my bedroom window I was outside until 10 pm, let my dogs out literally on the other side of the fence at 12am, 6:45 am 15 -3 week old meat birds are gone there is even food in their dish no feathers, no blood, etc even looked well into the big field by my house hubby drove our 4 wheeler into the field looked in the neighbors lean- too off their garage thinking they may have gotten out and followed each other like lemmings ( me and an elderly woman are the only people on our rural dead town's street)...looked in their nursery pen thinking they may have returned...new pen was basically a 4x8 cage with a garden fence around..there isn't much that would run off with a 2-3 lb bird let alone 15..coyotes have never came even close to my house before and like i said not 1 feather etc....any idea's ??? oh and i have 2 pekin's that just live in a big open run that only has a 3 foot fence and they never have been bothered

 

[hoosiercheetah]

I have some kind of critter around here I suspect the two legged man type, I have a meatie pen right outside my bedroom window I was outside until 10 pm, let my dogs out literally on the other side of the fence at 12am,  6:45 am 15 -3 week old meat birds are gone there is even food in their dish no feathers, no blood, etc even looked well into the big field by my house hubby drove our 4 wheeler into the field looked in the neighbors lean- too off their garage thinking they may have gotten out and followed each other like lemmings ( me and an elderly woman are the only people on our rural dead town's street)...looked in their nursery pen thinking they may have returned...new pen was basically a 4x8 cage with a garden fence around..there isn't much that would run off with a 2-3 lb bird let alone 15..coyotes have never came even close to my house before and like i said not 1 feather etc....any idea's ??? oh and i have 2 pekin's that just live in a big open run that only has a 3 foot fence and they never have been bothered

If I understand you correctly, your chickens disappeared out of a locked enclosure, with no sign of an animal having damaged the pen to get access? If that's the case, I'd say you've been robbed. If I were in that position, I would call the police and file a report.

 

[Sally8]

If I understand you correctly, your chickens disappeared out of a locked enclosure, with no sign of an animal having damaged the pen to get access? If that's the case, I'd say you've been robbed. If I were in that position, I would call the police and file a report.

x2. I'm sorry that you've been put in this position. Crime in my little town has steadily been on the rise and it's been expected (by me). People have to eat and feed their own families.

 

[hoosiercheetah]

I would also install a motion activated floodlight, maybe a camera, maybe both. The light you can get for less than 20 dollars. The camera is a little more.