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Hi everyone. Busy day here. My SDW bantam chicks are a week old now so I took a good close look at the cute little devils to see if I could sex them...wish I hadn't. 3 cockerels, 1 pullet....I think....:he:hitI already have 8 SDW roosters. Worthless little so and so's keep throwing more males my way. Told DH that the only way I was going to get more pullets was to buy them! I won't be able to sex the Fayoumi chicks until they are 4 weeks old or so and start getting their breast feathers in. I'm trying not to breed anymore Amish barnyard birds. The roosters are too much a handful compared to the SDWs. My breeding stock isn't being too helpful though. Can't get more hatching roosters all the time!

DH took Roxie in for her rabies shot. She was a little angel for him. I told him we would take the 3 'good dogs' in first, Rox, Ben and Sid and then take in the two nightmares, Varn and Diesel. Both of them terrorized the office when they were there to be neutered. Smart dogs. They knew what was going on around them and wanted no part of it. Impressive that Varn, the last to be neutered, climbed out of his run still drugged and set at the end of the hallway glaring at the door when DH went back to get him. Diesel got loose and it took combined effort to contain him. Those two are so smart it scares me some time.

Froze my first batch of turnips yesterday. Got a quart but they badly needed thinned out so all was good.
 
microchick said:
Hi everyone. Busy day here. My SDW bantam chicks are a week old now so I took a good close look at the cute little devils to see if I could sex them...wish I hadn't. 3 cockerels, 1 pullet....I think....:he:hitI already have 8 SDW roosters. Worthless little so and so's keep throwing more males my way. Told DH that the only way I was going to get more pullets was to buy them! I won't be able to sex the Fayoumi chicks until they are 4 weeks old or so and start getting their breast feathers in. I'm trying not to breed anymore Amish barnyard birds. The roosters are too much a handful compared to the SDWs. My breeding stock isn't being too helpful though. Can't get more hatching roosters all the time!

DH took Roxie in for her rabies shot. She was a little angel for him. I told him we would take the 3 'good dogs' in first, Rox, Ben and Sid and then take in the two nightmares, Varn and Diesel. Both of them terrorized the office when they were there to be neutered. Smart dogs. They knew what was going on around them and wanted no part of it. Impressive that Varn, the last to be neutered, climbed out of his run still drugged and set at the end of the hallway glaring at the door when DH went back to get him. Diesel got loose and it took combined effort to contain him. Those two are so smart it scares me some time.

Froze my first batch of turnips yesterday. Got a quart but they badly needed thinned out so all was good.
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with chickens, the hens determine gender. It is opposite from humans. An egg will either be male or female...and you cannot tell from the shape of the egg!
 
ronott1 said:
with chickens, the hens determine gender. It is opposite from humans. An egg will either be male or female...and you cannot tell from the shape of the egg!
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As much as those little roosters pester the big girls...littles too, you would think the last thing they would want around them is more boys, LOL.

Yeah, I know it doesn't work that way. But I seriously see myself ordering more pullet chicks and fayoumi hens from MMcM hatchery next year.
 
microchick said:
As much as those little roosters pester the big girls...littles too, you would think the last thing they would want around them is more boys, LOL.

Yeah, I know it doesn't work that way. But I seriously see myself ordering more pullet chicks and fayoumi hens from MMcM hatchery next year.
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I love their birds!
 
microchick said:
Hi everyone. Busy day here. My SDW bantam chicks are a week old now so I took a good close look at the cute little devils to see if I could sex them...wish I hadn't. 3 cockerels, 1 pullet....I think....:he:hitI already have 8 SDW roosters. Worthless little so and so's keep throwing more males my way. Told DH that the only way I was going to get more pullets was to buy them! I won't be able to sex the Fayoumi chicks until they are 4 weeks old or so and start getting their breast feathers in. I'm trying not to breed anymore Amish barnyard birds. The roosters are too much a handful compared to the SDWs. My breeding stock isn't being too helpful though. Can't get more hatching roosters all the time!

DH took Roxie in for her rabies shot. She was a little angel for him. I told him we would take the 3 'good dogs' in first, Rox, Ben and Sid and then take in the two nightmares, Varn and Diesel. Both of them terrorized the office when they were there to be neutered. Smart dogs. They knew what was going on around them and wanted no part of it. Impressive that Varn, the last to be neutered, climbed out of his run still drugged and set at the end of the hallway glaring at the door when DH went back to get him. Diesel got loose and it took combined effort to contain him. Those two are so smart it scares me some time.

Froze my first batch of turnips yesterday. Got a quart but they badly needed thinned out so all was good.
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We do our dogs rabies shots at free clinic held every yr at fire hall a lot of towns here have them once a yr. Then go every three yrs. Male beagle I used to have one time with all the other dogs around I guess decided to 'mark his territory' peed on DW's leg...she was not too happy.. Next time oldest DD young then maybe 13, peed on her leg. ..
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The lone chick that the broody hatched, looks like it's going to be a pullet.

I was told to feed my rescue duckling, layer feed, and add a little extra niacin. I was crushing a niacin tablet, adding a pinch, and mixing it in the feed each day. I've been concerned about Quacker Sparkles (the grandbaby named it) for awhile now. It's growing, and healthy, but just mopes. He sits on his stuffed animal, a LOT. I take him out, and watch tv with him. He mostly sits. I put him in the tub. He does swim some, but after a few minutes, mostly floats. I try using my fingers for him to chase in the tub. He wouldn't engage. I was looking for other ducks in my area, of the same type, close in age, that I might get one or two, as companions for him.

Well, today we had a breakthrough. Dd #2 came for a visit, and I told her to get Quacker Sparkles, and bring him out with us. (She's the one that brought him to me.) She brought him out, and he laid down. She tried to engage him, so he would walk around. He did a little bit, then laid down again. I was watching. One leg seems slightly bowed, and his foot turned a little bit inward. Not much, but a little. I commented that I would up his niacin. He did not seem to be in any pain. She kept trying to get him to walk around. He was not cooperating. I got up, walked over to him, then turned to walk away, so she could continue doing what she was doing. When I began walking away, he stayed right behind me. I continued walking around. He kept following. When I stopped, he stopped, when I walked, he walked. FINALLY, he's engaging, and not moping.

I kept him out for about an hour, walking until he got tired. We'd rest a bit, then we'd walk some more. After the hour, he was much more steady on his feet, and his one slightly bowed leg, seemed to be doing better, while the foot was not turning in as much. I will start taking him out every time I go out on the porch, so he walks more, and with the increase in niacin, I hope he will be ok.
 
I've been impressed with the Fayoumi's I got from them last year. They are nice birds and lay more than they are stated in their breed facts. My SDW and BBR bantams came from Orschelns. They get their birds from I think they said, Estes. So far they have been good little birds also. My second generation of the bantams, some maybe 3rd and so far no losses from the dreaded MD that I can identify...knock on wood, cross my fingers rub a rabbits foot......I asked them once if their birds were vaccinated and they said yes. Hopefully you can believe them.

Right now they aren't laying well at all, any of the hens. I went from getting between 9-13 eggs a day to 3-6. I think it's just the weather changing. We had a week of real hot, 90 degree weathter to 70 degrees. It's been up in the mid 80s this week but the poor hens don't want to be out in the sun nor do they want to be in the coop.
 

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