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[chickadoodles]

Micro I also tried once to let a broody keep her chicks in the coop. After a couple of hours I had to move them. After that I picked up the nest with the hen and moved them into a prepared nursery pen so mamma and chicks would be safe. We also had to section off part of the hen run for juvies to get acquainted with the hens so they could bond as one flock for 2-3 weeks. And then there was usually only minimal pecking to teach the young the pecking order.

 

[pennyJo1960]

scg the quilt is beautiful ....

 

[Wickedchicken6]

No, no, it is a big metal rooster. It is slightly less large than giant.

It was gifted to me from some southern friends.

Just finished sewing my hanging pee rag and a teeny tiny (almost weightless) hot pad for my hot cup. I am getting excited for this trip!

A metal rooster!

I got lots of pig paraphernalia when I was at the hog barn. Then I got the sheep and with that came sheep paraphernalia. And now....well, you get the idea.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Hadn't thought of that!!! That sounds MUCH cooler than all those concrete geese those suburban folk have on their porches usually in their little rain coats except on holidays and special occasions. Hmmm? That would push my DH from "thinking" I was a crazy chicken lady to "knowing"!!!

Concrete geese?? That's a new one on me. But a dressed up metal rooster would definitely be better.

Some say "Crazy," like it's a bad thing. I revel in it. I always thought , "do what you do well," and I surely do.

I like to keep it real as well.

 

[chickisoup]

A metal rooster!

I got lots of pig paraphernalia when I was at the hog barn. Then I got the sheep and with that came sheep paraphernalia. And now....well, you get the idea.

Me too except I kind of been forced to do things backwards with the goats. I got the cutest full sized dwarf nigerian buck named Billy the Goat, just one thing, he's made of welded metal. Trying to give DH a HUGE hint

 

[getaclue]

micro, sorry to hear about your hen/chick situation. That's so sad.

scg, that quilt is lovely!

 

[chickisoup]

Concrete geese?? That's a new one on me. But a dressed up metal rooster would definitely be better.
It's a real thing. Used to be a "normal" in the south, now it's everywhere. You can even order the outfits for them online.

 

[getaclue]

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[Wickedchicken6]

Thanks Wicked C. Between chickens, garden and home I have been meeting myself coming and going.

We just ran down to the neighbor's daughter's graduation party and discovered that a fox wiped out their entire flock of chickens with the exception of one hen. Everyone has seen the little fiend running around but nobody has gotten a shot off at it.

This makes me glad that I don't free range my birds and it makes me sad because two of the birds that were murdered were roosters I had given to them earlier in the year.

I bought some shiny metal owls to move around on the lawn and a wind chime to inhibit predators at night. Well, that was my thoughts anyway. Now at night it makes it sound like a horror movie with the chimes. Out pamming the roosters and that darn thing tinging away and me scaring myself.

I lost my second chick to the hen attack.I had to put it down. It was doing pretty well, drinking for me, chirping then I noticed that it wasn't moving around very well. I picked it up and sure enough, it had a compound fracture in it's little left leg. DH and I made a little euthanazia chamber with an ice cream bucket and used his CO-2 welding gas. It had a peaceful passing.

I'm trying hard to tell myself that chickens will be chickens but it's all I can do not to go out and deal with the hen that attacked these babies.

Sparkle's one chick is doing well and the remaining egg is being pokey, no pip yet. I hope she hatches one more.

Sorry to hear about the chick. That totally sucks.
I've forgiven the broody EE that picked last year. I won't let her be broody again. It' nothing you could've known until it happened. Hopefully the chick will pip and zip real quick.

 

[microchick]

SGC's quilts are always beautiful!

This is the first time I have had this happen. I only have one other OEGB pullet old enough to be laying in that pen. The other pullets are just 13 weeks old or younger. The pullet that staged the attack was occasonally 'sharing' brooding with her sister, sitting on the eggs for her while the broody was off the nest taking a break. The past two days I barred her from that nest box and she had respected the partition until today.

I have no idea what prompted the attack, whether the chicks startled her or the two pullets got in a fight and blood was shed by the chicks. I'll never know, but at least I know that the original broody hen will tolerate being moved so I will move her the next time she goes broody.