The Old Folks Home

[Alaskan]

Blach! So sorry!

 

[drumstick diva]

sorry about your chick, glad the other is okay. Chicks always seem programmed to try and kill themselves. It's up to humans to prevent it. You can put a wire cover over the brooder, but, they try harder, getting heads caught in feeders, drowning in water bowls etc. It's a full time job, looking after them.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I had one once that got himself caught behind the brooder (in the coop in the middle of winter) between the brooder and the wall and was cold and stiff by the time I found him. Mom had already given up on it. I brought it inside to throw it out and BF decided to see if he could thaw it out in front of the stove. He did and the chick ended up surviving. It was, of course, a cockeral that we named Bazooka Joe. He ended up being delicious.

Moral of the story: they can come back from the brink of a cold death. Not so much a hot almost death, but just like incubating, cold is better.

 

[Alaskan]

Cold is better huh?


Achem... My mind went to bad places... But I do agree.

 

[NotAFarm]

Very pretty Notafarm

Thanks, chicka! This is, by far, my favorite time of year! Everything is waking up from the cold winter slumber and green is popping out everywhere!



...and of course there are the mommas with chicks!

 

[Peep_Show]

That white topknot hen is SO cute!

 

[drumstick diva]

AW how sweet

 

[chickadoodles]

They are so cute!

Our Buckeye hen has gone broody again and every day when she gets off her nest for her break the other hens are in her nest. So she get's in another nest. DH gathers the eggs daily and gets upset that she is on a different nest. I told him it is because the other hens get in her nest! He's so frustrated with her. lol Last time she did not hatch anything and we don't think she will this time but we can't keep her off the nest! Crazy girl!

 

[drumstick diva]

maybe she just needs a pair of glasses - you know every nest box looks the same.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

maybe she just needs a pair of glasses - you know every nest box looks the same.

They worked for Miss Prissy