Utah!

[Sphinx]

Cynthia, I'm so sorry that houdan didn't make it.

 

[Desert Springs]

If you end up with a mix, I have to see them.

I'm going to have to scramble up some eggs, do you add milk to them, and can I give them hard boiled? I have a few that are hard boiled now. Good to know since one of these days I well be getting eggs. How often do you give them eggs?

I don't add milk...lol. Yes, I also give them hard boiled with the shells crushed up and the hard boiled eggs chopped (this way they don't recognize the eggs and start breaking the ones they lay). They have been getting eggs daily due to the quantity of eggs I get right now. They get an omelet with crushed shells and any leftover veggies and fruit scraps from the kitchen, chopped up.

I rescued a baby magpie from the neighborhood kids just now. They were trying to rescue it. So far, they had given it a bath, tried to find worms for it, and brought it on a stick into my yard. I sent them back to the school parking lot, away from my birds. I called the local wildlife rehabilitation and was told that they go through a phase when they are learning to fly/ leaving the nest. Went back, educate well meaning, sweet kids, returned it to the ground by its tree, and shooed the kids away from the area. I kept thinking, "I've always wanted a pet magpie." I was strong and left it to its parents.

I've always wanted a magpie too, and the other day found one that I knew would end up as dinner for the cats. Unfortunately, my skills at raising wild birds are limited. I've raised baby doves who have fallen from trees but this baby magpie, although I fed it as I did wild baby birds, seemed to not thrive. Maybe that's why the parents kicked it from the nest. Sad day

!!

 

[Sapphiregemmer]

Anyone want to go in on some Golden Spangled Hamburg chicks? 12 10$/ea i just want 2.

Kyle

(

that awkward moment when you start to realize you are a chicken hoarder)

 

[Desert Springs]

Red, hi

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Just checked the eggs.... out of the fertile 5 that looked good last time, I am happy to say, they are still alive. One is questionable however (seems less developed than the others). One chick looked to be doing the disco, and three were just moving around.

I had been a little worried.... the other day we lost power for about 4 hours and I was afraid to look.

Sphinx...

. I still cannot see through those shells on the Legbars. I tried another candling practice I've used in the past long ago. Used a flashlight through a hole in a box. Still no go.... gonna have to get a better candler than the one I have, or a super high powered flashlight.

 

[Desert Springs]

Anyone want to go in on some Golden Spangled Hamburg chicks? 12 10$/ea i just want 2.

Kyle

(

that awkward moment when you start to realize you are a chicken hoarder)

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

Anyone want to go in on some Golden Spangled Hamburg chicks? 12 10$/ea i just want 2. Kyle (

that awkward moment when you start to realize you are a chicken hoarder)

** Like when I wake up in the morning and look out in my run at how many more chickens I have than the "8 max" I told myself two years ago?*** Hahaha Kyle you are amongst good company here!

 

[Desert Springs]

** Like when I wake up in the morning and look out in my run at how many more chickens I have than the "8 max" I told myself two years ago?***

Hahaha

Kyle you are amongst good company here!

8 max...

 

[Sapphiregemmer]

Yeah mine was 4 max, and that was a few months ago, I feel better that i'm not the only one ha ha ha.

I am getting really excited though, My Ameraucana was laying fertile eggs a while after i bought her, so incubated that with some Barnevelder eggs, and they go into lockdown tomorrow evening. Everything looks to be in great shape, here's hoping i have a good hatch

On a side note, i have some turkeys that are about 3 months old. I think 1 is a hen and I know for sure the other is a tom. The tom has just now started to get very aggressive with the one i believe is a hen, is this normal? I see them wrapping up necks and they seem to be fighting, but then the "hen" will lay down. They couldn't possibly be wanting to mate at this age right? I know kind of a dumb question. I've never owned turkeys, this is my first run.

Kyle

 

[pawtraitart]

Yeah mine was 4 max, and that was a few months ago, I feel better that i'm not the only one ha ha ha.

I am getting really excited though, My Ameraucana was laying fertile eggs a while after i bought her, so incubated that with some Barnevelder eggs, and they go into lockdown tomorrow evening. Everything looks to be in great shape, here's hoping i have a good hatch

On a side note, i have some turkeys that are about 3 months old. I think 1 is a hen and I know for sure the other is a tom. The tom has just now started to get very aggressive with the one i believe is a hen, is this normal? I see them wrapping up necks and they seem to be fighting, but then the "hen" will lay down. They couldn't possibly be wanting to mate at this age right? I know kind of a dumb question. I've never owned turkeys, this is my first run.

Kyle

Both males and females will do the "neck fighting" thing. Females will puff up and strut just like males when trying to establish dominance, too. Look at the snood. By 3 months old you should see a difference.

 

[Rykel]

so funny

at least know I know for sure that I'm definitely not an exception, i kept telling myself 8 or 9, I have 15. and still want more.

So sorry about the Hudan I lost two buff laced Polish to something that sounds similar.