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[Desert Springs]

So, this has nothing to do with chickens but I just wanted to show this off. (We'll, we do use fresh eggs in it...)


And this is the one i made for my daughter's birthday.



AWESOME!!!!!!!

 

[Desert Springs]

Okay Casa... you asked for it... pics

First, here is a pic of the skunks that have chosen to live under my one coop.... so far have relocated 5 adults and 1 baby skunk. I know there's at least 7 more babies... I've seen them. This is a pic of the 8 babies!! That is a small trap. I only have two traps so it's slow going getting them out. Also have a raccoon that has been visiting...ugh!! So far no lost chickens other than a S. Buttercup 2 week old chick, which must have been taken by something really small to get into that coop....or it jumped over the wood barrier (like a little Brahma did) and couldn't get back before something got it.

Here is the guinea keet...YAY!!

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Hope some of the other guinea eggs hatch soon

... Guineas are monogamous and I'd hate to have to raise this little critter with chickens and pay for poultry therapy, when it falls in love with a cluck cluck.

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

Sundance...here is a picture of one of the chicks I got with the bantam RIR. If its a roo you can have him. The kids want to keep it if its a hen. What do you think roo or hen

SOOO cute! I like the head on yours...Mine did not get the vaulted silkie head from her sizzle daddy. She looks more like an EE with a flat head (but frizzled feathers standing up still) but she did get the peacomb....hoping for that blue egg gene....and that she might be one of Darkness' babies and she lays a pretty blue egg I hate the waiting to find out part

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

Okay Casa... you asked for it... pics

First, here is a pic of the skunks that have chosen to live under my one coop.... so far have relocated 5 adults and 1 baby skunk. I know there's at least 7 more babies... I've seen them. This is a pic of the 8 babies!! That is a small trap. I only have two traps so it's slow going getting them out. Also have a raccoon that has been visiting...ugh!! So far no lost chickens other than a S. Buttercup 2 week old chick, which must have been taken by something really small to get into that coop....or it jumped over the wood barrier (like a little Brahma did) and couldn't get back before something got it.

Here is the guinea keet...YAY!!

!! Hope some of the other guinea eggs hatch soon

... Guineas are monogamous and I'd hate to have to raise this little critter with chickens and pay for poultry therapy, when it falls in love with a cluck cluck.

That baby is so sweet! I hope you get more soon! Hey, hang on a minute...are those your pretty fingernails? How did you manage that lol!! My hands are trashed and I only have chickens. I am impressed, they look nice! Also impressed you have managed to relocate those skunks without incident! Woo hoo!

 

[saracalderas]

Such a cute lil baby!
Good luck with your squatters. I can't believe there were that many skunks there ,wow.

 

[Desert Springs]

That baby is so sweet! I hope you get more soon! Hey, hang on a minute...are those your pretty fingernails? How did you manage that lol!! My hands are trashed and I only have chickens. I am impressed, they look nice!

Also impressed you have managed to relocate those skunks without incident! Woo hoo!

Yes, the keet is adorable. Hope it survives. I haven't had good luck with those babies in the past. Ordered a bunch from Stromberg's last year and didn't know how to take care of them, then, when they were just newly hatched. Hope the home hatched ones are smarter and stronger.

Had to paint my nails cause my hands were looking so awful

... tons of enriched hand lotion at all times just isn't keeping up. Had to do a girly thing...lol.

Relocating the skunks has been easy although I think I'm the nervous one. Obviously they are so used to me they just come and go. It has only been since I've been trapping them that they've grown leery of me. The first two I was a nervous wreck and just knew I was gonna get sprayed. The next three adults were just glad to get out of the cage, and get to the river for a drink. The baby was difficult. It kept following me back to the truck.

The little ones don't spray yet so I had to keep returning it to the river brush. They are the size of 6 week old kittens and act like them too. Hey, you want a baby skunk?

Tonight, while closing the coops I saw another skunk watching me from around the corner. Once they are out I'm pouring concrete between those two coops so nothing can get under again...I swear!!! Geez!!

 

[Desert Springs]

Such a cute lil baby!
Good luck with your squatters. I can't believe there were that many skunks there ,wow.

Thing is, we never smelled them until I trapped Momma. Momma chewed up the blanket I threw over her, and really sprayed it bad!!!

Good thing I wasn't planning on keeping it.

 

[saracalderas]

So, how is it you got away without getting sprayed?

 

[sillycmoy]

Does anyone show their birds? My 5 year old loves our Houdan so much, that she literally totes the poor thing around like a baby (so there went my thoughts of re-homing her, shes now a keeper). She is always feeding her extra mealworms, strawberries, and grapes. and she is always asking if we can take her on a car ride, for a walk, and if she can sleep in her room. That I was wondering if they let little kids, age 5 show chickens. I looked into 4H, but they don't start till 3rd Grade. I highly doubt she is even show quality since she was hatchery hatched. But I think my 5 year old daughter would get a kick out of it.

 

[Desert Springs]

Does anyone show their birds? My 5 year old loves our Houdan so much, that she literally totes the poor thing around like a baby (so there went my thoughts of re-homing her, shes now a keeper). She is always feeding her extra mealworms, strawberries, and grapes. and she is always asking if we can take her on a car ride, for a walk, and if she can sleep in her room. That I was wondering if they let little kids, age 5 show chickens. I looked into 4H, but they don't start till 3rd Grade. I highly doubt she is even show quality since she was hatchery hatched. But I think my 5 year old daughter would get a kick out of it.

Talk to your local fair commission. I'm sure they would let her show in the OPEN class. Wouldn't hurt to check, and the judges love those kinds of chickens that are easy to handle for the kids. Plus, she'll learn a lot and what they're looking for from her and her poultry.