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[Chinchillin]

Ha! You guys are great greeters!

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[itsren]

Tandoori and Jerk are both around 6 weeks old, I think. Tandoori keeps sparring with Jerk, even though he/she is only 2/3 the size. Last night I saw her jump up and take a swing with her feet. Is this normal pullet behavior, or do I have two cockerels sparring? They both have little spur nubs.

Jennifer

Sounds like you're in the same boat I'm in. I keep telling myself it's not possible that I could get so unlucky to have hatched 4 cockerels - but, man, behavior is making me wonder. My big girls never sparred to the degree these four go at it. I'm just hoping they are pullets, and they're just preparing themselves to knock Rhodie down a notch or two when they get bigger.

I believe most chickens have little spur nubs. All three of my big pullets do.

 

[itsren]

Ha! You guys are great greeters!

Has anyone fed "grass" clippings to their chickens? j/w....

I usually let my chickens cut the grass for me. LOL.

Confirm this with the long-time chicken owners... but, my thoughts are, if you do feed grass clippings, don't put in much at a time. Grass molds very fast and I don't believe chickens should be consuming mold.

 

[VelvettFog]

We're picking up a chicken tractor tomorrow. It's sitting in some pretty thick poo. We're trying to figure out the best way to clean it. DH said we could take it to a car wash and wash it off there, first, before bringing it home. Then I was thinking about setting it up in a gravel driveway and scrubbing it with bleach water before it even gets into the backyard with our birds. Does that sound like a good idea? Or does anyone else have other recommendations for preventing our accidentally bringing in something that could cause our flock to get sick?

I think the car was idea is pretty good ... and then if you wanted to maybe you could use a bleach solution in a garden sprayer to give the entire thing a light misting of a disinfectant? Or if you have a UV wand you can use that? Or maybe just set it in the sun (do you have sun?) for a few days?

 

[VelvettFog]

Ha! You guys are great greeters!

Has anyone fed "grass" clippings to their chickens? j/w....

I do that all the time.

 

[itsren]

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Sun? We USED to have lots of sun. Not sure what happened...

 

[mikeyb]

Quote: yep, and I also letem out to "search and destroy" creepies and crawlies.

 

[mikeyb]

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Sun? We USED to have lots of sun. Not sure what happened...
car wash is good. Power washer if you have one then a bleach solution spray would be my suggestion/s

 

[Chickielady]

YEAH ! Visistors

I have a 2 o'clock dr. appt on Tuesday, but the rest of the week is open. As you know, Yauger is just a couple miles down the road. I think Tamara came last time too, as well as Robin . . . ?

So, if anyone wants to drop in when we have a date let me know. I will make some tasty treats for winter weather!

I have awesome GF bread made by Franz...it is SO GOOD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There is a seed variety and a whte, full of airy holes, nice & light unlike no other GF bread I've ever seen...so I can bring bread & lunch meats ?
Cheeses ?
Your soup was great last time !!!

 

[Chickielady]

(fingers all crossed)
One of the best thing about Hamburgs is that they are darling little silver babies with a metallic sheen and never go through an ugly adolescence: they look very different at two weeks, three weeks, four weeks (when it's easy to determine gender) and then about five weeks they start looking like little adults, only darker, and from that point on they just get prettier and prettier.
I should put up the baby pictures from last spring, although... not today. I had two strong, healthy, young adults helping me yesterday, and I never did learn not to try to keep up with those people.

You forgot to mention how fast they are !!!!!!!!!









The last baby is very tuckered out...