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[RedReiner]

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Just breed a black roo over all of your splashes. Resulting chicks will be 100% blue.

Hey, do you want Thor back? He'd go well with some Splash ladies!!!!

lol no! I have 5 extra cockerels already., is thor blue? someone on here was wanting a hoss son in blue.

 

[Kaneke]

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dunno --- those "ducklings" look just like my chicks, they had, and needed, webby feet for this wet wet pseudo spring

as their feet grew, the webbing didn't, so they now have nice long slender grippy toes

I put several things in the run for them to perch on, and they seem to like the narrow (not quite 1 inch) recycled metal stand, in preference to the 2x4 's ... they do indeed curl their toes around the narrow perch

maybe EEs are closer to "wild" birds ...

 

[Ogress]

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Boys are great starter babies! Mine was soooo easy. I was just feeling really confident that I had great parenting skills, and then I had Olivia

. Man, was she high maintenance, and I'm not talking about the pregnancy here. Heck, she still is!!! Pediatrician said it is often the case when the first is a boy that first babies make you cocky and the second one makes you humble.

Great--so if the first one is a girl--I'm really in trouble?

You'll just learn quicker

A friend of mine had a perfect pregnancy, and her DD was such a screamer she wanted to push her back inside until she turned 4! Olivia was a screamer too, but since she was premature, it took a good 6 weeks for her to get loud. She wouldn't sleep more than 4 hrs in a row until she was almost 4. A few times she slept through the night before, and I recorded each time in her baby book, hoping it would be the start of a trend. She also threw temper tantrums when she was a toddler. (Not as bad as my poor friends DD). Alex was nearly 10 years old before he had a temper tantrum; and at that age, it is much easier to get it across that it is not acceptable behavior.

The good news is my friends DD is now 12 and got straight A's all through her first year of middle school. She's a great kid, raises chickens, goats and sheep at the family farm near Sultan. I lost contact with them between 5 and 10 years, so I don't know at what age she made the switch from absolute handful to model child.

Alex had straight A's once, though he is not doing bad. I was not expecting as much from Olivia because I got the impression she's not that bright, but I just got all the state/national test scores back and she's in the 95th+ percentile for math and 85th on language arts/reading. That means her grades are not so good because she's lazy/disorganized, and I think both of those problems are parenting failures.

I better work harder with her.

 

[Kaneke]

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Well Kim I hate to burst yer bubble but ROOSTERS CROW !!!! Maybe that is why the 2 "look like" they are fighting !!!! Here I have a simple rule. IF IT CROWS IT GOES !!!!! I do have a roo in each coop but any more than that have to go.

My Marans is 2 years old and lays beautiful dark brown eggs! That is why I was so suprised! Lol!

LOL

whistling girls and crowing hens
always come to some bad ends

--- or so my mama always said

not sure why she quoted that, I cannot whistle while conscious and awake, I whistle ONLY in my sleep

 

[Rainwolf]

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[Chicken Rustler]

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Boys are great starter babies! Mine was soooo easy. I was just feeling really confident that I had great parenting skills, and then I had Olivia

. Man, was she high maintenance, and I'm not talking about the pregnancy here. Heck, she still is!!! Pediatrician said it is often the case when the first is a boy that first babies make you cocky and the second one makes you humble.

I love my boys!!! They are somuch easier than girls once they hit the tween years and beyond. Although I still can't get over how they come up with the stupid, dangerous things they do for fun. I may never get it. But other than that they are pretty easy.

Of course cause US BOYZ ROCK !!!!!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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I wish I had money to have one made

Oh come on tell me not like that one !!!!!

 

[PitterPatterPalace]

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Ah, more pitter patter in the palace..how many & what sex do you have so far??

+ congrates for the healthy baby & hope no more migraines !!

This is our first. It's been a no boys club up until now (except for DH)- 2 female cats, 7 hens, 1 female dog.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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Ah, more pitter patter in the palace..how many & what sex do you have so far??

+ congrates for the healthy baby & hope no more migraines !!

This is our first. It's been a no boys club up until now (except for DH)- 2 female cats, 7 hens, 1 female dog.

Well I do have to say that while I have no kids of my own I have raised 4 f other peoples. Three girlz and one boy. I would take them three girlz ten times over to that one boy.
But I am sure yours will be just fine. I think this one just came from a line that should have been removed from the gene pool! !!!!

 

[herbandteas]

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I wish I had money to have one made

Oh come on tell me not like that one !!!!!

any thing you like to make would be cool but no money to buy one now