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So I went to see my counselor today. I must be really screwed up in the head. She kept me there for 5 or 6 hours! It was a very productive session. Lucky for me she let us hold the session outside in the sun! We even had the most yummy lunch!

She is an awesome therapist! I drive 2 hours one way just to see her! I left feeling wonderful! It was better than any of the drugs that the dumb doctors have prescribed for me!

Thanks CL!!!

 

[T Hi]

Oh and a ducky bator update -

I have 14 eggs in the bator. 13 of them have the spider looking vein thingys and little red dots that are beating! Heartbeats? Now I have to have the self control to leave the buggers alone for a week before I candle again! How do you guys do it? I want to candle every night!!!

I keep the eggs in the bator and just kinda open 1 of the top window things and put the light on the butt of the egg. I don't lift them out. They should be ok right?

Runner ducklings anyone?

Oh wait! I shouldn't count my ducklings before they hatch!!

Ok good night........ It was a long day and my little dog, Daffy and I are absolutely wiped out! (we all went to the therapist together today!)

 

[cheryl98117]

Ok. I know doing this is generally a really bad idea. But, the poor little thing was so lonely by herself. So I stuck her in with the bittys. Supervised of course, she will go back into isolation over night, just in case. But I HAD to show this to Chickielady and you all.

If I remember correctly this chick is around 5 weeks old...

She managed to fit 8 of 10 bittys under her.

The 9th just climbed on top!

I think someones gonna be a good mamma some day. lol This is the BW that got picked bloody, she seems to be doing just fine though.

Such a little Rooster already! He's gonna have some serious stink eye when he is older. lol

 

[blueducklings]

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Glad you had a big dose of SUPER D today & feel better.
Wait till the babies pip. You'll be egg-staaaaa-tic!!!
Not to mention sleepless.

 

[Ogress]

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I just put him in my avatar - I think he has a little frostbite on the tips of his comb. He's a bantam cochin - RFF called the pair Calico Bantam Cochins; not sure if it is the same as Mille fleur, but I do know they are really cute! I have a few eggs that I want to hatch (or find someone to hatch them for me). I have 2 semi-broody hens, but I don't think I will trust them with these eggs. Wish I knew if they were fertile, my roo does not seem to get much action. Maybe he doesn't have much of an Oedipus Complex. I was looking at RFF's website, and I think they may be mother and son, either that or she has another similar looking roo.

These are calicos....and not closely related. Harriet is actually a year older than the rooster. I sold their latest "son" to someone else on the BYC boards at the show in Monroe. The one you're seeing on my website in the photo gallery is one of my first hatches from Harriet and Rufus. I sold him last fall. I have two breeding pens of bantam cochins...one was calicos and one was milles. Now I have two pens of milles and I've sold all of my calico birds.

Here are a few photos of my foundation roos....and no, the white one didn't count. I had a neighbor buy him at the 4-H auction from a little girl (he was fair champion) because he felt sorry for the little girl....then he brought him home to me! LOL I ended up selling him to another little 4-H girl.

Anyway, the one on my website that looks similar to the roo you bought is picture here, but he had more black in his hackles, and man was he RUDE!

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m53/Equibling/Mille Cochins/cochinroos.jpg

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m53/Equibling/Mille Cochins/cochinroos2.jpg

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m53/Equibling/Mille Cochins/cochinroosdark.jpg

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m53/Equibling/Mille Cochins/cochinroosmille.jpg

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m53/Equibling/Mille Cochins/cochinroosmille2.jpg

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m53/Equibling/Mille Cochins/MilleRoo3.jpg

You can see Harriet here--I had them all running together for a while in the winter....

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m53/Equibling/Mille Cochins/MilleRoos_2.jpg

Oh and this is Rufus. I sold him to someone in Oregon.

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m53/Equibling/Mille Cochins/MilleRoos3-1.jpg

They are all so pretty! I want them all!

How old is Harriet? I may stick the 5 eggs I have from her now under my EE who won't leave the nest box. Boy she grunted and growled when I lifter her to change out the shavings in the nest box! She pecked at my hand so hard she drew blood!

It was a beautiful day here, I got off work at 1 and spent the rest of the day in my yard - should've taken my camera out there too. All the LF hens were running around the yard eating all the wormies and tender plant shoots. The tweens were exploring their run, and I moved the brooder into the tween room in the coop. I tried putting the little OE's whith the tweens, and they looked so scred, huddling together in a corner. The tweens checked them out, but were not really aggressive, a few little pecks, nothing major, but the OE's were so freaked out that 2 of them started fighting each other! I put them back in the brooder and they all calmed down.

I did not let the bantams out of their enclosure because there was a pair of coopers hawks nearby, one kept perching in an alder on the edge of my lawn. Luna ((Olivia finally named the Light Sussex) kept pacing in front of the little roo. She did not seem aggressive, I think she just misses the company of a roo. My other hens have not clue what a roo is, and a couple of them tried to fight with him through the fence. He was crowing a lot when the hens were around! After the hens realized they weren't going to get to be on the same side of the fance, they wandered off to explore the yard. They segregated themselves ... the 2 boff orps wandered one way, the SLW's another, my black Australorps and the BCM took off for the garden, the 3 red/brown hens somewhere else, and the Light Sussex had no hen friend since the white EE has gone broody and won't leave her nesting box. Soon enough she found a friend too; Flumpers, my fuzzy white cat! Luna and Flumpers explored the yard together, Luna would stop and dig for worms whenever flumpers decided she needed to chew on some grass, then they both plopped down next to each other and sunned themselves on the coop porch! What a couple! I'll have to video next time!

 

[Ogress]

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Well, Cheryl, I cannot answer this with an educated answer. I would only answer with what I do....my chickens are spoiled. I cook them oatmeal. I cook them spaghetti noodles (worms). I buy loaves of bread, just for me girls, that the DH and DD can sit in the yard and feed them, by hand.

I took my lunch of scrambled eggs and toast outside to eat in the garden. As soon as I found a nice boulder in the sun to sit on, Penny (RIR) and Huckleberry (Autralorps) came running over, hopped on the boulder with me and ate from my plate

Even worse because I continued to eat, though I tried to avoid anything they got too close to. - I hadn't had breakfast and was hungry!

 

[blueducklings]

My ducks don't do that yet.
Just nibble on my shirt to let me know they want some too.

remind me not to eat near your chickens.

 

[T Hi]

Hey Blueducklings!

A funny package arrived at my therapist's P.O. box today!!!!! It had pretty drawings on the outside of it!!!!

 

[jbear]

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Jen: ARe these your Seramas? Are they bantam? I read where 5 of their eggs = 1 AA egg. Are they truly that tiny? Tell me about them. I read that they are not really compatible with cold....hence, are they doable in my area? I am afraid it is too cold for them here.

Two of them are seramas- the other is Solo and she is a mille fleur cochin

I will tell you much as you wanna know about the seramas

mine do fine here- I did use a light on the smaller ones this last winter during the snows and if the temp dropped into the teens. If you have a coop/hutch that they can get into that is protected from the weather, they would do fine. I had a frizzle that was TINY and the little silkie girl I worried they couldn't stay warm enough during those cold spells, and they are the main reason I turned a light on in their hutch. There's folks all over the place that have them, including some pretty bad weather areas. So if you really wanted them I know you could make it work

A good place to go to learn is The Serama Council of North America. If I weren't Typing on my phone I Would link it for ya! Lol!

 

[ReiMiraa]

The Elton John concert was awesome. Surprised Mom with 2nd Row Seats....

then we ended up at the front stage at the end because there was an impromptu mosh pit formed.

I am relaxing in the Davenport Hotel with a hot coco and a chocolate moose. yummy.

so my ears are buzzing.... oh well i forgot the ear plugs... mom was smart and stuffed kleenex in hers....


WHAT???? Cant hear you, did you say Study? No cant hear you........