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[Stumpfarmer]

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O my gosh!! they are very pretty, what are they?? I'm sure you told us, I missed the post??

Silver Spangled Hamburgs, a very old, not common, variety.

Julia, they were perfectly calm in their dog carrier, so they may be less claustrophobic than the breed in general?

 

[Ogress]

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Feed store in Snoqualmie, but I don't know where the feed store got them. It is a very teeny tiny feedstore, not much bigger than my chicken coop. I bought four 6 week old pullets from them (2 NH, 1RIR, 1 Australorps). None were ever afraid of people, all very nice birds. They always come running to people never from us, even as pullets! Most of my other gals did not settle down until after they reached POL. I now have 45 birds, most quite young, 17 of them are hatchery/feed store. The rest are from people I met here.

really?? you know maybe you can answer this?? My buffs were broody at POL but since, they aren't this year?? I thought if a hen was broody, she would be broody all the time??

Sorry - I've only had mine for just under a year. I have 2 BO, both from My Pet Chicken. They avoided me like the plague when they were chicks. They came around a bit as pullets when they realised I carry snacks. Friendly hens, mean broodies! One of mine was so mean she'd screech whenever any living thing, human or chicken entered the hen house., and when I'd reach for her, she'd attack. I threw her off the nest 5-6 times per day and she broke. Now she is friendly and sweet. You'd never guess it was the same bird! The otehr BO is broody now. She is not as mean. She fluffs up and gives you the stink eye, but she rarely screeches and does not attack with the same force. She is, however, much harder to pull out of the nesting box. Think of trying to put a cat in a toilet bowl (okay, I admit I did this a few times as a kid for entertainment purposes, always amazed at just how far those legs would reach to grab the toilet rim and avoid the water!) Now instead of putting the cat in the toilet, you are pulling the hen out. Wings go up, legs go out, she makes herself too big to fit through the rather large opening, all the while making sounds similar to the cat when it thinks it is going to get a whirlpool bath (I did not do that to a cat).

 

[marndan]

Stumpfarmer that is a great picture... Griz is darling and very intense looking. That is what I will be facing for. Ellie is very good with my son who is 5 although when he really gets going she will nip at his pants legs to herd him. She also grabs at the tires of his bike as he rides it... She is pretty hard core but a sweet sweet girl. I will have to really work with her that is for sure.

 

[Ogress]

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I do that with mine, but it works better with some than others, and then you get the other problems - all those docile cockerals looking up at you all confused when you leave them with the farmer for freezer camp. "mom, you can't leave us here!" I'd rather have mean hens than have to go through that again. Poor guys.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Griz came from a house where there were white doves flying in the air, chicks in a playpen in the living room, and three small children who played with the puppies all day (and not a sniff of manure not hint of feathers srifting in the air: I do not know how they did any of it); he's had the personality of a eager young person runing for congress the first time since I brought him home. I think the most important part of getting a good dog is to get one that's been human-socialized from birth although preferably not to the degree of imprinting on humans; Ruby (Griz' daughter, a Chesepeake Cow Retriever) thinks I'm her mother. I started carrying her in my workvest before her eyes opened, and she thinks nobody else should get close to me, which is not the greatest thing ever.

 

[marndan]

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Griz came from a house where there were white doves flying in the air, chicks in a playpen in the living room, and three small children who played with the puppies all day (and not a sniff of manure not hint of feathers srifting in the air: I do not know how they did any of it); he's had the personality of a eager young person runing for congress the first time since I brought him home. I think the most important part of getting a good dog is to get one that's been human-socialized from birth although preferably not to the degree of imprinting on humans; Ruby (Griz' daughter, a Chesepeake Cow Retriever) thinks I'm her mother. I started carrying her in my workvest before her eyes opened, and she thinks nobody else should get close to me, which is not the greatest thing ever.

Wow that is amazing... He sounds like a cool dog.. Ellie was raised around a ton of kids and is really great with people. She is just very driven I guess you could say. She runs around my horse in circles and nips at his tail while I am cleaning his feet. She used to heard our pony but got a bit bored with it. Now she only like to do it when he is running. I do know what you mean about imprinting though it isn't always great. I've never heard of a Chesepeake Cow Retriever.

 

[Chickielady]

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Welcome, well, belated welcome.
As I seem to be the only one out gardening except for 4321....
Welcome to BYC!!!!!!!!!
Get forwarned about how addicting this forum is ?

 

[pettec63]

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really?? you know maybe you can answer this?? My buffs were broody at POL but since, they aren't this year?? I thought if a hen was broody, she would be broody all the time??

Sorry - I've only had mine for just under a year. I have 2 BO, both from My Pet Chicken. They avoided me like the plague when they were chicks. They came around a bit as pullets when they realised I carry snacks. Friendly hens, mean broodies! One of mine was so mean she'd screech whenever any living thing, human or chicken entered the hen house., and when I'd reach for her, she'd attack. I threw her off the nest 5-6 times per day and she broke. Now she is friendly and sweet. You'd never guess it was the same bird! The otehr BO is broody now. She is not as mean. She fluffs up and gives you the stink eye, but she rarely screeches and does not attack with the same force. She is, however, much harder to pull out of the nesting box. Think of trying to put a cat in a toilet bowl (okay, I admit I did this a few times as a kid for entertainment purposes, always amazed at just how far those legs would reach to grab the toilet rim and avoid the water!) Now instead of putting the cat in the toilet, you are pulling the hen out. Wings go up, legs go out, she makes herself too big to fit through the rather large opening, all the while making sounds similar to the cat when it thinks it is going to get a whirlpool bath (I did not do that to a cat).

O my gosh!! lol! Mine are not even close to that!! they are the sweetest girls and don't mind being picked up and hauled around! Don't remember how they were when they were broody?? Not bad I don't think, they just puffed a bit from what I remember. Man, that's terrible!!

 

[herbandteas]

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Sorry - I've only had mine for just under a year. I have 2 BO, both from My Pet Chicken. They avoided me like the plague when they were chicks. They came around a bit as pullets when they realised I carry snacks. Friendly hens, mean broodies! One of mine was so mean she'd screech whenever any living thing, human or chicken entered the hen house., and when I'd reach for her, she'd attack. I threw her off the nest 5-6 times per day and she broke. Now she is friendly and sweet. You'd never guess it was the same bird! The otehr BO is broody now. She is not as mean. She fluffs up and gives you the stink eye, but she rarely screeches and does not attack with the same force. She is, however, much harder to pull out of the nesting box. Think of trying to put a cat in a toilet bowl (okay, I admit I did this a few times as a kid for entertainment purposes, always amazed at just how far those legs would reach to grab the toilet rim and avoid the water!) Now instead of putting the cat in the toilet, you are pulling the hen out. Wings go up, legs go out, she makes herself too big to fit through the rather large opening, all the while making sounds similar to the cat when it thinks it is going to get a whirlpool bath (I did not do that to a cat).

O my gosh!! lol! Mine are not even close to that!! they are the sweetest girls and don't mind being picked up and hauled around! Don't remember how they were when they were broody?? Not bad I don't think, they just puffed a bit from what I remember. Man, that's terrible!!

My buff orp's are due 29th

 

[Chickielady]

Hi everyone !!

This morning I had my whole day planned & so far am sticking to it & getting almost everything crossed off my chore list, so far, maybe not now that I logged on here

I "Einsteined" a super awesome way to heat my green house, and dehydrate my herbs & veggies..you guessed it.
I pulled up a monster amount, 2- 5 gallon buckets of green onuins, cleaned & sliced and in the Excalibue dehydrator, in the green house.
Then DH attached a metal coffee can on the circle-shaped air intake, and cut a hole in the green house fabric.
So it sucks outside air in (low humidity) and blows the warm air into the green house.
The entire property smells terrific too!
Green Onion perfume wafting through the woods....maybe keep the no-see-ums & mos-kee-toes away as well.
In the vacant spot in the green house, went 4 more tomatoes ready to plant, and 1 flat of Basil.
I gotta tell ya, the smell in there is so yummy!!!

That done, I am making the nanner cream pie crust, stick it in the oven, and go out & install a little window in the vacant RIW coop, that never got put in last winter.
Speaking of RIW, thanks teresa, but don't be sad, he was a booger since the very day he hatched he attacked our fingers when we stuck our hands in to feed & water the chicks.
We knew this day would come, and quite frankly, I am relieved I can walk around out there without carrying a shovel and walking backwards.
The Buckeyes will go in that coop as soon as I am done putting the window in.
The Bucks are thee friendliest chicks(chickens) I have ever seen..even as baby chicks, they run to people, and will run to the fence if they see me on the other side..so people friendly it is hard to believe.
They stay this way as the mature.
Everyone who has Buckeyes says the same thing.
Royce told me just this morning that his Bucks will come running (even as chicks) to him.
And, mind you, these chicks have never been given treats, they come because they like people, not cuz they want a treat.

A much better flock than the RIW.
OK, back to work for this old woman...bye guys!!