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[SadieSue]

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Thinking about acquiring another breed with wild "hairdos? They look pretty cool...

 

[herbandteas]

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I have eggs under broodies so not sure I should pick them up to candle the eggs. So just going to let them take care of the eggs.


Good luck on your hatch!

thanks, I bet yours will do just fine!!! If I had had a broody hen I may have tried it!!!

They are bantam cochen's they are sisters so they do everything together like lavern and shirley which is their names.

 

[hallerlake]

Blondie, my Brabanter cockerel, is sitting on my shoulder right now. No one would send a Brabanter rooster to freezer camp, would they?

 

[hallerlake]

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Thinking about acquiring another breed with wild "hairdos? They look pretty cool...

It's like a spangled polish or sultan with feathered feet.

 

[BarnChick]

I need some help. My little baby has a bum eye. They were fine the last few days and now I just noticed this. Here is a picture, can anyone help me out. I saw here open it and know the eye is still there, not been pecked out, it had some fluid that drained out but she wont open it. Also, the area around is bare of feathers. She also is acting sorta funny. she tucks her beak down and then lifts her head and opens her beak, but doesn't chirp unless you pick her up. Is she sick?

 

[pettec63]

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Wow!! interesting history!!! I found it a little hard to follow in places tho, but cool!

 

[hallerlake]

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Thinking about acquiring another breed with wild "hairdos? They look pretty cool...

From Latvia? I doubt it.

 

[hallerlake]

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Wow!! interesting history!!! I found it a little hard to follow in places tho, but cool!

English is clearly not the writers first language.

 

[pettec63]

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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.

It kills me every time you refer to those guys. I'm going to have to toughen up now especially if I'm going to continue hatching chicks. Any cockerels I hatch will have to go. I've already had an offer from a family member to "take them off my hands". Listen, I eat chicken, I love chicken and I know it started out as a cute chick somewhere, but I've just not yet had the experience f knowing my food personally before consuming it. If only I could determine sex when they are a day old so cockerels were not fawned over and cherished.

It's a common story throughout BYC I'm sure. I'm certainly not the first city girl coming to terms with this truth, and I think it's a beautiful thing to raise your own fresh food.

Just wanted you to know I empathize Ogress. I'm sure that was tough for you, and I'm right there with you.

I know! I get it! I was told a long time ago if your gonna eat it don't name it!! So, I've held off naming any of my chickens just in case!! lol! no seriously!!!!

 

[hallerlake]

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I'd say infection. Go to the disease thread.