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[PitterPatterPalace]

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They're so big now!!!

 

[hallerlake]

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They're so big now!!!

They're almost three months old.

 

[PitterPatterPalace]

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[cheryl98117]

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Sorry but that made me giggle!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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Thanks! Like Alex's haircut? He did it himself because he got silly putty stuck in it.

I was just talking with a friend of mine who will be a grandma for the second time this week. I was thinking wow, her son had kids early, then she told me he is 30!!!! I remember going to a halloween party with co-workers at his moms house when he was 12 and his little brother (6) hid under the car because he was afraid of someone's cow costume. Now Alex is 12! It did not seem like that long ago; 5 years maybe.

They do grow fast that's for sure!!! Got pics of my 20 yr old son today, he is in Wyoming, he has changed so much over the last year! He's such a man!!! He just turned 20 on June 20th and it's just amazing, the change even from 18 to 20!!!! His face is clear and his eyes are bright and he wants to be an underwater welder!! He has a school picked out in Seattle. Be glad to have him home this winter. My daughter is coming back then too! Wyoming hasn't been good to them unfortunately!
and yea that's a great hair do!!

UNDERWATER WELDER

You go man!!!! I don't know how much depand there is but I know they make $$$$$$$$

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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I didn't realise yer hands were that tiny!! cause I know them berries can't be that big.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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I get scraps from the produce guy at our grocery every so often, and there is always a few strawberries in them, and my birds will not eat them.
They also refuse to eat carrot peelings, or carrots of anykind, like in leftover stew or soups I give them.
Weird, huh ?
Anyone's chickens eat any kind of carrots ?

I have read they don't eat raw root crops. I haven't had luck with carrot or potato peels, but if cooked, they will eat them.

I heard raw tator peel can kill chooks! Any body know .

 

[Stumpfarmer]

There's humidity and heat, and then there's turning compost and retreiving worms for the Hamburgs (The BLRWs are about half for them as the yummiest thing ever and half certain that they are the embodiment of wiggly evil: hens on one side, cockerals on the other, and the disturbance in the pen when I feed worms is just not worth it, so they get peanuts and extra greens instead) and how in the heck can red worms survive the temperature in the compost bin, my goodness?. It was like grilling burgers in the full sun, the compost is slightly above body temperature, and the worms are all happily wiggling and reproducing like whoa.

I've stopped trying to use tools to get worms without taking out too much compost: I use cheap nitrile gloves for that and slug-picking (the Hamburgs, all of them, can eat slugs half the size of their heads; Ian will eat the teeny ones but, again, finds the bigger ones REALLY SCARY, and ABBA is somewhere that the slugs aren't easy to find).

Ian is also not impressed with lettuce, unlike everything else, but EVERYBODY likes bedstraw.

This idle chatter has been brought to you by me sitting down and drinking some water in the middle of feeding chooks.

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

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Sorry but that made me giggle!

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[RustyHen]

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X2 they are very colorful

I posted my pictures on the Brabanter/Spitzhauben thread to see if anyone could tell me how many cockerels I have. It seems I only have ONE!

Hey thats no fair--everyone has to deal with all the extra lil roos'

just kidding that is really great for you and for them !