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[Rainwolf]

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We turn our chicks out of the grow out pens into the yard at about 8-10 weeks old (depending on weather) and the crows haven't been a problem. The hawks are the biggie round here, so sometimes we hold them in longer. The crows are egg thieves! Having said that, they do warn about hawks, and will even try and drive them off, so I don't mind if they find a stray egg once in a while (some of the young pullets don't always find the nest-boxes when they first start to lay

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My crows never bother my birds and I feed the crows when I can so they hang out and chase the starlings away from my garden and fruit trees and warn about the eagle that lives in my neighborhood.

 

[SadieSue]

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The Eco-glow? Love mine!
You are using the labor day discount aren't you? 20% off most items plus an extra 10% with the discount code! Can't remember what is right now but I can look it up if you don't already have it.

 

[hallerlake]

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So you have no Spitz left?

No, I have Ramona, the bearded Spitz, Fritz, Dotty, and Dolly. I decided to leave room in my coops for a few hatchlings next year. I also have four Brabanters, and my four original girls.

 

[hallerlake]

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The Eco-glow? Love mine!
You are using the labor day discount aren't you? 20% off most items plus an extra 10% with the discount code! Can't remember what is right now but I can look it up if you don't already have it.

Thank you, but I do have it. That's why i want to buy it now. I love end of season sales, don't you?

 

[KazAnder Farms]

Whoohoo have 4 hatchlings little dark brahmas, the banties are so small, id post pics but can never figure out the picture thing.

 

[SadieSue]

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That is a fantastic idea. It's always good to support the arts and theater community but in the digital age, I'm afraid many have forgotten or not learned to appreciate live theater. There's really nothing like experiencing the electricity, energy, and beauty of being that close to live entertainment. These people work hard to bring you close to the experience.

Both theaters that I've been actively involved with, Tacoma Little Theatre, and Lakewood Playhouse, have produced some very worthwhile productions.
I've also worked with Northwest Playwrights Alliance doing staged readings of original playwrights pieces and worked with Spud Goodman productions on a few locally produced webisodes of the comedic series "Tacoma Diaries." I can be seen in episodes called "Jury Duty", (playing a prosecuting attorney) "Speed Dating" and another one about male bikini clad baristas.
Tacomadiaries.com

 

[Rainwolf]

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Ok... This is what I know and it may not be all correct.....

Baby chickens: Chick or peeps
young male: stag or cockerel
young female: pullet
adults = 1 year or older
female: hen
male: rooster
A capon is a castrated rooster

BUT I have seen rooster and cockerel used for any age.
and my friends who are serious breeders/show etc tend to call the young male a stag and adult male a cockerel.....
so I think there might be a lot of confusion on the male terms since they tend to be used for any male of any age....

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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So you have no Spitz left?

No, I have Ramona, the bearded Spitz, Fritz, Dotty, and Dolly. I decided to leave room in my coops for a few hatchlings next year. I also have four Brabanters, and my four original girls.

I'd lost track of where you were on the culling phase.

I'm hoping I can get to the Arboretum Sale and bring you your incubator then; if you need it sooner I'll pack it carefully and return it to your correct address this time via UPS. I was going to try another group of Sylvia's eggs but she's apparently on strike.

 

[hallerlake]

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No, I have Ramona, the bearded Spitz, Fritz, Dotty, and Dolly. I decided to leave room in my coops for a few hatchlings next year. I also have four Brabanters, and my four original girls.

I'd lost track of where you were on the culling phase.

I'm hoping I can get to the Arboretum Sale and bring you your incubator then; if you need it sooner I'll pack it carefully and return it to your correct address this time via UPS. I was going to try another group of Sylvia's eggs but she's apparently on strike.

I couldn't hatch if I wanted to since neither the Spitz nor the Brabanters are laying yet.

 

[Kaneke]

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hey Dana, any action on those remaining two eggs? did the pecking/rocking egg give up ?

Sadly no action on the remaining two eggs. I'm going to turn off the incubator. I'll open the eggs but I know that one had a fully grown chick, guess she just couldn't make it out.

We did have a chick loss the other day. I don't know why. I called DH out to see the chicks when they were eating but only counted 5. We had Whitey stand up and there was one of the lighter colored babies dead underneath her nearly buried under a small pile of straw and shavings. I don't know if she was stepped on, crushed, or smothered but it broke my heart to have that tiny, lifeless body in my hands. DH did his best to make things better by quickly digging a hole for me so we could bury her. I think he was a bit moved by the loss as well.

Spent some time with the rest today when I was cleaning out the big coop though. The 5 chicks left are beautiful, precious, and still appear so fragile. It's tempting for me to want to sweep them up and raise them in the house with me where I know they'll be safe but that would defeat my project which despite our loss has gone well. I love watching Whitey, who is typically the crankiest and bossiest of our girls, cluck softly as she shows the babies how to scratch and look for food and after they've had their fill, lifts her fluffy self up so they can scurry underneath and warm up again.

I took a few pics the other day that I'll post soon. There is one light silvery chick, a tan, a dark gray, and two dark brown, all with chipmunk striping. All perfectly beautiful.

big hugs !

I'm sorry we lost one like that, and I'm wondering if when you open those last two eggs, if by some weird chance one of the chicks survived but just couldn't break the sturdy shell

now I'm glad I wound up convincing you to take a couple more eggs ...

okay, if you have a silver chick and a dark gray, that must mean the roo is genetically a silver duckwing with Columbian genes
(and the two dark brown ones might be cockerels who will grow up to look much like him)

pretty much eliminates him carrying Dominant White, which agrees with what I was thinking, knowing he had been a dark brown chickie to begin with .. unless of course that silvery chick grows up to be a white adult

yes, they are such tiny lightweight balls of fluff the first few days .. I know when I watched them open up the chick shipment at Yelm F&P -- there were three quiet balls of down in amongst the two dozen chirpies .. and two more did not survive that day to be sold

thanks for letting me know, and we will both be watching in a couple of weeks, to see what Dawn's broody hatches out