Welcome to my pond - Swim, wade, or sit on the bank

[chickisoup]

Clouds over my lily pad - good morning on the Pond. Did I just hear a spring peeper ?

We don't hear the peepers until our little pond and springs in the woods thaw out then it gets LOUD.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Morning Pond sunshine on my lilly pad is so bright gotta wear shades ... Our local feed store had their first shipment I was there did not buy any

 

[sourland]

TSC was unpacking chicks and keets as I got there. Only 11 assorted leftover chicks on sale at half price. Chicks are going as rapidly as they went last year.

 

[pennyJo1960]

The one we go to is Onalaska by address but
right smack on highway 12

 

[Alaskan]

I took some university level poultry courses offered on line from a European school a few years ago and this topic showed up in the behavioral science stuff. It's unusual but does happen. They presume it's a throw back to the survival instincts of the wild flocks.

Oh!

That is interesting.

I wonder how often it happens... or if in some breeds more than others...

And the triggers....

Fascinating stuff.

And I am VERY glad I have never had such a rooster.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Guess I can agree never had one act that way. Okay some may have but wherte dinner before they got a chance

 

[sourland]

Oh!

That is interesting.

I wonder how often it happens.

And the triggers.

In my experience it has only happened with a dominant hen refusing to accept a new rooster/cockerel as dominant. Once the male achieves dominance they seem to see the hen as a competitor rather than a potential mate. Again in my experience this has not happened in free range birds where the hen has enough space to stay out of the rooster's way.

 

[Pyxis]

TSC was unpacking chicks and keets as I got there. Only 11 assorted leftover chicks on sale at half price. Chicks are going as rapidly as they went last year.

And I've already started the yearly 'bring home dying chicks from work every day and see if I can save them' routine.

So far I've brought home A LOT of chicks. Have saved two turkeys, about seven bantams, an australorp pullet, a barred rock, and two brahmas out of all of them.

Also, we hate the new brooder system. It sucks. The chicks can't get warm enough, I've had to rescue two chicks out of the feeder trough that they managed to get into, and so far my coworkers have found at least four that got into the water trough and drowned. And last night a brahma launched itself out of the top brooder while the door was opened and killed itself.

 

[pennyJo1960]

That has to be the worst of your Job @Pyxis

 

[Alaskan]

And I've already started the yearly 'bring home dying chicks from work every day and see if I can save them' routine.

So far I've brought home A LOT of chicks. Have saved two turkeys, about seven bantams, an australorp pullet, a barred rock, and two brahmas out of all of them.

Also, we hate the new brooder system. It sucks. The chicks can't get warm enough, I've had to rescue two chicks out of the feeder trough that they managed to get into, and so far my coworkers have found at least four that got into the water trough and drowned. And last night a brahma launched itself out of the top brooder while the door was opened and killed itself.

Oh good grief.

Some non-chicken person came up with a new design?