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[dan26552]

That's amazing Dan! You are the Guinea Whisperer!

I haven't even really worked with them in like 5 weeks, not since the red rangers moved out of the barn and I stopped catching them everyday.

 

[frmboyinthecity]

I am attempting a new coop myself. The dogs stay at my house and I was using the coop behind my mother's house and something killed them all but my little Ruby. The poor girl was frozen in shock for a good 2 hours and for weeks I couldn't leave her sight or she flipped out. Has anyone ever had to set up a perch in their bedroom? She actually had to sleep with me (in my bed) for a few nights, she wasn't having a thing to do with the perch. I have earned the title crazy chicken lady!!!

I struggle sharing my bed with my girls when they come in in the middle of the night. Something about little toes hitting me in painful locations. No way I'd share with a chicken.

 

[abbevilleoz]

There's nothing wrong with eating duck... just not mine, especially my Calls!

Calls wouldn't be worth the effort! (Corrected)

I haven't even really worked with them in like 5 weeks, not since the red rangers moved out of the barn and I stopped catching them everyday.

Are the free ranging?

 

[WVduckchick]

I struggle sharing my bed with my girls when they come in in the middle of the night. Something about little toes hitting me in painful locations. No way I'd share with a chicken.

you must not have dogs either. Dudley knows exactly where to kick/step!

 

[dan26552]

Calls wouldn't be either effort!
Are the free ranging?

No, they are in a chicken tractor with the chicks. They will eventually move into the new coop with the chicks once it's done and that'll be a paddock system. Dad says they'll wander but I'm not so sure, any time they get out all they do is try to get back to the chicks, wherever the chicks are that's where they go Guess we'll see.

 

[Ravynscroft]

    There's possibly nothing wrong with eating duck, but not mine either...or any others kept as pets.  

Pets are never food...

 

[Pyxis]

Well now there's someone saying chickens shouldn't eat chicken or eggs because of mad cow disease? And when they first posted they mentioned a human prion disease so I said you can't get those from chickens and then I was "putting words in their mouth" because they didn't say that. Ugh.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1170912/do-i-put-cooked-egg-yolks-in-my-chicks-feed#post_18427548

 

[Ravynscroft]

I am attempting a new coop myself. The dogs stay at my house and I was using the coop behind my mother's house and something killed them all but my little Ruby. The poor girl was frozen in shock for a good 2 hours and for weeks I couldn't leave her sight or she flipped out. Has anyone ever had to set up a perch in their bedroom? She actually had to sleep with me (in my bed) for a few nights, she wasn't having a thing to do with the perch. I have earned the title crazy chicken lady!!!

You're still not as crazy as me... I sleep with a duck...

 

[frmboyinthecity]

you must not have dogs either. Dudley knows exactly where to kick/step!

Not yet...we have a miserable cat. She's allowed at my feet.

Which reminds me, the other day, I was getting ready to get in the shower, and was sitting for a moment before hand. That stupid animal jumped onto the back of the toilet onto the toilet paper rolls that were sitting there, then slid down and grabbed the first thing she found purchase in, my rosie cheeks. My wife could not help extract her claws from the small of my back on account of almost dying laughing. And she wonders why I hate that cat.

You're still not as crazy as me... I sleep with a duck...

I think you spelled that wrong....

 

[FridayYet]

Not yet...we have a miserable cat. She's allowed at my feet.

Which reminds me, the other day, I was getting ready to get in the shower, and was sitting for a moment before hand. That stupid animal jumped onto the back of the toilet onto the toilet paper rolls that were sitting there, then slid down and grabbed the first thing she found purchase in, my rosie cheeks. My wife could not help extract her claws from the small of my back on account of almost dying laughing. And she wonders why I hate that cat.
I think you spelled that wrong....