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mominoz said:
Mominoz, between Rome and Chattanooga.....
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welcome Rome here

Flowerbh said:
Better pics of my Swedish Flowers. Looks like I have a male and a female. Guess I will be selling the male.....may sell them as a pair.




Also, just got my chicken saddles! Now, I have to figure out which chicken will look best in which color! LOL


claims their feathers will grow back in two weeks!
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feathersaloft said:
I'm in Cartersville GA
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Rome well actually Armuchee
 
Y'all! I've had such a bantam mystery going on the past two weeks. Every single afternoon when I get home from work, this one pullet is out, just free ranging underneath the pole barn which houses her actual run. Nobody else is ever out with her. I assumed she was digging out from the bottom of the run so I had wired, bricked and slated every low spot and still she would be out waiting for me.

Tonight we got home and I went out and counted birds.. One bantam missing. Couldn't find her anywhere.. Until I looked ohhh about NINE FEET above the ground :lau

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That explains it! She's roosting there and instead of turning around in the morning she's just flying out. Which means she's been going every day without any water or food aside from what she digs up.. Bless her heart.

So I guess I'll be wiring the top of that run now. There's no stop on the way up-- she's straight flying up there! Guess this is my first bantam lesson..
 
carcar80 said:
Hi and welcome to all the new folks.
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Yep Bantams like to fly and roost up high and once they get a taste for it, it is hard to break them if you can, I couldn't cause they go up there before your ready or they know when your coming. When their up in the trees I have lost a few to flying night critters but if you can't get them down and you can't get them in a pen......
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So I went out to try one of the chicken saddles on one of the hens. Of course, she wondered what was on her back. She jumped off the roost and ALL the chickens went wild! It was like "what's on your back! Get away from me! I don't want it on my back! ". The roosters were the worst. They were trying to go thru the fencing of the coop, hollering and screeching! I'm surprised they didn't have a heart attack. You would have thoughts there was a fox in the henhouse! Needless to say, I will wait until tomorrow to put anymore saddles on them! Lol!
 
Flowerbh said:
So I went out to try one of the chicken saddles on one of the hens. Of course, she wondered what was on her back. She jumped off the roost and ALL the chickens went wild! It was like "what's on your back! Get away from me! I don't want it on my back! ". The roosters were the worst. They were trying to go thru the fencing of the coop, hollering and screeching! I'm surprised they didn't have a heart attack. You would have thoughts there was a fox in the henhouse! Needless to say, I will wait until tomorrow to put anymore saddles on them! Lol!
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maybe you should put them on when they are sleeping so when they wake up it they won't notice it as much, question, how hot does it have to be before you take it off?
 
katsdar said:
Yep Bantams like to fly and roost up high and once they get a taste for it, it is hard to break them if you can, I couldn't cause they go up there before your ready or they know when your coming.  When their up in the trees I have lost a few to flying night critters but if you can't get them down and you can't get them in a pen......:idunno
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Well mine don't free range, except for this little rogue. But I can see where it could be an issue! I told hubby we'll have to make a couple higher roosts. I had no idea they like to be that high!
 
carcar80 said:
Y'all! I've had such a bantam mystery going on the past two weeks. Every single afternoon when I get home from work, this one pullet is out, just free ranging underneath the pole barn which houses her actual run. Nobody else is ever out with her. I assumed she was digging out from the bottom of the run so I had wired, bricked and slated every low spot and still she would be out waiting for me.

Tonight we got home and I went out and counted birds.. One bantam missing. Couldn't find her anywhere.. Until I looked ohhh about NINE FEET above the ground
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That explains it! She's roosting there and instead of turning around in the morning she's just flying out. Which means she's been going every day without any water or food aside from what she digs up.. Bless her heart.

So I guess I'll be wiring the top of that run now. There's no stop on the way up-- she's straight flying up there! Guess this is my first bantam lesson..
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so much for all that wire, brick and slate..............

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Flowerbh said:
So I went out to try one of the chicken saddles on one of the hens. Of course, she wondered what was on her back. She jumped off the roost and ALL the chickens went wild! It was like "what's on your back! Get away from me! I don't want it on my back! ". The roosters were the worst. They were trying to go thru the fencing of the coop, hollering and screeching! I'm surprised they didn't have a heart attack. You would have thoughts there was a fox in the henhouse! Needless to say, I will wait until tomorrow to put anymore saddles on them! Lol!
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mine do this same thing if I go out there after dark. I don't think chickens really sleep at all, they just get on the roost at dark because they can't see anything, but I've never seen mine sleeping and I go down there all hours.

I went down to check a couple of them who looked like the might have had some crop issues going on, got pecked more than once, they did NOT want me fooling with them. I did anyway, cause that's how I roll........
 

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