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JACspivey said:
So, I let my chicks out this morning and around 11am they just decided to stay in the coop. Popped the roof open and checked on them and they were all huddled up in a corner looking all scared. It took me a minute to figure it out....hawks...I now have a pesky family of three hawks.
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I think a hawk tried to get one of my girls. They let themselves out of the coop yesterday morning. Luckily my boyfriend discovered them pretty quickly and got them back in, but when I got home from work to check on them I asked him about the big patch of feathers covering part of the yard. His answer "what feathers?" 9_9

Whatever it was tore one of my girls up pretty good, I'll post some pictures later and hopefully y'all can give me some treatment suggestions. For now I just sprayed her down with antibiotics and separated her.

Flowerbh said:
Carcar, I sold a Lavender Ameraucana rooster to a guy.  They guy does not want him....says he's mean, and he wants one like Beau, our Brahma, because Beau is the sweetest thing.  Do you have any Brahma roos for sale?

Does anyone have any interest in buying my friends Lavender Ameraucana!  He is beautiful!
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I have one of Beau's sons he can have, if he wants. Cute little blue creature with nice fluffy "pants". I can post a picture if you think he'd be interested?
 
feathersaloft said:
Welsummers are supposed to be easy to tell. The hens have a sharper triangle on their head and dark eyeliner.
At least I'm hoping it really works, since my last batch I got 8 of those, and 2 of the supposed roosters.
I know it was right with my first 5.
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what she said! the welsummers I got from Murray McMurray all had the darker eyeliner google them and look at pics and read the markings. Flower also told me breeding these would automatically give me chicks that could be 'sex linked' if I understood what she was telling me that day

although I realize nothing is 100% in life.....

according to this blog, by 6 weeks the cockerels will have their combs started

http://welsummers.blogspot.com/2011/01/more-chick-pics-sexing-welsummer-chicks.html
 
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PapaChaz said:
what she said! the welsummers I got from Murray McMurray all had the darker eyeliner google them and look at pics and read the markings. Flower also told me breeding these would automatically give me chicks that could be 'sex linked' if I understood what she was telling me that day

although I realize nothing is 100% in life.....

according to this blog, by 6 weeks the cockerels will have their combs started

http://welsummers.blogspot.com/2011/01/more-chick-pics-sexing-welsummer-chicks.html
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Actually, I was saying that if you crossed a Welsummer with a Legbar, your olive eggers would be auto sexed. All the females would have that dark defined 'V" on their heads. Boys would have a blurry, less defined 'V'.
 
DH and I are having an argument! So, HE wanted a new coop built away from the house. Problem is, the hillside. So, DH is digging into the hillside to make a flat level area. I'm watching from the window to keep from getting into an argument again. He has now dug out so much of the hillside, that the chickens will be able to step off the cliff that was created (and part of the back run) right onto the roof of the coop! Why do men have no vision?! And, if I go out and mention it, I will be a "B"! And, if he so much as mentions any chicken getting out of the run by walking onto the roof and then hoping off the other side, when it's all done, I will blow the dumb thing up! Then he will have to build something to keep them from walking onto the roof, then something to help them get up the cliff he has created so they can get to the rest of the run, etc. etc. then we have a cluster f. Sorry, just frustrated! And, hurry up and bury this quote in lots of other topics so DH will never know I said anything........
 
katsdar said:
I worked this afternoon and now have all my broodies 6 of them with their babies/eggs in their own place with each in it's own nest all snug as bugs, they seem happy, no complaints yet. So I'm guessing I can keep all the broodies and hatchlings together in the same coop/pen or will I have to separate the mothers?
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I've had some that would stay together okay and some that would not tolerate the other chicks being around. You may just have to wait and see.
 
Flowerbh said:
DH and I are having an argument! So, HE wanted a new coop built away from the house. Problem is, the hillside. So, DH is digging into the hillside to make a flat level area. I'm watching from the window to keep from getting into an argument again. He has now dug out so much of the hillside, that the chickens will be able to step off the cliff that was created (and part of the back run) right onto the roof of the coop! Why do men have no vision?! And, if I go out and mention it, I will be a "B"! And, if he so much as mentions any chicken getting out of the run by walking onto the roof and then hoping off the other side, when it's all done, I will blow the dumb thing up! Then he will have to build something to keep them from walking onto the roof, then something to help them get up the cliff he has created so they can get to the rest of the run, etc. etc. then we have a cluster f. Sorry, just frustrated! And, hurry up and bury this quote in lots of other topics so DH will never know I said anything........
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What were we burying again? I may have missed something....
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