Chido posted:

My sister has been using my camera so much lately that I feel I need to ask for permission to borrow my camera . Roostroyer is so big and fluffy now!

Chido posted:

He stills pecks her at dusk when getting inside the coop, but it's much better now .

stereobreadsticks posted:

I know they eat bugs all the time and a lot of the bugs aren't exactly sanitary but what if the rat had died from eating d-con at a neighbor's house, is it possible this could have an effect on the birds?

stereobreadsticks posted:

Thanks for that, honestly I doubt it'll be a problem but I'll keep a closer eye on them for the next couple of weeks. On another subject the relationship my dog has with the chickens is hilarious, when they're resting in the yard he'll bed down next to them like they're his babies and when they're wandering around he likes to try to herd them back into their run. He's a great help in getting them to go back in at the end of the day.

Nettle Soup posted:

RIP Thorax...

meriruka posted:

Here's Jerry with some of his children....he's a great daddy.

spookygonk posted:

All four hens alive and shouting to get out of the nest this morning, apart from Boo who needed helping out. All have been eating and drinking (they're not used to sleeping for 16 hours at a time) and the pecking order is starting. Unsurprisingly, it's Pip who is vying for the top spot as it was she that had the least in captivity.

Other news:

Two eggs!*



_{*Yes, I know hens lay eggs and I have a half dozen shop bought eggs in the cupboard.}

c355n4 posted:

I think she just needs an excuse to get more hens. :p

Roo is a horny dude.

spookygonk posted:

We got one like that:


... but she's feathering up nicely now.

Chido posted:

My nieces spent the afternon with the people that adopted Roo's babies. We got videos! The chicks will be 3 weeks old this Friday.

7 chicks, one big bug. (Jaydan is a 6 year old kid who is a bit of a pain in the butt XD)

CantDecideOnAName posted:

Captain Foxy posted:

I was at the family farm up in Vashon, WA, and snapped a few pics of my dad's beloved flock.


This is our main roo, named Louis the 16th, as all of our roos have been named for their always present potential to lose their head.

SynthOrange posted:

Roostroyer had babies?! When did this happen?

Chido posted:

I don't have ay crate big enough to keep him isolated during the day , and Roo never sleeps on a roost. I'm gonna try the booties, or at least wrap his feet in bandages with gauze covered in neosporin against the ball of his foot. Should I try to remove the scab, or just leave it like that to heal on its own?

Chido posted:

Oh yeah, I got now 5 chickens wearing a saddle. This is how they all react to the saddle.

Chido posted:

Thank you piscesbobbie! In other news, Roo somehow managed to break one of his spurs completely in the hour I took a nap. The spur was just holding by a bit of tissue, and while my BIL was holding him and my mother was checking the wound (I was inside grabbing the bandages and first aid stuff to wash and treat the wound), Roo managed to removed it completely. I don't know if it will grow back, it broke off completely at the base. For once my mother was being nice (or her version of nice), and she washed his leg and put on the bandage... while telling me I should just put on the gauze and nothing more, that I shouldn't wrap up the gauze in the watrproof tape I bought, etc.

I tried to ignore that and told her to just humor me, and we finished bandaging his foot. Dammit Roo, stop hurting your giant footsies!

Chido posted:

Update on Roo's feet. I showed this to the people in chickam chat, and they say his feet are looking better.

The Princess' feet after being scrubbed clean.



Dumb Roo, stop hurting your foot, you already got bumblefoot plus ripped claw now you broke off your spur. All in the same foot, you dumb cock

Chido posted:

Spaghetti didn't make it. I was hoping she'd make it at least one more week until I get paid so I could take her to the vet, but she died some time early this morning. I fed her some watermelon and baby food last night and she ate it, but I guess her body couldn't keep going.

I don't wanna go to work today. I know she was only a chicken but it hurts, she was my grumpy lady and the sweetest of them all.

Chido posted:

Roostroyer

Chido posted:

My eye healed fine . I'm getting 4 chicks I ordered from mypetchicken.com. I guess I'll start keeping her in th crate this sunday, and see how it goes.

Chido posted:

... Well, it seems our house has an invisible sign that reads Wayward house for domestic poultry. The neighbors across the street have quails and one wandered from their open gate to our front yard. My BiL called me to check what bird it was, grabbed it, and went to ask around to see who it belonged to. *sigh* Those neighbors also have a couple of horses and a goat

Inveigle posted:

ChidoCam Video #1: Where's Mom?

Chido leaves the room to get coffee and Waffle becomes very upset and starts searching for her "Mom." There follows four minutes of frantic, non-stop cheeping/screeching for Chido, with both chicks performing a duet at the end. Chido returns and the chicks are happy again.

http://youtu.be/4pQpGTGeV3Y

Tim the Enchanter posted:

Heres some slightly less terrible photos to go with the videos I posted earlier,I took a lot less than I thought originally, next show ill take more of various breeds.

Sebright pictures to start off.

Chido posted:

I made one in blogger, since I have a gmail account, and already titled it The Roostroyer and the Henhoes Saga... Now if I change it to Princess Roo and the Henhoes, hmmm.

I'll post a link here later once I have stuff actually written in it.
Edit: maybe I can get the girls and my sister, to get a picture of Roo in his tuxedo and two hens on his side in dresses, a la James bond.

Pardalis posted:

I'm horrible and didn't stream the very successful hatching I had two weeks ago so have a photo of scruffy baby quail cuddle pile instead.

spookygonk posted:

The trouble with ex-batts is they're pretty much worked laying eggs until they're nearly worn out before the whole contents of the barn is shipped out to be minced animal feed (and the system restarts over with new hens). The lucky few that get rescued come out in a terrible state and, hopefully, with love and care they can get their health and feathers back. Once the egg laying starts to fail, it pretty much never returns to normality and that's when sterile peritonitis sets in; albumen falls into the stomach cavity, rather than the normal oviduct and it all starts building up. The pressure builds in the abdominal cavity, the hen has trouble sitting or even breathing and becomes, understandably listless. If a hen then goes into a natural (eg Winter) moult, when she naturally stops laying eggs, the fluids can be reabsorbed, and the symptoms decrease. If bacteria gets into liquid then it becomes septic peritonitis and that is more than likely a death sentence for a hen.

We had to have one of our hens drained by the vet when this happened, he took about 300ml of yellow liquid from her swollen belly and diuretics helped remove the rest along with the antibiotics to prevent infection. Of the original three hens, we definitely lost one to peritonitis, possibly two. The third who had the above treatment by the vet made a full recovery, but six months later was diagnosed with liver cancer and we had her put to sleep.

For us, looking after ex-batts is not about the eggs, so now any hen that shows definite signs that their egg production is failing we get them the implant. It allows them to do all the running, digging and mooching for treats they want (in what was left of our back garden) without having to worry about their insides. We still have two hens, Boo & Pip (alpha hen) still laying normally.

Hope this made sense.

Bantaras posted:

You guys had some good ideas, especially about the online shop. I really can't see how I can set up an Etsy store because of how each feeder is different and has to be approved before I can commit to printing and construction. If anyone has a suggestion I'd love to get some advice.

Inveigle posted:

Velvetsparrow and 12_String have the best camera setups for close-up cam shots.

For those curious, my second most-popular video is: Smokey the Rooster Frightens Baby Chicks. So adorable!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsO5XsVOJec

CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:

Mine stole my tasty peanut butter corn thin and sprinted around in circles grabbing it off one another and freaking out. They also sit under the pony's head when he's eating his bucket of chaff and gobble up any bits that fall out of his mouth!

They definitely love squishy food the best. Kali and Alecto completely ignore fresh cucumbers, but horrible melting cucumbers are fantastic - especially split open so they can get at the seeds. I've tried feeding them fresh apples and pears, too, but they weren't very interested at all, until they've had enough time to sit and decompose. They also seem to appreciate having the more unwieldy things held in place for them while they eat. That could be me spoiling them, but it's worth it to see a happy chicken neck deep in a cucumber.

Velvet Sparrow posted:

For your own safety (at the hands of your wife) I recommend clipping ASAP.


Well, our styro Little Giant forced air incubator started fluctuating like a mad bitch after have three test eggs in it for two days. End of using styro for us!
I just pulled the trigger on a brand new ReptiPro 6000 incubator, no egg turners since I'll be hand turning the lil' suckers. Also, lookit that huge viewing pane for the cam!



Chickam is goin' high-tech.

Tim the Enchanter posted:

Bawk

Velvet Sparrow posted:

VVVV Oh for gently caress's sake.

unprofessional posted:

Oh god, who just bought two red shouldered yokohama roosters ($4.50/each), a polish rooster ($4), a sumatran rooster ($5) and four muscovy duck hens ($4/each)?

This guy.

unprofessional posted:

Velvet Sparrow posted:

The new kinder kids will have to vote on a name, they get to name one of the chicks. There will be a pop-out screen that will show just the picture, no chat--it should be great for kids since chat can get more than it's fair share of language, plus idiots sometimes come in and post innappropriate BS before we can ban them. Here is the link for the kids:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/chickam2008/pop-out

We tested the cam last night in nighttime lighting conditions, we'll be doing the same today for daylight. Had some audio bugs last night that 12_String ironed out, and the stream worked fine while I played Halo 4, so our Internet connection can handle it.

I got a plaintive, bored-sounding 'PEEP!' out of egg #25 about half an hour ago.


Edit: Frilled Lizard, awesome! Great to have more schools watching, I know hatching chicks is very big in Kindergartens!

Velvet Sparrow posted:

Fake edit: luloo123, you hexed us!