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May 6, 2013 05:00
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piscesbobbie posted:LOOKS AMAZING! GREAT JOB! Do I have permission to print a copy of your finished product? By all means go ahead.
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May 6, 2013 14:21
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The girls go outside this weekend. Belinda, the largest, has finished cheeping and is now letting loose with some hysterical scratchy bokbokboks. I can't believe the Marans are almost 3 months old. They are so big! It's funny to hear the two little girls cheeping like crazy, Prissy doing little hoarse sounding cheeps and Belinda boking away.
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May 9, 2013 06:31
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Chido posted:Sorry, You cant be blamed, he does have a brony avatar.
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May 10, 2013 22:30
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So the girls are outside. They spent last night in the coop, 3 of them stayed on the roosts one of them decided roosts were for chumps and sat in front of the vent looking out. Now they all came downstairs in the morning but the two oldest said outside was for suckers and went back in the coop and won't leave it, stupid chooks. Edit: well they all ended up coming out and enjoying themselves. Here are all the girls enjoying their first ever day outside. 
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May 12, 2013 18:47
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So the sun went down and they all started making all kinds of racket. I put them in their coop and they got even more upset. Poor stupid things.
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May 13, 2013 02:47
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piscesbobbie posted:Wow, Wheaten Marans are BEAUTIFUL! They really are! I have cuckoo Marans myself and they aren't anywhere near as good looking, Does anyone know what my birds are trying to say when they all ave their mouths open? They will all come to the side of the run and sit there staring at me with their beaks halfway open and cheep/cluck constantly. They have plenty of food and water!
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May 16, 2013 01:49
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New game for the dog "Stare at chickens."
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May 16, 2013 19:54
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Inveigle posted:Ahhh! This is just too adorable! I would never be able to get her back inside if she was comfortable there. When they go to bed at night she looks just devastated.
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May 17, 2013 04:56
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So it rained really hard today and I was wondering how my hens would take their first rainstorm. Turns out the coop and run are pretty nicely water proof, but that didnt stop them from walking toward where the water was falling in with the wind and standing there getting drenched staring at the sky and shaking their heads. What a bunch of idiots.
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May 24, 2013 22:34
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Schlinky posted:Ah, my bad. I'm based in Sydney, so for the most part it's generally dry. It's not too bad during the winter, though it can hit mid 30s°C (90s°F) in the summer. Get a Rhode Island Red if you can. They are pretty, relatively friendly and prolific layers. I love my girl, Strawberry. She is the friendliest chicken we have.
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Jun 4, 2013 17:40
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Tiny Chalupa posted:So I have a question here. With something like this do you treat them as run chickens or do you let them out as free range when they get older? Just curious as I love the look of this setup Well that's the run so the majority of their time they spend in there. But they come out every day for about an hour towards sunset and then if we are home on the weekends they are out for longer. The run isn't huge, but it's 10ft x 6ft so the 4 of them have space to dust bathe and run around. It needs to be raked out and new sand added very so often though since they are poo poo machines, but the maintenance is pretty easy.
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Jun 5, 2013 14:27
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unprofessional posted:Lost some of my coolest chickens to raccoons. Dude your chicken is missing part of its skull and beak and you think its doing well? There was a chicken back in the 30s that lost its whole beak and most of its head but the brain stema nd lived for years. Thats no kind of life being a headless or half headless chicken. I know its hard but it would be easier to finish the job and eat it then it would be to let the poor thing keep going.
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Jun 11, 2013 17:07
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Bummer, but have the coop better secured now, and good plans for coop expansion. Also, 'coon scalped one of the chickens, taking a part of its skull off, as well as part of the beak, and the chicken's fine. 
Hangs out by the house now and won't go near the other chickens, but eats just fine and I can't find a reason to put it down while it's doing so well. Only worry is he/she's roosting somewhere outside and won't go to the barn, so something might get it at some point anyways. 
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Lyz posted:Guys where did my cute chicks go? Ahahaha the awkward teenager stage! I thought they were hysterical when mine were that age. They did the same ballistic attack thing of insane flapping and smashing into things. Now they rarely leave the ground except to go into the coop. I have a nice big ramp and they just bypass the whole thing and fly directly up into the coop from the ground, same when they leave it. They get to the first rung of the ramp and just jump down the rest of the way.
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Jun 11, 2013 20:30
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Lyz posted:Yeah the only exasperating part about it is when they take off, hit the floor, and immediately poo poo on the rug. One of ours landed in our bunny run. Then got charged by the fat rabbit, freaked out, and ended up smashing Into the bookshelf and landed on a stack of papers, which promptly slide down and deposited said chicken into an open box. The whole thing was amazing and took about 15 seconds. Ended with a chicken cheeping loudly stuck in a box and a very smug looking fat rabbit in chest out pose of victory.
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Jun 11, 2013 23:26
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cucurbit posted:Q (RIR, unsure if she's a she or a he at the moment): I feel bad for my RIR, Strawberry. She is the sweetest of the bunch but dumb as a sack of hammers.
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Jun 27, 2013 20:35
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Velvet Sparrow posted:
I put in a 25 dollar misting system from home depot since it hit 108 here the other day. I knew the heatwave was coming so I put it in when it was still in the 90s. I have it on a timer to go on at 2:30 and off at 7:30. It barely uses any water and the chickens hate it and hide on the other side of the run, but it really cools the air temp down. On the down side it makes their run kind of wet, so I added a bunch more sand so there isnt mud just clumpy sand. I also toss in a wedge of frozen watermelon for them all to eat at around 5:15 when I get home every day. It seems to help.
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Jul 2, 2013 15:54
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Been doing more work on the coop. Eggbox is attached and trimmed and we painted! (not quite done painting, need to finish out the corners and edges)  The tubing you see is the misting system, the wire by the Eggbox is the extension cord that runs the coop fan. It's a box fan pointing up and sitting on the mesh above their coop. It really helps move the air at night. Errant Gin Monks fucked around with this message at 23:47 on Jul 5, 2013 |
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Jul 5, 2013 23:45
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spookygonk posted:
Oh my god she is so cute sleeping like that.  Do you adopt them from commercial farms?
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Jul 7, 2013 22:02
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Lynza posted:We'll need a people-door. Any suggestions from folks who've made their own coops? If I had to do it again? http://www.homedepot.com/p/EMCO-100...l2#.UdsI4r1NSrs I made my own and getting that bastard to fit took some (read: a whole lot of) sanding, and when it gets real humid and the wood swells it still sticks pretty bad.
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Jul 8, 2013 19:47
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Bantaras posted:Are you gonna use sand in your coop? There is sand in the run, I dmup in fresh sand every other month and put the sand I rake out weekly into the compost pile. In the coop itself its pine/aspen shavings. Easier to clean that way. The egg boxes are full of hay. Edit: I haven't had lice on my girls but a friend did. They blasted the chickens with Sevin dust every two weeks for 2 months, Backyard chickens said to put sevin medicated powder in a trash bag, stuff the chicken in it with its head sticking out and shake the bag around to coat the bird, then let it out. Do this with all the chickens. Lice can't really live off its host for long, so no need to treat the area. Errant Gin Monks fucked around with this message at 02:23 on Jul 10, 2013 |
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Jul 9, 2013 20:24
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We put frozen bottles in their waterer every morning when we change the water out. It seems to help. But the mister (which they hate) does a good job cooling everything down.
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Jul 10, 2013 21:50
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Ahahahaha I like Tetrazzinis crow the best. Its quieter.
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Jul 11, 2013 21:39
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unprofessional posted:Had one of my ladies lay their first egg yesterday. That sounds so... chickeny.
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Jul 12, 2013 21:40
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Velvet Sparrow posted:They look like Asils (Aseel) http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/Games/Asil/BRKAsil.html Aren't Asils like fresh from the jungle cock fighting chickens?
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Jul 13, 2013 03:18
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I feel like buying quail eggs when my girls go broody and just letting them begin infesting the neighborhood.
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Jul 15, 2013 01:40
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Pardalis posted:If you do want quail running around, try bobwhites or whatever quail species is native to your area and legal to keep. The coturnix are stupidly domesticated and won't make it more than a few days out there Bobwhites are native to my region of Texas. It's probably illegal to let the free range but whatever.
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Jul 15, 2013 02:28
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Velvet Sparrow posted:Possibly they weren't clipped enough, then. Here's how I've always done mine--this page discusses the 'whys and hows' of the right way and wrong way to clip wings: http://birdmart.com/wings.html My girls have gotten to coming out of the run and immediately trying to get airborne. They dont go anywhere but they zoom to the garden and begin to feast. I think its clipping time.
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Jul 15, 2013 20:52
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unprofessional posted:Begone, vile human. That duck ghost is melting into the straw!! RUN AWAY!!
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Jul 16, 2013 17:03
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THE GHOST DUCK!!!
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Jul 16, 2013 19:27
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Inveigle posted:LOL! I actually took this image into Photoshop and lightened it, trying to figure it out! Look at the very top of the photo in the middle between the gray chute thing and the frame for the wheels. The grey ghost duck that was melting into the straw is sitting in the hay being all ducky. I Love Topanga posted:Last night I two of my five chickens were killed by a raccoon. Two seem to be completely unscathed,but it's the last one I'm worried about. Poor girls. None of my birds have been injured before so I couldnt tell you what to do aside from maybe clean her up with a washcloth and warm water and see if there is any damage to her beak and eye. How did the racoon get in? Errant Gin Monks fucked around with this message at 20:29 on Jul 16, 2013 |
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Jul 16, 2013 20:27
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unprofessional posted:Broody bitches. I love that stupid duck.
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Jul 18, 2013 20:35
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Lynza posted:Oops, I may be wrong - I thought it was you who posted pictures of the coop you built, but I may be wrong. It's been known to happen (often). If it was the red coop with the sloped metal roof that was mine. Also how the hell do chickens get into the road? unprofessional posted:Broody bitches. My wife is demanding video of Chicken the duck being all chickeny. Can you make this happen? Errant Gin Monks fucked around with this message at 17:13 on Jul 19, 2013 |
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Jul 19, 2013 17:10
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Pogonodon posted:I put the baby guineas into the baby pen yesterday. And the raccoon was wandering around the pen just after dusk. Got a good raccoon trap, set it up nearby, smelly bait... Buy some 1/4 inch hardware cloth and screw it into the inside of the fence they are behind. That way coons cant get their grubby paws through it.
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Jul 19, 2013 19:49
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at me, dropped the bird and humpran away.
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That chickenduck is awesome.
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Jul 19, 2013 21:24
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I saw the Roos, they are really pretty. But there is a loving duck that's convinced it's a chicken. That's way more entertaining.
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Jul 20, 2013 05:19
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Grape Soda posted:Whoops, fixed now! Our white Australorp is named sunshine. Yours can be nighttime.
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Jul 20, 2013 14:46
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Lynza posted:My husband watched it. He said, at the beginning, "I'm not that bad." Then when she got to the part where the woman says, "I'm a farmer now!" he started giggling and didn't stop until the end. Hahaha I'm doing quail and hopefully tilapia next year. Now I need a goat.
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Jul 22, 2013 07:11
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Inveigle posted:You can get a blue Barnvelder chick for only $89.00! That's a bargain, compared to the $2500 one! That chicken is beautiful. The being said, here they are much cheaper http://www.rockin-g-ranch.com/fancychickorders.html
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Jul 22, 2013 19:05
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My oldest hens are 20 weeks tomorrow. Where are my eggs you little bastards!!  Also for content... This is Sunshine, the white Australorp. Her wattles are coming in strong. Her and Strawberry are 17 weeks old now. 
Errant Gin Monks fucked around with this message at 22:22 on Jul 22, 2013 |
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Jul 22, 2013 22:20
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