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One of my chickens just picked the worst time to molt, when temps have gone as low as -15 degrees... poor girl 
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Feb 11, 2018 23:06
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None of my hens lets us pick them up. My rooster likes the cuddles though, and is just so friendly to humans he's familiar with. What a world! They all don't mind us definitely though, and will all eat out of my hand. They're very social, just finicky when you reach out for them, except for my sweet boy.
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Feb 23, 2018 03:20
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Enfys posted:I know that sound well Same, once they see the treat bowl they know what's up. When I don't have it they still swarm my feet making weird disappointed conversation noises Here's my gorgeous boy in warmer weather. It loving snowed today and they're as sick of it as I am. 
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Apr 4, 2018 14:52
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omg if you don't follow this tumblr it is the best https://chickenkeeping.tumblr.com/ that baby chick is now this fabulous mohawk rockin li'l thing 
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Apr 6, 2018 14:44
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I just love that derpy look chickens have when they stick that one leg out while sunbathing 
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Apr 20, 2018 01:37
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this broken hill posted:
Jesus christ how loud is your backyard
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May 1, 2018 00:58
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Fluffy Bunnies posted:I need to get about 10 more. My idiots all slowly got hit by cars and poo poo, as guineas tend to do. I started off with 4 last year. One of them (luckily the male who was way too aggressive with the chickens, fucker would even pick on my rooster) got eaten by a raccoon, and another wandered off to god knows where. They are very entertaining birds though, and at some point I found their constant screeching to be kind of comforting. It's amazing how small their brains are... when they fly over my fence and panic when they can't get back, it's like they forget they're capable of flying. They'll just walk the length of the fence for hours if I don't notice.
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May 1, 2018 15:47
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They're from the eglu company (their coops are really popular in the uk I hear) https://www.omlet.us/shop/chicken_keeping/feeders_and_drinkers/ sold out :/
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May 4, 2018 13:22
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ToxicFrog posted:
They plot and they poop
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May 4, 2018 15:33
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ToxicFrog posted:Chickens aren't very good at pathfinding, are they? About as bad as the Sims pathfinding, but once they establish their routine, and the environment doesn't change much, they get used to where things like fences and gates are. If you really want to get them to come somewhere quick, associate a noise with giving treats. Even something like shaking a bag of mealworms will make them go nuts and come to you in a flash!
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May 5, 2018 15:26
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Just keep bringing them treats and you'll eventually be recognized as the treat bringer, and everything you bring them will be pecked to nothingness. And then you'll have to contend with shoving the fluffy butts away when they swarm you when you don't have treats.
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May 7, 2018 01:05
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I hope you guys like nonstop peeping and scratching Mine are currently 3 weeks old and such troublemakers. I can't change the bedding without a few of them trying to fly out of the brooder once I lift up the hardware cloth.. The worst part really was the first week when so many of them would have pasty butts that I had to clean every day.
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Jun 4, 2018 14:53
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Mozi posted:To give a break from the depressing bits, here they all are for egg time. I have that same brooder heater! Works great except for having to constantly clean poop off it..
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Jun 15, 2018 21:59
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Mozi posted:namely emptying pine shavings out of the water. This is my personal trigger
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Jun 26, 2018 22:21
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my cat is norris posted:I caught Goofus trying to hump Betholomew. I think I have a third rooster... Amazing
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Jun 28, 2018 23:39
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Oh god it's poultry Homeward Bound but if Shadow actually died
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Jul 26, 2018 22:33
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goddammit im blind sorry haha here's some soothing peeping from my little babies in apologia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRKq_tAxWs0 hope and vaseline fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Aug 2, 2018 |
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Aug 2, 2018 01:58
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ToxicFrog posted:Our chickens react to chipmunks by immediately charging them in a blood frenzy. So far the chipmunks have always escaped. So far. Omg Gilmore Chicks!
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Aug 27, 2018 20:14
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spookygonk posted:Not a battery hen is it? oh no
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Aug 28, 2018 22:46
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spookygonk posted:Anyway first day of retirement for Bella and Daisy. Had to be helped out of the Eglu first thing. They weren't still not very active or eating much in the cooler morning, but they have found out that the Eglu nest is a nice / safe / comfortable place to lay an egg. Bella laid her first egg today and Daisy laid a soft shelled one in the nest and the jelly shell outside. Please keep up the updates to the rescues :3 This warms my heart so much!
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Sep 9, 2018 15:26
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ToxicFrog posted:I think Mrs. Kim has gone broody, she spends all day sitting in the nest box looking half-asleep and while I haven't seen this in action, I'm pretty sure she's stealing the eggs the other chickens lay. I'm sure she's trying her hardest to say, "you break, you buy!"
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Oct 2, 2018 14:01
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ToxicFrog posted:Mrs. Kim is still broody. angry floof noises
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Oct 14, 2018 02:56
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That duck has some stylin headwear
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Oct 22, 2018 21:59
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Look at that orb
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Oct 24, 2018 04:06
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guys guys guys someone from r/backyardchickens set up a chicken feeder livestream on twitch https://www.twitch.tv/redpepper261
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Oct 29, 2018 21:58
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spookygonk posted:Look at this wonderful bit o' Photoshop from ebay: When your little dinosaurs grow up to be medium sized dinosaurs
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Nov 3, 2018 14:41
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A buck came by this morning to have breakfast with the chickens on the stream I linked earlier. https://clips.twitch.tv/MuddyAbstemiousChowderTwitchRPG
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Nov 3, 2018 15:43
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incredible flesh posted:i miss my guineas so much. stupid loving prehistoric idiots Three of my guineas all hopped over my fence and ran away while free ranging, one by one, over a period of 3 months. I have one left. She has bonded with the rest of the chickens and seems less... guinea-like in behavior than before. Surprisingly I miss their annoying screeching at every single thing at their environment, and the scampering of their feet on the roof. Such dumb, stupid, panicky birds.
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Nov 29, 2018 22:28
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My chickens sip the water on the porch after a rainfall like it's some kind of delicacy Otherwise yeah mud and dirt water over clean water not mine but lol 
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Dec 11, 2018 15:18
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ToxicFrog posted:Since winter started the chickens have been on strike. Mrs. Kim finally stopped brooding, but none of them have laid anything in weeks, possibly because we're averaging one (short) day of sunlight every other week or so. We're having to buy eggs from the grocery store again. We got january temps around november this year, which was when my chickens started to molt. Poor things were miserable. I'm still getting eggs from our one new pullet this year, but the older ladies are definitely on strike. It's really interesting how their combs turn pale again when they're not laying. They've mostly full feathered again now though, and enjoying the lovely 45-50 degree weather for the holidays???
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Dec 27, 2018 16:00
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Pong is lovely, what a lady
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Jan 2, 2019 22:26
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Enfys posted:I will never tire of watching chickens dustbathe. join in and sprinkle handfuls of dirt at them
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Feb 2, 2019 00:59
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pikachode posted:she ate too much dirt I'm sorry for your loss but dear god how has this species survived through natural selection
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Feb 8, 2019 18:28
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McGiggins posted:Rooster tried to crow for the first time this afternoon. His juvenile What a good boy What breed is he?
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Feb 15, 2019 13:04
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came running, which was super cool.
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Feb 22, 2019 15:11
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McGiggins posted:Still not able to dispose of rooster. When I had a roo, he would crow at 4 in the morning way before daybreak like clockwork. I couldn't imagine housing one indoors!
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Mar 2, 2019 21:18
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I'm really lucky we have crows around here, they seem to do a good job keeping hawks away.
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Velvet Sparrow posted:Cam was having wind issues today, it blew up his tail and made him look like a big ol' flower... I need more stories of Cam's adventures with Tater Tot please
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