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i am very excited for extra chickens
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May 15, 2020 18:25
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Changing my name suggestion from Retribution to Henpress. Now that we're getting another draw.
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May 15, 2020 20:38
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PhysicsFrenzy posted:i am very excited for extra chickens
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May 15, 2020 20:43
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Can you dress one like courtney love and then caption it "someday you will egg like i egg"
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May 15, 2020 20:49
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PhysicsFrenzy posted:i am very excited for extra chickens me too! me too! 
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May 16, 2020 06:04
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these chicklets are huge
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May 16, 2020 06:06
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Crusty Nutsack posted:is that a piece of pizza in the box? lol Yup. These kids are total junk food addicts. At 5 weeks old, I'm just now getting them to eat stuff like corn on the cob and cabbage. Meanwhile they go at pizza hammer and tongs, little weirdos. And yeah, naming is opening up again provided Uptown Bus hatches chicks. Of the 8 broody hens now stomping about, one is Wiggles, 8 years old and mostly blind. The kid reports that Wiggles is in it to win it, and bites HARD. We've got one Hell of a cold, rainy, wind-bitch of a storm bearing down on us in another 24 hours (if the feed drops we've lost power), so today we're sectioning off part of the brooder box for Bus and her eggs--where she's at isn't secure enough in bad weather, and our small day run isn't secure enough for overnight. So later on when the cam goes down for a while today, when it comes back you'll see the chicks, with Bus on her nest in the background. Problem is, I can't LEAVE her there until her hatch, as she needs to leave the nest every so often during the day to exercise/dust bathe/broody poop and the box isn't big enough. And moving her and her eggs back and forth increases the chance she'll abandon the eggs. We'll just have to wing it, no pun intended.
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May 16, 2020 11:24
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Please change my name submission to Jerome in honor of Bus.
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May 16, 2020 11:42
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My staple! Danke!
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May 16, 2020 13:46
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Dave Cluckstaine , the most metal chicken 
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May 16, 2020 18:45
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Are the previous name submission still in the hat?
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May 16, 2020 18:48
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Tossing Big Goose into the hat.
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May 16, 2020 21:39
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Elukka posted:Are the previous name submission still in the hat? Yes! Also, now is the time to change your name selection if you want, I'm keeping a list. And YES, if your name got picked last hatch, you can suggest another name, since this is a new hatch. Okay, it's starting to get pretty windy and the clouds are moving in...the big storm is supposed to hit tomorrow. I'm not gonna wait to do this so we moved Uptown Bus in now. The chicks are having the share their digs, Bus is having to tolerate chickens she's never SEEN before inches from her eggs... Suffice to say NO ONE is happy.  But so far, so good, after some initial bitchy trilling from the chicks and growling from Bus, everyone has calmed the Hell down.  What a good mom!  Unfortunately, one of the 7 eggs Bus is setting has a tiny crack...it may or may not make it, usually cracked eggs get broken. But we left it in, gonna give it a shot.
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May 16, 2020 23:14
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what is her big open mouth head toss thing about? she looks like i feel when i try to pop my ears
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May 17, 2020 00:02
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Oh I've never done this before. Has anyone submitted the name Chicken Boo? I'll make that my submission, but in the very likely chance its been used already then I'll go for Secretariat.
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May 17, 2020 00:14
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Submitting "triple stupe" as a potential name please.
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May 17, 2020 00:19
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 I love watching the babies be Apprehensive about this strange new creature that has been imprisoned in their home What is this thing? Why is it hanging out here? Is it a chicken? What IS a chicken, really?
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May 17, 2020 00:25
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That is a giant baby.
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May 17, 2020 00:27
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City of Glompton posted:what is her big open mouth head toss thing about? she looks like i feel when i try to pop my ears Usually it's because they have a little bit of food stuck in their throat (I'd guess an alfalfa leaf), or one of the feathers over their ear holes has gotten turned and is poking them in the ear. Chickens have these weird ear holes that they could store spare change in if they wanted to, they are cavernous.
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May 17, 2020 01:12
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Has the name Donkey been taken yet? Because I don't know why, but I think naming animals after other animals is hilarious, and Donkey is a pretty funny name. If that's not available, my previous suggestion was for Seņor Stinkbutt because I am so mature. 
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May 17, 2020 01:22
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Power is out all around us because of this hellacious windstorm...
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May 17, 2020 22:52
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I'd like the throw in the name Burt.
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May 17, 2020 23:40
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We're having a weird thing here--our Internet is working, the computer says it's streaming...but no Chickam, it says we stopped streaming 5 hours ago. Do you guys see a live feed?
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May 18, 2020 04:27
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Nope, it's not live here. Did YouTube perhaps reset your streaming key? Should be below the video preview on the stream dashboard if YT hasn't changed their interface in some dumb way as they often do.
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May 18, 2020 04:39
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^^^ Thanks, this clued me into getting suspicious and checking other things out. Got it. YouTube has changed their live stream setup (with no notification, yay!). We're trying to get it sorted out now, hold tight. EDIT-- Fixed and back up! EDIT 2: ...and back down again. I got an email from YouTube saying they have a complaint and took our stream down, I replied...so now we wait and see. The only alternative might be to start a whole new channel, which we're trying to avoid. All I can figure is that the cam accidentally picked up sound from our TV and it triggered a copyright violation or something. Fuckin' idiots. Sorry gang, we'll be back ASAP EDIT 3!: Got an apology from YouTube and we're back. STILL don't know what the issue was! Meanwhile, the chicks now have a fun Log toy and Uptown Bus was removed from her eggs today so she'd poop. Anyone who has never experienced a broody hen poop before....well, let's just say they can peel paint, and Bus had been storing them up. From now on we'll be taking her off her eggs at least once a day so she will poo. 
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May 18, 2020 05:14
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I would like to suggest Downtown Taxi as a name for a chick raised by Uptown Bus.
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May 21, 2020 10:39
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Guess what
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May 21, 2020 16:23
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Is that Rapunzel's floofy butt? *edit* are we going to get class portraits for this group?
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May 21, 2020 20:27
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Spoggerific posted:I would like to suggest Downtown Taxi as a name for a chick raised by Uptown Bus.
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May 21, 2020 22:24
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The camera is currently just totally clogged with fluffy chicken rear end, as CORN has arrived.
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May 21, 2020 23:00
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We had to reposition the cam OUTSIDE the box, since Rapunzel wouldn't keep her fluffy butt off of it. Also it was getting to be all 'sea of legs' in there because they've grown so. I'll be getting new chick pics this weekend when they turn 6 weeks old. Bus broke one of her eggs today, one of the big ones. It had a chick. 
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May 22, 2020 10:12
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May 22, 2020 11:24
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You've got a new fan
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May 23, 2020 01:52
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^^^ Heh... The chicks are spending their first night in full dark, they are a bit anxious but the one who *really* doesn't like it is Bus...the babies peeping has her upset. Hoping everyone will quiet down in a bit.
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May 23, 2020 11:53
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Rapunzel keeps flying up to the edge of the box, if you don't see her that's why! Bus does NOT approve. Checking the eggs tonight, but I doubt if they'll hatch. If no viable chicks Bus goes back outside. Two more weeks, and the chicks go outside! We'll be taking them outside for a couple of hours each day, weather permitting, to spend some time in the small run and acclimate to outdoors/big nasty adult chickens who want to peck them. This is a must to help the big chickens get over their snit at newcomers.
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May 26, 2020 00:01
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Welp, *just* because today I decided that time is up and Uptown Bus' eggs aren't going to hatch-- We have a pip.  One of the bantam eggs, with a live chick inside. I'd had the kid take Bus back outside and she was removing the eggs to throw them away, and checked them one last time. I looked in the pip and could see a living, breathing chick! Hopefully we'll have a chick hatched by the end of the day, we are NOT going to disturb Bus or check under her, we're leaving her strictly alone unless there is some kind of problem. Fingers crossed, everyone!
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May 27, 2020 01:35
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Velvet Sparrow posted:Welp, *just* because today I decided that time is up and Uptown Bus' eggs aren't going to hatch-- If you haven't already used it, give this little pipper the name of lucky!
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May 27, 2020 03:24
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Tempted to change my name request to Better Nate than Lever but no. Lu Bu remains.
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May 27, 2020 03:56
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Good luck little chick 
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May 27, 2020 04:10
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With a bit of an assist, we have a chick! It's a dark chick from a bantam egg. Bus had pretty much squashed the half-unzipped egg and I wasn't comfortable leaving the chick like that, so I popped it out of the remaining shell like a biscuit from a tin! Bus is very excited, I had no chance to check for other pips. The chick is under her and we're going to leave them in the dark so everyone can quiet down, since she is a first-time mom the concern now is that she'll inadvertantly trample it. Chickam Phase 2. We'll pick a name in the morning! 
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