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Post by milee on May 22, 2014 8:23:20 GMT -5
There are electrolytes in the water which make it orange. Huh. Never heard of that.
Unfortunately, now all I can think of is the movie "Idiocracy" where the nation is slowly starving because they are watering the crops with Gatorade... because it's what plants crave.
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2014 21:46:03 GMT -5
I started another batch! I also need to post a picture of Fluffy Butt, he now needs to be called Fluffy Feet. He has tons of feathers on his feet and legs, you can't even see them. They're seriously dragging on the ground.
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Post by Jaguar on May 31, 2014 21:54:55 GMT -5
Oh you started more babies ?
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Post by mmhmm on May 31, 2014 21:57:07 GMT -5
Squeeeee! I can't wait to see Fluffy Butt Feet!
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2014 22:00:17 GMT -5
Squeeeee! I can't wait to see Fluffy Butt Feet! I sure hope "he's" a she. That's one I'd like to keep. I'll have to go over tomorrow and take a pic. I don't have any recent ones.
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Post by mmhmm on May 31, 2014 22:06:27 GMT -5
I wouldn't have the foggiest notion how to tell the gender of a young chicken!
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2014 22:08:33 GMT -5
Oh you started more babies ?
Yes I did. I was over at my Aunt's tonight and she said she had a bucket of eggs I could have, so what the heck.
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2014 22:11:34 GMT -5
I wouldn't have the foggiest notion how to tell the gender of a young chicken! It's very difficult and not many know how. Basically we're just going to have to wait and see. They're changing so fast, I hadn't seen them since Tuesday or Wednesday and stopped by tonight and they're totally different again.
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2014 22:17:00 GMT -5
The new batch! 21 this time. There was 23, but I tossed two right away because they were really dirty and you can't wash them.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2014 21:49:45 GMT -5
Well, nobody was cooperating for pictures tonight but here's Fluffy Butt...now Fluffy Feet! You can really see how long the feathers are from the back.
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Post by Jaguar on Jun 1, 2014 21:55:31 GMT -5
Fluffy Feet looks like a male to me, but omgosh fluffy is cute and gorgeous.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2014 22:05:39 GMT -5
I know. It's crazy. They're only a little over 3 weeks old!
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Post by mmhmm on Jun 1, 2014 22:09:25 GMT -5
My gosh! Fluffy Butt has really grown! You can't even see feets for the feathers! That's going to be a pretty critter!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2014 22:21:30 GMT -5
This one has some pretty good feathers going on too. There's a variety of colors going on. I have a couple reds, a bunch of blacks, some white with black feathers, then these light brownish ones.
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Post by Jaguar on Jun 1, 2014 22:25:52 GMT -5
Oh that one is really pretty.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2014 22:27:45 GMT -5
They love when you sit in the pen and feed them dried meal worms. They come take them right out of your hand.
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Jun 2, 2014 9:20:21 GMT -5
Awwwww.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2014 23:31:01 GMT -5
I've been chicken napped! Today was chicken moving day, the older roosters were going to a new pen on my aunt's farm, the older hens (and Fluffy Butt) to my house and the youngsters living in my garage were to be moved to the pen where the older siblings had been. Well, I get there and I'm sorting hens and roosters and I'm coming up really short on hens. There were only 5. So, I work on counting them all (hard to do because they're moving around all the time) and find out I only have 15 total. A few weeks ago a neighbor that had owned the rooster took a few. She never really asked me but apparently it was some deal between her and my aunt and I was like whatever since my aunt provided the eggs, incubator, and was feeding them while they were at her house. I thought she was only going to take 2 or 3, so I was a little irked when I found out she took 4 hens and a rooster. I didn't really care about the rooster, but the hens are in short supply. We have 12 hens and 11 roosters. Well, she's out of town for the weekend and we went to see what hens she had and lo and behold she now has SEVEN hens and the rooster. I'm like WTF? They're even the different colored ones too. Another neighbor said she got them to give to the woman she got the rooster from last year. Again. WTF? These are my damn chickens!! What is this weird dowry to all the ancestors crap? I wanted to just take them back, but my Aunt is Miss diplomatic and said we'll wait until she gets back and let her pick the one's she wants, but if she wants to give any to the other lady, they'll have to be from hers. I mean I have FIVE hens out of the 23 I hatched and my son's best friend has been waiting for 2 or 3 of them too. He built a coop and had his picked out. There's the younger batch, but it's not looking good there. We think we might have 10 roosters and 4 hens in that batch. It's not like they were free either. My aunt paid $100 for the incubator and we have 3 or 4 bags of chicken feed in those at $13/bag. Some people really have a lot of nerve. I brought the five hens and Fluffy Butt home and put them in a horse stall in my barn. After they get used to it I'll start leaving the stall door open during the day and they can free range outside. I don't know if Fluffy is going to stay long term or not. Depends on how he acts I guess. Plus, I'm still reading up on whether or not it's a good idea to cross siblings. Not a great picture since I took it at night, but here they are checking out their new digs. Fluffy Butt is the dark one in the back with the silver neck.
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Post by busymom on Jul 13, 2014 12:16:00 GMT -5
Those kids (chickens) grow up too fast!
Sorry about your ballsy neighbor. Can you hatch one more batch before Fall, in the hopes of getting some more hens?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2014 12:24:57 GMT -5
You make me want to start raising chickens again. but not practical when I want to travel. MIL keeps the dog now and this time I have to board my very old cat. Not sure she will survive. I'm having some work done on the motorhome front end so she can't stay in the motorhome and having her in a cage all day is no good. I can't leave her and BJ together. I will worry myself sick over her, but I'm going to kennel her at the vets office if they will. That way if anything happens they can take care of her. My little baby. She sleeps snuggled up to me every night, we will miss each other. I never thought I'd be a chicken person, but they're so funny and they definitely have personalities.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2014 12:26:58 GMT -5
I want this coop! But they're $1500!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2014 22:25:13 GMT -5
I raised some strictly for eating and never would get attached to them. When I had about 3 or 4 left we made big pets out of them. They are a lot of fun to watch. And yes, they do have personalities. I never thought chickens would like sitting on your lap and stuff, they seem to be different then the ones we had when I'm growing up. It sounds crazy but I think they are smarter. I went out picking cherries tonight and gave them all the ones that had rotten spots on them. OMG they loved those things. I think next year they'll be hanging out under the tree eating them as I cut the bad ones off, but they're not ready to be let loose yet so my son and I just took some in the barn for them periodically for a break. They'd all be standing by the door waiting and would grab them out of our hands by the stem and take off so nobody else would steal it. They're super funny. I put up makeshift roosts with 2x4's between old metal chairs I had and also put an old dog house in there and put hay in it so they'd have a place to hide, but they seem to like to sleep right by the door waiting for someone to open it so they can pester them for snacks.
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Post by CarolinaKat on Jul 14, 2014 9:34:03 GMT -5
I've been chicken napped! Today was chicken moving day, the older roosters were going to a new pen on my aunt's farm, the older hens (and Fluffy Butt) to my house and the youngsters living in my garage were to be moved to the pen where the older siblings had been. Well, I get there and I'm sorting hens and roosters and I'm coming up really short on hens. There were only 5. So, I work on counting them all (hard to do because they're moving around all the time) and find out I only have 15 total. A few weeks ago a neighbor that had owned the rooster took a few. She never really asked me but apparently it was some deal between her and my aunt and I was like whatever since my aunt provided the eggs, incubator, and was feeding them while they were at her house. I thought she was only going to take 2 or 3, so I was a little irked when I found out she took 4 hens and a rooster. I didn't really care about the rooster, but the hens are in short supply. We have 12 hens and 11 roosters. Well, she's out of town for the weekend and we went to see what hens she had and lo and behold she now has SEVEN hens and the rooster. I'm like WTF? They're even the different colored ones too. Another neighbor said she got them to give to the woman she got the rooster from last year. Again. WTF? These are my damn chickens!! What is this weird dowry to all the ancestors crap? I wanted to just take them back, but my Aunt is Miss diplomatic and said we'll wait until she gets back and let her pick the one's she wants, but if she wants to give any to the other lady, they'll have to be from hers. I mean I have FIVE hens out of the 23 I hatched and my son's best friend has been waiting for 2 or 3 of them too. He built a coop and had his picked out. There's the younger batch, but it's not looking good there. We think we might have 10 roosters and 4 hens in that batch. It's not like they were free either. My aunt paid $100 for the incubator and we have 3 or 4 bags of chicken feed in those at $13/bag. Some people really have a lot of nerve. I'd just take then hens back and tell the neighbor to go to hell. If she can't count then she gets no chickens. But then again, I'm mean. Either that or switch out half the hens for roosters.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2014 9:50:47 GMT -5
I like it! Unfortunately, she gets back this morning. I missed my chance.
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Post by mmhmm on Jul 14, 2014 16:42:57 GMT -5
Oh, my! I can see me having an epic fit over someone coming in and just taking whatever they want with no questions asked. Nothing wrong with being rewarded for having supplied the rooster; however, rewarded involves more than just taking what you want. You take what you're given and you say "Thank you!" Sheesh! What a rude person!
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Post by busymom on Jul 14, 2014 17:28:35 GMT -5
When you finally get your chicken coop, make sure there's a lock on it!
BTW, Fluffy Butt is growing into one handsome rooster. I'll bet he ends up ruling the roost!
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Post by mmhmm on Jul 14, 2014 18:57:32 GMT -5
Fluffy Butt is my virtual rooster. I've got a crush on him!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2014 20:31:36 GMT -5
Oh, my! I can see me having an epic fit over someone coming in and just taking whatever they want with no questions asked. Nothing wrong with being rewarded for having supplied the rooster; however, rewarded involves more than just taking what you want. You take what you're given and you say "Thank you!" Sheesh! What a rude person! She didn't even have the rooster anymore! She gave him to my aunt last Fall because she didn't have a good enough place to keep him over the Winter. Spring came around and he had no interest in leaving his girls to go live with her so she just left him. So my aunt has been feeding him for the past 10 months of his maybe 15 month life! She had originally got 4 chicks last spring and that one rooster was the only one that lived until Fall because she didn't have a safe enough pen. Thankfully, the pen is better now and they're with a lamb that probably scares some predators off. This is the original 5 she took. My aunt said we can use the photo for evidence for reclaiming the others.
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Post by mmhmm on Jul 14, 2014 20:57:28 GMT -5
I'd give her the darned rooster if I gave her anything! After all, she's short a rooster because she gave hers away. And, she'd better have a proper home for anything she takes from me! Grrrrr! This broad brings out the bitch in me!
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