Search results for query: *

Thank you, yes Susan is so thrilled with her babies! She has a new lease of life and I’m very happy for her!:love Glad to hear that Atilla is doing so well! I introduced new birds last year that were only 2 mo younger than the others, and those two groups are still separate subgroups a year...

Thanks! Here’s a pic before her head poof was plucked by a breeding roo!

How are Atilla and your (big!) babies! Here’s an update on Susan: we have her four Favorelles and three Ameraucana chicks. She is so happy to have them and such a devoted mom!

The black mama hen is a black Copper marans (BCM), who hatched barnyard mixes. For this most recent hatch, some were our eggs and some were shipped BCM eggs. Since shipped eggs are supposed to be incubated upright, we incubated them all in an incubator, then transferred four each to the two...

Hi FiddleChics, well Atilla had better watch her ps and qs! :gig Unfortunately, the four eggs that we put under Susan failed to hatch; the chicks died late in development for reasons unclear to me. So, I’ve ordered chicks from a hatchery that should be here Friday. I plan to slip those under her...

That’s awesome news Fiddlesticks! I know that you’ve put a lot of thought and energy into making this work. Atilla Is one lucky girl to have you!!! Thanks for all of the updates, really gives me something to think about. Susan, my broody silkie that we talked about, is sitting on eggs that I...

Ah, those broody girls! I couldn’t break the broodiness of Susan, our silkie. They are renowned for broodiness, but I also think that having lost all of the friends that she had in our flock to Marek’s also made her depressed. So, I gave up on breaking her and put her on eggs! I’m hoping that...

Wonderful news, FiddleChics! I’m sure somewhere in that grumpy brain of hers, she’s figuring out how to live with all of those annoying chicks, as are our annoyed grumpy gals!:clap

My view of this thread is weirdly messed up, so I just read your post with the pinless peepers. Atilla does look more... subdued. I hope that solves her behavior issues! I also hope that you’ll keep us updated! Our broody hen is trying to integrate her 4 week old chicks into roosting in the...

Of our three that are currently broody, only one (our little silkie) directs that aggression towards people. The other two look fierce, but are even more docile with us then usual, letting me pull eggs or chicks from under them, pick them up, etc. Our silkie, Susan, is proving stubbornly hard to...

Wow, she is a gorgeous hen! I have three broodies right now, one with chicks, one with eggs, and one I’m trying to break. Atilla does look just like my broodies. Some of mine go broody like a light switch, no more eggs and in the nest box all of the time. But two of them do a slow brood thing...

Thanks! The stock wire arches were mostly for speed, cost, stability, but we do have many predators. Coyotes and bobcats are our biggest so far, we’ve lost chickens, ducks, and guineas to those during free-ranging so only the guineas are out all day. Dogs are always a possibility, and I think...

Lovely setup you have there! Your chooks are so lucky to have you! You mentioned the hassle of shifting Atilla around, I felt the same. Getting Vespucci out and in every morning and night was a hassle! I will say that I became more fond of our roosters during this whole process (which was only a...

Aww, what a sweet pic! I’d love to have your camera setup!:love After telling Vespucci’s story, I went out and snapped a pic of him with his bros...He’s the black Ameraucana in the back. That’s his old rooster jail in the coop pic, on the left under the coop.

This was a pretty different scenario, but we recently made a bachelor pad and put four adult roosters together. Ok, so very different situation and much more crazy! However, the similarity was that the dominant rooster (Vespucci) wouldn’t just let things go with the other three. He established...