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  1. DonyaQuick

    Growing my little flock

    Well it's that time of year. Time to blast all the accumulated dander, dirt, and other crud out, then appreciate how much the interior of the shed coop still looks basically like it did when first converted...and then be grossed out by how filthy the exteriors of those nest boxes now look...
  2. DonyaQuick

    Growing my little flock

    Time for a random pic dump! Butter Bean! Lookin' very beanly. Speedy go fast. Speedy go derp-a-derp. Sassy Sqsquatch. The Ameraucana babies. I think this is literally the only photo I have of them all in focus since week 1. They are Corby, Chuff, Jackdaw, Snoot, and...
  3. DonyaQuick

    Growing my little flock

    The new Goober hut is operational. Still a few minor things to do like mulch over the skirt. These two will still get plenty of outside time weather permitting, but the old setup was one of those short prefab designs and Goobs is a tall boy who keeps getting taller. This one has much needed...
  4. DonyaQuick

    Growing my little flock

    This is Boots. She definitely had a bit of a rough time as a little chick earlier this year. In addition to the corrective shoe thing at hatching, there was another problem I never posted about: she managed to do a self-inflicted injury to one of her eyelids shortly after her feet were fixed, so...
  5. DonyaQuick

    Growing my little flock

    In this warm summer weather I've been taking the Ameraucana babies out each day. With all of my past chicks' first outings, I put the tractor within view of but not fully inside main flock's enclosure. These chicks are so wiggly I didn't trust that for a minute lol. They need an enclosure within...
  6. DonyaQuick

    Growing my little flock

    I let the boys out for a photo shoot a few days back. Mr Squeak loves the camera. He will just twirl, flap, prance about, and strike a dramatic pose all day. Liu Kang is difficult to get goot photos of because he's a dance maniac, but he is a pretty boy when he's in focus! Getting some nice...
  7. DonyaQuick

    Growing my little flock

    So I thought I had 5 roosters/cockerels in the bachelor pen, but actually I have 4 of those and then this one weird striped wading bird creature. Assuming Speedy grows into his legs and feet, he is going to be MASSIVE. And if not, then he's going to be trending towards the modern game build...
  8. DonyaQuick

    Growing my little flock

    Well, the frat house is getting...interesting LOL. There are five birds in there right now. There should be 4 on one side and 1 on the other side...that being Mr Squeak, who has no off button if his brother sets him going. Now, Squeak is separated from the otehrs by a barrier that I have...
  9. DonyaQuick

    Growing my little flock

    I hope these two (Goober and Little Fuzzy) will appreciate what I just bought for them...they're going to be getting a brand new, bigger, and certainly over-priced prefab delivered next month. They have been in a coop that is too small for some time; I let them out a lot to compensate for that...
  10. DonyaQuick

    Growing my little flock

    I badly need a rent-a-Rahab right now! Instead I've got Sasquatch and Coco doing some kind of bad-broody-club thing that's stopping Sasquatch from fully un-broodying. I'm legit having trouble managing the brooder temperatures for my poor Ameraucanas in the dingy weather my area is getting...
  11. DonyaQuick

    Growing my little flock

    Yeah...it was going to happen at some point. I promised my husband not to let it put me off mail order pullets since the remaining five are doing great and we were planning to get in line later this year for some exhibition-type BO pullets for next spring. Meanwhile...the silly factor is...
  12. DonyaQuick

    Growing my little flock

    Sad turn of events...I lost the chick that I had hoped was just dehydrated. ☹️ It had much more serious issues than that lurking under the surface, including a herniated cervical air sac that was getting gradually worse and interferring with its crop. I was able to drain about 3ml of air from...
  13. DonyaQuick

    Growing my little flock

    Aaaand it'll be brooder babies this round. That's ok; it was what I'd figured on to begin with. Sasquatch just isn't accepting them properly and it seems like 6 was too many for her. Although she didn't hurt any so far, it could have escallated easily. Her comb is bright red this morning, very...
  14. DonyaQuick

    Growing my little flock

    Oh this is going to be a long night...Sasquatch and her nest and stuff are in my bedroom so that if anything crazy bad happens in the middle of the night (like heaven forbid a rejection of the chicks), I can just jump out of bed to deal with it immediately. Well, good thing I did that, because I...
  15. DonyaQuick

    Growing my little flock

    CACKLE BABIES ARE HERE Two more than I was expecting! Fingers crossed they all do well and that Sasquatch accepts them later today. One chick was having a bit of a rough time compared to the others shortly after going in the brooder. It's perked up more now, but I had to sit with it for a...
  16. DonyaQuick

    Growing my little flock

    Butter Beeaaaaaaan! And sweet little Gozer. ☺️ These two over in main flock have become very snuggly in the mornings now that their attention hog brothers are elsewhere. Butter Bean's color is interesting. Got some splashes of brown feathers coming in, but only on the left side! Very curious to...
  17. DonyaQuick

    Growing my little flock

    So I've been upping my coops' hot weather game lately. Added fans since some shade trees that used to be there got removed late last year. Two barn fans in the big shed coop and some smaller fans elsewhere. Also been doing wading tubs. Didn't think anyone would use them but I put them out there...
  18. DonyaQuick

    Growing my little flock

    Two more recruits for the frat house! Mr 4lbs-at-12-weeks Kang on the left clearly remembers Speedy and Smoke from their overlapping time in the house in different brooder setups, since I let them visit each others' rooms sometimes.
  19. DonyaQuick

    Growing my little flock

    That awkward moment when you go to make sure the broody didn't steal any eggs and have to extract a 2lb pullet instead (note the gray mottled feathers poking out under her chest...)
  20. DonyaQuick

    Growing my little flock

    So I think I do indeed have 5 duds in the incubator. 😞 That is the outcome I was expecting, but still a bummer. Hopefully a peeping box in 2 more weeks will make it into less of a bummer. Meanwhile I have no way to easily un-broody the maniac below between the way the weather has been and the...
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