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  1. 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.
  2. 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...)
  3. 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...
  4. DonyaQuick

    Growing my little flock

    Noooooo you said the B-word! LOL One of my cochins must have looked over my sholder and and found your post to be inspirational since I now have another nest box troll screaming at me when I go to collect eggs. It would actually be rather well lined up with my mail order chicks...but the whole...
  5. DonyaQuick

    Growing my little flock

    With the house chicken count back to zero, I put a bunch of Coco Bean eggs in the incubator...I suppose I'm basically doing this so that I can be sorely disappointed in a couple weeks lol. Bean flock fertility overall is definitely improving slowly as the cochins are gradually laying bigger...
  6. DonyaQuick

    Growing my little flock

    The heat wave is doing me a small favor: round two of chicks can go out full time now! This batch has been more heat-needy for whatever reason, so I could only have them out sporadically until now. Miss Chungus is right up there making sure they know who the real boss of the flock is lol. I...
  7. DonyaQuick

    Growing my little flock

    So the Kang finally had to go leave his sisters for life in the frat house...I was so riddiculously worried about this step. But, uh...it's instant besties??? Last night I got outside a bit late and found Kang tucked under Tengu's wing ready for bed, so I didn't even both to have him sleep in...
  8. DonyaQuick

    Growing my little flock

    This latest batch of chicks is giving my phone some identification problems 🤣 This little duck bean baby is the most precious little thing and is now named Butter Bean.
  9. DonyaQuick

    Growing my little flock

    The universe does not want to let me have an easy time of it this year... Raven got tapeworms. Luckily I think I actually caught it within the first day of her showing those horrible little wiggly worm tabs in her poo but still...of all the darned things!!! I don't even let my flock forage out...
  10. DonyaQuick

    Growing my little flock

    Looking like I guessed wrong on my first vibe check of the second batch of chicks! Still looking like only one boy but it's not the one I thought. This was my first suspect. Zero comb stuff going on! And my new suspect...sure looks like some comb stuff happening and also a growth spurt to...
  11. DonyaQuick

    Growing my little flock

    Ugggghhhhh nothing can ever go entirely smoothly can it. 😒 I just had to separate Scruffy from the chicks - not because she was being mean to them or anything, but she's started trying to treat them more like would be acceptable for older chicks (too much forage time, not enough...
  12. DonyaQuick

    Growing my little flock

    First four chicks all have names now: Pumpkin (buff), Fooby (black/barred), Liu Kang as already known (white), and Boots (gray mottled who needed shoes at first). Mr Kang is shaping up to be a lovely boy. So far he seems to be the only boy of the bunch too. So my formal guess for this batch...
  13. DonyaQuick

    Growing my little flock

    One bean egg was a no go unfortunately. The other bean egg did great, as did the 3 main flock eggs. So I got 4 this round. Feels a bit like the universe has some weird rule that I can hatch a maximum of 4 eggs at once...but mama Scruffy is so happy, and they are 4 darned cute little fluff balls...
  14. DonyaQuick

    Growing my little flock

    Cockerel vibes confirmed...heard an awful noise this morning. What could it be? A screaming hen outside? Some poor other creature being murdered? No, it was Mr Liu Kang here (yes the Mortal Kombat character for his martial arts exit from the egg lol). He decided 6AM this morning was time to give...
  15. DonyaQuick

    Growing my little flock

    This batch of chicks is unreal. They have a new sport: paper towl log rolling. Meanwhile...lockdown begins for Scruffy's eggs. She has all five of the developing ones from the incubator now, which includes the two bean eggs. Candled them all one last time and air cells look better sized on...
  16. DonyaQuick

    Growing my little flock

    On a lighter note than the last post... Fooby booty 😄 this is the new greeting ritual. Meanwhile, cockerel vibes intensify...I know it looks like it's running but it's not, those are floppy feet and it's lying sideways in my hand. Also, exciting stuff in the incubator: the two Vanilla Bean...
  17. DonyaQuick

    Growing my little flock

    I feel like spring is a double-eged sword. It's a time of new life flourishing, but also seems like it frequently brings death. I lost Buddy yesterday. She had been sick for some time. I didn't want to say anything on the forums about it until after the conclusion of it all, because I knew it...
  18. DonyaQuick

    Growing my little flock

    This is surely beyond cockerel vibes now and into some other category. Even my past cockerels have not been this riddiculous at 1 week. Now you may say...well it's just that one chick. But no, they're all pretty much like that. The big white one is just the easiest to photograph while being...
  19. DonyaQuick

    Growing my little flock

    Little chicks are one week old now and have moved into their new setup with a brooder plate. This setup is also covered, which is rather important as of today. They are just entering the phase where a bit of flapping makes them float up absurdly higher than it seems like it should lol.
  20. DonyaQuick

    Growing my little flock

    Is it weird that this batch of 4 chicks is by far the least needy bunch of chicks I have ever had??? They are super friendly but they have yet to wake me up at night. They just sleep happily. Then they get up when I get up in the morning and start motoring around. They very rarely cry at me but...
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