Checking-In On Peeps - Post Here To Say Hello!

[BantyChooks]

Hey. I'm around lurking on occasion but I've just been so busy! We have 4 coops right now and I won't even guess how many chickens. We just got the fence up around the garden this year to combat the deer. My back is not happy with all the yard work!

You know what would be better than 4 coops? 5 coops.
Thanks for responding, it sounds like you've been hit by chicken math full force!

 

[BantyChooks]

Been super busy lately. Sadly, I had to re-home my girls because of a move. But found a wonderful new home for them and couldn't be happier about that.

I had to rehome my chickens as well so I'm sympathetic. Glad you found a new home for them and I hope you'll be able to get chickens again soon.

 

[BantyChooks]

Hi, I have been doing great just got busy moving end of December 2023 and I'm due May 28th just a lot going on hatching out baby chicks

Yes, that sounds quite busy! Good luck and thanks for the update.

 

[BantyChooks]

Hi all, Thanks for the poke, i've been super busy, well keeping myself busy to stop me thinking about them, cause i dont have any chooks, and has taken a while to think about doing it again.

Something broke into our coupe and killed all my feathered friends, was very weird though and im thinking we have a human going around killing chooks cause im not the only one, so husband is building a new coupe and the door is going to be our old security door off the house, its sad when you actually have to "lock up your chooks" but im not going to let them stop me. So will probably be about 1 year before i have anything going again.

Im very sad about it cause i shipped in the eggs and incubated them all successfully and had a system going every year i had little fluffy bums, then to go out one morning and see what i saw was heart breaking. All chooks and chicks killed, was way to neat and organised, it was like they where layed out for me with no mess of a fight, put the picture together with things that had happened over the last 2 months and it had to have been a person.

I'm so sorry, that's terrible to hear. I hope the new coop is secure enough. If it was a person, I hope they catch him. Maybe worth putting up a security cam?

 

[BantyChooks]

We no longer have poultry, which is why I haven't been on in awhile.

That's understandable. Thanks for checking in anyway.

 

[BantyChooks]

Hi All,
Busy, yes, but also big changes for us. We moved to Panama (yes, the country) and no longer have the opportunity to have chickens. I do want everyone to know, though, that I cherish the friendships and timely information that BYC provided me when I was a newby. You folks saved me LOTS of time and mistakes with your helpful information. Good days to you all !!! Ruth

That's a big move! I'm in the same boat (but different continent.) Thank you for the update and your kind words.

 

[BantyChooks]

Hello, Everybody!

Still alive, though not too muck kicking nowadays. At 75 if you try kicking you may fall on your butt!

I am almost done with my chickening. I have 6 chickens left: 4 Australorp roosters, one Australorp hen and a 10-year-old green- egger hen. All the Australorps are about 6 or 7 years old and were hatched here. They are now officially retired. No eggs from the the two hens. The two hens and one rooster roam free during the day and we put them up for the night in the garage, where they sleep safely in three cages, where nocturnal predators cannot kill them. They have learned the routine, and every night they wait by the garage's man door and when we open it each of them goes to its respective cage. The rooster is lame. Something happened to one of his toes, and we are treating it with Thrush Buster, a horse medicine. The other three roosters are in a predator-proof enclosure and sleep in a chicken house within the enclosure. They are all pet chickens and it never entered our minds to butcher them. My wife a few months ago did shoot another rooster that was part of the same hatch as the other Australorps. She had gone into another enclosure/chicken house we used to have to close the door for the night, and the rooster attacked her, inflicting several punctures and scratches on her arms and chest. She was carrying her 9mm automatic and after shaking the bird off her, she let him have it. He had been a threat all along. After all these remaining birds will have died from natural causes or other causes, no more chickens for us. They are nice to have, but we are old folks and it takes too much work to take proper care of chickens. It was a fun experience of which we have fond memories (Few things are more satisfactory than going to the chicken house and collecting a dozen or more eggs or finding just-hatched chicks and placing them in a nice, safe cage under a heat lamp in the garage and then watch them grow...).

Happy chickening to y'all

Giovanni

I am glad you have good memories of chicken-keeping, and I hope you enjoy the rest of your birds. Thanks for updating us.

 

[BantyChooks]

I'd forgotten about this site. I'm doing well here, taking a small break from flock expansion to move to a bigger place.

Sounds exciting! Time for even more chicken math.

 

[BantyChooks]

I'm still around but taking care of my mom is almost a full-time job. We still have our original 5 girls. Last fall they went into a molt that seemed to last the rest of the year. We actually had to buy eggs and we let the girls know it! We got three pullets beginning of this year and now that they are laying, the older girls must have felt that they should step up. Yes, we have more eggs than we can use but our neighbors love us!

Hah, buying eggs while you have chickens is a uniquely annoying experience. Congrats on keeping your original 5 still healthy and alive. Thanks for updating us.

 

[TwoCrows]

Taking day by day. Recently was caring for my rooster who had a leg injury. He’s back to chasing the girls! View attachment 3814428

Very pretty boy! ❤