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Just a few more random pictures from today. Roxy was so pleased to get back out into the flock after her leave of absence inside! She immediately went into a dust bath in her little reintegration space. 🤭 Sumi and her beautiful plumage 😍 She was upset when I took this picture because I had...

Yeah, and it's probably best that I focus on the BBS anyway. I don't want to spread myself too thin and I really want to preserve them and breed them well. I've seen way too many people get into way too many projects only to drop them after a year or two because it takes a long time to really...

One more post, but no picture because I forgot to grab my phone before going in there... Looks like Roxanne is back to 100%. No prolapse this morning, appetite back to normal, and she seems to be pooping normally. Yay! 😁 I'm keeping her in just a little longer to make sure of that last criteria...

A check in with the babies! Blue mama is a protective lady. She doesn't outright attack me, but she gets very angry when I reach in there and pokes at my hand sometimes, too. 🤭 Even when she does, she's super gentle about it. :love Splash mama giving pecking lessons to her five 🥰 They're way...

Haha, no worries on the typo, it happens to us all ;) I do have a few more pictures of the broodies and their babies from the past couple days. I didn't even realize I hadn't checked in in so long!! :th I'll get them uploaded after this post. 😁 Hey, long time no see!! :frow Good to hear that...

That's my thought as well. The only symptom any of them have for deficiency is that Bella either doesn't lay at all or doesn't lay much, but there should be other symptoms like leg issues if she was truly deficient and that's what was causing that. I don't know. 🤔 I never got around to making a...

To be honest, I'm not sure. 🤔 I've been looking into this a bit today because three of that batch are not as fluffy, and looking at them, they seem to have kind of stunted, brittle down on them. They're the same size, roughly, as the fluffier ones, just not fluffy. It's almost as if they didn't...

I don't have any pictures yet, but I peeked under our two broodies in the mixed flock here at lunch time. The Splash girl has at least three external pips under her, I didn't look any further so as not to disturb them. The Blue girl has 3 babies out, what looked like a Blue and 2 Splashes 🥰 Her...

Somebody stop the ride, I'm ready to get off :th I spent yesterday checking on the outer coop every hour to hour and a half, trying to catch whatever the egg thief is in the act. Well, around 6:30, I went out and as I was walking past the coop (the pens are on the other side of it from the...

Oh, yeah, that looks pretty brawny! Hopefully it gives some raccoons a few things to think about before deciding to get dinner at your place again, though :tongue Turning it on only at night is a really good idea. It would be less other animals like cats and more my niece and nephew that I'd...

Yeah, that's my current top suspect and the main reason why I'm too afraid not to leave any eggs for it to get at in case it goes for a bird instead. :barnie I'm so daunted by the idea of electric fencing, though I have thought about it quite a bit. A large problem with it for me is that we're...

Good idea, I'll have to look around a bit and see what I can find! For now, I've just been peeking in the coop every now and then to see if I catch anything in the act. I just peeked in there before sitting down with lunch, here, and all of the Buck pen birds were inside. Delphine is still on...

I don't, unfortunately, and I'm not sure I have the means of getting one at the moment because I'm on a very limited budget. :hmm I may need to pinch some pennies and save up for one, though, as I thought of that as well. That would probably be my best bet of figuring out what it is and getting...

We have 7 peeps out and the last egg is externally pipped as of this morning! Looking like mostly Blues with only a couple Blacks in the mix. Most of them hatched yesterday evening to late last night. This is the first four to hatch. Lighting's terrible because I moved them to the brooder late...

Oh goodness, I do that to myself a lot! 🤭 Without the incubators running, it's quiet enough in my room to hear birds and squirrels chirping outside. I always have to sit there and listen like, holy-moly, how are there chicks peeping right now??

Oh my goodness! :th Bad mama!! I think I've heard that as well, that they have some kind of game in their background or something 🤔 Don't quote me on that! The Sebright hens I had were feisty little bitties for sure! Some even crowed regularly :th As far as what's up in my neck of the...

Haha, yeah, the chickens like to make sure I have plenty to do in a day, it seems 😅 Yay on the little ones that made it! Sorry to hear about the quitters, but it sounds like you got quite a few babies in total from that hatch anyway. :jumpy Wow, I wouldn't have expected her to attack other...

Y'all, I got 5 eggs from Buck's pen last night. :th There were three eggs out there this afternoon, too. There was definitely an egg thief coming through the floor!! Since Delphine's eggs were still clear when I candled yesterday, I set two of the Buck eggs from yesterday and the three eggs...

Oh, goodness! It looks like it's been sweeping chimneys or something 🤭 Oof, that sounds rough! Glad you got so many extras! Hopefully you get a good hatch from them :fl

Oh man, that little face!! 😍 I would have melted right then and there! Way too cute!!