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Help, can't find a thread I read

feeds@yuku.com (handymans special) — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:06:29 GMT

It seems as if a recent visit to this forum was during a dreamlike sequence. I visited many threads and saw pictures of some next boxes I would like to recreate. Of course, I can't find a single one of the threads now. There was one thread with a video of a pair of ducks 'helping' a chicken lay her egg. - that is gone, too. Was I dreaming? Has anyone else see that video? It was a very neat nest box setup the hen was using, too.

Regards,
Janice

Yikes... two fighting roos... what now? (photos added)

feeds@yuku.com (Peaches) — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:09:06 GMT

Hi all.... Well, many of you "know" my huge blue cochin roo Dumbledore. He is now 5 years old. I was thrilled to get a purebred BLUE cochin son out of him late last year (Hagrid). Hagrid is gorgeous and every bit as large as dumble. I have 19 hens, but of that, 3 are very young - but... still enough to go around. Dumble has kept Hagrid in line - but yesterday it changed and Hagrid went after him tooth and nail, so to speak. They were both bloodied and in the middle of it,...

Todd, you won't believe this

feeds@yuku.com (robin416) — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:35:22 GMT

The day before I tossed the eggs from the Hamburg girls. Remember I wasn't going to do anything with them? I went last night to check for eggs. A big fat zero. I went to the Dutch pens, nothing. I don't get it, they just started laying again after our heat wave. I'll check again in a little while to see if there is anything in the nests at all.

I've since learned two things; I found an egg in one of the out buildings. Would never have found it if all three Hamburgs...

Robin416

feeds@yuku.com (amigocontodos) — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 19:38:57 GMT

Have you got any bantam eggs available?

Almost heaven! Hen Houses at the county fair!

feeds@yuku.com (swsoutherlands) — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:46:00 GMT

It's county fair time! I love, love, loved the hen house! Ah! It was fabulous! After the first row, my daughter looked at me and said "Mom, you think all the chickens are fabulous." And? They were! The funniest was a Polish frizzle chicken who was moulting and had lots of pin feathers-- poor little bird! She looked pretty pathetic!

How about the rest of you? Any trips to the fair? Are you showing any of your chickens?

FREE POULTRY PEDIGREE WEBSITE-INVITE

feeds@yuku.com (margaretg25) — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:31:35 GMT

Hello,

My name is Margaret Guillory, I am in Patterson Louisiana.

I would like to tell you about a website my husband and I just created called feathered families. The...

MommaRoo is taking care of his kids

feeds@yuku.com (featheredpig) — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:26:14 GMT

I see this alot in this wild flock, a roo has been looking after 2 little kids. They follow him, he talks to them and guards them. Momma must have died, within the past 2 weeks 2 hens have been hit by cars, despite my sign up in the front of my house, "wildlife crossing-give them a brake". I think the sign helped a little, the death rate had been less, but some people could just care less. I am the official neighborhood chicken undertaker. I immediately go out and put their poor...

Nesting Boxes

feeds@yuku.com (grandrapidshippie) — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 02:30:33 GMT

I have 5 girlies. I have a run underneath my coop. Can I put my nesting boxes in the run or should they be in the coop? where should my roosting poles be? should I have hay or straw in the nesting boxes. Can I use anything else for the nests? sawdust?
Sorry for the simple questions, but I just want to make sure my girls have the best and that I'm not screwing anything up.

Christian.

hey fellow peeps

feeds@yuku.com (pcjinn) — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:59:16 GMT

Just a short note to say I havent fallen off the earth yet... LOL I had my internet shut off because of money situations. I wont be able to get it on for a while so Ill only be able to check messages at my moms or my father in laws. I really miss all of you. Alot has happened and I want to share but im out of time so I got to go. Love and miss talking to you all..... Jenn

Questions about roosters

feeds@yuku.com (jillinCA) — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:26:14 GMT

It turns out that I have a rooster in my flock of four. He is crowing now, and I love it! I am outside the city limits, so technically, I could probably keep him, but I have a hotel behind my house, and I do have some neighbors that could possibly be annoyed. What do you guys think about just keeping him until/unless someone complains? Is that really rude of me?

If I did choose to keep him, I have two questions. One, is that as he matures will he stay the sweet thing that he is...

Finally good news!

feeds@yuku.com (swsoutherlands) — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:25:54 GMT

Lady, my raccoon attack, survivor has stopped limping. She's off her antibiotics. She's been acting a bit slow lately, but it may just be my imagination. No one else seems to be noticing it. She's taken OK to the three new brahma mix 8 week old chicks I added last Friday. She gives them an occasional peck to remind them she's boss. The chicks are doing well. They figured out how to put themselves to bed on the second night. They are scared to death of me, but other than that...

Water and such

feeds@yuku.com (grandrapidshippie) — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:41:10 GMT

My girlies are getting closer to laying I think. I got them this spring and I have some questions. I have been letting them roam the backyard for the past few weeks. Now, when I walk into the yard they kind of run after me. I think they may be hungry or thirsty.
1. Should they be able to find their own food besides what i supplement in the feed I give them? I would think that I'd need to give them less feed now.

2.Also, I have two big tubs for drinking that is easily...

Travelling long distance with hens???

feeds@yuku.com (FLduckgirl) — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:35:52 GMT

Has anyone moved a long distance with their chickens? Any words of advice?? We are moving from Florida to California in a month... I had planned on keeping my 2 pet hens (1 Buff Orpington & 1 bantam Buff Brahma) - we'll be making the trip in an RV with our 3 indoor-only cats.
Well recently, I've had a few friends & relatives suggest NOT taking my 2 hens on the trip... they think it will be too stressful for everyone and that the stress could be too much on the chickens....

update about us and more advice needed please!

feeds@yuku.com (fredadeniau) — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:14:20 GMT

We got our 9 hens and one hansome cock! unfortunately one hen was killed, we forgot to close the straw box and the lid came down on her neck, hubby was near to tears when we found her and she was still warm so it had only just happened.
Since then alls been going really well! We have constantly had 8 eggs daily! They are all a really good size and we have had quite a few double yolks!

We had one of the black hens sitting on eggs, then the sussex took over and 5 weeks ago they...

nesting/sleeping issues

feeds@yuku.com (wallacedw) — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 09:43:41 GMT

My chickens don't sleep in the hay or any place I have put it. They sit on a roost some but at night they curl together into a corner. Is my window in the wrong place so it is too light, too breezy? Maybe I should put the window boards back up?

Getting some new girls!!!

feeds@yuku.com (BeckT) — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 16:10:16 GMT

I am getting 4 new girls the first of the week! When we had our county fair I got to talking to one of the boys showing chickens and his dad. I said I would be interested in buying some of his birds. That was back in the first part of July. Well his dad came into where I work Friday and asked if I was still interested. Well duh, of course. lol I am getting 2 Buff Orpingtons and 2 gold laced cochins. They have not started laying yet, but are close. I told him I would give his son 10.00 ea. for...

Kudos to the Post Office this time.

feeds@yuku.com (jimnjay) — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:37:57 GMT

I have just received my second email from a gal in Washington State that purchased eggs from me via Eggbid. She won two auctions for 18 eggs each. She wanted them shipped Express mail so that is what I did. The first batch of 20 eggs had 16 hatch and the second batch of 20 she got 18 to hatch. She is delighted as am I. I don't know if it was the cold pac I used or the extra care that Express Mail received but I don't think one could ask for better results from shipped eggs than...

Face Update

feeds@yuku.com (robin416) — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:56:29 GMT

Face had surgery on her sinus two weeks ago. She came through it just fine, eating, drinking and laying. But there is still a large amount of swelling in her face which now goes above her eye. Yesterday I hit her with some prednisone, vet doesn't know yet, this morning the swelling above her eye is gone. Guess I need to call and tell the vet so she knows what I'm up to.

Crazy hens!

feeds@yuku.com (Carole AM) — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:32:21 GMT

Caption says it all! This is what I find when I go to the bantam pen. They are so determined to be Moms, I give up. I think there's 7 alltogether.

seperating roos from hens

feeds@yuku.com (jackhenry) — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:33:55 GMT

Hi my name is Jackhenry. I'm a month old RIR rooster. My mom Maria was wondering when she should seperate me from my girls? We don't want any babies yet. Can anyone answer this question?
Jackhenry and Maria