Pictures of chicks!

[EE_]

Those of you that knew I was hatching Araucana chicks from the other site...well here they are!
I started out with 20 eggs, 13 were viable.
7 hatched, #8 died on the way out. 5 did not pip.
Still not bad for 1st time out.
http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/ww217/MaggiegirlEE/IMG_1073.jpg
http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/ww217/MaggiegirlEE/IMG_1077.jpg
http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/ww217/MaggiegirlEE/IMG_1075.jpg
coop
http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/ww217/MaggiegirlEE/IMG_1056.jpg
http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/ww217/MaggiegirlEE/IMG_1057.jpg
http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/ww217/MaggiegirlEE/IMG_1063.jpg

[MNeagle]

What is in their watering dish? Vitamin E capsules?? ??? Marbles?

[EE_]

Marbles. Chicks will drown themselves in a dish of water.
They drink through the cracks.

[ximmy]

Marbles. Chicks will drown themselves in a dish of water.
They drink through the cracks.


one evolutionary problem nature has not yet cured ???

[MNeagle]

Interesting. Thanks! Cute chicks too.

[Libertarian_Guard]

Was having a discussion yesterday about how chickens survived without man penning them up for protection and breeding. Other then the chickens having a private oasis or island with hardly anything more dangerous than insects, no one could offer a possible explanation, and if that is true, perhaps eventually they flocked in groups so numerous, that it didn’t matter if a high percentage were consumed by predators every single day.

The chicken was likely mans first domestically raised livestock. I’m wondering if earlier versions of man raised chickens as well. Not with the efficiency of EE, but they could have penned them up in the back of a cave and used a similar canine to help keep them there, and ward off intruders.

[willie pete]

Cool...nice chicks

[EE_]

I don't think I could free range in the desert. It is a harsh place and the coyotes, snakes, desert iguanas and hawks would make short work of them.

[StackerKen]

Marbles. Chicks will drown themselves in a dish of water.
They drink through the cracks.


We do that too.
My wife thought of it...or maybe she saw it on the net....I dunno.

[ximmy]

Marbles. Chicks will drown themselves in a dish of water.
They drink through the cracks.


We do that too.
My wife thought of it...or maybe she saw it on the net....I dunno.


true, true... the human being... pretty faulty sometimes

[Spectrism]

I increased my survival rate by keeping a dish of water in the incubator. I had losses do to dried membrane that the chicks could not break out of. Also, I turn the eggs at least 3 times per day.... even more in the beginning as you don't want the embryo to get attached to the wall.

[k-os]

I am pretty confident that if I had baby chicks like that, I would shortly become a vegetarian. They're so cute!

[Spectrism]

I remember the first time I saw my employer- an old Germanic guy who bred rare pheasants as a hobby- kill crips out of the incubator. If they did not come out just right, he just snipped their heads off with scissors. I watched him kill many animals- food birds, trapped varmints, etc.... and when it became my turn, I learned the way of turning livestock into meat. Not many teachers left in this sissy world like that old bird breeder to show the kids that meat does not originate from a grocery store.

[sscrapper]

Could you show some close ups of the coup ? I need something like that ! :)

[EE_]

Could you show some close ups of the coup ? I need something like that ! :)


Coop is 3' X 4'
Pen is 6' X 9' + under coop
3 egg boxes with hinged lid
2 roosts
Hinged clean out slot on backside for easy hose out cleaning

http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/ww217/MaggiegirlEE/IMG_1064.jpg

One week old chicks
http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/ww217/MaggiegirlEE/chicksintheyard004.jpg
http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/ww217/MaggiegirlEE/chicksintheyard003.jpg
http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/ww217/MaggiegirlEE/outing4-17-10003.jpg
http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/ww217/MaggiegirlEE/outing4-17-10005.jpg
http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/ww217/MaggiegirlEE/chicks.jpg
http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/ww217/MaggiegirlEE/outing4-17-10006.jpg
1 1/2 weeks
http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/ww217/MaggiegirlEE/oneandonehalfweekold.jpg

[Korbin Dallas]

Cute chicks EE. Keep us updated as they grow.

[BrewTech]

GTFO SPAMMER!!! :CS

[1970 silver art]

WTF ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Does anybody have any "spammer" spray around here? We have a pesky spammer on the loose here on GSUS.

[ximmy]

I smite anly :D ;) ;D

[EE_]

I haven't shown the birds in a while, 19 weeks old.
Here's my best rooster (notice the iridescent green feathers he's getting) and the two hens he will be breeding with for next years chicks
http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/ww217/MaggiegirlEE/roosterandhen-1.jpg

http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/ww217/MaggiegirlEE/hen.jpg

[willie pete]

Good looking chicks EE....

[Spectrism]

First ground loss of birds in years. I am missing 4 hens & a roo. They were getting older anyway and the roo was not to be kept through the winter. But the concerning part is what happened this am.

Took my dog out and she bolted up into the woods. I saw a small flash of brown- almost like a deer but it was in dense trees where deer would never go- and close to rabbit cage. My guess is coyotes got the birds and one was lingering. My monster dog will challenge any coyote. I heard a dog-like yelp in the woods shortly after that. She can't talk but I think she put the bite on one of the coyotes.

My jaunt through the woods got me 4 deer ticks. Found them crawling up clothes fast. Damned little buggars.

The dog is eating garlic powder with all her meals... keeps the bugs away.

Since they ate well, the coytoes will be back. There is a large pack nearby. I may need to rig up some snares. For them to be this aggressive (first time here) so early in season suggests to me that it will be a harsh winter.

[Libertarian_Guard]

Spectrism

Glad to see you picked off them ticks ASAP.

[Spectrism]

Spectrism

Glad to see you picked off them ticks ASAP.




A couple weeks ago I did a fast fertilizer spread on the grass before going on my trip. Laying in bed that night I felt a tender spot on my belly. Sure enough it was a blasted tick embedded. That was when I was dosing tetracycline. I actually felt better after the antibiotic. Maybe I had some bug that needed to get zapped.


As for the chicks... it turns out that a hen finally hatched out some eggs in Aug/Sep so I have fresh young birds (8) almost fully feathered now. They are caged so the coyotes can't get them. One of those appears to be a roo.