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Randall
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posted April 04, 2012 01:03 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

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posted April 06, 2012 12:18 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
So cute!

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posted April 06, 2012 10:27 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mockingbird     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
See the one in the back corner?
The one that looks like more of a bad-arse than a little chick should?
My youngest has named her "Sparkles".

...she may be the least sparkly chick on the planet.

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posted April 23, 2012 07:56 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for juniperb     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Is all well with the chicklettes?

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posted April 23, 2012 08:36 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mockingbird     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
They've turned into chickenosaurs:

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posted April 23, 2012 08:38 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for juniperb     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
yep that`s their oh my goodness they`re ugly stage.

Glad they are healthy and thriving.

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posted April 23, 2012 08:39 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mockingbird     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
On the very left, you have Sparkles (named by my youngest). Despite her visage, she's actually the sweetest.

Next to her, you have Barbie. We call her that because she's the lightest of our chicks ("blond"), talks a lot, and is kind of dumb.

The other two (the Welsummers) are either Thelma and Louise or Bonnie and Clyde - we have suspicions that one of them is a male. S/he's the most raucous (and peck-y) of the group and his/her feathers are coming in way more slowly than the others.

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posted April 23, 2012 08:41 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mockingbird     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by juniperb:
yep that`s their oh my goodness they`re ugly stage.

Glad they are healthy and thriving.



It's nuts to me that they're not even a month old!

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posted April 23, 2012 10:11 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for juniperb     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Compared to the others in the animal kingdon, chickens mature fast and live a relatively short life span.

They get it all in fast

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posted April 24, 2012 08:14 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for juniperb     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
ah, don`t worry yet about the peckish `saur being a male.

The biddies need to establish a pecking order and bonnie can sound/hehave like clyde at the social order stage

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posted April 24, 2012 12:40 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for T     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
cute! .......sort of...

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posted April 29, 2012 01:36 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mockingbird     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The chicks' first taste of the outdoors:

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posted April 29, 2012 01:45 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Wow, them kluckers sure have gotten big!

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posted April 30, 2012 11:00 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I just want to pet their fluffy feathers.

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posted May 01, 2012 08:53 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mockingbird     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
They're about the size of mourning doves now (perhaps a hair bigger) and're getting prettier each day.
You can't see it in this picture, but the Easter Eggers seem like they're getting some really handsome, golden neck feathers and the Welsummers' red is deepening and looks quite nice in the sun.

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posted May 05, 2012 04:09 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mockingbird     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Randall - I remembered you'd asked about what kind of hen lays which kind of egg:
http://www.mypetchicken.com/about-chickens/chicken-pictures/Earlobe-Color-Indicates-Egg-Color-X23.aspx

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posted May 05, 2012 08:02 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mockingbird     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I finally got the coop placed.


Excuse the uneven stones. My husband said he'd fix them when he got back...that's as much as I'm doing right now.
I dug out space for a wooden box we had made in the footprint of the coop (to secure the coop & give the foxes a bit more to dig).


The girls checking out their new abode.

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posted May 06, 2012 10:15 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Woo-hoo! Thanks for that answer!

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posted May 07, 2012 03:04 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I mistakenly thought they fed them something to change the eggs to white.

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See, I'm secretly hoping that one of our Welsummers is a roo. That way (after we build a bigger house and run) we can hatch some of the eggs.

Welsummers and Easter Eggers apparently usually produce "Olive Eggers" - goofy looking chickens which produce dark green eggs.

I want green eggs and ham

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posted May 08, 2012 01:13 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

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posted May 09, 2012 01:02 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Dr. Seus would be proud.

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posted May 10, 2012 03:25 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Is it green eggs and ham (regular ham) or green eggs and green ham?

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posted May 16, 2012 08:52 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for mockingbird     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Juni - Do your pullets become demanding little hens?

We're going to build a mobile run for them (we have the materials, but my husband's travelling and he seems to be afraid that the saws-all will bounce and I'll manage to sever a femoral artery and bleed out in the driveway if I do it ), so I've been throwing them yard treats / greens in the mean time.

Most mornings, I'll pick some clover (we have a ton) and put it in their run before letting them out of the coop. They didn't see it right away today, and one of my Welsummers ran to the end of the run and gave me a confused, almost hurt, "Bawk?"

I walked back over and pointed to the mass of clover while saying, "Chick-chick-chick." They then all ran over and went at it like velociraptors attacking a sheep.

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posted May 20, 2012 10:07 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Bump for Juni.

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