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Author Topic: POULTRY PALACE DAILY LOG BY NIMBLEFOOT  (Read 52077 times)
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« Reply #15 on: April 30, 2008, 08:56:22 AM »
In my experience you will never keep them from crapping in the food trough until they are a little older and you can feed them from a creep feeder.

Good luck.
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« Reply #16 on: April 30, 2008, 09:21:01 AM »
Diapers;)


Ruby, I have no earthly idea why I do half of what I do.  It's a farm so it needs chickens?  A little more noise/company around the place?  Cuz my daughter and mother don't want me to?  Fresh eggs and chicken?  Probably a little of all of those.

I may just give away the eggs.  It makes me feel good to do stuff like that:)

I was just in the basement looking for my laundry basket (still can't find the damn thing.  How do you lose a laundry basket?) and noticed one chicken sort of laying on its side and getting pecked by another.  I tried to swoop in and grab it up, with the intent that it be isolated so it can eithr have a chance to thrive or die, but it jumped into the middle of the herd and hid.  I sat there for 15 minutes trying to figure out which one it was, but no luck.  I'll check periodically and see if I can give the little feller/girl a fighting chance.

Good news!  I fized the clothes line poles.  Now I could hang my laundry if I could only find the damn basket;)
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« Reply #17 on: April 30, 2008, 09:29:12 AM »
Maybe its its hidden because you already filled it with stuff. Buried under a pile of construction debris, perhaps?
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« Reply #18 on: April 30, 2008, 09:37:08 AM »
You can take your butter an' aig money an' do some card-playin' (blatantly lifted from Snuffy Smith with no apologies)

And for the sake of all that's holy, move the beer run to the top of the list!

(around here the Farm Report is LOTS earlier)
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« Reply #19 on: April 30, 2008, 09:45:44 AM »
Ruby, the best time my son would have is when Uncle Pete would snatch up some chickens and chop their heads off and stick em in the wood pile to bleed out.......Jake would always stand there and tell Pete to 'get another one Uncle Pete!"..........what is it with kids and head choppin????
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« Reply #20 on: April 30, 2008, 10:25:58 AM »
Literature says the best way is to cut their throats.  No real chance of missing and lots more personal.
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« Reply #21 on: April 30, 2008, 10:52:47 AM »
This sure brings back memories.  I wish we lived on a farm so my kids could grow up like that.  This would have been in the mid-seventies.

My younger brother and I would run into the coop and catch the roosters since my mom simply did not have that skill.  We'd eagerly bring them to my great grandpa out in the yard.  All I remember about him is that he was so tiny and old and feeble.  He had to use a walker just to stay upright.  He'd lay the squawking chicken down on the the chopping block (an old stump) and steady himself with his walker while also gripping the axe.  Then in one movement he'd let go of the walker, lift up the axe as best his geriatric arm could and then bring it down...thwump!  Half the time he'd miss the unfortunate chicken altogether and have to repeat the process.  After successfully decapitating the chicken, he'd push it to the ground where it would continue to run around....just like a chicken with its head cut off!  What great fun we had watching that!
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« Reply #22 on: April 30, 2008, 10:59:22 AM »
Here they come to snuff the rooster....     LOL
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« Reply #23 on: April 30, 2008, 11:07:49 AM »
I just checked the chicks and all seem to be well.  False alarm?

Yeah, Ruby, some of my fondest memories are of feeding the chickens and picking up the eggs with my Grandpa.  Killing them was a learning opportunity and he always talked about how animals were put on earth to feed us.
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« Reply #24 on: May 01, 2008, 06:28:49 AM »
bump........waiting for NF to wake up.........cluck cluck........
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« Reply #25 on: May 01, 2008, 06:37:03 AM »
Maybe when the roosters start crowing I'll get the farm report out a little earlier.  Today I just happened to get up early:)

Another night of no body dying.  What's that, 4 or 5 in a row now?  The little buggers are really starting to feather out now.  Their intake seems to be switching from mostly water and less food to lots more food and less water.  They are big enough that they can kick the feeder off the 2x4 and nudge it around their box.  There's lots of wing flapping and most can make short flights within the box.  What the heck is going to happen when I have 23 chickens flying around the basement?  Won't that be a sight!

Oh, yeah, the bugs (the one's that come in swarms and looks like ladybugs) that were having their way in the chicken box are now immediately disappearing. Evidently they're now big enough to eat bugs.  On one of my chicken websites (tail talk?), a lady posted about how there was a 70% reduction in various insect pests in her yard, once she got chickens.  How could she know this?  Random sampling?  A survey?  Maybe last year there were 10 mosquito bites on her butt this year only 3?  I don't know.  

Today's farm chores.  Finish that damn chicken cage.  Keep working in the chicken coop.  Screw down the subflooring in the dining room.  Buy more beer.  In fact, as advised, buy the beer first.

Okay, now it's time to pay bills.
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« Reply #26 on: May 01, 2008, 06:52:37 AM »
better buy that beer before you pay the bills............know what I mean?
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« Reply #27 on: May 01, 2008, 08:21:36 AM »
I can't ever remember seeing a grasshopper make it all the way across the chicken yard.  They will clean up insects of like a vacume cleaner.

I will see if I can find a set of plans online for a creep feeder.  It will cure your problems.
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« Reply #28 on: May 01, 2008, 08:29:57 AM »
What they're eating are Japanese lady beetles...lady bug lookalikes that bite and smell like peanuts when you squish them...very cool if your chicks eat them...
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« Reply #29 on: May 01, 2008, 08:48:12 AM »
I really don't like those bugs.  They bite, too.
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