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Trace
True Blue Farmgirl
247 Posts
Tracey
Canton
New York
USA
247 Posts |
 Posted - Aug 17 2008 : 7:05:43 PM
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We picked up our pullets today!!! I bought 12 partridge rock 3 month old pullets and as an added bonus, I was given 2 guniea fowl free. The women I bought the pullets from knew I was interested in gunieas. So, in another few months, we should have our first eggs.
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Trace
True Blue Farmgirl
247 Posts
Tracey
Canton
New York
USA
247 Posts |
Posted - Aug 17 2008 : 7:09:00 PM
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| BTW, the pullets are having a feast of leftover cooked whole wheat spaghetti, lol It's an added treat to their grain. |
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eskimobirdlady
True Blue Farmgirl
700 Posts
connie
fairbanks
ak
USA
700 Posts |
Posted - Aug 17 2008 : 9:13:41 PM
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| you will find them to be so much fun! we love to just stand and watch our chicks. you can almost see them growing! lol but then we are easily amused! peace connie in alaska |
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Mumof3
True Blue Farmgirl
3890 Posts
Karin
Ellenwood
GA
USA
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
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Trace
True Blue Farmgirl
247 Posts
Tracey
Canton
New York
USA
247 Posts |
Posted - Aug 18 2008 : 12:34:43 PM
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We are having fun with the new girls and it is fun to see what garden/kitchen goodies they will devour, lol
They love pecking at painted toenails. I found that out while wearing flipflops in the coop.
I am thrilled to have chickens again. I raised them years ago and missed having them. So this is nice. When we can expand the coop, I want to add more. With 4 cats, at the size the birds are now, they are too easy for the cats to catch and can't defend themselves yet. So I am waiting til they are full size to let them and the gunieas free range. They will have access to a grassed in pen in a weeks time.
What breeds of chickens do you girls have? I want to add welsummer next. |
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acairnsmom
True Blue Farmgirl
1319 Posts
audrey
cheyenne
wy
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Posted - Aug 18 2008 : 4:43:10 PM
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Oh I am so jealous!  I want chickens in the worst way but being a city gal they are considered pets and we are limited to 3 pets of any kind. I've only got one dog so could get 2 chickens but then I couldn't get another dog or a cat or...
Enjoy your chicks!
Toto, we're not in Kansas any more! |
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SusieQue
True Blue Farmgirl
603 Posts
Susie
Greenville
Ga
Georgia
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Posted - Aug 18 2008 : 5:15:40 PM
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They are so cute! I was just outside watching ours roam around the yard before they so nite-nite. I remember our "first" egg, I was too excited.
"A mother is someone you never outgrow your need for" |
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shepherdgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1008 Posts
Tracy
California
USA
1008 Posts |
Posted - Aug 18 2008 : 10:58:41 PM
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Oh I LOVE guineas!! I had them years ago, but my husband threatened to shoot them, so I gave them away. They seemed to know EXACTLY which window was in our bedroom because every single morning (without FAIL!) they would all line up (there were seven or eight of them) and make their weird "clicking" sounds. I think that's what my husband hated the most about them. They CAN sound a little eerie at times, but they were the NEATEST birds!!
Be careful having the birds together though. Guineas and chickens CAN cross-breed! We started getting some really WEIRD looking chicks when we had them all together. Only one chick made it to adulthood and come to find out it WAS a Guinea/chicken X. I don't know if it was male or female, but we had it for a year before it went to live with someone else.
It LOOKED like a chicken, but it didn't have any wattles or a comb. It had bright orange legs, green eyes, a barred feather pattern, did NOT cluck like a chicken or make the typical guinea sounds. It scratched in the dirt like a chicken, but, unlike a chicken, it could FLY over our two story house!!! And it was a BIG bird. About the size of a Jersey Giant. I kind of wish I knew what sex it was, though it would most likely have been infertile, whatever it was, since it was a "Hybrid." I do know that the mother was a guinea, the dad a chicken. I wonder what the REVERSE cross would produce? Hmm...... Anyway, Have fun with your birds!
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. ~~ George Carlin |
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Trace
True Blue Farmgirl
247 Posts
Tracey
Canton
New York
USA
247 Posts |
Posted - Aug 19 2008 : 7:17:34 PM
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They now come running to the coop door when they see/hear me. Something tells me they're wondering what tasty treat I may be bring them. I did have to raise their waterer up because they were packing the trough full of shavings. I love how they eat out of my hands already, lol.
Hmm, a guniea + a chicken = a lot of raised eyebrows, lol this should make life around here interesting. |
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iloveprims
True Blue Farmgirl
154 Posts
TRACY
Phillipsburg
NJ
USA
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