Esther and
Winnie Fluff to feathers The Archive
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Golden Laced Wyandotte and Easter Egg Chicken as they grow from chick to Hen
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| 10/06/2007 10:53
pm DoctorGoose |
You can always send Winnie over here to keep my Wyandottes
company. :-D
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| #352 10/06/2007 11:17 pm barg |
but... Winnie isn't the one having a problem. Thank you for the genreouse offer though. And besides, Id'e have to ask nez, and she isnt like to say yes. She can be such a "priss" <- ( insert a more appropriate word at you own discression )sometimes Thanks for the responce, I see my firm hand got through to someone Last edited by barg (10/06/2007 11:18 pm) |
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| 10/07/2007 2:13 pm Smoky73 |
I am confused. I thought you had Ester, Winnie and Hazel seperated now
in their own little group away from the others? And nowe Ester is afraid
of Hazel and Winnie? I guess either I missed something or I am not following..... |
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| 10/07/2007 2:33 pm barg |
What your missing is my lack of time, I was hopeing to segregate them
this weekend, their coop is not set up to segregate them the way I have
it now.
I was going to pull the two parts apart, take out the temporary middle section thats there and build a temporary coop house for the tractor. Time is not on my side. At this point I have resigned myself to follow silkiechickens advice
and just let them work it out. I'm torn as to what is the best way to deal with this, but since I don't have time for construction, the choice has been made for me. Breaking it down, I can keep an eye on them all day, but you can't go out and build anything when your home alone with a 15 month old baby. I will say that Esther has been coming out today, at least more then yesterday. but I think she is disrupting the older chickens egg laying because she hides in the nest box alot of the time. Last edited by barg (10/07/2007 2:34 pm) |
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| 10/07/2007 2:50
pm joebwe25 |
barg, please tell me the story beginning to end. It's hard to follow and lots of things were happening. It doesn't have to be long, just informative. THANKS! Last edited by joebwe25 (10/07/2007 2:50 pm)
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| 10/07/2007 3:00
pm barg |
I have been trying to integrate my younger chickens with my older chickens
since they were about 7 weeks, I can't sum up everything that I have tried
in a short blurb, but I can say that Iv'e tried alot of different approaches.
I probably should have waited until they were older to start the actual
integration because of the type of set up I have. At this point one of the younger ones is finally starting to be ok with the older flock, but at the same time that is happening, the other younger one is getting more and more afraid of the older ones and has retreated from the run into the coop house. She has been hideing in the coop house for the last few days, ocassionally one of the older ones goes in there to lay an egg and chases her out. They are 17 weeks old today, the older ones are 8 weeks older then the younger ones. Thats the short version, for the longer one you may need a speed reading coarse lol I'll have pics for the week in a few. |
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| 10/07/2007 3:07 pm joebwe25 |
So tell me about Esther, Winnie and Hazel. What are their ages? How are thy getting along? Stuff like that. Last edited by joebwe25 (10/07/2007 3:08 pm)
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| 10/07/2007 3:45
pm barg |
As stated above 17, 17 and 25 weeks. Thanks for the input Last edited by barg (10/07/2007 4:07 pm) |
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| 10/07/2007 3:58 pm barg |
17 and 25 weeks old today Winnie hanging out. Checks on Esther "You ok?" "Dood, come on outside" "C'mon you can do it" Domineak goes in to lay "And stay Out!"
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| #360 10/07/2007
4:14 pm joebwe25 |
That's so funny!!! Last edited by joebwe25 (10/07/2007 4:14 pm)
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