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10th July 2008, 12:13 AM
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I swear, Phil, you are something else with those birdies! I'm sure all will do QUITE well...as long as they can SEE you!! ROFL Oh, for a video!!  Wishing you and your little ones (and NOT so little ones!) LOVE, HUGS and SCRITCHES!! Shi 
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10th July 2008, 01:33 PM
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I should figure out a name for her at some point..!
She had hardly eaten a thing for the first two days...a few half hearted pecks here and there when among the ferals, and a few in here... This morning, she is ravenous, and is pecking up a storm... No more of the loud plaintive, questioning 'Peeping' thank goodness... Just little melodic 'narrations' and soft 'police whistle' sounds when she is thinking or grazing or resting. She is laying down at the moment, singing very soft little 'flute' songs which are short, then begin anew, seem to have about four notes used variously, and end on an upward inflection. On no..! I just realized I have been making this thread into my own personal 'Chicken Diary'... Lol... Phil l v
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10th July 2008, 09:06 PM
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No problem for me, Phil....I am very interested in how your little chicken is adjusting!
Maybe you could name her "Mariah" - after the singer...  Her reactions with the pigeons and Buttercup are interesting too. She may end up thinking she is a PIGEON!  She might just think they speak a foreign language.  Love, Hugs and Scritches Shi
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10th July 2008, 10:22 PM
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The thing I regret the most with my first chicken, Matilda, is that I left her companions in the feed store. If I could do it all over again, I would have bought them to keep her company. At the time, I had Muscovites and the pigeons but it just wasn't quite the same and I'm sure she was lonely. It makes me sad thinking about it after all these years.
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10th July 2008, 11:03 PM
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well iv'e already posted about my chicky's so heres a picture of patchy and big red laying down in the dirt
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11th July 2008, 02:36 AM
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Hi Shi, Lol... She knows she is a Chicken, and Heir to all that is...so, no danger of her thinkking anything other than that, she is "Gallus Gallus" 100 percent, and, impeccably too. She is getting along wonderfull with everyone else, and, they with her. The ferals accept her as "One of us...One of Us...Oooogah-Booogah...One of Us..." ( Sorry, Lol...bad Tod Browning reference, probably, because the gal at the Wedding Feast did the 'Chicken dance' ) Seriously though, the ferals are used to her now, and, she is comfortable with them too, pecking shoulder to shoulder, and everyone cool with the scene...and she is 'quiet' now and not 'Peeping' loudly in insecurity. Same deal in here, the free fly and free rove ones accept her just fine, and vice versa. One 'Playboy' was doing the big flirt Dance and so on to her...and, another older handicapped male who has a mate, ran over and bit her for no reason and she 'squealed' and I scolded him. She is a heck of a flier, and is progressing each day in her skills and feats. Now, she can fly straight "up" from the floor, to my palm held at elbow height. Wow..! I was not expecting THAT... Such little Wings too..! Phil l v
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11th July 2008, 02:42 AM
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Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...yeahhhh... It is such a FULL house here though, I have been half kicking myself for even getting her. I am glad I did...she is a joy in every way. But I need to be REVERSING the 'tide' on how many Birds are here... Not adding to it..! Oye... But yeahhhh...who knows where all those other little Chicken-Peepers shall go, or end up. I dunno...I wish I had a Farm...or something close anyway... Phil l v
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11th July 2008, 02:44 AM
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Good Gracious! Thay are HUGE!!! Mine is about the size of a well fed adult Mourning Dove ( but with much 'heavier' Legs of course...) This will change...I know... Phil l v
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11th July 2008, 07:33 AM
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11th July 2008, 07:58 AM
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12th July 2008, 06:06 PM
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One of my hens crowed!!!!I couldn't believe my ears when I heard her
I was working on the new loft, which is located by the chickens, and I decided to put the bullies from the WI. 24 out in their new flight. Well the rooster was very interested in them since they will be nieghbors and thats when Peep, the hen Buff Orpington, crowed twice!I heard of this happening before in other flocks but I have never had a hen do that. has anyone else had a hen crow???? 
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12th July 2008, 06:37 PM
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14th July 2008, 01:41 AM
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Well, to-day she became a 'Hunter'...
I do not have many Roaches here anymore, but, there are a few...usually placid and plump and wafting their long antennas and just dreamily grazing on the odd Seed or crumb. Anyway, little Chicken Hen got one, and went at it like old hat. Just now, she very assertively went after another, but, he got away. The first one, she nailed, and was tearing off the Legs... the Roach was about 1-1/2 inches lond, half inch wide and 'plump', and, I got distracted for a moment, and when I turned back to see how she was doing with it, she was just wiping off her Beak...so...I guess she ate it..! I tried to feel it in her Crop but I was not certain I could... Anyway, she is in 'Hunting' mode now, staulking and keenly looking here and there for the next one. Otherwise, her time with the ferals went nicely today, shoulder-to-shoulder with them, pecking at Seeds and the odd Grit. She went under the other desk in here and a Pigeon who has a Nest there tore after her and she shot out like-a-light and all was well then, the Pigeon did not pursue her, and, she learned an important thing to bear in mind when 'Hunting' ( ie: one best know who's property you are on, and whether they care! ) Doing the just before dusk feral foray, I have noticed, that the moment the Sun is actually below the Horizon, she walks over to where I sit, flys up to the table, and comes onto my lap or onto my shoulder, and nestles...as if to say "Well, that's it for the day..." The quality of Light seems no different far as anything I would ever notice, but, she knows the 'difference', or she tracks with it to know 'when', and that is her 'cue' I recon... Pretty sharp little 'Jungle Bird' indeed... I realized, that her Species, since they traditionally Roost in Trees, I suspect, they transition to do so, "just" after the Sun is below the Horizon...and that is why her timing has every day been the same with this. But, being inside of course, the Lights on, the other Birds being active, she is active also...till "lights out" when she has her spot for sleep ( and I set here there for the 'cue' for that, ) and we all hit the hay. Phil l v Last edited by pdpbison; 14th July 2008 at 01:46 AM.
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