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13th August 2008, 05:49 PM
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What was once a 'fake' egg...Is now a cute surprise!
 We don't have any actual fake eggs, so when my birds decide they want to lay, I swap the eggs for one chicken egg. Normally it would be a bantam egg, but lately only my bigger laying chickens have had eggs. Didn't bother this mom at all, but I bet she was surprised when this little guy poked his head up! I thought it made a good picture, and you guys would like it We've got our brooder set up so now this little chick has to say bye bye to mommy.
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13th August 2008, 05:50 PM
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LOL...LOL...
 That's the cutest thing I've seen all day!!!
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13th August 2008, 06:02 PM
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Becky, that is HYSTERICAL!! Poor momma pij..she's gonna miss her "baby!"
That would be a good contest picture!! Wishing the little one all the best...keep us updated on this thread! Love and Hugs Shi
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13th August 2008, 06:58 PM
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OMG! I just asked if this could be done not long ago...my foster son wanted to know....more proof that it can....I just hope I can hold him off till spring... he needs to be happy with the two 5 day old pidji babies we have now...I won't show him the pic.....even though it is the cutiest thing i have seen in a long time.
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13th August 2008, 07:19 PM
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Becky that is the cutiest picture I've seen in a long time!
Thank you it made my day!
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13th August 2008, 07:37 PM
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OF COURSE right when the photo contests is over!!!
 That's really cute. That happened to another member (or could have been a story posted by a member, my memory is not what it used to be lol) awhile back. At least she gets to be mommy for a day!
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13th August 2008, 07:43 PM
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Thanks guys
Spirit Wings, yep, it can be done. This is actually the third time I've had a chicken hatched by my young birds. As a matter of fact, this is the second for the mom in the picture. The only thing is it takes chicken eggs a few more days to hatch, but usually the pigeons will sit on them plenty long enough. An incubator and brooder (or at least a box with a heat lamp) are good to have handy just in case the foster parents abandon nest, or in case the egg does hatch and you need a place to put the baby. Today the chick is either 2 or 3 days old. I'm going with 3, since he was fluffy, active, and very vocal yesterday when I first noticed him there. Now he's in a brooder with 5 other chicks I just got today. Took some more pictures of him in his new home.  http://picasaweb.google.com/MaryOfExeter/August13th2008 And since I know someone will ask about the tags on the other chicks, I might as well go ahead and explain (please don't be upset with me?). If it were my choice they wouldn't have tags, but these are actually broiler chicks. My FFA teacher volunteered me and my friend Caroline to basically babysit the chicks until the county fair when we'll have to show them and auction them off I believe. I originally thought I could keep them if I wanted, like Caroline is doing with her market lambs, but turns out I have to let them go  I don't like the idea of what the chicks were bred and raised for, but there's not really anything I can do about it. I just hope I can give them a nice happy, healthy life while they're staying here. Better here than with someone else who may not take care of them properly.Back to my little chick, I'll be keeping you guys updated on him/her. Since most of you have daily pictures of your squeakers, it'd be cool to do the same with a chicken. Their growth isn't as dramatic from day to day but it'd still be neat to do
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13th August 2008, 07:55 PM
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13th August 2008, 08:01 PM
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Awww. What a cute 'pair'
Now that I think about it, I had a pair of pigeons nesting in a nestbox close to the floor once, and somehow they ended up sitting on a chicken egg. I didn't put it there, but I think one of my little hens must have slipped in there when I was looking one day. The egg didn't hatch, but I kept telling my dad it would be cool if it did.
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13th August 2008, 08:29 PM
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that is so cool. could you just image if you let the pigeon raise that chicken.maybe you could raise a homming chicken.what if it actually flew with the rest of the the flock.that would be something to see, all kinds of pigeons and a chicken flying circles around the house.it would be considered a picken or chigeon. i wonder if it's even possible.anyway i'm a little of topic but that is a cute picture.what kind of chicken is it?
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13th August 2008, 08:43 PM
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13th August 2008, 08:52 PM
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yeah your probably right.but it still would be cool if a chicken grew up think it was a pigeon
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13th August 2008, 08:55 PM
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Terri is right. This chick could be kept incubated by the pigeons, and could live in the loft for a while, but the main problem is the nest is much too high off the ground. If the nest was level with the floor, and I had the food and water on the floor where the chick could reach it, it would be okay...but that's not the case. This little guy will be a couple weeks before it can flutter around. It's mixed, but it hatched from a big brown egg, so it's mom was one of my black Sex-Link hens. The dad was probably Reggie, our RIR rooster. If not then it's dad was a little bantam. It's such a pretty color right now, I can't wait to see what color it's adult feathers will be
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13th August 2008, 09:03 PM
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bantam chickens can fly pretty, well can't they?
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13th August 2008, 09:10 PM
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Usually, yes. I had a golden seabright (I think he may have been mixed, but you couldn't tell other than his color was a bit more yellow than normal) rooster that when we first got him, he was VERY skittish. I ran around the corner one day on my way to the loft, scared the jeebus out of him, and he flew up above our tallest pine trees (which are very tall by the way)
 He seemed to fly just as easy as my pigeons. There's a good side and a bad side to having bantams versus larger chickens. The good thing is they can fly away from predators more easily, and are quicker in general. The bad thing is if you don't have their wings clipped and in a pen, they may decide to roost in the trees, and it's hard to break them from that Then there's a chance an owl will get them I have noticed that they usually only roost in trees if they are too scared to go back in the hen house, so if you make sure nothing gets in there, they should go back in ~My 2 cents on chicken keeping, lol.
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