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Archives / August 2015
August 26, 2015
by Peter Gray

Happy pullets on a tree branch

I don’t have much to add here. This was the scene in the morning, soon after the five youngsters came out of the coop.

Category: Baby Chicks
August 25, 2015
by Peter Gray

Integrating new pullets into the flock

Despite our best efforts, we seem to lose one to two chickens per year to illness or predators, so we’ve been on a schedule of about three baby chicks every second year, and this year we got the five chicks described in previous posts, after an unusually high loss rate in spring and early summer….

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Category: Baby Chicks, Housing, Training
August 17, 2015
by Naomi Gray

Missing Chicken

One of our sweet Ameraucana hens, Kumo, was missing from the coop for a couple of days. Peter and I realized that something was wrong. We searched all over our property, under the trees, in the bushes, etc. Peter finally found clusters of her feathers in the front yard. We realized that she was killed…

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Category: Hazzards
August 14, 2015
by Naomi Gray

Pippi with the Baby Chicks

A few days passed since Pippi came to our place. For the first couple of days, she was staying away from the rest of the flock. She was mainly following me around in the backyard, and to the studio because she was lonely. Today, I saw her on the bench with other baby chicks. Seems…

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Category: Baby Chicks, Social Life
August 11, 2015
by Naomi Gray

Visitor Chick

Our friends Toni and Jessica brought their young chicken Pippi to our house today. Since they would be out of town for a couple of weeks, they needed a pet hotel while they are gone. This chick had never been with other chickens before since her siblings were killed by a predator when they were…

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Category: Social Life
August 3, 2015
by Peter Gray

Nap Chicken

Yesterday we had a chance to hang out with all the chickens for quite a while, observing their individual and social behavior. The five little ones have adapted to free ranging in the yard amazingly quickly and well. They still need to dodge and avoid several hens near the bottom of the existing order, mainly…

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Category: Lap Chickens
August 3, 2015
by Peter Gray

Leo gets a pedicure

This morning after breakfast, Naomi gave Leo a pedicure. Leo has had some foot problems that we’ve tried to alleviate by several means. His style of jumping off things (benches, the deck, stumps, our laps) with a big bouncing leap seems to make him susceptible to little cuts or punctures when he lands on something sharp….

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Category: Baby Chicks, Medical, Training

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