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lm  ·  2527 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: May 24, 2017

Our chicks are 6 weeks old tomorrow. Here's them when we first got them:

4 weeks old, discovering the yard for the first time:

Pig (left) is very good at digging:

Sittin':

Everything else in life is kind of blah right now but I like these lil' guys. They've discovered that they can fly high enough to clear the cage walls (~2.5 feet high), so I guess I need to build a lid for their cage now...





mk  ·  2527 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hey, our chicks are almost the same age. Unfortunately our terrible neighbors have objected to us keeping five, so we can only keep two, for which we don't need their permission.

Do you have a coop? I am about 80% done building ours.

snoodog  ·  2527 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If you can only have 2 chickens you should get bees like we have to make up the difference:)

lm  ·  2527 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Nice! Sorry to hear about the neighbors; who wouldn't want neighbors with chickens? We've got six so without a doubt we will be swimming in eggs here in a couple months...

I am going to build a coop this summer out in one of the field areas near our house. It probably won't be anything fancy since fingers crossed we'll be leaving here in 2-3 years. Do you plan to let yours run around in your yard or are you building a run as well?

mk  ·  2527 days ago  ·  link  ·  

We are going to have a small run, but also a larger yard for them. With just two chickens, they are going to have a lot of coop space.

I'll post some pics, likely next pubski.

lm  ·  2527 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Awesome! I am also planning to build a run since nothing in my yard is particularly well fenced in and I don't want them wandering when we're out.

user-inactivated  ·  2527 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Sorry to hear about the neighbors; who wouldn't want neighbors with chickens?

I've been told that certain breeds of chickens love field mice. If one of my neighbors wanted to keep a few chickens that loved field mice, I'd be all for it. Like centipedes and spiders in the basement, it can't hurt, right?

lm  ·  2527 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ours are omnivores, both in the biological sense and in the sense that they will try to eat just about anything. For whatever reason they get really excited about dead leaves?

user-inactivated  ·  2527 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I heard about that. There's supposedly a patch coming in Junglefowl 52.37-12.183 update. The programmer loosefeathers found that the previous update affected all of the models running the G. g. domesticus distro. Apparently it was some kind of memory stack error that didn't manifest itself until after 1,200+ hours of uninterrupted runtime.