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I keep taking video of Sprout, and then it is not on the camera when I go to up load it. I will keep trying. I bribe them with cabbage, and even the mama comes for that, uncovering Little Sprout.
For pam, here are some videos of the new Sprout.
I will get more, and Sprout will grow quickly. He is already eating the cabbage I put down for the others.
PS. Ann posted to the last blog entry. I laughed out loud.
Thank you for Sprout videos!
So like if baby chickens are not supposed to eat food this early, what exactly are they supposed to eat? I mean i know chickens have breasts, but i kind of didnt think they had, you know, nipples? (Let me add here if it has anything to do with semi digested food being passed from beak to beak i would maybe rather not know). But that can’t be because then all those incubator chicks wouldn’t have anyone to feed them.
I cannot Google it because my head is far too occupied with the visuals of Ann crawling up the stairs in a drug induced haze, naked except for a couple of chocolate chip pancakes…
Pam, u beat me to the question, of what is the chick suppose to eat. I was visualizing chicken milk, and knew that couldn’t be right. I suppose the mama chews first then, u know, hands it over to baby buddha…
Kathie could have saved the pancakes for the baby buddha. Does Ann still have pancake all over her, or did you have to rinse her off outside hahahahaha…
Uh, exactly how did you get Ann out of the Hospital, to the parking lot, and then to the car, and so forth….
I notice no videos of her eating, crawling up the stairs, sleeping…
Whats up with that….
First of all, there is special food for chicks, kinda like puppy chow, but chickie chow. They are suppose to eat it until they are of laying age, but I am sure there is no way to keep them from eating everything else that is put in there.
I did not think they ate veggies so early.
Now about Ann….I do want to keep this relationship ya know. I actually thought of filming some of it, just to show her what she was really doing, but one of our first rules of life is: Don’t embarrass the other. I think it might be written in blood.
Chicken milk….geesh. lol
Well, first, i think you and Ann ought to sit down and develop a list of “rules for life”. I think it would make an awesome blog, give us all cool things to think about, and no doubt have us rolling on the floor.
Then, after a couple hours of trying very hard to tear my mind away from visions of Ann crawling naked except for a couple of strategically placed chocolate chip pancakes (even MY mind has limits, you know), and finally succeeding, i am intrigued by this chicken food thing.
Oddly, i get why there would be different food. Little chickens do not have fully developed gizzards, which do essentially the same thing in their digestive systems as teeth and oral enzymes might do…if chickens had teeth…so food in a more accessible nutritional form would be great.
But, what i am wondering is this…i have several dogs, and i have to lock them up while they eat to get them to eat out of the right bowls…and you have chickens. Now, chickens, full grown chickens have brains about the size of garbanzo beans,,,and you’re telling them to eat either chickie food or adult food according to their respective ages? Honestly i am more inclined to believe in chicken milk than in their intellectual capability do follow those instructions.
Well, I think the baby eats what it can. The chick chow is finer. The bigger chickens may eat it too, but there is enough smarts in those pea brains of theirs to know they need grit and stuff, so they eat the laying mash. (That is what it is called) Scratch, which is mostly corn, is their favorite, but it is not to be more than ten percent of their diet. They would eat that 100% if you let them. It does not have the nutrients the mash has. My neighbor Maria, who had Poodle Noodle before I did, calls the scratch “chicken candy.” So you only toss that in; if you left a bowl of it they would only eat that. Now that you are completely bored……
We are still laughing over the overdose.
Love the video of the baby chick, he/she is so adorable!!
Pam, you really must put warnings on your posts, drink and read this at your own risk. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Baby Sprout is sooo cute. After reading all the other comments I am going to wash my brain out with soap to get those images out of my mind. TMI! Looks like you finally got the chickens dry…straw looks dry too so either you fixed the coop or it stopped raining?
I am thankful I am not in charge of the baby buddha or the other chickens, because I fear they would be what, on their backs, lying with their legs pointing upwards, being very still….
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After reading pam’s response, I have a slight headache…. TMI at one time to think about. I too have my limits on how much my brain can take in about chickens and chicken food.
My question continues to be the same. When it gets freezing cold, don’t they need heat of some sorts to keep warm. Like a warming light or something. I really don’t want to endure this entire winter coming up, wondering about these chickens, whom I have never met, but fear their freezing to death.
If you can put my mind to ease about this, I promise I will stop visualizing Ann naked, with pancakes all over her
They have an inside house with dry straw. They have feathers and they puff up and cuddle. When I make the new coop, I am going to make a new house too. I am going to put insulation in the walls, and I will make a big part of one side of the house on a hinge, so that in the summer they can have fresh air. Fear not, they will be warm this winter.
Okay, so my question is: Kathie, How can you post responses at 12:58 in the afternoon? Don’t you have a day job (besides raising chickens?)
The time thing must be a tiny bit off, because I would have posted at lunch, which is over at 12:01 or something. But now that you mention it, I am doing two full time jobs with the addition of chicken farming. Dang, no wonder I am tired all the time.
Ok, solved the mystery….I just posted the above and it is just before 6AM, so my blog’s time is a different zone. Maybe the blog does not believe in DST or something.
Kathie, have you picked up baby buddha yet and kissed him or her. That would have been the first thing I would have done. Of course I do have this thing about kissing babies, small chicken and all animals that will not harm me… Otherwise I am pretty much non-affectionate.