http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/housechickens/ People with house chickens Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:29:54 GMT leahbrownpops http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/housechickens/message/71565 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/housechickens/message/71565 Hello Everyone! Here is a FRESH selection of stuff members can collect for nothing There is lots to grab in this new Giveaway Mix! Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:02:38 GMT suze85284 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/housechickens/message/71564 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/housechickens/message/71564 Indeed! Hey Annette, how are you? Are you still in NY or have you moved to NM yet? Suze Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:49:39 GMT agalvano1 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/housechickens/message/71563 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/housechickens/message/71563 lord! we been spammed! They have been chastised A Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:48:30 GMT agalvano1 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/housechickens/message/71562 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/housechickens/message/71562 lord! we been spammed! They have been chastised A Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:02:31 GMT Frederick Wilson http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/housechickens/message/71559 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/housechickens/message/71559 True, but not easily and that deformity doesn't appear to be anglelwing ... From: Alan To: housechickens@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 8:59 PM Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:14:18 GMT Dana McDonald http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/housechickens/message/71556 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/housechickens/message/71556 A lot of the mutations aren't as hardy as the regular ones. That said, I had a female lutino who's lutino father lived to be nearly 30. She only made it to 15 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:23:56 GMT Diane Martin http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/housechickens/message/71555 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/housechickens/message/71555 I had a cockatiel once his name yeah his name was pearl. He got that name because he used to peck the pearl in my mothers ring when she held him. He lived to Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:47:01 GMT Dana McDonald http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/housechickens/message/71554 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/housechickens/message/71554 Yeah, I've only got a few that go broody on me, mostly my Maran hens, and only one who is really vicious about defending her nest. Most of them will take Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:35:12 GMT Dana McDonald http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/housechickens/message/71553 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/housechickens/message/71553 Hi Linda, Yours is a senior cockatiel indeed! You have done an amazing job keeping him healthy all these years. It could very well be he is getting old. He Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:21:36 GMT mybest2dogs http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/housechickens/message/71552 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/housechickens/message/71552 I know this is off topic and I apologize ahead of time but I have a cockatiel that is almost 26 years old. I've never had a bird that lived to old old age and Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:06:18 GMT Diane Martin http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/housechickens/message/71551 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/housechickens/message/71551 Thanks Dana I will cut the bread back. As of now im still filling the feeder once every third day. I have the 22lb. feeder I put a tarp under the hanging Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:46:10 GMT Dana McDonald http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/housechickens/message/71549 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/housechickens/message/71549 Hi Diane, I'd scale back on the bread. Not much nutritional value there at all, plus, if they are laying heavily, it will cut down the amount of layer feed Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:41:19 GMT Diane Martin http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/housechickens/message/71548 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/housechickens/message/71548 My hens are laying anywhere from 2 eggs a day to 22 eggs  a day. I do sell them at work. I have the people save me the egg cartons so I don't have to buy new Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:57:15 GMT Alan http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/housechickens/message/71547 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/housechickens/message/71547 Some will live 6 or more years. A fair fraction only make it to 3 years. Lucky Ducky hatched in the spring of 2007 so she is 12 now. Alan Diane Martin wrote: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:46:22 GMT Dana McDonald http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/housechickens/message/71546 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/housechickens/message/71546 Hi Diane, I started my first year with 10 chicks. One was a roo. That was 9 years ago, and I just lost that last of those girls last year. I periodically get a