chicken feed / wheat)

[Richard Moody]

Ah, I missed the chicken reference in the "living i nowhere" thread.  I am
also a chicken owner.  Well the chickens probably don't think so.  I did buy
them and bring them here.    The "three chickens" turned out to be two
roosters and one hen.
She was laying right away, and before long she was setting.  As near as I
can tell they are black anacuras (sp?)  Anyhow she hatched out 5 of 7 eggs.
On the day of hatching I found two chicks under the hen house, one running
around so fast I had a hard time catching him/her and the other lying so
still I thought it was dead.
But I bought the two up to the house and set the "dead" one on a plate on
the stove over the pilot light.  In about 15 minutes "he" came around and  I
had to set a top over him to keep him from falling off the stove. Then in
another 15 minutes I transferred him fully alive to the other chick on a hot
pad in a cardboard box.  What an amazing recovery.
The next morning both chicks were peeping like crazy and ready to go.  I
took them back, worried I had made an "imprint" on them.  When I set them on
the floor in the henhouse they immediately took off for Mother Hen and dove
under her!. So much for me...Now at two weeks they are all five alive and
healthy.  And that with so many perils, cats, owls, foxes, rats, coons,
martins (or weasels) (vary rarely seen), and I suppose bull snakes. ---ric

----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Trout <btrout@desupernet.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 8:49 AM
Subject: Re: Living i nowhere?? (Ola, re: chicken feed / wheat)


> Hi Ola,
>
> Nice to see there's another chicken owner on the list> Brian Trout
> Quarryville, PA