Re: Baby chics update...

I'll try to get some updated pics this weekend and find a way to post them.  Today is the second day for ALL of them to be outside.  I left the guineas outside (in the chicken coop) for the first time all night (last night) and they seemed fine this morning - so that's good.  Won't be long before they are all outside.  
  

Andrea Hodges <andreah@hargray.com> wrote:
  Thank goodness they were OK. I know that scared you. I bet they are so cute! 
We need pictures if you get a chance to get some.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jesse Bell" 
To: 
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 9:33 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Baby chics update...


> OHMYGOSH...I picked the WORST day to put her outside for her "first day". 
> I feel like a horrible mother. After I pried her away from my neck and 
> put her down to play with the others..she finally ran off and started 
> pulling at Burmuda grass and chasing bugs and I went to work. When I got 
> home it was DOWNPOURING rain, thunder and lightening everywhere. The 
> guineas were fine (I'm sorry, they are just stupid birds, but I get them 
> because they are great bug eaters - and my last group left our farm for 
> the neighbors farm because all of our females had been killed by owls or 
> hawks or coyotes or WHATEVER). Anyway, the baby guineas are running all 
> helter skelter in the chicken coop, but I didn't see the two baby chics. 
> My heart just sank. Just then, I lifted then inside, drop-down hatch that 
> lets them go into the enclosed area, and there they were...the black and 
> yellow babies. They were soaking wet and shivering all over. I scooped 
> them into my shirt to keep them warm,
> chased stupid guineas all over the coop trying to catch them. Ughhh. 
> When I got them inside under the heating lamp, my sweet little yellow one 
> was just laying there, shivering. I dried her off and put her under the 
> heat lamp for awhile. Then I came in an hour later and picked her up and 
> sat with her for almost 2 hours, making sure her body temp was warm 
> enough. She's FINE now...but what a horrible first day. I didn't have 
> the heart to take her outside today. The temps dropped because of the 
> rain. I think I'll wait a day or two. I am totally out of my head crazy 
> about that chicken. Something is wrong with me.
>
>
>
> Andrea Hodges wrote:
> So did she ever get down and wander around or did she stay under your 
> hair?
> A
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jesse Bell"
> To:
> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 5:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Baby chics update...
>
>
>> But ya gotta know...she is SO sweet. When Neal and his girlfriend were
>> here, they could not get over how sweet she is. She sits with you and
>> watches TV. I have a picture of them holding her while they were watching
>> the Saints play football last week. The other chics will "tolerate" us
>> holding them, but she actually WANTS to be held. When I open up their
>> container in the morning to change out the water she jumps up on me or on
>> the edge and runs over to me. When she hears my voice somewhere in the
>> house, she chirps for me until I come in there to see her. It's adorable.
>> Cool Chicken reincarnated.
>>
>>
>> Pam Evans wrote:
>> you are so cute w/ your little chicks dear. too funny.
>>
>> On 10/2/07, Jesse Bell wrote:
>>>
>>> Goose has a man in her life now so no time for humans anymore. She does
>>> come up to the house to eat and honks at us every now and then, but he 
>>> is
>>> really possessive of her and always puts himself between his woman and
>>> the
>>> humanoids. He doesn't hiss, but you can tell he does NOT want you near
>>> her. He stretches his neck wayyyyy out there and starts honking at you.
>>> He
>>> always lets her eat first and is very protective. I think she had eggs
>>> this
>>> year but the darn raccoons got them I'm sure. Next year I'll have to 
>>> find
>>> her nest and move her so that doesn't happen - but it's hard to do when
>>> she
>>> stays out by the ponds. Too many places to hide them.
>>>
>>>
>>> Zemuly Sanders wrote:
>>> Well, Jesse, it sounds like you have another pet. How's Lady Chatterly?
>>> zem
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Jesse Bell"
>>> To: "Gardenchat"
>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 10:18 AM
>>> Subject: [CHAT] Baby chics update...
>>>
>>>
>>> > I've been taking the guineas outside to the hen house during the day
>>> > for
>>> > the last 2 weeks because they mature and get big so FAST. Then, I took
>>> > the first born chic outside with them about a week ago. I bring them 
>>> > in
>>> > at night because they are still young. My favorite one is getting big,
>>> so
>>> > I took yellow baby out today for the first time. I almost cried. It 
>>> > was
>>> > like taking your kid to kindergarten on the first day. She was freaked
>>> > out when I put her in the carrier to take her outside. When I released
>>> > them, they all came screaming out and running for the border - except
>>> her.
>>> > She wouldn't come out. I reached in to take her out and she wouldn't
>>> > get
>>> > off my hand. She ran up my arm and hid under my hair. So I had to sit
>>> > out there with her for awhile and convince her that this was a good
>>> thing.
>>> > She was not convinced. I didn't want to leave her. *sniff*
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Jesse R. Bell
>>> >
>>> > "All that we are is a result of what we have thought." - Buddha
>>> >
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>>
>> -- 
>> Pam Evans
>> Kemp TX
>> zone 8A
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