RE: Baby chics update...

Yeh..we know.  Robert picked one up by the horns one day and flung it away from his youngest daughter because he was charging her.  Natalie just froze (doesn't have real fast reflexes) and he saw it coming and just picked him up, and flung him.  No more rams after that.  We released our buck deer that we rescued too, for the same reason.  Rutting season was getting pretty intense.  Even our male llamas can be pretty agressive if a female is in there with them.  We have three stud llamas and have to keep them FAR away from the females, and from each other.
   
  

Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT <cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil> wrote:
  When you raise sheep, you do not make pets of the ram lambs even though
they are the friendliest when young. They lose all fear of you and when
their instincts as rams kick in they have no hesitation in attacking you
in defense of their territory and mates. Works the same way with
roosters (most livestock, for that matter) although roosters are a lot
less dangerous.

Cyndi


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf Of Daryl
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 7:43 AM
To: gardenchat
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Baby chics update...

Are your chicks all the same kind? I've found a lot of variation in
behavior from one breed to another, but not so much in attitude. One of
our
friendliest chicks turned out to be our meanest rooster. Oscar used to
ride
on Bill's shoulder when he was doing chores. He later would attack and
flail
away at us for no apparent reason.

Re the drought: The lake that serves as the reservoir for our part of
the
state (and provides water downstream for navigation, water for other
cities
and preservation of several endangered species) is losing a foot of
water
per day. It's almost as low as it was when they were first filling it
after
building the dam.

d

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jesse Bell" 
To: 
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 10:12 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Baby chics update...


> Well, I have three hens and a rooster, and five babies - and I'm not
sure
> if they will be chickens or roosters!!! I don't know how to sex them
when
> they are this young. But I will tell you that I'm pretty sure two of
them
> are hens because of the way they scratch around. And the youngest
(and
> tiniest of all) is a rooster I think. He chases the guineas (that are
4
> or 5 times his size) and other chics around like he's boss hog. He
> reminds me of that little chicken hawk up against Foghorn Leghorn. He
> just has no fear and does NOT want to be handled, thank you very much.
>
> Wow..your drought situation sounds pretty bad Daryl. I'll try to send
> some rain your way!!

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