Re: Re:Cats and Chicks..

ohmigosh woman - THAT was  close call.   poor little babies must have been
scared silly!

On 9/14/07, Jesse Bell <silverhawk@flash.net> wrote:
>
> Yep.  Amazing.
>
>
> Kitty <kmrsy@comcast.net> wrote:
> And there were still ten?
>
> Kitty
> neIN, Zone 5
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jesse Bell"
> To:
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 9:30 AM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Re:Cats and Chicks..
>
>
> > Really? Yes, I'd be interested in seeing the magazine or online catalog
> > for your chicken brooder. Last night we went and bought a galvanized
> > steel water trough (small and lower to the ground - small sheep or goat
> > size) and transferred the chicks into that. I have 10 of them now and
> the
> > box was just too small. I let my guard down for 5 minutes while I went
> > outside to dump the old shavings into the compost pile and when I came
> > BACK, RAJA was sitting INSIDE the trough, with the chicks, staring at
> > them. Poor little chicks were all huddled at one end, scared to DEATH. I
> > yelled "RAJA!!!! - NOT YOURS!!! AGHHHHHHHH" and went after her...she
> > scampered out of there and I didn't see her for the rest of the night. I
> > was so lucky. Can't believe I forgot to close the laundry room door
> > behind me.
> >
> >
> > Daryl
> wrote:
> > My chick brooder has a screen top on one end, and wood with some small
> > plexi
> > windows on the end with the heat lamp. Diesel loved to spend the day
> > watching the chicks and enjoying the extra warmth.
> >
> > I was glad the chicks got big enough for Diesel to leave them alone. He
> > was
> > good when I was out there with him, but considering the lust in his
> eyes,
> > and what he did to a wren that got onto the screened porch, I think that
> > he
> > would have made lunch out of them given the chance. It was a very
> > well-traveled wren before he dropped it in the dining room and I was
> able
> > to
> > get it out from underneath the furniture. Don't want to do that again!
> >
> > BTW - the plans for my brooder came from Countryside and Small Stock
> > Journal
> > and it can double as a cheese dryer, if you're interested. I can raise
> > half
> > a dozen chicks to 6 weeks w/ no problem.
> >
> > d
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jesse Bell"
> > To:
> > Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 9:39 AM
> > Subject: [CHAT] Re:Cats and Chicks..
> >
> >
> >> Raja has been sitting by my newly hatched chicks every day that I've
> had
> >> them in the house. They are safe, in a big plastic storage box with a
> lid
> >> that has holes cut in it. I have a heat lamp in there - BUT - you can
> >> sort of see the chicks walking around inside the box because of the
> light
> >> shining on it, and Raja sits there, with HUGE eyes, and stares at the
> >> box.
> >> I take the lid off to change the food, water and wood shavings, and to
> >> play with the little cuties..and Raja sneaks her head over the edge and
> >> looks at them, then looks at me like "can I have 'em?" and I say, "NO
> >> Raja - not yours" and she sits back down, looking very put out. But she
> >> knows when I say "not yours" that she has to leave them alone. But she
> >> really, really wants them. I love those silly chicks. Because I've had
> >> them since day 1 or 2 and handle them all the time, they just sit in my
> >> hand and fall asleep. We had a new one hatch yesterday and I left it
> >> under the mother for the first day. They do
> >> better that way. I think I'll have 2-3 more before it's all over. It is
> >> so amazing to watch this whole process. Very cool.
> >
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> > Jesse R. Bell
> >
> > "All that we are is a result of what we have thought." - Buddha
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX
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