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DD still lived with us when she got her first pug. She was only 8 weeks old and was tiny. I worked remotely so babysat while DD was in class or at work, keeping her gated in the office with me. She was still sleeping a lot, so when she started to get tired, I'd pick her up and put her on the desk with a towel folded up for a bed. She'd waddle around my desk a little, help me work (AKA tromp on my keyboard) for a bit, then she'd wander over to her bed, turn around a few times, then plop and go right to sleep. I'd get to see a drowsy little pug baby when she woke up who'd waddle over to get picked up for pets and to give puppy breath kisses, then she'd want down to play with our half malamute, half golden retriever, who was incredibly patient with her.

More often than not, Craig and I would take her to bed with us and play with her while DD finished studying. We were quintessential grand-paw-rents, get her all worked up and excited, then give her to mom.
 
Greetings from the outdoor chicks to the indoor chicks...
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Meet our dumb blond chick. He's scared of everything including his own reflection, flies and anything that moves. He's also incredibly dumb and tries to run through things repeatedly despite the other chicks jumping over the same thing. He's gone head over heels more times that we can count. We're not 100% he's a he, but he's definitely got the label of the dumb blond chick!

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And he is so very cute! Possibly a buff Orpington.

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I think this one is a girl, she's a Brahma chick, not sure on the colouring yet. We're 2 like this and I think the other is a boy.

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The 2 small black chicks are a male and female English cuckoo maran chicks. Sex at this stage is still guesswork but typically girls develop wing and tail feathers faster and sooner than the boys and they crouch and freeze if a threat flies overhead, where as the boys run. So it looks like there is only 1 girl from the first 3 chicks and probably only 2 from the second set of chicks such is my luck!

And as always the easiest to look after, catch and handle are the boys!
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
Greetings from the outdoor chicks to the indoor chicks...
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Meet our dumb blond chick. He's scared of everything including his own reflection, flies and anything that moves. He's also incredibly dumb and tries to run through things repeatedly despite the other chicks jumping over the same thing. He's gone head over heels more times that we can count. We're not 100% he's a he, but he's definitely got the label of the dumb blond chick!

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And he is so very cute! Possibly a buff Orpington.

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I think this one is a girl, she's a Brahma chick, not sure on the colouring yet. We're 2 like this and I think the other is a boy.

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The 2 small black chicks are a male and female English cuckoo maran chicks. Sex at this stage is still guesswork but typically girls develop wing and tail feathers faster and sooner than the boys and they crouch and freeze if a threat flies overhead, where as the boys run. So it looks like there is only 1 girl from the first 3 chicks and probably only 2 from the second set of chicks such is my luck!

And as always the easiest to look after, catch and handle are the boys!
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Do you keep the cockerels?
 
msmofet said:
What’s that?
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Morning Glory said:
A male chicken.
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A male chicken under the age of 1.
After that they become a rooster.

Morning Glory said:
Do you keep the cockerels?
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Sadly it is very difficult to have more than a single male chook of any age in a flock. Most breeders have to keep 2 or 3 hens with 1 rooster locked up during breeding season because they fight to the death over hens and the ratio of pullets to cockerels in eggs is 50:50 and usually close to 40:60 but 1 rooster can service 20 or more hens and pullets.

So we have found a solution that's preferable to outright slaughter which is we keep them until they declare themselves as a cockerel and then they go to the reptile centre where they are euthanased by a vet professionally and stored until fed to large reptiles. It seemed better than just killing them and throwing them away in the rubbish. It is an issue that I do find hard to accept and I'd love to come up with a better solution and if we had the space and could manage a second flock of rooster/cockerels only we would, but they can't see or hear pullets or hens for that to work.
 
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