introducing even more pet chickens

meet the newest group of pet chickens of mine, only or a week or so old at the moment.

they are a very rare japanese breed called cochins,and they are all blue or part blue [their mum and dad were both pure blues].

they will grow up with a huge pair of feathery trousers on them,they were born with feathery legs! they are a very cute breed.

they are very inteligent and are ahead of the first group of chicks had incubated in various stuff.

unfortunately due to humidity problems in the incubator it had caused a problem in all the eggs called shrink wrapping,this is when the jelly like membrane wraps tightly on the chick and stops it from being able to move to peck its way out naturaly.

so even though other people were saying if they are healthy they will peck their way out,had known something wasnt right and checked it out.

looked up videos and how tos on assisting a hatch,and got straight to it.

had to carefuly deshell the entire egg in tiny bits without ripping any blood vessel,then peel off the outer papery style membrane again without ripping any blood vessel,then very very carefuly slide the jelly like membrane over the chicks head and down which was then disconnected by cutting the placenta.

...had to do this with six eggs no less.

this was an egg done at almost half way there,if look carefuly in the slit in the middle of the egg,its the chicks beak poking through,poor chick was unable to move anything else.

many chick owners will not assist a hatch as there is the belief that if chicks dont make their own way out there is something wrong with them, however shrink wrapping is not a health problem it is a human error that can be fixed by assisting a hatch.

just incase anything was wrong with the chickies,had read on how to safely and very humanely PTS chicks with carbon dioxide-anyone who assists a hatch has to prepare for that in case there is something so severely wrong.

have known many people PTS chicks for deformities which are fine to live with though,one of the maran cockrels of mine;lorna has a deformed toe and he is a bit mental both possibly due to inbreeding,he has a great life and niether of those things affect him negatively.

enough text,heres some more photos of the current chickies;

this is jimbo,taken today,this photo does not do his furry trousers justice but he was only in the mood for a cuddle tonight.

he is named after the old cartoon jimbo the jetset btw,because he is really bad at flying like jimbo in the credits of the cartoon.

 

 jimbo likes to spend time arm surfing whilst mum is on laptop surfing the net.

one of the other cuties,still havent named them yet.

jimbo and another chickie posing some days ago.

hows this for a pose?

bromance! nothing like keeping it in the family.

jimbo face planting the crotch of their favourite snuggly teddybear,for some reason its always the crotch they faceplant.

clashing with a silly old codger in a sainsburys carpark

sorry if anyone actualy reads this blog and gets something out of it,other than the realization there is other bored as fuck autists on the internet.
havent posted on here in ages due to a lovely uncle of mine who gave a money gift when he came to sisters wedding,bought a yearly deviant art subscription with it,and got into a routine of using the journal there.

was at sainsburys today getting a starbucks as have not been able to afford one in ages,such is life as a disabled person.
was with two support staff in the car of one of theirs;its a lovely convertible car,love the sensory input from driving around in it so am usualy trying to persuade him to use his car instead of mine which doesnt have air con so gets very hot.

the blue badge of mine ran out this week and no one had noticed till the day before,so it was in the office at home being renewed by other staff.
due to routine and disabilities,disability parking bays are always required so we were parked in the usual spot but support staffers were going to say the new one was being renewed at home so we didnt have it; car parking attendants have always gave us allowed it before as staff have the organisation and residential home ID visible on them.

anyway,picture this if are the type who can mentaly picture stuff without having seen it- am sat in the back seat as normal [both due to risk assessment and routine],am wearing the same old padded helmet plus clearly obvious ear defenders due to noises; plus am visualy and behavioraly obvious that something isnt of the normie variety.-using makaton,constantly rocking and biting flesh with big old bloody self harm scabs on arm says something aint fuckin right.

and there is a female staff sat in passenger seat;she is younger than self but in twenties somewhere, and the other staff who is driving looks,sounds and paints like rolf harris so is probably around the same age.

anyway,both of the staff arent even finished yapping on about what flavour frappachino they are both getting-and they also had to decide which one of them was going in.
during that time,this old codger comes up to the front of the car strutting like some bad ass and shouts  'do yeh know yeh supposed to be disabled to park here' ,both staff were pissed off at the fact he had the cheek to assume there is a age and look to being disabled,and the male staff says to him 'yes we know actualy,we have a disabled service user in the back,her badge is being renewed as it is out of date'.

so this old codger stands there looking at us right in front of our car muttering away to himself,then sits down opposite us at a table outside the starbucks bit of sainsburys building.
he looks at us whilst telling his wife how we are wrongly parked in a space for disabled people [yeah...some of us can fucking hear,idiot],then she takes it upon her codgery old self to stare at us.

a PEC [AKA a laminated picture for communicating with] of mine,this one in fact:

is made with a photo of the actual blue badge of mine,the female staff was waving it at him but it didnt make a bit of difference.

was totaly surprised he didnt report us to sainsburys car park staff,like some have done before-when we actualy had a valid blue badge on show but we were all young so obviously cant be in need of a blue badge let a lone disabled.

am fed up of this attitude from old people who think the only disabilities are ones which can be helped via the use of a mobility aid,a hearing aid or a white cane/guide dog etc,plus it can never be young people,only old.

coming from a different age when there wasnt much information is no excuse to be ignorant and agressive to other people today; we are not frozen in time,there is no reason why they will not be around the same modern information we all are,they give other old people-who know their shit a bad name.
it is just an excuse to fucking whinge and hold grudges with other serial complainers whilst in the que for their pension.

after grabbing our starbucks,we went to a new doctors clinic for a transition visit,am having a few transition visits before an appointment.

then we got back,and saw to the young outdoor chickens of mine,cleaned out their coop and gave them fresh bed,then cleaned out hennys coop and gave her a super comfy bed as she doesnt have other chickies to snuggle up to.
gave them all pieces of melon which they loved,and left them out to free roam.

from cheshire or manchester-or available to get to those areas quite easily once a month?

want us to get more outsiders.
if are wondering WTF am on about,am on about the communication club which is run by the organisation and speech therapist am supported under.
for more details,go to the site itself about it;
 http://fairfieldresidential.co.uk/index.php?pageId=67

its for kids,teens and adults by the way,but the criteria says the person has to be diagnosed with an ASD,or be a parent/carer of someone with a diagnosed ASD.


well worth a try for people all over the spectrum.

project chick chick is launched

we got the eggs this evening.
some are marans and some are light sussex ,they are both rare breeds here.
got them from the owners of one of the dogs that used to walk,in return for wheeling the wheelbarrow home for him,very thankful for them.

heres a few pics of the eggs now in their incubator and the house-

birds!

this week at our residential home,a beautiful little baby pigeon had fell out of a high tree in its nest and landed in the garden,fortunately it was unharmed.

photos of the bird in cancer alley [staffs smoking pit]-

the poor bird had actualy wobbled its way up steps or the ramp to the front door and was keeping out of the rain there,being a fan of all things animal including pigeons had begged staff to phone the RSPCA-who turned out to be fucking shite,no offence to people in the organisation who do care but the one on the phone said to let nature take its course [ie,let the bird suffer at the paws of our cat and fox inhabited garden].

had always known the RSPCA to be shite when it comes to call outs,so this wasnt anything special but to be told because its a pigeon its life is worthless-what sort of animal welfare group are they?

next,had got staff to phone dad because he is a bird geek/whatever the name for them is called and he has looked after many a injured wild bird or racing pigeon, he wanted to take the baby in but said he didnt have any suitable feed.

next had found out about a small charity rescue that deals with wildlife such as pigeons,south manchester wildlife rescue- http://www.smwildliferescue.co.uk
they turned out to be the most helpful rescue have ever come across,not only with advice but also with willing to take the little pidgy in right away.
we arent in manchester so it was quite far but was determined to get pidgy looked after.

however,we spotted pidgys mum hanging around and staff spoke to the rescue for advice.
when it got dark,had gone out and lifted pidgy and put him/her on the fence near to where the nest fell,she just sat in hands and didnt want to get off,wanted to take her in and pet her!
the next day pidgy was no where to be seen but we heard pigeon chirping including baby chirping so hopefuly they are ok and no animals have got to them.

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and yet another birdy tale,am about to start chick incubation probably from next week and will be having them in bedroom until they are old and big enough to go outside. we got the cage/hutch thingymajig today-it is a good strong cage like a heavy duty flight case, and have had the incubation stuff for a while,here are photos of it.

getting fresh coat of paint put on in room this weekend [same colours as usual] so we cant get the eggs till its all done.