Posts by d.k

Well, this hen definitely has a strong broody streak in her,  I can vouch for that.... Doesn't matter to her that these eggs are never going to hatch---if sheer will-power alone would make eggs fertile--- I'd have several dozen...

Hi gang--- been gone quite awhile, back today because I have a concern.... My hen, Perky came running over to me tonight to go into her kennel for the night, and when I picked her up, I swear, she felt sweaty , warm and damp all over her...

*This wasn't at my house,  but while cleaning the church sanctuary after a Sunday morning service,   I found somebody's toenail clippings in the hymnal rack!!!

* I can't believe it!!  How many eggs has she got this time??  As cold as it is, water frozen already up there (uh, as I sit here in a breezy 8Od, give or take!!),  I gotta wonder,  WHAT is that crazy chicken...

* L-O-L!!  Gritsar, if that's what's stopping you, may as well hang it up.  I have been married 3O+ years and "housebroken"???  Hon, the HOUSE broke FIRST!!!!! 

* ESP's (extra special prayers) for you, Yogiman!!  I miss you.  Still think about that tornado that you dodged and how you dashed out for the chickies and how mad you were that your sweetie left her phone in the car when you...

* I have Sulmet, epsom salts, eyedroppers, PVS, foam baby shampoo, mite spray, tetracyline, amoxycillin,  Sevin dust, ivermectin, mash, 2 kennels, hydrogen peroxide, saline solution, soluble vitamins, electrolytes, Neosporin, honey,...

* I got a couple ceramic ones at a Cracker Barrel resturant. But, shoot, I paid a good bit more than 98 cents, and the hens weren't impressed either!!!

* From what I have read just recently, mash and maybe even crumbles may not be great ideas for adult birds long-term. I'd have to hunt to find the link again if ya'll are interested, but it claimed that crop and gizzard atrophy could...

* I can take pics with the ties on-- but can't post them!!  Not til we get moved, at least!  I ain't taking those things off until I get her to Oregon, I don't think.  We got enough bad habits in the family!! LOL! ...