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Cetawin,  I'm sorry for your trouble.  Antique and flea market dealers do this sort of thing all the time.

This last year has been bad for me in buying birds.  Never again.  Very expensive lesson I learned.  One situation was nearly $300.   I'll never tell DW about that deal.  For all my trouble I've got four birds out of 18.  And they aren't even great,  except for the hens laying. 

You did mention VetX on the comb.  What does that do?  I have two roosters of the same age but one has a nice red comb while the other is faded. 

Cyn,  I am sorry to hear about Suede.  I've been hatching Dels partly because I'm worried about my Nick.  I hope to separate him to some hens of his own.  Right now it's him and George  with three hens. 

Tim...VetRX is used to brighten up the wattles and comb and also as an antiseptic I believe.  I know that it is used pn birds with breathing issues or to open their noses and such.  It takes the dull comb and brings out the bright red color.  To me it smells very strong like eucalyptus or tea tree oil with other strong aromatics.  It probably helps with circulation in the comb wattles and face.

Kathy...my problem is I get attached to my boys working with them, handling them and so forth so that they do not turn into 14 pounds of stupid so then I am picky about where they go.  I could have sold every boy I had a week ago but the character that called was asking about size, agility, temperament and spur size grown.  I gave him the FU and hung up.  I also refused to sell two boys to a lady who was keeping them in a chain link dog kennel with a dog house...without a top.  Yet she could not understand what was happening to her birds. 

But I do not have near the numbers you do so having a few extras is not a big deal to my feed bill really.  I meant to tell Gloria Jean this but my business cards do not have my address on them, just my phone number.  I do not want a bunch of weirdos coming out here.  LOL

Cetawin, 

I did not give out my address.  Just the phone num.  But with the tech. today they can look that up and cross reference with an address

Fairly easy, I think.   gloria Jean

Cetawin,  I hear everything you're saying.  I hate to take roos to the auction but I don't stay.  I don't bring things back from auctions.  1. cuz I might bring bad stuff.  2. I've got such nice birds what would I need?  

As a rule I give hens away if they don't fit in.  If they're being picked on I don't want them to suffer so I'd rather find someone who would take them.

I have a RIR from AL that was being picked on real bad.  I moved her in with the Dels and she's growing out feathers really well.   I rarely have a problem with my Dels being mean.  Even the roos.  Right now I have a little pullet who follows me around the yard for food and wants to eat out of my hand and not if I toss the scratch on the ground.

Thanks for the Vetx information. 

If Scott is around, what's up with these CR's?    Lord have mercy they should be laying by now.  They are real big but the hens aren't laying yet.  I haven't put them on layer cuz I like to keep them on 20% grower til I see them laying. 

Take care everyone and have a nice day.

Rancher

Morning.  Still got my EE in the dining room.  5 days of antibiotics.  She's acting normal and eating.  She did the hen song this morning.  I may try to put her back out tonight. 

Sorry Cyn.  Suede doesn't look that good.  Reminds me of my BO when her comb was starting to turn purple, slept  alot.  I was thinking cardiac failure. 

I still have one BR who has bumble in both feet.  I'm waiting for Tricide-neo.  I'figure I'll do the soak for 5 days, then maybe have to to surgery.   I also got something in Walgreen's in a small bottle that has the same chemical ingredient as Bactine but no other additives.  But even the generic is expensive so I left it there. 

I'm off to CPR class today (BLS).  Then go visit my parents.  I spend too much time at home and need to get out. 

At least I hope you all had fun at the swaps.  It's nice to see other chicken people, right?

Seminolewind it is always good to see other chicken folks and chat.

This is why owning a Politican Chicken is so difficult....this sort of silliness goes on daily from sunup to sundown..

Just trying to walk from the coop:

This is so you are not chased down and jumped on while trying to do something:

This is an attempt to pass it off to me:

Baby Zilla is just the same but that is growing up to be a rooster.  LOL

The logging is complete and now we are fast working on the cleanup, at least on the house side of the perimeter fence. We have most of the slash cleaned and trees cut for firewood and almost ready to put the back fence up again, the one that divides the 2 1/4 acres that the house and coops sit on from the other 3 acres.

Here are some pictures that show how much more open it is, but also, how it isn't a complete clear cut. First, from the bottom corner post where the fence will go back up and across the property to keep roaming dogs out. We will drive the truck down the power line easement road and back it up in there to pick up all that wood before we reinstall the fence, though. That far building you see is the back of the bantam coop. Make a nice pasture, wouldn't it?

Looking down that way from the back corner of the bantam coop:

Some of the wood we'll be using for firewood, much of it has to age, but there are numerous piles of logs that were cut last summer and are ready to use this winter already:

And, some of the lower property, showing all the tree tops the guys left laying around that we will be cutting up over the next year and how it opens up the place, but hasn't messed up the ground or decimated it as huge professional logging equipment might have done.

Oh, never mind........

Lookin' good, Cyn! Lots of work done!