Minnesota!

welcome John!

minniechickmama, I never knew anyone else who said bats$#*@ crazy! or is batcrap crazy your normal way of saying it?

dang, too much to remember all I read. sorry Ralphie about your little chick, and I dont know why you just don't put your foot down and straighten those guineas out! next thing you know they will have tatoos.

night all!

I have to fess up and admit that I made a newbie mistake... and i feel horrible!! The other day when 'Betty White' the CX pullet got her presidential pardon we introduced her right into the larger flock that is nearest to the tractor she moved out of. We watched them closely that evening and have watched them all week. Tonight I got home and found her hiding in the corner of the coop with a bloody wing The rest of the flock had pecked her wing and thigh under the wing bloody. I feel so bad! I should have known it wasn't a good idea but after they got along the first night, i figured she would be ok and I didn't really have anywhere else for her to go!

Betty White got a full check over and we cleaned her wing and thigh with peroxide (all we had). She is now in a dog crate in our basement resting.

What is the name of the blue stuff you get to put on wounded chicken to prevent picking and help heal? and where do you get it?

I think she will need to move in with the smaller flock and she will have to spend some time in the crate in their coop to mingle in safety while she heals

lalaland said:

60 pages.  I'll go back in read but first.....came home and let the chickens out.  They forage in the garden, in the raspberry patch - there are fences about 3/4 way


around this field.

went in the house to change and heard a ruckus so bad I came flying out in my underwear.  I stopped to put shoes on though to my regret.  Chickens hysterical and everywhere.  On top of the shed, on top of fences, in corners, up trees,  totally scattered.  I thought hawk, so kept looking up while I tried to get them together.  Finally got them close enough in the run that I could count, came up one short.

Found a few feathers,  then a few more.  followed a trail  but lost it.  Spent an hour in the woods, up the road, etc.  no sign.  That was Grace, my sweet pratically rumpless black ee.  She was a hefty girl, I don't see how a fox could have taken her but that is probably what it was.   A dog would have likely just killed her and gone for more, right?

If I hadn't stopped for shoes....I might have gotten there in time.

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Awfully Sad.
I'm sorry you lost her.

I dom't know where you are but I thought foxes hunt nocturnally.

@KlopKlop it is called blu-kote. your local farm supply store will have it.

gofeedthegirls said:

Woohoo! Grats, I cannot wait until the day comes where my chickens will hatch their own chicks!

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Am with you on that!

Scandia- fox come day or night. Early morn or twilight hours. They are opportunists.

Rhetts said:

@KlopKlop it is called blu-kote.  your local farm supply store will have it.

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Thanks! Betty white seems to be doing ok but I still feel terrible

Lala-I am so sorry to hear you lost one!! She sounded beautiful!! Don't beat yourself up too bad!

Rhetts said:

Scandia- fox come day or night.  Early morn or twilight hours.  They are opportunists.

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Not having seen them does not mean they aren't around.

Rosie is very protective but my paranoia is better.

One is Rosie, one is my better half.. I get confused.