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  1. Lady Nilstria

    OMG I am shaking. Please advise.

    Quote: Are they pygmies?
  2. Lady Nilstria

    OMG I am shaking. Please advise.

    Quote: I have a perfectly sound explanation for that. Snakes passing through. You'll still see plenty of snakes if you kill the rattler of a 1-2 acre territory, but that doesn't stop other rattlers or snakes from hunting there or passing through to go somewhere else. If a rattler with an...
  3. Lady Nilstria

    OMG I am shaking. Please advise.

    Quote: Please don't assume that . . . it would be awful for you to think that a rattler won't be moving in and then be bitten because you were lulled into a false sense of security. It's scary to hear them rattle, but I'm glad it gave you the warning, at least. If only all venomous snakes...
  4. Lady Nilstria

    OMG I am shaking. Please advise.

    Interesting tip of rattlers for people who may not know. It's a rather nice feature. If a rattler has made a territory, and you appear and live there, they will not leave. However, if you kill that rattler on that one or two acre territory, no other rattler will come to claim it. You won't...
  5. Lady Nilstria

    What is THIS?? Look what the cat drug in....

    Quote: Don't those live in desert/plain areas in the southwest? We don't have weasels where we live, thankfully. Our cats are too lazy to go after stuff larger then a lizard.
  6. Lady Nilstria

    7 eggs from 5 hens

    Quote: I was about to say! O_o
  7. Lady Nilstria

    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    Quote: You're having terrible heat as well, huh? I have two 3x3 flat fans in my barn, one for the chicks in the coop, and one for the hens. I have the hen fan situated right over the place they dust themselves. Every day I let them out they go straight to that place, dust, and sit there for...
  8. Lady Nilstria

    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    10 out of 17, but I don't think the five blacks are really laying anymore, and one of my WR's is broody for no reason. >_> So...10 out of 11, I guess? (Really need to check the blacks...)
  9. Lady Nilstria

    Why would a hen peck her own eggs?

    She might be nutritionally deficient and instinct tells her that eggs are a good source of stuff. Some animals just don't absorb nutrients like they should. I have a goat that is in a constant state of deficiency, no matter what I do. You may have a chicken like that. My reason for that is...
  10. Lady Nilstria

    How do you get a chicken to like you?

    I guess all animals are the same. Food food food! Thanks much. ^_^ I guess I'll go searching for grubs. My chickens LOVE grubs, and they're in greater supply then worms.
  11. Lady Nilstria

    Do you let them see you STEALING their eggs?

    With me, if a chicken happens to be laying there, I raise up their breast and get the egg. Some peck and fluff and protest mightily, with some very fierce glares I might add, but once my hand is gone, they no longer care. If one of the eggs is malformed, I just break it and give it back to the...
  12. Lady Nilstria

    How do you get a chicken to like you?

    Greetings! I have several older chickens and just bought some new chicks, and with these new chicks, I'd actually like to be able to be with them without them running away. With the livestock, I have no problem earning their affection, but I apparently just don't have a chicken mind. Chicks...
  13. Lady Nilstria

    Wound Kote Spray

    Thanks much! The chicks were pecking from overcrowding in the store, so I think with my much much larger coop the pecking will be pretty much eliminated. In three years, I've only had one chicken I had to separate because of pecking (and even that wasn't very bad). Hopefully, proper housing...
  14. Lady Nilstria

    Wound Kote Spray

    Does that mean that it would be best not to use the purple stuff? If so, what would be a good medication I probably have around the house? Mom and I were running around all day, and I *really* don't want to go back into town...
  15. Lady Nilstria

    Wound Kote Spray

    I just bought some 2-3 day old Araucana chicks, and a couple of them have bloody pecked spots on their rumps. I've had great results with the Wound Kote spray on my goats (the purple spray), and I was wondering if it was equally safe for chickens. Also, it's terribly hot here. Is it okay to...
  16. Lady Nilstria

    Best sitters

    Greetings! I want to get some Silver Sebrights, and I heard that they aren't very good sitters, so some people who raise them get another hen to hatch the eggs and raise the chicks if they don't want to go with an incubator. Therefore, what breeds, standard or bantam, are really good sitters...
  17. Lady Nilstria

    Pox

    Yeah, I went and got some oyster shell today, and gave it to them, so I hope everything works out properly. 14 hens laid 14 eggs yesterday, with one of those being the 'reptile' egg, and another having calcified material on it, so, that makes 12 good eggs. I candled all of theml minus the...
  18. Lady Nilstria

    Pox

    We've had 75 degree weather here. Actually, today it's going up to 78. (And some of our neighbors leave standing water about.) That's a relief though. Last night I came across an egg that looked like that of a reptile. O_O The shell was very soft. That's what made me concerned about the...
  19. Lady Nilstria

    Pox

    Soooo...I've read up on fowl pox, but on every webpage I've read, they neglect to inform me about if the virus can be transmitted to humans (IE eggs or meat) and if it's potentially dangerous or not. I've been getting my chicks from people whom I will not get again, and some of my white rocks...
  20. Lady Nilstria

    Various design questions

    Thanks for the replies! I asked about oak branches because I probably have about a hundred oak trees on my property, and because the formers owners were deranged, most of them are dying from being choked out by briar for so long. 2x4's are expensive, whereas I can find a suitable branch...
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