Ainawgsd's farm chickens

[AinaWGSD]

We took drastic measures today and took a scalpel to Rose's foot. I hope we helped, but it sure looked rough. We got a lot of slimy stringy gunk and one chunk that looked almost like a tendon (it came out too easy and didn't cause any foot spasms or flopping). I'm not convinced some of the gunk that came out wasn't footpad fat.

But she wasn't limping when we let her go.

And her giant boyfriend was very well mannered and didn't try to attack us. He did briefly side shuffle at us, and he kept an eye on us. But he behaved himself.

 

[AinaWGSD]

Four or five of the buckeye pullets were very in my pocket today. One of them gossiped at me for about 5 minutes. I thought she might have been complaining about Rose hogging the nest box, but we only got one green egg today so maybe she was just bringing me up to speed on all the coop gossip.

Both malines and one of the buckeyes tidbitted for the girls while I was hanging out with them this morning.

 

[AinaWGSD]

Rose's feet are finally starting to look better!

We went ahead and re-wrapped both feet today, but I think we're good to just do twice weekly bandage changes on the bad foot and one more week of keeping the good foot covered ought to be enough to completely heal that one.

 

[AinaWGSD]

Some nice shots of the buckeyes from the other day. I'm really happy with how well they've turned out and looking forward to seeing what hatches next year.

Everyone's looking so grown up now!

 

[AinaWGSD]

Husband wanted to show me some minor comb damage he noticed on one of the malines cockerels. This is the picture he sent me:

He said he tried to get a picture in the coop, but the cockerel wouldn't hold still because he was looking at him. So he tried to catch him up and he flew out the door and landed in the snow and just froze. He's the first chicken to venture out since it snowed on Friday. Husband wanted to verify that this wasn't frostbite, just a scab. Apparently the chooks are feeling cooped up with all the snow on the ground.

 

[AinaWGSD]

Who ordered snow?!

No one has set foot outside of the coop since we got snow last Saturday.

Rose is not impressed

I suspect the cold caused the water heater to stay on all night and the draw was enough to drain the batteries.