Arizona Chickens

[DesertChic]

No binge watching here. My husband was t-boned a couple weeks back so I'm not his full-time caretakers, plus running our little farms, plus running our business. I'm pretty much exhausted from the moment I wake up until the moment I go to bed. This is what one incompetent driver left of my husband's car:

He spent three years customizing and perfecting this car, his dream car since he was 16... a 1974 De Tomaso Pantera (Ford of Italy). The car's total, but amazingly my husband survived, but requires a lot of care.

 

[Bobby Basham]

No binge watching here. My husband was t-boned a couple weeks back so I'm not his full-time caretakers, plus running our little farms, plus running our business. I'm pretty much exhausted from the moment I wake up until the moment I go to bed. This is what one incompetent driver left of my husband's car:
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He spent three years customizing and perfecting this car, his dream car since he was 16... a 1974 De Tomaso Pantera (Ford of Italy). The car's total, but amazingly my husband survived, but requires a lot of care.

OMG, that's just terrible. I tense up every time I leave the house because of all the clueless knuckleheads out there. They are the very ones that drive up the insurance rates. Driving used to be enjoyable, but you really have to be on your guard big time any more. I can't remember the last time I drove, being totally relaxed, but paranoid instead. I don't trust ANYBODY with the antics they pull in traffic.

 

[Bobby Basham]

I don't use any pharmaceuticals on my birds. Truthfully, I've never had to.

I think chickens are more hearty than folks give them credit for, and some tend to baby them too much. How did they survive in the wild with all the other jungle critters and wild birds?

 

[meetthebubus]

@DesertChic so sorry!

 

[Jadesun6]

http://www.poultrydvm.com/condition/canker

Thank you for sharing. I'm glad I use apple cider in the water already.

 

[Jadesun6]

I binged watched ER and now I'm binging on Greys anatomy ... I'll be a professional here soon ...

We are watching greys anatomy too!

 

[BlueBaby]

No binge watching here. My husband was t-boned a couple weeks back so I'm not his full-time caretakers, plus running our little farms, plus running our business. I'm pretty much exhausted from the moment I wake up until the moment I go to bed. This is what one incompetent driver left of my husband's car:
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He spent three years customizing and perfecting this car, his dream car since he was 16... a 1974 De Tomaso Pantera (Ford of Italy). The car's total, but amazingly my husband survived, but requires a lot of care.

Sorry to know that this has happened to you and your hubby. I am glad that your hubby has survived, and I hope that he will recover well from this! I will keep you both in my prayers.

 

[cactusrota]

I don't use any pharmaceuticals on my birds. Truthfully, I've never had to.

My father in law raised racing pigeons for 30-40 years, and when I asked him about how he managed canker he said he stopped feeding cracked corn, and put a littler bleach in their water once a week. His belief was that cracked corn scratched the surface of the throat, openning them up to infection. Said he never had a problem after making those changes. I don't think he ever used pharmeceuticals, either.
I believe it was alohachickens that was telling me about a rash of it that went through her area a year or two ago and killed alot of her birds. It's something worth at least being aware of.

 

[cactusrota]

I think chickens are more hearty than folks give them credit for, and some tend to baby them too much. How did they survive in the wild with all the other jungle critters and wild birds?

Survival of the fittest. It's like comparing labradors with wolves. The chickens we keep now are not from generations of a landrace that has naturally evolved with only the strongest and healthiest breeding. They are the product of generations of domesticated birds raised mainly for looks and egg color.. Sheltered in cages and barns. Some breeders still take health, hardiness, and disease resistance into account when picking birds to breed, and cull the sick instead of trying to treat it. But for the most part (with the exception of more recently available landrace breeds like Icelandics) all our chickens are not like their wild ancestors.
The problem is with the breeders that baby these birds, treat them, and then breed them. There's a big difference between a little preventative care, and bringing a bird back from near death from some disease, then breeding it because it had the perfect tail shape. If they still get sick even after the preventative care, then they are weak and only perpetuating a weak genetic line. This is why I feel so conflicted when I go to poultry shows, as I see so many mutated and sickly birds winning awards, but I still go.. It's like morbid curiosity.

 

[cavemanrich]

Keeping chickens about 20 years. Keeping pigeons about 10 years. During winter, both kept inside garage loft and are somewhat together. Able to share feed and water. Non winter, chickens in a separate coop. Never heard of canker and never encountered it. Had many different racing/homing pigeons in loft. Just never had any diseases transmitted ether way. chicken to pigeon,,,, pigeon to chicken. If there was any, it was not noticed or fatal. Currently have no pigeons due to predator cleaning my flock out. Contemplating on restarting soon.