I had that question here a couple of months into it.
The asymetric lump on their neck...
Yeah! It's so freaky if you don't know about it. What? My chicken has this stomach-like thing used to hold food outside of the body cavity?
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I had that question here a couple of months into it.
The asymetric lump on their neck...
yuck. This mom woulda flipped outYall would not believe what happened this morning!! My son come to our room, crying! He said there was scritching in his ear (his words). He said there feels like something inside his ear! So we tilted his head sideways and poured some of my saline contact solution down his ear canal. SURE ENOUGH!!! A beetle comes crawling out, gasping for air!!My poor son! He was such a trooper, bless his little heart.
Thanks for all the help so far! I definitely appreciate the tips on covering the run. Now to look into "cleaning" up the soil where the oleander is soon to be history.
Pimachickens, I'm in Tucson too. Is there still a city chicken coop tour around here? I've found links to them from past years, but couldn't find anything this year.
There seem to be a lot of new, totally chicken naive new members, I just read 2 almost identical new threads in the emergency section.
"What's wrong with my hen. She wont come out of the nesting box, is puffed up, cranky and just growls at me......." I have been giggling for the past 30 minutes. I love it!!! Now that kind of emergency I can help with!!
No offense intended to any new chicken owner.....
Quote: Amen!
The Tucson coup tour was a joint venture between the Food Conspiracy and the Tucson Community Food Bank. It went on hiatus in 2010 when a dog got into the Food Bank's chicken enclosure and killed all their birds. It was on again in 2011 and should also be on for 2012. They usually have it in early December. I talked last year with the organizer at the Food Conspiracy and he said all of the tours were huge hits and sold out tickets within days. The Food Bank is really keen on these events too; they're trying to get as many people raising chickens as they can. I'll post when I hear anything definitive about the next tour. We went on the 2011 tour--it was fun and interesting (and at times a bit depressing).