Australia - Six states..and that funny little island.

[Fancychooklady]

Might just be ' El Niño ' lurking around. Hehe.

 

[sjturner79]

Might just be ' El Niño ' lurking around. Hehe.

In that case we need to find LA Nina to scare him off.

 

[flocking-crazy]

Vaccinated?
I bought my chickens from a poultry dealer that were vaccinated and wormed. What are they vaccinated against? One has got a cough or a sneeze. Is it something to worry about? She doesn't seam to be worried still happy and eating. One of my girls has yucky slimy greenly brown runny poos but I'm not sure if it's her. Any help appreciated.

 

[Teila]

Vaccinated?
I bought my chickens from a poultry dealer that were vaccinated and wormed. What are they vaccinated against? One has got a cough or a sneeze. Is it something to worry about? She doesn't seam to be worried still happy and eating. One of my girls has yucky slimy greenly brown runny poos but I'm not sure if it's her. Any help appreciated.

Hey flocking-crazy

I would guess against Marek's Disease but I believe you can vaccinate against Coccidiosis also [don't quote me on that one

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A cough or a sneeze is always something to keep an eye on and could be the first indication of a virus or respiratory issue. Any signs of nasal discharge or swelling around the eye?

With the poops, have you checked out the poop chart? http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=17568.0

My little ones do some very 'interesting' poops when they are young and as long as there is no blood in the poop and they are not lethargic and still eating, drinking and running around like little ones do, I do not worry too much.

 

[IamSamSam]

Anything is possible. Animals are far more intune with the universe than we are.
When we were living in Perth , my husband and son slept through an earth quake. Not me , I was outside checking the animals.

Yeah I was 12 and had my pony on the beach when a small one hit glad she was rock steady and more interested in protecting me lol.

But I could just imagine u in a nightie running down in gumboots to check the animals LOL
I know I've been in that spot

 

[Sidhe13]

I lived on a fault line in nz...the cats and chooks always let us know an earthquake was coming...we had a really eerie one where the ground was visibly rolling!

 

[Fancychooklady]

Yeah I was 12 and had my pony on the beach when a small one hit glad she was rock steady and more interested in protecting me lol.

But I could just imagine u in a nightie running down in gumboots to check the animals LOL
I know I've been in that spot

. Don't go anywhere without my gumboots.

 

[Anniebee]

Good to hear the bubs are doing OK Deej211

Sidhe13 good news from you also.

I just had the most bizarre experience … I am sharing because if something does happen, it will not be hindsight.

Every day, 03:30-04:00pm without fail, the gals start pleading to go for a free range and Chimee (cat) starts biting, scratching and pleading to go into her play run outside. We cannot actually say “outside’ around her at any time and have to call it the O-word because she gets so excited. Syba does go outside into the run but does not get quite as excited as Chimee.

Today, nothing! Asked Chimee if she wanted to go outside and she ran away and hid under the bed.

OK, not that she has done that before, but wrote that off as one of those things. Then, I realised the gals had not been pleading.

Went outside to let them out; not moving out of the run! I went and got some meal worms and sat in the usual meal worm doling spot, Dusty came over but the two other big gals just ran out of their run and into the broody run with Cilla and the bubs .. no way Cilla was coming out. After two worms, Dusty left and went into the run with the others, at great speed. Eventually, after half an hour, everyone came out but they were super spooked and kept running back.

I went inside to see what the cats were doing and they were both sitting in the laundry, not usual, pretty much doing nothing.

At this point, I am starting to freak out .. what the?!

Cold? I don’t think so, as it has been like this for 3 days now and everyone was fine the last two. Also the chickens are in their run, not like they are hiding in the coop. Syba (other cat) does not do cold so sitting on the cold laundry tiles is not the norm for him.

Maybe the gals saw a Hawk (never seen one in the 5 years we have lived here) but that does not explain the cats.

If there is one of the neighbours cats around, the gals are quick to raise the alarm and they had not raised the alarm at all today.

I couldn’t see or hear anything in the garden out of the ordinary .. freaky stuff!

Teila - it is so strange to read this right now.

My chooks held a big scratch mix party this afternoon - 6 adult rosellas, 2 juvenile rosellas, 2 lace wing doves, black birds ( who did not join in ) and one rather fat rat. One of the doves flew at the rat and pecked it ?? ... so it ran off. They tend to prefer the company of my littlest girl, Mindy Araucana who couldn't give a tinkers cuss about them helping her eat. Because she lives alone, I think she enjoys their company, too. Anyway, the wild birds suddenly flew off very quickly all at the same time, my two big chooks ran into their coop looking upwards, and Mindy went under the evergreen trees. I had come inside to watch them through the laundry window.

I went out immediately, thinking a raptor ( one has visited here before very low over trees, chased closely by a cheeky wattle-bird ) .... had returned. Could see nothing. However, Miss Ruby dog who also rushed out very quickly, kept looking up into the sky, sniffing and quivering. What could she see, and where ? There we stood, at guard in the back garden. .... I collected little one and locked her in her coop - the other two big girls have good sense and retire to their coop for rain and raptors !

I swear to you this happened .... and I can only think a bird of prey was somewhere close by. ..... AND I do think your experience yesterday, does explain the cats' reactions - they'd have known instinctively of danger 'out there' - and yes most likely a bird of prey ( at a guess ).

Have often said we should all take more notice of our animals and birds, as they tell us a whole heap more than we could ever know. .... Most of my family look at me as tho I am certifiable !! when that topic is raised ...

What a coincidence.

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Ash ... Your bird photographs are just beautiful. A joy to look at. Thank you for sharing.

We get cockatoos, both white and black, king parrots, galahs, a few rainbows, currawongs, the rosellas, and many smaller birds like thornbills, but never ever any cockatiels, and now since a few months back, a bird of prey somewhere near ?. We live in the Dandenong Ranges, Victoria. ,,,, They do live up on the top of Mt. Dandenong here, but we are much lower down. The bird I saw the first time, was a wedge-tailed eagle, with a sharp eye on my chickens. Have seen a few hawks around as well, high up - today might've been a hawk ? ... Will never ever know.

Cheers to all - and have a good weekend wherever you all are.

 

[appps]

Vaccinated?
I bought my chickens from a poultry dealer that were vaccinated and wormed. What are they vaccinated against? One has got a cough or a sneeze. Is it something to worry about? She doesn't seam to be worried still happy and eating. One of my girls has yucky slimy greenly brown runny poos but I'm not sure if it's her. Any help appreciated.

I had one that couldn't cope with wood shavings unless in a very well ventilated area. Used to make her sneeze and even wheeze.

If you have just changed their food from what they are used to that can also give them diareah.

Both are things that I would monitor to check don't persist though.

 

[chooks01]

Lived near an active volcano, we had earthquakes that goes off the Richter scale along with canon like noise followed by a spray of sulfuric acid every other year

used to climb in the roof of the house to watch hot lava pouring down from the crater. Our animals were the same they were often unsettled a day or hours before something happens