BYC Café

[Meg-in-MT]

Prayers to you and your hubby, DL. Also wondering about Sours question. That's horrible about the gal and her birds. May not be something you'd want to get involved in anyway. If he'll hurt her and the chickens, I'm guessing it's not far fetched that he'd hurt someone else.

 

[DobieLover]

@DobieLover - do you know the duration of the study, and if he happens to get the placebo and those with improvement on the drug show improvement will he be eligible for the drug ? How's that for a run on sentence.

It's an excellent run in sentence. Well constructed!
The study runs 42 weeks with a follow on check at 6 weeks. Yes, he would get the study drug for free if it showed improvement for those who received it.

 

[room onthebroom]

Thanks Roomy! We just had a quiet evening at home, hubs did surf and turf on the bbq and got me a cake. It was nice and relaxing.

That sounds like the perfect evening!

Dobie, if you haven't already, give Farm Sanctuary a call.

 

[Shadrach]

It's an excellent run in sentence. Well constructed!
The study runs 42 weeks with a follow on check at 6 weeks. Yes, he would get the study drug for free if it showed improvement for those who received it.

It's an interesting thing is the placebo trial. On the one hand, if the drug doesn't work or even worse, produces unexpected side effects, then getting the placebo is the same or better option. If the drug does work and you were in the trial, placebo or drug, then you get the option of the treatment. The downside is the length of the trial.
Lets hope you both get a break.

 

[Shadrach]

Donk has been having a go at her daughter Knock the last couple of evenings. Before Knock sat and hatched, she roosted with her mum in Tribe 3’s coop. She sat and hatched in Tribe 3’s second coop which the Tribes rooster Notch roosts in. In the past various hens from Tribe 3 have roosted with Notch.

While Knock is separated from the tribe as she rears her chicks, Donk, her mother, is the lowest ranking hen in the tribe. If Knock returns to roost with the other hens then Knock moves up in rank.

I have been wondering if the aggression from Donk, particularly at roosting time is ensuring she keeps her rank if her daughter Knock moves back in.

This morning one of these spats between Donk and Knock started. Notch broke it up but Knock took a full battle flight at Notch; she did it twice. Notch handled it well. The first attack he ignored. The second he jumped as if to fight and did a hackle flash mid air. Knock backed away went off with their chicks. I’ve never seen this before. Harold and Blue Spot for example just used to get stuck in; a horrifying thing to watch if you didn’t know them and didn’t notice that it tended to be foot to foot contact. Harold always gave way in the end.

Punch and Mag are acting up again. They’re bored. Every now and then they wander over to the three witches and the three chicks and do a bit of half hearted digging giving enthusiastic I’ve found food calls for the smallest of bugs..........the witches just ignore them.

It looks like chick minding duties have fallen to Treacle in Tribe 1. I’ve seen this a few times now and am tempted to believe that this is one behaviour that is common to jungle fowl and applies to all chicken family groups under semi feral conditions. In large flocks it may not be easy to identify.

Basically treacle does the rounds; Mel and her chicks outside my house and Ruffles and her chick wherever they are. Cillin, the tribes senior rooster spends his day with Fat Bird, Fudge and Tackle. Treacle moves from one group to another throughout the day and does some of the escort duties to the nest sites but only Tackle on occasions will crouch for him after collection. The others leave the nest with him and make a dash for Cillin and the rest of the tribe.

 

[pennyJo1960]

HAPPY BELATED I.M. I'm turning the big five-o this year too. I need to read backwards a bit to see if you celebrated at all & whatever else I missed.

Hey there welcome ... good afternoon room went with BF pickup his insulin script back home cleaned the coop

 

[Meg-in-MT]

Good afternoon, all! Headed to drain mainlines and put wheel lines back together after work and then home to blow out sprinklers. Weather outlook keeps getting worst and worse, hoping that it isn't as bad as they're saying. This is where it stands today:

 

[ronott1]

Donk has been having a go at her daughter Knock the last couple of evenings. Before Knock sat and hatched, she roosted with her mum in Tribe 3’s coop. She sat and hatched in Tribe 3’s second coop which the Tribes rooster Notch roosts in. In the past various hens from Tribe 3 have roosted with Notch.

While Knock is separated from the tribe as she rears her chicks, Donk, her mother, is the lowest ranking hen in the tribe. If Knock returns to roost with the other hens then Knock moves up in rank.

I have been wondering if the aggression from Donk, particularly at roosting time is ensuring she keeps her rank if her daughter Knock moves back in.

This morning one of these spats between Donk and Knock started. Notch broke it up but Knock took a full battle flight at Notch; she did it twice. Notch handled it well. The first attack he ignored. The second he jumped as if to fight and did a hackle flash mid air. Knock backed away went off with their chicks. I’ve never seen this before. Harold and Blue Spot for example just used to get stuck in; a horrifying thing to watch if you didn’t know them and didn’t notice that it tended to be foot to foot contact. Harold always gave way in the end.

Punch and Mag are acting up again. They’re bored. Every now and then they wander over to the three witches and the three chicks and do a bit of half hearted digging giving enthusiastic I’ve found food calls for the smallest of bugs..........the witches just ignore them.

It looks like chick minding duties have fallen to Treacle in Tribe 1. I’ve seen this a few times now and am tempted to believe that this is one behaviour that is common to jungle fowl and applies to all chicken family groups under semi feral conditions. In large flocks it may not be easy to identify.

Basically treacle does the rounds; Mel and her chicks outside my house and Ruffles and her chick wherever they are. Cillin, the tribes senior rooster spends his day with Fat Bird, Fudge and Tackle. Treacle moves from one group to another throughout the day and does some of the escort duties to the nest sites but only Tackle on occasions will crouch for him after collection. The others leave the nest with him and make a dash for Cillin and the rest of the tribe.

Sounds like quite a show!

 

[pertnear09]

Good afternoon, all! Headed to drain mainlines and put wheel lines back together after work and then home to blow out sprinklers. Weather outlook keeps getting worst and worse, hoping that it isn't as bad as they're saying. This is where it stands today:View attachment 1917861

Wow, we're expecting low to mid 90's for that same time period. A shame there ain't a catalog you can thumb through and find a forecast you like and say "here, I'll take this one ".

 

[Meg-in-MT]

Wow, we're expecting low to mid 90's for that same time period. A shame there ain't a catalog you can thumb through and find a forecast you like and say "here, I'll take this one ".

Ahh, see now that would be lovely! 75-80 and sunny for me, please