BYC Café

[pennyJo1960]

No snow but temps getting lower. They call for rain, snow in the mountains.

 

[ronott1]

the forecast for Thursday morning says 28F for us. That is a cold morning for us.

We are dry here so of course now snow.

 

[bruceha2000]

It depends on if the breed are winter layers or not.

Faverolles, Chanteclers, Australorps, Wyandottes, Welsummers and Plymouth Rocks are all supposed to be winter layers. I have or have had all of these and none have ever laid in the winter past their first.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Faverolles, Chanteclers, Australorps, Wyandottes, Welsummers and Plymouth Rocks are all supposed to be winter layers. I have or have had all of these and none have ever laid in the winter past their first.

They need light

 

[pennyJo1960]

Light and different ages as generation matters

 

[DobieLover]

Good morning Cafe. Coffee is ready.

DH and I went to Shadow's owners, Michelle and Scott, house for dinner last night and so I could help her put a Holter monitor on Shadow. He was have lethargy, periods of drooling and shaking and just wasn't himself. He was having a lot of arrhythmias.

She took him to Upstate Vet near Albany and he was prescribed Sotolol, the same drug Fuji was on. It helped a lot when he was first on it as shown by the EKG but now he's showing signs of the arrhythmias coming back. Her breeder bought a Holter to use to test potential breeding pairs to make sure they were showing no signs of early heart disorders before breeding them. She let Michelle borrow her machine.

She mailed it to Michell and we shaved the patches on Shadow and applied the electrodes. She can mail the chip out to Alba, the company that makes the monitors, to down load and analyze the data. They have a Veterinary cardiologist on staff. I think that's pretty cool. She'll pay a total of $110 for the shipping cost of the monitor, the electrodes and to data analysis with report and recommendations. She would have paid over $400 for the exact same thing and would have had to drive 2 hours to get Shadow to the vet to apply the monitor as they refused to mail it to her to apply herself.

 

[aart]

Faverolles, Chanteclers, Australorps, Wyandottes, Welsummers and Plymouth Rocks are all supposed to be winter layers. I have or have had all of these and none have ever laid in the winter past their first.

Exactly,

They need light

Wonders when people say "winter layers' what they actually mean, do they mean with supplemental lighting or without it??

But one hen with noisy breathing, hopefully just gobbled feed too fast and will clear up.

She was fine this morning, Whew!

Finally stopped blowing and snowing, all ready for throwing early tomorrow.

Not looking forward to this, maybe it'll be the last time.

 

[DobieLover]

She was fine this morning, Whew!

That's always a relief.

 

[aart]

That's always a relief.

For sure!
She sounded really bad when I first discovered it yesterday afternoon,
but I knew there was really nothing to do about it.
She sounded better at lock up, so felt there was a chance of recovery.
She's the youngest of the hens and just started laying again.

Another relief was to get the driveway cleared before the warmth and wicked winds began.

 

[sourland]

Good morning, Cafe', and thanks, Tonya.