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[sourland]

Therefore fake. My husband is too scared of me to let me tie him up!

Smart man, I think.

 

[bruceha2000]

Plastic ones don't count.

Even if they are using zip ties instead of regular handcuffs?

Therefore fake. My husband is too scared of me to let me tie him up!

Probably figures by the time he got free there would be another 50 coops, full, in the yard!

 

[CapricornFarm]

Smart man, I think.

Good thing for him he's stronger than I am. He did let me color his chest once with markers in a nice design.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Even if they are using zip ties instead of regular handcuffs?


Probably figures by the time he got free there would be another 50 coops, full, in the yard!

Zip ties only count if they have the metal piece to keep them secure

 

[featherhead007]

Therefore fake. My husband is too scared of me to let me tie him up!

I would be too!

 

[DobieLover]

If you carry on letting the hens sit and hatch, chicks dieing is something you come to accept more easily. It's not a matter of not caring or becoming hard, it's a matter of accepting the reality that you can't save them all and often you're left with no idea why they died.
Horrifying though it may seem, if the hens here get a 50% survival rate to adulthood they're doing well. Even with the mums 24/7 care some just die and others make one bad decision and a predator gets them.

I didn't like it but it wasn't like it was when I lost Wynonna, Bunny and Lucy.
I've got myself convinced that something spooked him and he flew into the HC and broke his neck. The chicks have been on their own for less than a week and are still figuring things out. I think poor Malcolm made a fatal mistake.

If you've had a chicken with early stages of coccidiosis, he looked like that. What alerted me to have a check was he went very quiet. Normally he's got an awful lot to say for himself.
I tube fed him 40cl of water and then chilled coconut oil in lumps. After the first flush he showed a bit of interest in eating. After the second he was eating the commercial feed but that night he went to roost with not much in his crop. What there was did empty overnight and from what I could tell from the poop below his roost spot something wasn't right. He get another flush this morning and is more or less back to his usual rowdy self and eating. I haven't seen todays poop sample yet.

That's a neat trick. I also read about doing a charcoal treatment to help flush toxins. I think @azygous wrote about it in a thread.

 

[DobieLover]

Boy, you guys were a rowdy bunch today. I missed all the fun!

 

[CapricornFarm]

I would be too!

I am very affectionate to him, and I rarely bite! I don't get it. Must be a control thing.

 

[featherhead007]

I am very affectionate to him, and I rarely bite! I don't get it. Must be a control thing.

(rarely?)

 

[CapricornFarm]

(rarely?)

sometimes stuff happens...