BYC Café

[pennyJo1960]

Morning Cafe sitting here with my second cup brewed another pot..
We take the car in for maintenance 2018 Kia.. We haul feed , shavings
and the like .. but want it to last st least till it is paid for

 

[sourland]

Thanks, penny.

 

[aart]

Nothing is quite as much fun as cleaning up dog doop in the middle of the night.

UHG!!
BTDT.
Not sure if it's worse that the 'puking dog alarm clock'.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Have to agree but either one is icky to me ... I am one of these that gets up cleans it then goes back to bed

 

[sourland]

Cats barfing -

 

[sourland]

Cats barfing mouse parts.

 

[Shadrach]

Cats,

 

[Shadrach]

Who is Cillin fighting with? This is why I rehomed Captain. I couldn't deal with having to treat injuries like this.
I'm going to have to see how the two sets of bantams sex out and what their temperaments are like. If I take a shining to a cockerel of either breed, I'll keep him with a pullet. I'll likely sell the other males paired off unless I don't have a pullet to pair them with.
I figure keeping a bantam cockerel with a good nature is the lowest risk option with Fabio. They are too little to really injure Fabio and too fast for the shaggy line backer to injure them. And honestly, Fabio isn't that kind of guy. He just runs off the younger boys and is happy to leave it at that. He's never on a seek and destroy mission.

He's fighting with his son Treacle. There is nothing I can do about it and still look at myself in a mirror. I don't mind patching them up. Patching up roosters is something I've got used to over the years. I don't know exactly what the problem is. I've had plenty of father and sons who got along just fine.

 

[Shadrach]

who's Gloria? Sounds like your flock is having an unusually rough time of it right now. Is it the weird weather to blame?

Gloria is our domestic creature vet. She specialised in fowl when she was training.
I was until recently one of two people who took fowl to her. In recent months, possibly due to Covid, a few other people have been taking their sick chickens and ducks to her.
She isn't up to date with avian veterinary practices, but she does have a good basic knowledge and has helped save the lives of a few here over the years.
There is an avian vet about an hours drive from where I live. Apparently he is not particularly good and he's very expensive. There is also a National Park avian vet who is excellent but doesn't see domestic fowl usually. I know him personally though and he has seen a couple of the chickens here as a favour in the past.
One of the reasons I take chickens and ducks to Gloria is she is incredibly fair in what she charges and in the event I don't have the money to pay her, she will happily accept and has in the past, woodwork I've done, Honey from the bees here, help at her surgery and veg and fruit grown here.
Today she charged me twenty Euros for examining Cillin, re-bandaging his leg, giving a six day course of antibiotics and loading a syringe of injectable Ivermectin for Fat Bird and Lock. I did help her out for a couple of hours as well. With an arrangement like this there is no reason why I wouldn't take a sick chicken to a vet unless I was absolutely sure of what the problem is and how to fix it. In this case I was concerned about tendon damage.

 

[aart]

With an arrangement like this

Sounds like an excellent arrangement!