California - Northern

[casportpony]

lol kathy im 18 but i u.dersta.d what u mean. would it be mqiled like regular mail or would it have to ve picked up at tge post office?

I will mail it to any address you want. It will be a small package, so it will fit in a mailbox.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

This video shows how hard she's panting.(and how pretty she is!)

I'd bring her inside and put her in a cool room. -Kathy

 

[Audio51]

Here arey brooders. I have the brinseas set up , but DH put an outlet if I want to use heat lamps too.
The grow out pens are nice, will get a pic when they're done.
This is what you get when your DH is tired of chickens in the house.
I swear, I'll only use my powers for good and not evil

So that's the trick? Maybe the 15 new meatie chicks I brought home this morning will motivate him......

Quote: There is such a thing as a non-chicken relates topic???

And maybe the pillow is a baby zebra....they are born with brown stripes...

Okay, so when I first got the hen home I let her in the chicken yard while I set up the dog crate inside the coop. This way, the chickens in the coop/run could see her but not hurt her while she was in the yard, as they were in the coop/run. I decided to let them out to see how they'd do together, and she got along great with all but one of them. They all acted like she'd been there forever...except Penny, my Speckled Sussex, who decided to be nasty and try to fight her. They jumped at each other several times, then stopped. Didn't have any problems in the few minutes they were together after that.
Well, now she's in a dog crate in the coop so they can't hurt her if they wanted to do so. However she is panting, HARD. She has food, and water, and is in the shaded coop but I'm worried that she is too hot. None of my other hens are panting this hard, I think it's because they're on the cool dirt. The coop doors take up the whole 6ish foot wall and they're wide open, but she's still hot. It doesn't feel particularly hot in there, but her panting says otherwise. Should I be worried? Should I let her out with the other hens so she's cooler, but risk a fight?
HELP.

Stress will make them pant too. Maybe it's the combination of stress and heat

 

[BCollie]

I don't have a hose in my back yard so I have no way of wetting down the ground, but I did bring her over to the faucet and wet down her back with cool water. She has perked up a lot since I did that and isn't panting nearly as hard. I let the girls out to free range in the dog yard, so they're now more concerned with finding bugs than they are with the new addition. I'm out with them right now and they're all ignoring her. Penny, the little poop head, did pull out a few of her feathers but eventually left her alone.
I need to buy a couple mini watermelons and freeze them for the next few days.

She is trying to figure out what is going on with the dog. She has obviously never had a Border Collie obsessively stalk her before! At first she got mad and attacked the dog, then she started running away when the dog would get close, and now she's just watching the dog carefully. Eventually she'll get to be like all the other hens that think the dog is stupid for trying to tell them where to go.

 

[BCollie]

She's now grooming and not panting nearly as hard so I don't think I need to worry any more. She perked up a LOT after I wet down her back.

 

[casportpony]

Just found a Muscovy nest in the sun. All eggs internally pipped and their shell temps read 105 to 106.5. Sigh...

-Kathy

 

[Audio51]

I don't have a hose in my back yard so I have no way of wetting down the ground, but I did bring her over to the faucet and wet down her back with cool water. She has perked up a lot since I did that and isn't panting nearly as hard. I let the girls out to free range in the dog yard, so they're now more concerned with finding bugs than they are with the new addition. I'm out with them right now and they're all ignoring her. Penny, the little poop head, did pull out a few of her feathers but eventually left her alone.
I need to buy a couple mini watermelons and freeze them for the next few days.

She is trying to figure out what is going on with the dog. She has obviously never had a Border Collie obsessively stalk her before! At first she got mad and attacked the dog, then she started running away when the dog would get close, and now she's just watching the dog carefully. Eventually she'll get to be like all the other hens that think the dog is stupid for trying to tell them where to go.

You can so that with 2-liter bottles too. Just fill them about 3/4 of the way full and freeze them. They work great for keeping rabbits cool too...

 

[chiqita]

So that's the trick?  Maybe the 15 new meatie chicks I brought home this morning will motivate him......
There is such a thing as a non-chicken relates topic???

And maybe the pillow is a baby zebra....they are born with brown stripes...

Stress will make them pant too.  Maybe it's the combination of stress and heat

I told my boss shes a babykiller. She laughed her evil laugh and admired her pillows some more.

 

[casportpony]

She's now grooming and not panting nearly as hard so I don't think I need to worry any more. She perked up a LOT after I wet down her back.

Glad she's better!

-Kathy

 

[BCollie]

She's now grooming and not panting nearly as hard so I don't think I need to worry any more. She perked up a LOT after I wet down her back.

Glad she's better!

-Kathy

Thanks, me too. I was really worried for a minute there.