California - Northern

[HighNDryFarm]

Quote: Well, we're hoping to trap them and then shoot them. I haven't been up to the barn to check this morning but I hope we can start trapping them. When I met one face to face two night ago I swear I could hear raccoon speak going on in the bushes so I know there's several!

One down......but my husband shot it and left for work! Ewwww! The chickens are freaked out about it. It's very quiet up there.

 

[zooweemama]

non-chicken news here -- i was ambushed at the feed store by another species:


meet Pearl, my new kitten -- HUGE purr machine

adorrrrable!

 

[zooweemama]

I'm sorry to hear about the sick chicken (chiqita) and all the animal losses for some of you with predators. I wonder if that picks up normally around Fall?

Nightly I go into the coop and put them all up on the roost (that hovers over the poop deck). Once there they stay there but dang! LOL I hope they get it soon! I cannot recall if I said before but Sleepy passed the other day. Sad but I knew she wasn't going to make it. Wounded Knee is really hanging in there! I have a fully enclosed side yard and I put a large crate in it. I put all the extra roos bound for freezer camp in that side yard. At night the huddle in the crate and first thing in the morning they come out and we feed them. There are 6 in there so far. I need to add another possible 2. Processing a couple this weekend and in 2 weeks the rest. I WILL say now I know why you guys have grow our pens. I want one. Getting the 'food' chickens out from the laying flock did wonders for me mentally when looking at what I have.

The bantams have been in the coop for 2 days in a small crate. I am thinking I can let them out into the run during the day for a couple days. Then add them to the flock and hope they don't run away. They are WILD! I really had no ideas chickens could behave so wild. They absolutely freak out anytime you get near, treats don't matter and then if you have to catch oh Lord good luck with that and they SQUAWK something fierce when you try to catch them and the whole time you have to hold them. It hasn't gotten better in the near month we have had them. LOL Hope they don't run away!

 

[tls_ranch]

non-chicken news here -- i was ambushed at the feed store by another species:


meet Pearl, my new kitten -- HUGE purr machine

She's a really pretty kitten. Is she a dilute calico? I think I can see a bit of orange on her face.
Now I want to adopt another kitten

Trisha

 

[lawatt]

She's a really pretty kitten. Is she a dilute calico? I think I can see a bit of orange on her face.
Now I want to adopt another kitten

Trisha

not totally sure what her origins are, as she came from the animal shelter -- but yes, both faint tabby stripes but also faint cream and orange blotches of tortoiseshell, on blue/grey/silvery fur. quite a sweetie -- it was hard to leave her at home when i left for work today!
laura

 

[zooweemama]

http://www.firststatevetsupply.com/store2/emergency-care/emergency-medication.html

$25 emergency kit for chickens. includes wormer, oxine and other goodies. This store also carries Oxine. Which is VERY hard to stinking locate! I had to find it on Amazon. I called a million places locally and NO one had even heard of it let alone carried it. :| One store tried to tell me that this was likely a fake product with fake blog posts touting it's goodness and that the standard stuff they carried was really best. I don't think Oxine has paid all the BYCers who claim to marvel at this stuff - here on the forum.

Anyhow! Thought I would share!

 

[PetRock]

You can get Oxine straight from Revival Animal Health, the company that supplies Amazon's, and for me the shipping was less through them. It is $24.99/gal with $6.99 shipping. I bought my last gal through Amazon but the shipping is higher so the next time I'm buying straight from Revival!

 

[zooweemama]

You can get Oxine straight from Revival Animal Health, the company that supplies Amazon's, and for me the shipping was less through them. It is $24.99/gal with $6.99 shipping. I bought my last gal through Amazon but the shipping is higher so the next time I'm buying straight from Revival!

Thanks!

 

[ronott1]

http://www.firststatevetsupply.com/store2/emergency-care/emergency-medication.html

$25 emergency kit for chickens. includes wormer, oxine and other goodies. This store also carries Oxine. Which is VERY hard to stinking locate! I had to find it on Amazon. I called a million places locally and NO one had even heard of it let alone carried it. :| One store tried to tell me that this was likely a fake product with fake blog posts touting it's goodness and that the standard stuff they carried was really best. I don't think Oxine has paid all the BYCers who claim to marvel at this stuff - here on the forum.

Anyhow! Thought I would share!

You can get Oxine straight from Revival Animal Health, the company that supplies Amazon's, and for me the shipping was less through them. It is $24.99/gal with $6.99 shipping. I bought my last gal through Amazon but the shipping is higher so the next time I'm buying straight from Revival!

 

[capayvalleychick]

I found a skelton out in the pasture today, out with the cows, sheep & chickens. I'm wondering what it is (I'm guessing opossum) and what killed it? Weird (and a good thing) that something passed up the chickens to kill this instead.