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[Jimtherunner]

I am so proud of my birds! My vet reports everyone is having such an awful time with ticks this year....none of my family, including my dogs has had even one tick this Spring! My birdies are tick eating machines!!!!

 

[EdenCamp]

I must be overfeeding, constantly finding ticks.

 

[5 Acre Rooster]

Only a few ticks here, mostly on me but I been mowing 18 in grass every so often. And now with 2 broody (I hope #2 didn't get snatched) hens on strike the ticks could take over the farm..... no not really. Still have 2 males and the other 4 hens happy to load up the seed nest daily. So they will stay on patrol for now.

 

[misschickenlittle]

I convinced DH we need more guineas... The noise is our issue wirh them. Don't really like being woke up to their 'barking'. I 'lovingly' call the 2 I have Squeaky Swing and Needs Oil. But i told him the chickens don't eat ticks... Guess they do??? I didn't think they did. Shhh don't tell him!

True story - DH just has surgery on his hip... has a drain tube in. Last night he had sushi from one of the grocery stores (had it before and loved it, me yuck!). Anyway this morning at 7:30, he's in the bathroom puking! So on top o the pain from surgery and the pain of having a drain tube, he just had to get bad food! Can he get a break?!?! Lol! I say that's what you get for spending that much money of raw fish!

Anyway, hope ya'll are enjoying this humid Memorial Day! (Thought we were getting rain...)

 

[EdenCamp]

I like eating bait......from a grocery store......not so much!

 

[5 Acre Rooster]

I convinced DH we need more guineas... The noise is our issue wirh them. Don't really like being woke up to their 'barking'. I 'lovingly' call the 2 I have Squeaky Swing and Needs Oil. But i told him the chickens don't eat ticks... Guess they do??? I didn't think they did. Shhh don't tell him!

True story - DH just has surgery on his hip... has a drain tube in. Last night he had sushi from one of the grocery stores (had it before and loved it, me yuck!). Anyway this morning at 7:30, he's in the bathroom puking! So on top o the pain from surgery and the pain of having a drain tube, he just had to get bad food! Can he get a break?!?! Lol! I say that's what you get for spending that much money of raw fish!

Anyway, hope ya'll are enjoying this humid Memorial Day! (Thought we were getting rain...)

Hope your DH feels better soon. Thats why I dunna eat raw fish, unless on a bet/dare. Or just to gross out the kids.
Good job convincing him about guineas.
And I AM getting rain. Alot, hoping it doesn't flood my broody guineas and their eggs. Meat birds are all getting a mud bath it looks like.
1 with compacted crop looks to have worked it thru. Left him in a cage with water and no feed for 24 hrs and his crop is soft and he's up and about. Waiting to feed him til PM though make sure he's cleared it all out.

BTW what area of Mo you live in? I might

have ALOT of keets soon. 80 eggs cooking (1 50 setting 1 30.) And at least 1 broody on a nest. Possibly a 2nd hen setting. Hatcheries minimum orders are a pain with guineas. And their prices are not to smile about either, at least from my point of view.
Or if you want to go otherroute I can get 2 1/2 dozen a week from my seed nest. I have guinea-itis.

 

[jnjmanning]

Hope your DH feels better soon. Thats why I dunna eat raw fish, unless on a bet/dare. Or just to gross out the kids.
Good job convincing him about guineas.
And I AM getting rain. Alot, hoping it doesn't flood my broody guineas and their eggs. Meat birds are all getting a mud bath it looks like.
1 with compacted crop looks to have worked it thru. Left him in a cage with water and no feed for 24 hrs and his crop is soft and he's up and about. Waiting to feed him til PM though make sure he's cleared it all out.

BTW what area of Mo you live in? I might

have ALOT of keets soon. 80 eggs cooking (1 50 setting 1 30.) And at least 1 broody on a nest. Possibly a 2nd hen setting. Hatcheries minimum orders are a pain with guineas. And their prices are not to smile about either, at least from my point of view.
Or if you want to go otherroute I can get 2 1/2 dozen a week from my seed nest. I have guinea-itis.

I NEED guineas. I am down to 3, I think. I had 2 of each but one hen is missing, could be setting a nest, I have no idea! I have looked high and low for the nests, but living in the middle of the woods on 175 acres, I feel its an Impossible Mission!!!! LOL Hoping to maybe find some guinea eggs at JC next weekend!

 

[misschickenlittle]

Hope your DH feels better soon. Thats why I dunna eat raw fish, unless on a bet/dare. Or just to gross out the kids.
Good job convincing him about guineas.
And I AM getting rain. Alot, hoping it doesn't flood my broody guineas and their eggs. Meat birds are all getting a mud bath it looks like.
1 with compacted crop looks to have worked it thru. Left him in a cage with water and no feed for 24 hrs and his crop is soft and he's up and about. Waiting to feed him til PM though make sure he's cleared it all out.

BTW what area of Mo you live in? I might  have ALOT of keets soon. 80 eggs cooking (1 50 setting 1 30.) And at least 1 broody on a nest. Possibly a 2nd hen setting.  Hatcheries minimum orders are a pain with guineas. And their prices are not to smile about either, at least from my point of view.
 Or if you want to go otherroute I can get 2 1/2 dozen a week from my seed nest. I have guinea-itis.

Going to Jacobs Cave this weekend. Last time there were guineas out the yinyang! Adults fir sale. Think I'll puck up a couple of those unless they are way high. But otherwise, i live by Lake Ozark but work in JC. Make regular trips to St. Louis too. Where are you?

Rain is on it's way here pretty sure!! Wind picked up and I hear thunder in the distance!

 

[CGinJCMO]

Raining here (Jeff City) - major downpour.

Going to Jacob's Cave next weekend too...looking for WCB Polish chicks. Won't be able to get there till Saturday so I hope they'll still have a good selection available.

CG

 

[AutumnWinds]

People do come in on Thurs & Friday but Saturday is when a lot of vendors come in due to work,etc