Chat N Chicknfun Thread

[chirpingcricket]

Good idea. Chickn, if you don't see evidence of worm or parasites, a little dip in tepid water, waste deep/feet in water, he will probably protest, but it may help. Frozen water in milk cartons in their water or dust bath area will help them cool down a bit...let us know.....

If it's anything like last summer, I'll have an oscillating fan out there going between their pens in a few weeks, tops! Just to keep some air moving....

 

[chirpingcricket]

Alaskan, here's a shout out to you Lady!!

We keep missing you, looks like the heat and alot of busy-ness is putting most of us to bed early...

Just happen to be up with a kicker of a headache, guess from the heat, exertion and a bit of dehydration....

Wondering? How's that incubator coming along? Hope you get to candle soon and find "activity", veins etc in those eggs!

Be sure to keep us posted, OK?

What kind of temps you having now...highs and lows? Any 'skeeters yet? We're getting those now down here. Supposed to start rocking in the 90's next week, uggh, here we goooo, then the humidity.....

Shade is sooo important this time of the year....we have to get creative with our chicks around here come August. Just have to keep them cool and watered well! I'll be looking forward to getting your kind of soil on my boots by that time!

Hope I catch up with you soon, if not, have a terrific weekend and don't work too hard. That goes for all ya'll! Me too.

Stay hydrated and take care everyone....

 

[Alaskan]

Alaskan, here's a shout out to you Lady!! 

We keep missing you, looks like the heat and alot of busy-ness is putting most of us to bed early...

Just happen to be up with a kicker of a headache, guess from the heat, exertion and a bit of dehydration....

Wondering?  How's that incubator coming along?  Hope you get to candle soon and find  "activity", veins etc in those eggs!    Be sure to keep us posted, OK?

What kind of temps you having now...highs and lows?  Any 'skeeters yet?  We're getting those now down here.  Supposed to start rocking in the 90's next week, uggh, here we goooo, then the humidity.....

Shade is sooo important this time of the year....we have to get creative with our chicks around here come August.  Just have to keep them cool and watered well!  I'll be looking forward to getting your kind of soil on my boots by that time!

Hope I catch up with you soon, if not, have a terrific weekend and don't work too hard.  That goes for all ya'll!  Me too.
Stay hydrated and take care everyone....

It looks like I might get some babies from those chick after all! . Some of the eggs look promising!

As to highs and lows 62 and 45 today... But it might start raining tomorrow, so forecast is 54 and 43 for the next few days!

A bit of a bum, since we have been working so hard on this chicken tractor, that I thought was done....but we keep messing with it! I would like to put the chicks in it on a sunny day.

 

[Alaskan]

OK...I thought you'll might have fun reading about my sister's emotional roller coaster ride.

I had been posting about it in the farmer/rancher thread...so I will cut and paste them into here
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One of my baby sister's goats, Amaretto, just had a rough time. It was the second time for this doe to have triplets, and her fourth birth. So, you would think it would all be fine.....but.....the second one presented incorrectly. It all ended up alright, and it looks like everyone is fine ( and what totally amazes me) no one has any busted or broken anything. Sure am glad for my sister though.....it hits hard if you loose a production animal (like a goat or cow) that you expect to have for maybe 20years. Hard on both the heart and the pocketbook.

By the way, Amaretto had two girls and a boy. My sister says one of the baby girls is super cute, but she will keep both girls and eat the boy when he gets older.

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Ack!

My poor sister! Another goat is kidding, and this one isn't going smoothly either. NOTHING has presented, and the goat has been in labor for almost two hours I think.

My sister finally screwed up her courage enough that she cleaned up and then lubed up and reached around inside. However, she can't figure out at all what it is that she is feeling. She isn't even sure what parts are legs.

The vet was on a different house call, just finished up, but has an hour drive to get to her place.

Poor sister.

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My poor sister! Se was so stressed the first time she called, I didn't get the entire story. The goat, Pearl, did birth one kid, but then couldn't birth the second. She was in hard labor for almost two hours after the first, without the second presenting anything. The first kid did nurse.

After a third hour, Pearl managed to deliver the second kid on her own, but the second one is dead. The vet is almost there, so I told my sister to go ahead and have the vet check everything out, for infection etc. as this doe is my sister's very best milker. We talked it over, and the vet visit will be much less than the cost of replacing the goat.

The entire ordeal is such an emotional strain for my sister.

I asked her, and this *IS* the first time, in the four years that she has had her milk goats, that she has ever had such problems with the births!

I was trying to help her remember how big the sire was.... But the sire wasn't full grown when my sister borrowed him.

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OK..... All over and done

It was good that the vet came.....the second one that was birthed dead wasn't quite right, just a bit deformed...

It turns out that there was a third one, the vet had to get that one out himself. The third one had died awhile back. The vet thought that the third one looked OK, and it was a freak accident in the womb that caused it to die.

He cleaned out Pearl, gave her three shots, and told my sister that Pearl looked well fed and in good health. The vet did not think that it was diet related, or disease, or the sire. He thought it was just "one of those things". Amaretto's problem was just a simple presentation problem, so not related at all to the problem that Pearl just had.

My sister is stressed. This is the first time her goats have had such trouble, and she has one more goat due soon, and this one is a first timer! My sister is thinking that maybe she will call the vet as soon as the goat goes into labor, she feels "gun shy".

It might be worth it. This next one (are they called yearlings?..heifer equivalent) is one of Pearl's kids. Pearl is a wonderful milker, and will milk at high volume for almost two years from one breeding. The sire of this yearling, cant remember her name, was just a whatever milk goat, but at least he was a milk goat. My sister usually gets meat goats as the sire.

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The one *HEALTHY* baby from Pearl is a boy, and is looking great.



OK, that's it....just thought you'll would like the story.

By the way, my sister is in Texas, on the old homestead.

 

[NestingHillsSC]

Yeah, Kinda......Yes, near 90

Just maybe hot!They will pant and hold there wings away from there body. That's how they cool down. As long as he's not sneezing or coughing . Look at him early in the morning when it's cool. If he looks fine then it's just the heat. Mine do that all the time in the summer.

 

[chicknfun]

Quote: Thanks Tony- Yeah, he looks fine this am, and crowing, as usual!

I went out and put a big rug over their run to give them more shade. I guess where I picked to put the chicken church is just not shady enough. I may have to move it......dang pine trees- what good are they? I have a bunch of queen palm seedlings, I think I will plant a few around where that coop is. In a couple years they will be tall enough to provide some more shade

LOL, I am always looking for a reason to plant a palm

 

[NestingHillsSC]

lol

 

[chicknfun]

Morning kids!!
Bama and Tony were right, Frikin Chikin is fine this morning!
WOW, that freaked me out, have never had that happen before.
Next time I will hose his rump down!!

I have started on the next phase of run building- I cleared the piece next to the duck pen. I have decided that to conserve on wire and other materials as much as possible, I am going to build off of the duck pen, to the south. That's why I was absent mostly yesterday, I was clearing, measuring, clearing, measuring......digging, clearing, measuring........laying out........
Then DH showed up with more materials....YAY!!!!!
Seems the CRAZY said we could take all the materials that I had put up years ago for a cat pen........YAY, DH, GOOD JOB!! Metal posts and beams, lots of 2x3 wire......YAY!!!!!!

so, now that he brought all that, I can clear some more today- No fun, but apparently he is working- not here when I got up, and saw a call from his boss at 7 am on the puter, so I guess I have no help today- clearing it is!! TONY----------beer and ribs----------in trade for clearing- flat land.....LOL, no oaks!!


See my supervisors- a lot of help they are,,,,sheesh

Hope everyone has a nice day!!

 

[chicknfun]

broody day 4..........

 

[NestingHillsSC]

Morning kids!!
Bama and Tony were right, Frikin Chikin is fine this morning!
WOW, that freaked me out, have never had that happen before.
Next time I will hose his rump down!!

I have started on the next phase of run building- I cleared the piece next to the duck pen. I have decided that to conserve on wire and other materials as much as possible, I am going to build off of the duck pen, to the south. That's why I was absent mostly yesterday, I was clearing, measuring, clearing, measuring......digging, clearing, measuring........laying out........
Then DH showed up with more materials....YAY!!!!!
Seems the CRAZY said we could take all the materials that I had put up years ago for a cat pen........YAY, DH, GOOD JOB!! Metal posts and beams, lots of 2x3 wire......YAY!!!!!!

so, now that he brought all that, I can clear some more today- No fun, but apparently he is working- not here when I got up, and saw a call from his boss at 7 am on the puter, so I guess I have no help today- clearing it is!! TONY----------beer and ribs----------in trade for clearing- flat land.....LOL, no oaks!!


See my supervisors- a lot of help they are,,,,sheesh

Hope everyone has a nice day!!