Colorado

[gardendufus]

Chick_In_the_Burbs - Bzzzzzzz - Wrong

Wendell - Bzzzzzz - Wrong

Oh well, There's always tomorrow......I still have til 7 AM for my guess to be right. LOL I'm an accountant, I try to make my estimates conservative.

 

[Chick_In_The_Burbs]

What you aren't seeing is the egg she cleverly disguised as a golf ball. .

 

[ONSTAD1]

I go for accuracy .... 09:46:31am. : )

 

[gardendufus]

I go for accuracy .... 09:46:31am. : )

Ummmm, I have no problem putting a stopwatch on her to get those seconds correct, but won't my presence inhibit her, thus causing the others guestimating times to cry fowl?

 

[gardendufus]

What you aren't seeing is the egg she cleverly disguised as a golf ball.

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I am determined to blow out her first egg and save it for posterity. I tried doing this and I think I'm having a stroke.

 

[Ashdoes]

Waffle is a Boston Terrier. We swear, because of how stout and bulky he is, that he's mixed with something, but two vets have said he's pure. When we picked him up his dad was bulky like Waffle, and his mom looked like a typical Boston. We think there's some sort of French Bulldog mix in there. Waffle looks, and snorts, like a pig. He's just too cute.

 

[coloradochick]

Is anyone in the market for a randy,1.5 year old Pekin Drake FREE......Really need to find a home for him. When I put him in time out the barnyard is fairly peaceful. But when I take him out, the competition for the gals revs up and he gets too aggressive. I think if he were the only male he'd be fine. He even goes in and sits with the hens that are broody. Like a dutiful DH

But I want to keep my K Campbell drake and my Black Runner drake. They grew up together and get along fabulously.

 

[coloradogal]

My Lukah looks like a french mastiff but is black and only about 80 pounds. Lilly is typical of american bulldog. The puppies are very wrinkly though...and two looks very english bulldogish. The others are just beautiful and so far, very easy. Lilly is a good mama and other than changing out towels once a day, she keeps the brooding box and puppies very clean. Today I went in to check on them and they are all mostly walking and when I put my head in, I had 8 puppies licking my face.

 

[coloradogal]

I found pine tar and blue kote today so I used it on my 4 girls that were very bare backed. The saddles work but they still seemed a bit rough around the edges. They look very rough now. While I was doing the 4 girls, my roo found time to get on top of them all. Then I let them out and he took another turn on my little black one.

So, I have had it. I have his offspring as he is very fertile. But he's too rough on the girls and it's to the point that it isn't fair to them anymore. Soooo, I don't have the heart to cull him myself and most people do not want another roo. I'd like him to go to someplace where he won't be terrorized at the end. He's had a good life and don't want him traumatized. I would like to see him gone soon. He looks rough now too as while the girls were bare backed, he rubbed his legs a bit so I pine tarred them. They aren't as bad as the girls though.

My girls just need a break from the constant riding. PM me if interested.

 

[coloradogal]

So darn worried about the girls/roo last night I didn't sleep and was up with them at 5 to let them out. The roo never did go back into the coop and slept outside all night. Thus, the reason I didn't sleep. Based upon the faces this morning, it looks like the biggest offended is a little white leghorn. Her face is completely purple so am not sure if she was picking on her own feathers or the little mutt maran hen. The mutt maran hen has back feather loss due to the roo and side feather loss too. I've been at whits ends trying to figure out how to stop the pecking. I recognize it so easily now with the baby chicks and they are very easy to separate/treat quickly so I'm not sure why i've had such a hard time with the older hens.

They look atrocious and I should take some pictures. My buffs have mostly mild feather loss on their backs which the saddles seemed to help. I did them anyways. The white leghorn had more significant feather loss and the little black maran mutt just looks bedraggled. It's too early for molting... or I'd assume that. I had a mild case of mites but haven't seen any since I treated with poultry powder, Are mites even a big issue at our elevation and humidity levels?

Since I have newer chicks out in the coop, I've added a mixture of the all-flock pellets with the gamebird and non-medicated chick starter. They should have plenty of protein and eggs production is still the same, even with the feather loss. Part of why I didn't assume molting is because egg production hasn't gone down in these girls. I was going to treat with wazine in the water today as the last set of girls drinking out of the big girl waterer are all over 4 months old but now will hold off. I have no reason to suspect worms but it's always better safe than sorry. An option I have is to just treat the 4 girls with ivermectin directly to each hen. I can worry about that another day.

I may separate the little maran mutt until I get a better handle on her but if she's low hen, that won't solve the longterm problem. The only other solution is to try to catch the white leghorn pecking and then separate her. She's always been a little bossy but not to the point of ever appearing overly mean. But then, I am not in the coop with them at night. I have the main coop and the smaller coop outside. They prefer the smaller coop outside.

I'm done musing for the day. It's going to be a long day in trying to figure out what my options are. My main goal is a healthy flock. They aren't crowded, they have plenty of food and water with various stations set up in 3 areas for both food and water, they get lots of fresh veggies... I don't know what else I can do other than culling the perps. I did not incubate any of the white leghorn eggs. I'm not a huge fan of that particular breed. I will add vitamins to their water today to help with stress. I try not to add the vitamins constantly because I worry about an imbalance but today seems like a good day to give them a boost.