Consolidated Kansas

[Hawkeye95]

Danz, I'm sorry your eggs didn't get there, you wonder sometimes what the postal service does with things.


I went out to let the older chickens out & looked in on the younger ones & discovered that they had been picking on one of the brown leghorn pullets to the point of bleeding on her tail end, so I had to catch her with a net & put her in one of my rabbit cages for now until I can get her healed up. I sprayed some of that blue cote stuff on there

I put my 2nd batch of peacock eggs in the Brinsea today & am turning them manually. We'll see if that makes a bit of difference when the time comes for them to hatch. I may get tired of turning them & just give up & put the turner on too, we'll see. Danz, let me know how your peacock eggs come out.

About shipped eggs-- the silkie breeder that I bought my eggs from this last time, she didn't put Fragile on the box. I was surprised when I got the box and it was an ordinary looking box with nothing out of the usual printed on it. I emailed her about that and asked why she didn't put hatching eggs or fragile on it. Now, my eggs arrived perfectly fine (and I had about a 70% hatch on them) but I was curious! She said that here lately, any time she put Fragile on the box, the PO just mangled the box! She said that she thinks they do it on purpose-- to treat the box badly if it says fragile. Someone had told HER that they worked at the PO for years and that people would shake the boxes that were marked Fragile to guess what was in them, or just to be mean. So she discovered that the safest bet was to not mark them anymore and not draw attention to them. Isnt that crazy?? What the heck are people thinking to be that mean??

I'm sorry about your brown leghorn that got picked on. Glad you got her separated. You might have to wait until most of her tail has come back in before you put her back out. I tried to put my Polish back out when her head was healed, but her feathers had not come back in. They all went after her immediately. I took her back out and when her head had mostly filled back in, I put her back out in the coop and no one even looked sideways at her! So I think it must make a difference. I'd keep her raw area well covered and gooped up with whatever you decide to use. I just used the triple antibiotic and would squeeze big globs on it, and then wait for her body heat to melt it a bit and then smear it all over the area. I didn't want to press too hard, because she had no skin, and it was her head and she had brain trauma.

Good luck on those peacock eggs!

Did you ever have one of those days you should have just stayed in bed? I just spent $400 for a new motor for my ztr mower. I started mowing the yard and had one of the big tires go flat. I looks like the side of it split. DH just bought a tire for one of the pull behind swisher mowers yesterday. This is a bigger tire so it won't be cheap and I still can't mow. I am sure I'll get blamed for it some way. If I ran over something it was cause the grass was so tall but I don't think that is what caused it. I think it just wore out. Crap!

OH wow, what a day you had! That is insane that you blew a tire right after doing a huge major repair on the mower. Seriously, isn't that just how things go? That's how they work for me.

Well, my DH and I just got back from "coon hunting" in our yard. We've been seeing a pretty big coon eating our mulberries at the edge of our yard, not far from my duck house. I saw the coon for the first time (not just a moving shadow) the same night I put the ducks out for the first time. That was a little unnerving! However, after almost an hour of searching the trees tonight, we finally got him. That makes me feel better, at least until another one comes to take his place...

Danz, I hope Marshmallow recovers quickly!

I'm off to bed! Have a good night all!

I take it you don't live in town if you are out shooting coons! ha! Glad you feel better.

DH let Marshmallow out to go pee and she took off with Fluff. So I am up out of bed at 3:30 am waiting for them to come back so I can pen her back up. Grrrr

I hope she comes back soon and is just fine. There's no way your DH could have known she'd go take off. Especially as bad as she's been feeling. Maybe she really took off and ran a bit and then layed down out there. Hopefully that is the case.

 

[chicken danz]

I questioned DH, and Marshmallow and Fluff had taken after something they heard. The pup was sitting on the back step waiting. Good dog.
Anyway I finally went back out and called again and they came running. I put her in the kennel I sat up outside. I was going to leave her in the house during the day but since I am going to be gone until late tonight I don't know if he could get her in the kennel. He just doesn't know how to handle her like I do. Not that I handle her well! I think I may hook up a fan to blow in the kennel so she can be semi comfortable and he won't have to mess with her.
So then it takes me a while to get back to sleep and I grossly overslept. I have way too much to do today to have slept in.
I just realized I have to leave earlier than the mail usually gets here. If those eggs sit in the mailbox today they will cook. I've tried before to reach the mailman and the postmaster says he has no phone I can reach him. In other words he just hasn't told her. So now I have another problem to figure out. It is supposed to be a HUGE box for the contents so I don't think it will fit into a cooler. I have a big plastic storage bin on my porch where they often put big boxes but the black is worse than being outside. Guess I'll have to spend some time making sure I have provisions made for that. I don't want cooked eggs.
I've got a big bin of peonies I dug for my son /daughter in law I have to get loaded too. I put a bunch of potting soil in there to hopefully kept the roots healthy but that added a bunch of weight.

 

[Trish44]

Danz, oh wow I hope your eggs will be OK. I can't leave a thing out on my porch evidently or my GPs will get into it no matter what it is & eat the box. We had them one time tear open a box of green coffee beans & one bag was missing & I never did find it, that was one day when we were in Wichita. I gathered up the others, a couple were chewed on, but they must not have liked the taste of them, so they left the rest alone. Then yesterday my parts came from GQF for my incubator & I didn't hear the truck for some reason & the silly dogs chewed open the box & got the bubble wrap out & were playing with it. Thank goodness they didn't chew any further & I found the box shortly after, whew! I wish I could figure out somewhere for the delivery guys & the postal service to put packages where they couldn't get them, but I haven't figured out any place yet. I hope you have a good day for your son's birthday!

Hawkeye, yeah I plan to keep the little pullet away from the others until it gets completely healed. It may not be that happy where it is, but at least it will be alive. They had picked it until it was down to the bone on the tail & it was a bloody mess & then they were still picking it, bleah. I don't know what started it all, I didn't see any problem with that chick until it was already bloody.

Josie, your little chick is doing fine, it even looks like maybe it's starting to get some fluff back on it's head on that one side. I got the other brooder box cleaned out & sanitized after those nasty turkeys were in there & put new pine shavings in then moved the Swedish Flower chicks & one Ameraucana chick I'm trying to keep to see if it could be a rooster in there. They're a little bigger than these new Orpington, Welsummer, & Ameraucana chicks & were kind of well not really picking at them but just doing things like running over them. I saw the Ameraucana stand back & just run at one like on purpose & just run right over it. So I figured it was time to move those bigger ones into their own brooder. The little ones will have a better chance that way.

I had quite a bit to do outside this morning because in addition to my normal feeding I had to give everybody water & the moving of the chicks & all that entailed, so it took me longer. I have to get my lists together now to get to Wichita to run errands this afternoon or evening besides cooking lunch & getting my DH off to work. He still is having a horrible time with this cough he has. He hates the way the nyquil makes him feel, but it does keep him from coughing for a few hours & he can sleep which means I can sleep. At first he thought it was just allergies because it didn't feel like a cold, but now today he says it feels more like one. It's kind of strange to have a cold in the summer, I usually only get one of those in the winter. I sure hope I don't get this from him, I don't have time for it.

 

[prairie]

Well, our ducks -- the 2 Ancona adults we got from Danz -- have found the creek!! Our black lab follows my hubby to the pasture and the ducks decided to follow the black lab. (They are all best buddies! ) Of course that led them to the creek and they had a high old time in the creek -- even though they have a swimming pool here at the house. They do come waddling back up to the house after about an hour.

Now I am worried they will get eaten by the coyotes. Maybe hubby could train the black lab to stay with them and protect them!!

 

[lizzyGSR]

I take it you don't live in town if you are out shooting coons! ha! Glad you feel better.

Ha ha! No, we don't live in town...

 

[sharol]

I have a suggestion for the skin sensitivity problem and itching on (was it) Marshmallow? I was looking for Vetericyn at Amazon.com (hoping it would be cheaper than it is at Bluestem) and started reading the reviews. Apparently the stuff works for all sorts of things besides chickens. People are raving about it for use on skin problems in dogs. I know it cleared up a rash on my hand when I was spraying the chickens' feet last fall when we were fighting bumblefoot, and the off label uses are quite numerous. OH yes, my daughter thinks it is helping her ezema on her feet.

http://www.amazon.com/Vetericyn-Wound-Infection-Care-Trigger/dp/B002YHL844/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top is the link to the product, and if you follow the reviews link, the info is quite interesting.

Usual disclaimer: not affiliated with Vetericyn or Amazon in any way.

Sharol

 

[Hawkeye95]

Danz, hope you figure out a way not to cook your hatching eggs! Glad that Marshmallow came back and you got her all sorted out before you had to leave. I know what you mean with the DH-- they don't do things the way we would and they make it like 2X's harder when they do.

Trish, I bet she will heal up pretty fast. Cocoa, my Polish that we had to have in the garage-- she was all healed up in about 3 weeks, but it took another two for the feathers on her crest to really come back in. And yeah, Cocoa was NOT happy to be in a little kennel. But like you said... live chicken or dead. I vote live.

Sharol, that is really neat stuff! I don't have a need for it now, but I'll file that in the back of my mind to ask you later if the need ever arises for that med.


So we had a fantastic afternoon! We went down to Yoder and signed up (a few months back) to have lunch with an Amish family in their home. They have a house they live in and then sort of another house-- it has two bedrooms, a nice big bathroom and then a HUGE living room/dining room. It was set up for 15 places and a lot of our extended family all met us down there for lunch. The Amish family cooked us a homestyle served dinner of chicken fried steak, pan fried chicken, green beans, mashed potatoes and gravy, chicken stuffing, coleslaw, and then rasin pie and lemon merguine pie. (sp??) Iced tea, and coffee. I drank a gallon of both, I swear. I was sloshing. That coffee reminded me of my grandparents coffee-- can't put my finger on the taste of it, but unique. The entire dinner was to die for delicious! Then they talked a bit about their history (only because we asked) and then they hitched up one of their horses (Saddle Bred) to a buggy and took us all on rides! Then he got out an old Ford tractor and gave the kids and everyone wagon rides! LOL It was like a holiday! It was soooo fun! Here are the kids loaded up in between the home owner.

 

[Trish44]

Hawkeye, that sounds like so much fun! I have been through Yoder on the way to the fair many times & went to eat at the restaurant there & to the bakery when they were open, but never did anything like you did. That's great that you had that opportunity.

I'm getting nowhere fast today, I need to be leaving & I'm nowhere near ready to go, ugh, better get off here & get busy again.

Sharol, that Vetericyn sounds like some good stuff to keep around, I have a very small bottle, but the spray bottle looks like it would be nice to have too. I found it for a few dollars cheaper here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vetericyn-A...109?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4cff50f0d5

 

[prairie]

Sharol, Hubby uses Vetricyn too. Saw the commercials on RFD TV and we bought it at Bluestem in Emporia I think.

Hawkeye, didn't know they had mini vacation days like this in Yoder! Sounds so fantastic. Maybe I will talk hubs into that one of these days.

 

[JulieNKC]

Hi everyone. Does anyone on here within an hour or so of Kansas City have an ameraucana, EE, or auracana they are looking to rehome? All my EE chicks are looking like they are pullets (I know, such awful luck, lol), and I am needing to find a roo for them.