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[mommahen10]

I'm so sorry Chicken Danz. I wish I could make it better. Hang in there.

Josie, that's !@#$@#%#$^%@#!!! Pardon my French! GRRR, some people are just crazy! Is there a way to report this person? That's just out of line.

Hawkeye, , I'm sorry about your friend. It's just a sad day here today. I hope tomorrow brings happy things to us all.

 

[ChicknBaron]

Anyone wanting a bantam little rooster? I was at Atwoods in Derby talking with this guy about all the cute chicks - this lady came up to me afterwards asking if I'd like to have this rooster. She said someone gave it to her and she felt obligated to take it . She does not have any chickens or any other poultry - just this one lonely rooster. She seemed to be a very nice lady trying to do a good deed, but is not stuck and feels she didn't do this rooster any favors by bringing him to a home alone with no real means for him. I gave her my email address and told her to email me and I'd see what I could do to help him find a new home. She says he is very sweet and gentle. She lives North of Derby - that's about all I know.. if you're interested, let me know and I can pass the information to her.

Do you know what breed it is? I don't know... I might be interested??? Cuz i have 8 hens already and will more than likely get a few roosters out of the hatch i'm currently incubating, i don't know if that would be a good call? Do you think the hens would like to have a little rooster running around? Would this be a good roo for my free range flock???. (sorry about all the questions!) Do you know its age, "friendly-ness", etc... I dont know... i might be interested... we'll see...

 

[cherwill]

Hugs to you Danz. I know this is hard and I know that you will do everything you can to make her comfortable and healthy. I hope everything turns out ok.

Wow.. miss a day an a half and it's over 150 posts! I can't keep up with ya'll lately. LOL

I got my new puppy yesterday! She is half pitbull -half Presa Canario Mastiff. Gonna be a big girl. My DH named her Kitty. He thought it would be funny to call "Here Kitty" and have a 200lb dog come running. LOL







Here she is compared to Darwin - our 3yr old American Bulldog. Tiny, but she might outsize him in a few years!

She's a cutie! I love Darwin's expression -- you just know he's thinking, "What in the world is THAT???"

I know I missed replying to more.... My brain is a sieve.....
Cherwill- I hope your foot it better soon!! I am having nerve pain in my foot and I do understand.... Not fun!

Thanks. Do you have neuropathy or something that causes you foot pain, or is this something new? If it's new, it wouldn't hurt to have it checked out. I can vouch for the fact that sometimes these things don't go away on their own, no matter how long you try to wait it out. I hope it goes away quickly for us both!

 

[sunflowerparrot]

Do you know what breed it is? I don't know... I might be interested??? Cuz i have 8 hens already and will more than likely get a few roosters out of the hatch i'm currently incubating, i don't know if that would be a good call? Do you think the hens would like to have a little rooster running around? Would this be a good roo for my free range flock???. (sorry about all the questions!) Do you know its age, "friendly-ness", etc... I dont know... i might be interested... we'll see...

I don't know anything at all.. it was just a stranger at Atwoods that approached me after she heard me talking to someone about my chickens. I gave her my email and said to email me and I'd see if I could help her find him a home. She hasn't emailed me yet. If she does, I will give you her information.

 

[MarcAustin]

Good Morning all.
So yesterday I was cleaning out my old "coop" which had a concrete floor. After sweeping poop, shavings, food crumbs and feathers I scraped the old built-up poop piles that were GLUED to the ground. SO THEN .. . . . I decided to disinfect the floor and went to the bleach. I poured maybe four cups around and then misted the entirety with the garden hose spray nozzle. I started sort of mopping it around to mix it up with and old Swiffer thing and all the sudden my eyes went to tearing, nose burning and I freaked out thinking I had unknowingly brewed some home made poison. I called the Poison Control hotline and they explained this wasn't the 1st call of this type they'd received. Evidently the urea component of the poop either contains or turns into ammonia (i wasn't exactly sure what she said because I was still freaking). And that I had probably manufactured Chloramine and Sodium Hydroxide
which are what some people call "chlorine gas" Anyway it scared the crap out of me and I put on strong box fan out to aerate for 2 hours before housing it all down with copious amounts of water. Yes I've none for a long time not to mix chlorine and ammonia, but I didn't think about any significant amount of ammonia in the droppings. Especially after the scouring I'd already done.

This happen to anyone? Google told me to use plain white vinegar the next time I attempted such an experiment. I swear my Tombstone will read "Death by Misadventure". Accompanying pic not related, juts me clowning around down in Tepoztlán Mexico a few years back . .. .

 

[MarcAustin]

And COMPLETELY off-topic, does anyone have access in the near Wichita area to a Gypsy Vanner horse or 2 ?? Tks all.

 

[MarcAustin]

I'm kind of curious too. I have a couple of the humane traps . . . . metal can and hopefully limit how much I feed the mice from now on. Grrrrr.

HEChicken, I really don't wanna be a bother, but I'm DYING to see an updated pic of that "chicken yard" you created (rel-your MyCoop pics).
If you get a chance to snap a pic or 2 I will be indebted . . . Bye!

 

[HEChicken]

HEChicken, am I understanding that a pad for heating a lizard is all you are using as a heater for your incubator? Your description sounds so easy to build and like it might be quite fun for a 9 yr old boy too......especially since we have everything you mentioned needing..... But drat, I would be a huge mess if anything went wrong!! But, then my 9 yr old is happily pulling mealworms out of the mealworms farm I swore I would never be able to stomach. Hmmm..... Definitely food for thought!!

Yes ma'am. This is what the heat pad looks like:

and here is a link to a product info page about it: http://zoomed.com/db/products/EntryDetail.php?EntryID=113&DatabaseID=2&SearchID=5

What I like about it is that instead of a concentrated heat source like a light bulb, where you can have hot spots and cool spots in the incubator, if you get a heat mat (they come in various sizes), that covers most of the bottom of the incubator, it radiates heat up evenly so that even without a fan to circulate air, the temperature throughout the incubator is pretty consistent. I do recommend a fan anyway though, to ensure good ventilation.

Yesterday I pulled up to our barn gate and there were four little wild turkey poults standing right at the gate! It was so neat to see them. I didn't see any adults around but the little guys didn't look very old at all. They ran off when I pulled up so I sure hope they have a parent looking out for them and survive to adulthood.

Tweety - your new puppy is a cutie - I hope you have a ton of fun with her and your older dog bonds well to her as well.

Cherwill, sorry about your foot.

Danz, how is your cat doing this morning?

I got my storage area cleaned out yesterday and the feed transferred to my new metal bin. Unfortunately I probably need to buy a couple more because in other plastic bins I have chick starter and gamebird feed. Now that the bin with the hole in it has been removed, I daresay the mice will start on one of those bins next. Grrrrrr. It seems like the mice are worse this year than usual. At the barn, we cleaned out the feed room just a week and a half ago and yesterday someone noticed mouse droppings in there again. We've been in the habit of buying bags of feed and if they don't fit in our feed bin, just stack them to the side until there is room. Yesterday we noticed one of those bags had a hole chewed through it so now we've decided we can't stack bags in there any more - they either have to go in our feed bin or stay in our car.

I looked at the reviews on the Victor mouse trap on Amazon and it got mixed reviews. Danz, before you run out and buy more, perhaps read what some reviewers wrote about it? Several said it worked great at first and then lost its effectiveness. You may have better results using just the one and moving it around under different cages/pens, rather than leaving one permanently under each. I bet what happens is initially the mice are fooled and some are trapped, but the ones who don't get trapped learn to avoid that trap after hearing their friends get stuck in it. Mice can be pretty smart that way.

 

[HEChicken]

HEChicken, I really don't wanna be a bother, but I'm DYING to see an updated pic of that "chicken yard" you created (rel-your MyCoop pics).
If you get a chance to snap a pic or 2 I will be indebted . . . Bye!

Oh, so sorry - I totally forgot. Going out to take pics now.....

 

[HEChicken]

Good Morning all.
So yesterday I was cleaning out my old "coop" which had a concrete floor. After sweeping poop, shavings, food crumbs and feathers I scraped the old built-up poop piles that were GLUED to the ground. SO THEN .. . . . I decided to disinfect the floor and went to the bleach. I poured maybe four cups around and then misted the entirety with the garden hose spray nozzle. I started sort of mopping it around to mix it up with and old Swiffer thing and all the sudden my eyes went to tearing, nose burning and I freaked out thinking I had unknowingly brewed some home made poison. I called the Poison Control hotline and they explained this wasn't the 1st call of this type they'd received. Evidently the urea component of the poop either contains or turns into ammonia (i wasn't exactly sure what she said because I was still freaking). And that I had probably manufactured Chloramine and Sodium Hydroxide
which are what some people call "chlorine gas" Anyway it scared the crap out of me and I put on strong box fan out to aerate for 2 hours before housing it all down with copious amounts of water. Yes I've none for a long time not to mix chlorine and ammonia, but I didn't think about any significant amount of ammonia in the droppings. Especially after the scouring I'd already done.

This happen to anyone? Google told me to use plain white vinegar the next time I attempted such an experiment. I swear my Tombstone will read "Death by Misadventure". Accompanying pic not related, juts me clowning around down in Tepoztlán Mexico a few years back . .. .

Scary.....I did much the same type of clean yesterday, less the bleach. My floor is also concrete and although it was my storage area side, where in theory there should never be any poop, in reality, the birds often follow me in when I go in to refill a feeder so I wound up with the poop stuck like concrete to the floor too. I took a shovel with me, and scraped the poop off with the shovel, then swept it all out really well. I didn't want to hose it down because although I used treated lumber for the boards anchored to the concrete, I didn't really want to get them soaked. I figure the longer they stay dry, the longer they'll last.