Consolidated Kansas

[Trish44]

Hawkeye, I don't really think they have had the money to go anywhere else for treatment or even other opinions for her, that's why I think they're having this benefit. From what I've been told her prognosis doesn't sound good, but then I'm getting information through my son. Yes, she is a beautiful young woman & so sweet, I had high hopes they would get married. My son just loves her to pieces & he said to me that he finally found someone who is perfect for him & now she's dying & it sucks & I told him I agree.

Danz, those puppies are just adorable, I wish I could have a male, but I'm not sure my DH is on board with it & I don't know what the dynamics would be with my two females if I got a male. We don't have a big acreage here & only the birds & rabbits to watch over. I'm still pondering over getting a couple of goat kids in the spring, but I'm not sure my DH is for that either. He wants me to get rid of everything so we don't have to have someone here to take care of them all & we can go somewhere any time we want. I'm not of that mindset at all right now. I just got all of these birds & am trying to get breeding stock to raise chicks. I told him I'm not giving up any of them right now & probably not for quite some time. I did go for quite a few years without any chickens & then found that I missed having them & got them again. I really enjoy having them around & it makes me happy.

My Swedish Flower Hens are starting to lay, I found an egg in the nest today, but I have no idea which one it is. Now if I can just get this darned coop done I can get my birds moved & settled in so when they all lay they will be in the right pen.

I have to run this afternoon & get feed, I'm out of everything & have been trying to make it to payday, but I'm going to be a few days short. I will have to borrow from my DH & then pay him back when I get paid next week. He doesn't buy any of the feed, I buy it all.

Well have a great day everyone!

 

[lizzyGSR]

Wow! It is crazy windy here today. NWS says gusts of up to 60mph. My birds aren't all that crazy about the wind. They've stayed pretty close to their pen today. It is so windy/dusty that it looks like it is both cloudy AND foggy simultaneously. You can see the cloudy-effect in this picture, though the "fog" look isn't quite as easy to see. This picture is facing East from my house.

 

[maidenwolfx80]

Thank you all for the tips and help. I hope I can get them better. I am going to brew teas and hope I make it until next fri

 

[maidenwolfx80]

Ok I have a tea of goldenseal, nettle, echinacea and astragalus.

 

[chicken danz]

Sounds like a winner Maidenwolf. I was thinking of brewing some golden seal for my olandsk. They are done with all the congestion but still sneeze now and then. I take golden seal as a maintenance drug myself because of my messed up immune system. If I quit taking it for a few days I get sick.
I had to take a quick break from things for a minute. I am in one of those stressed out modes. Too many irons in the fire. I have a pie baking and some sweet potatoes. I have another pie I am going to make but have to wait for DH to get back from town. He took my eggs in and is going to pick up some cashews for my other pie. He had to pay a bill so it wasn't a special trip. He also got called in to work tonight which ticks me off. I asked him why he didn't just say he had had a beer. (You can't work if you have drank anything within 6 hours.) Anyway he will have to catch a quick nap, then go to work. We are supposed to leave in the morning to go celebrate Christmas. How can he do that when he worked nights?
He doesn't get paid over time cause he is on salary and a supervisor. I don't understand why he just couldn't say no that he had plans. We already had to postpone Christmas this long because of his schedule.
Grrrr!

 

[Frizzled Pink]

Danz--sent you a pm

Trish--I am so sorry to hear the news about Dana. I will send thoughts and prayers for her. Its a hard time to get thru--the pink is in my avatar name for a reason. There are fantastic things happening everyday in medicine and lots of "study trials ". Keep your chin and hopes up--i believe ATTITUDE is everything in those scenarios. Please keep us posted and let me know if i can do anything to help.

 

[cubbysan]

I just got home to my ten year old telling we lost our EE and RIR. Something took them out of the covered pen, a trail of feathers everywhere going to the woods and pasture of the EE's but not the RIR. This happened either during the day or just before dark. We do have two holes in the netting from the snowstorm that covers the pen. My husband doesn't believe that the the chickens could have been carried through those holes. I think otherwise. My daughter did say she saw some animal near the pen and take off when they went down there like to get another one. She said it was fast and could run fast. I saw something near there the other night, I could not identify it. It wasn't a possum or a raccoon. My other EE was flat on the ground, she picked him up, didn't see an injuries on him, hopefully he was just stunned. The others were already in the coop for bed.

We had lost a Polish Crested about a month ago. My husband had found the weak point and fixed it. Again only feathers, no other signs. We trapped a possum a couple days later. This week, something managed to take the bait out of the trap and did not get trapped.

So now, my husband is so upset, thinks that no matter what we do, the predators will get our chickens, so why bother having chickens. He wants to give up on them. UGH! Hopefully he will be calmer tomorrow. I am upset, but I also expected to lose some while we are figuring out our weak points. I wasn't home when it got dark, so they were the ones that were locking them away, so they probably put went down there later than they should have.

What would carry the full body away? They looked everywhere. Hoping my husband lets us continue. Now we only have 5 left.

 

[Trish44]

cubbysan, I'm sorry for your losses, darned predators! Either fox or coyotes will carry off a chicken & take it elsewhere to eat it. The coyotes have been particularly bad this year, sneaky devils. If I didn't have these two Great Pyrenees out here I would have them right up here by my house. Before I got the dogs they had been seen trotting up my driveway. Now the dogs keep them back off of out property. My neighbor had horrible trouble with coyotes & foxes for years, but now I think my dogs protect her place too, I had told her when we got them that they probably would.

I had a heck of a time at feeding time tonight. I had let the turkeys out to run around for a few hours & they were still out when I started feeding. That is the last time I will do that, they're going in first next time, geez. I went in & filled the feeder in the coop after going to get feed & then gave them their BOSS for their bedtime snack. The turkeys wouldn't get away from the door to the run & were scaring the chickens & then one of the turkey hens ran into the run & I had to retrieve her from there & she flogged me on my left ear, boy that stung. She didn't like me picking her up. I finally got the turkeys back in their pen & then got all the chickens in, whew I felt like I had run a race after that fight. I normally put the guineas in their hoop coop & then get the turkeys in before I start feeding. I just didn't think about the turkeys causing such a ruckus, but they did.

 

[cubbysan]

Thanks Trish,

I have had great pyrs in the past, but that was when I lived in the suburbs. Now we have golden retrieveres and the invisible fence does not let them near the barn and pens. I know the bark of a pyr is usually enough to keep the coyotes away.

Will a fox or coyote jump on a roof about six feet high?

 

[cubbysan]

Trish, I'll also keep Dana in my prayers.