Consolidated Kansas

[Dani4Hedgies]

Prairie I'm so sorry about your baby goat I really hope she turns up.

Danz,
That's horrible people just suck these days.

 

[JiltdRoyalty]

Can't believe someone mentioned Sharon Springs! That's where my sister lives and I've heard about the thefts out there. She's one of the 911 operators there. So sad to hear about that kind of thing in our small towns! I'm so sorry for your loss.

 

[Js flock]

I'm new and I would like to get chickens but don't now the area vary well anyone know if you can have chicken in ormond by the sea FL?

 

[chicken danz]

Almost forgot to add... I've heard that chickens will go after mice... Is that only certain breeds or ages of chickens? I found a mouse in my (empty) duck food barrel this morning. I trapped it in a can and put my gloved hand over it so I could carry ti to the chickens. I released it for the chickens, and they all ran AWAY from it...

My DH didn't believe me that chickens will eat mice, and my birds just reinforced his idea when they were scared of the silly mouse. ARe they just too young (7 weeks)? Do I have all the wrong breeds or something? I thought it would be a neat treat for them, but instead I just let a mouse run loose in my coop. GRR! Crazy birds anyhow!

Chickens do eat mice but yours are probably too young yet. They get the knack of catching them and they are something they'll fight over. Anytime I find babies I bring them to the chickens and give them treats. They love them. But often you'll see an adult grab one and run with it so the others can't get it. They'll learn.
Just had the AC guy here. We had a capacitor go bad. Expensive trip since we had no dealers nearby. Cost me well over $200 and over half of that was mileage. I should make that kind of money. I'm so glad to have the busy weekend over with. I think I can actually drink my coffee in peace for a little while now.

 

[Ralph Moyer]

Almost forgot to add... I've heard that chickens will go after mice... Is that only certain breeds or ages of chickens? I found a mouse in my (empty) duck food barrel this morning. I trapped it in a can and put my gloved hand over it so I could carry ti to the chickens. I released it for the chickens, and they all ran AWAY from it...

My DH didn't believe me that chickens will eat mice, and my birds just reinforced his idea when they were scared of the silly mouse. ARe they just too young (7 weeks)? Do I have all the wrong breeds or something? I thought it would be a neat treat for them, but instead I just let a mouse run loose in my coop. GRR! Crazy birds any

I have several mouse traps set to catch the critters. My so-called barn cat, don't get the ones, where the feed is stored, mainly because my GP's won't let them be near the chickens. My chickens, and guineas all devour mice. It's a good thing, because my cats won't eat a dead mouse! Also my big tom won't harm baby chickens. He slipped in unnoticed where I had several open-topped brooder-tubs, and spent the night, and he did not harm any! I think it is because I housed some caged quail, in his cat shelter for a few weeks last year, and he got used to them.

 

[Trish44]

I'm so sorry. That's terrible.

One of my older chickens are sneezing. Could it have gotten Coccosidis? I try really hard to wash my hands each time I moved from the chicks to my flock, but could they get it if it was on my clothes or something?

That sounds like a respiratory illness, the Tylan will handle that like danz said. That's what I always use if I have anything respiratory.

I have to admire people who put so much work into a rental property. Normally they tend to destroy property rather than improve it.
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If it's an older chicken it probably has caught some kind of respiratory thing. You bought Tylan didn't you? Make sure it's not an allergy and if not give it tylan again. You are really getting an experience here. So have you considered going to college and becoming a vet who also treats birds? You are a perfect example of why we need some around here. Your own experience would help you become a success. I know it's a few years off but you should consider it.
So I got a message today while I was gone that 15 Speckled Sussex I sold were all roosters. These were picked up and hatched in January. I just sold them straight run. There is no way that could be the case because I accidentally gave them a partridge orpington in place of a sussex and the picture I saw at about 6 weeks proved it was a female. I swear I try so hard to breed the best and do every thing honest and by the book. But yet I still end up with people who say things like that. I have never cheated any one or misrepresented what I sold. I just don't see how the luck of the draw could result in 15 chicks hatched at the same time being all roosters.
I'm about to give up.
People know I will make anything right so sometimes I think they take advantage of me. Kind of like stealing livestock in a different way.

danz I'm so sorry you have been having problems with jerks lately, that's what they are. I see no way anyone could get that many roosters at one time. You usually end up with about 50/50 at most.

Almost forgot to add... I've heard that chickens will go after mice... Is that only certain breeds or ages of chickens? I found a mouse in my (empty) duck food barrel this morning. I trapped it in a can and put my gloved hand over it so I could carry ti to the chickens. I released it for the chickens, and they all ran AWAY from it...

My DH didn't believe me that chickens will eat mice, and my birds just reinforced his idea when they were scared of the silly mouse. ARe they just too young (7 weeks)? Do I have all the wrong breeds or something? I thought it would be a neat treat for them, but instead I just let a mouse run loose in my coop. GRR! Crazy birds anyhow!

Yeah your chickens are too young yet. My grown chickens sure will go after mice & even fight over them. I had a nest of them underneath an igloo dog house I moved & some ran into the pen right next to there & they were goners immediately. I have seen my cats catch a mouse & the chickens see them playing with it & grab it & run off leaving the cat sitting there thinking what the heck just happened.

I have had my young chicks I moved to the brooders out in the growout pen for about 3 days & nights now. I have had to go out every night at dark to move them into the dog houses. They go in & out of them during the day but still haven't figured out they can sleep in them. I just go out & divide them up between the two dog houses & they will stay in there as long as it is dark outside. The silly things will make a big pile right outside the one dog house instead of going in. I hope they learn soon because one of these nights it will rain & they're going to get soaked because they lay right by the fence. I do have a tarp on half of the top of the pen but being where they lay they still could get wet.

Prairie I sure hope they find out who is taking baby animals, that is just cruel besides the monetary loss for a tiny baby to be taken from their mom.

 

[HEChicken]

Danz, I'm so sorry about the person trying to take advantage of you. You can't even ask for photographic evidence because you wouldn't have any way of knowing if the photo was of the birds you sold them or just a random pic of SS roosters

Lizzy, your chicks are way too young. Even if a precocious chick chased a mouse at this age, they wouldn't be able to eat it. They don't have teeth so can't chew anything so whatever they eat has to be something they can swallow whole. An adult hen can quite easily eat an adult mouse. The only time I've had one struggle was when my best mouser caught a heavily pregnant mouse and had trouble fitting it down her throat. She had to try multiple times but did finally get it down.

Well, the storms they said would hit last night didn't but I'm nervous about the severe weather forecast for tomorrow. I have the animals up front grazing today since we didn't get rain so the ground is firm enough they won't leave so many prints.

I sold all my goat doe kids for the year already and as fun and cute as they are, I have to admit, its always a relief when the numbers start to go back down again. However a ewe I wasn't sure was pregnant has bagged up in the past few days so in about a month I will have another newborn lamb or two. I've never had them this late but its kind of nice spreading them out as by the time they are born, my February born lambs will be almost ready to leave for their one-way trip to freezer camp.

With the doe kids gone, we have had to start milking the goats and now I'm overwhelmed by the milk - both the quantity and the amount of work it takes to get it. My day started with milking the goats, then I did my chicken, cat and dog chores, then went to milk the cows. By the time I came in, I was already tired and it was only 10am. I had collected about 3 gallons of milk and then had to get it filtered and put up and since there wasn't room in the fridge for it all, I then had to start a batch of feta cheese. Thank goodness I don't have to milk tomorrow!

 

[Dani4Hedgies]

So I have my straw bales all planted now to see how they do. Lol my chickens inspected each plant with a bite or two to make sure mom is planting good stuf for them. Lol here are my pics I still need to finish my beet garden and the chickens new tunnels which will encircle the straw bales so the chickens can "self serve" but here is it so far.

 

[chicklover56]

If it's an older chicken it probably has caught some kind of respiratory thing. You bought Tylan didn't you? Make sure it's not an allergy and if not give it tylan again. How much should I give it? It hasn't been with the chicks at all, and it hasn't had any Tylan. It is almost a year old. You are really getting an experience here. So have you considered going to college and becoming a vet who also treats birds? I do want to become a vet, and I am planning on keeping chickens so that would be good for me. You are a perfect example of why we need some around here. Your own experience would help you become a success. I know it's a few years off but you should consider it.

Well, I've got another chick with an eye problem. It had been walking around with its eyes closed, and I didn't think much of it until today when I realized that it would open one eye (rarely) and not the other. I got it to open its other eye and there is clear discharge in it, but it is not leaking out. I out some antibiotic ointment on it and have it separated from the others, but how should I treat it?

 

[sharol]

Danz, I'm so sorry about the person trying to take advantage of you. You can't even ask for photographic evidence because you wouldn't have any way of knowing if the photo was of the birds you sold them or just a random pic of SS roosters

Lizzy, your chicks are way too young. Even if a precocious chick chased a mouse at this age, they wouldn't be able to eat it. They don't have teeth so can't chew anything so whatever they eat has to be something they can swallow whole. An adult hen can quite easily eat an adult mouse. The only time I've had one struggle was when my best mouser caught a heavily pregnant mouse and had trouble fitting it down her throat. She had to try multiple times but did finally get it down.

Well, the storms they said would hit last night didn't but I'm nervous about the severe weather forecast for tomorrow. I have the animals up front grazing today since we didn't get rain so the ground is firm enough they won't leave so many prints.

I sold all my goat doe kids for the year already and as fun and cute as they are, I have to admit, its always a relief when the numbers start to go back down again. However a ewe I wasn't sure was pregnant has bagged up in the past few days so in about a month I will have another newborn lamb or two. I've never had them this late but its kind of nice spreading them out as by the time they are born, my February born lambs will be almost ready to leave for their one-way trip to freezer camp.

With the doe kids gone, we have had to start milking the goats and now I'm overwhelmed by the milk - both the quantity and the amount of work it takes to get it. My day started with milking the goats, then I did my chicken, cat and dog chores, then went to milk the cows. By the time I came in, I was already tired and it was only 10am. I had collected about 3 gallons of milk and then had to get it filtered and put up and since there wasn't room in the fridge for it all, I then had to start a batch of feta cheese. Thank goodness I don't have to milk tomorrow!

I sure wish I lived close enough to buy real feta cheese from you. The junk in the supermarket says feta, but when you read the label, it is really cows milk. It sounds wonderful.