Consolidated Kansas

[Trish44]

I saw earlier you were going to have some Sapphires/cream legbars this spring. Can they be sexed? I can't have roosters in town and only want 2 or 3 to go with the girls I have.
Also I don’t know how to PM. LOL

Yes I will have Sapphires next spring, but no they aren't autosexing like the Cream Legbars so they will be straight run.

 

[chicken danz]

@spree56, to send a PM go to the upper right hand corner of the screen. Click on Inbox,then Conversations, then Start a new Conversation. When you get the screen start typing in the contact name you want to send to . When you see the right one click it and it will go in the box as the address. Add a subject and type away. When you get an answer it will show at the same place.

 

[spree56]

@spree56, to send a PM go to the upper right hand corner of the screen. Click on Inbox,then Conversations, then Start a new Conversation. When you get the screen start typing in the contact name you want to send to . When you see the right one click it and it will go in the box as the address. Add a subject and type away. When you get an answer it will show at the same place.

Thank you!

 

[spree56]

Yes I will have Sapphires next spring, but no they aren't autosexing like the Cream Legbars so they will be straight run.

Darn, they sound pretty & I love blue eggs.

 

[Trish44]

Darn, they sound pretty & I love blue eggs.

Well you could always re-home the roosters or sell them for butcher. I don't have room to keep a bunch of birds to grow out & I can't afford to feed extra ones either. I have all of my pens full as it is.

 

[chicken danz]

My DH left last night to go to Ottawa to do some quick shopping. It wasn't too long before the phone rang. He had hit a deer. It obviously it one upper front leg and broke it then hit it in the head on the bottom side of the drivers door. Not that much damage to the truck but still won't be a cheap fix. The deer was a doe and was in perfect condition save for her broken leg and her head injury, neither of which even broke the skin. When the sheriff got done making the report I had him release the deer to me. So I was beat but bled her out and then gutted her and skinned her last night. I let her hang all night because it was cold out. It's 2:00 PM and I just finished cutting up the meat. I just pretty much cut it off the bones and let the dogs have the leg bones to chew on and some ribs. Of course two of them got in a big fight even though they both had eaten to the point they didn't want any more. I have all the meat in a cooler and still have to finish cutting it for future use and packaging it. It was in such good shape we could have eaten every bit of it ourselves, particularly if I'd finished cutting it up last night. But I choose to package it for food for the dogs this winter. I took sections of the back bone and ribs and cut them in chunks and gave it to the chickens in the breeder building. I'll let them pick the bones clean then let the dogs have them. This was the first time I have ever seen a deer with lots of fat on her. It must have been a great year for deer. Her coat was beautiful and had I known how to tan I would have been tempted to salvage it.
While I was cutting this morning the chickens and turkeys were having a hay day eating scraps. That worked until one little rooster figured out he could grab meat from my cooler and get it faster!! They're still out there cleaning up every last particle. I have a fire going to burn the rest of the stuff, head, coat, and guts etc.
All the animals benefit from things like this except the cattle. They really could care less.

 

[Trish44]

Well I'm sorry about the accident but I guess on the bright side you got some meat for your animals. I'll bet they were very happy about that!

 

[Plinky]

Hello all, been a while since I posted, but have a new problem so here I am! My problematic blind Brahma, Plinky had been doing well since her last mishap of breaking the tip of her beak. Beak grew back fine. She was first to molt, then the Leghorn and now RIR. I had considered removing the Brahma several times to a separate coop and getting another gentle Brahma for companionship but never did because things calmed down and other issues have kept me from building another coop (as well as fear of neighbors).
However, yesterday I opened the coop and found the Brahma sitting on the floor with her comb very red looking. On closer inspection it was bloody! I went to the back of the coop to do something and heard a screech and found her to have been pecked again. I've read some horrific accounts of birds getting pecked and this is not that bad.
I brought her in to the old brooder box in the basement and put antibiotic ointment on the area. I will try to take a pic, but not easy to do.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
Thanks so much.

 

[chicken danz]

Well I'm sorry about the accident but I guess on the bright side you got some meat for your animals. I'll bet they were very happy about that!

That turned out to be expensive dog food. The estimate for the damage was $5055.00 and his deductible is $500. Even at $500 it's not cheap meat. I have to look at it from the point that at least the meat was salvageable.
Yesterday on my way to town I saw someone had hit and killed a cow. It's obvious it would have been a reported accident and it was right in front of someone's house. The cow obviously came from the pasture across the road. But here is a full sized cow laying dead in the ditch. It just blows me away that they did nothing with that thing while at least some of the meat could have been salvageable. As it is they are going to have to get a tractor to drag it off or it will drive the people out of their home with the stink. On my road yesterday as well in a place that has the worst fences there were a number of young calves out on the road. I have no idea why this guy doesn't maintain his fences better cause he looses cattle every year because they are out. I watched a calf run right under a wire on his half cobbled wire gate. They all want out to eat the green grass that is still in the ditches.

Hello all, been a while since I posted, but have a new problem so here I am! My problematic blind Brahma, Plinky had been doing well since her last mishap of breaking the tip of her beak. Beak grew back fine. She was first to molt, then the Leghorn and now RIR. I had considered removing the Brahma several times to a separate coop and getting another gentle Brahma for companionship but never did because things calmed down and other issues have kept me from building another coop (as well as fear of neighbors).
However, yesterday I opened the coop and found the Brahma sitting on the floor with her comb very red looking. On closer inspection it was bloody! I went to the back of the coop to do something and heard a screech and found her to have been pecked again. I've read some horrific accounts of birds getting pecked and this is not that bad.
I brought her in to the old brooder box in the basement and put antibiotic ointment on the area. I will try to take a pic, but not easy to do.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
Thanks so much.

Get some Blue Kote and make sure that bloody area is sprayed to hide the bloody areas. It is also antiseptic so it will help her heal. Birds seem to know when one is weak and they inherently pick on them. Survival of the fittest I guess.

 

[Trish44]

@Plinky yeah if chickens get any kind of injury the others will just keep picking at it, they're bad about that.