Dixie Chicks

[Beer can]

Sick cars huh?


Well, whatever floats your boat. Personally I like stick shifts.

Sick as in uncontrollable when the pedal was mashed. I lost second gear and it would still smoke the tires first to third and a little in fourth. Mash the pedal after dropping down to third at 60mph and it would take turns at to which guard rails it wanted to point at. Scary sick! Lol!
Oh my younger days, good thing I grew up.

 

[BriardChickens]

I wish I wrote down what day my daughters broody EE stayed on the right eggs. She's setting on five green eggs religiously for the last couple weeks. The kids might have new chicks in a week or less. I probably should candle them???

LOL, yeah, you don't want an explosion under her.

Got 4 tires and $480 in debt...

Expenses suck... don't take it out of your wedding fund

Incubate and sell more ducks to pay for that??

 

[BriardChickens]

So my Cayugas are 5-6 months old now... and I want eggs!!

 

[minihorse927]

I know it's dark. They were running in to their pen so I could feed.

 

[hennible]

not really sure myself... sat in some even more expensive cars but that's as far as that goes.

The truck was a lifted Ford F350, Harley Davidson edition, diesel. They be expensive here

Drove the gas version a few weeks ago (FILs truck) meh... Still a Ford

Like DHs old bosses truck better, big a** black Dodge, diesel... My honey got a new job, no more camp

Going to miss bosses truck lol

 

[Alaskan]

Deb, that is very nice that your truck still has such good gas mileage.

BC, those ducks SHOULD be laying! Wave a hatchet at them... Maybe that will scare them into it.

Beer can, I wouldn't candle... Ah, the risk of explosion is low (though revoltingly horrible if it happens), i dunno, you don't wanna upset he though.... Is she in a safe spot though? Can chicks tumble down from where she is at?

Mini, it perpetually amazes me that you have so many ducks!


OK... Now my question.... What the doodle whap is going on?

One of my rose comb dark brown leghorns has something odd with her foot. I just noticed it today.

Maybe she isn't walking perfectly normal, or maybe she is... Not sure. However she clearly is NOT limping.

The outside toes, when she is walking around and scratching, are a bit rolled in, a bit on their sides, instead of all toes being perfectly flat on the ground.

When I had my son pick her up so that I could examine her, and she was no longer standing, one outside toe per foot totally curled in a bit like a gnarled claw hand.

The middle toe of one foot, though not at all bent, has one big swollen spot. (This was what I noticed today, and why I examined her).

I felt all over, and if the swollen spot is warmer, it is only barely tiny bit warmer.

The foot was dirty, duh, but I thought that it was clean enough that were there a bumble foot spot...I should have been able to see it.

I could find no spot that looked like a bumble foot spot, and I did feel all over.

I examined the other foot, and no swollen spot, but it too had one of the outside toes do a nasty curl, in a bit like a gnarled claw hand fashion.

Again, when she was walking the toes did not curl, they were slightly rolled, so she walked a bit on the sides, instead of the bottoms.

Photos in next post... I will have to post, look, edit and then comment on each one to tell you what they are.

 

[Alaskan]

All photos are of the same foot.

In the photos it looks like there is some red... That is just the photo.

In real life, the only red I saw was just a bit, not much, and only right on the side of the swelling.

 

[seminolewind]

It may hurt-whatever it is. So she curls her toes to take the pressure off? You could wrap it. Or just wait and see.

 

[minihorse927]

Maybe it's an abscess that hasn't developed the typical bumble foot scab yet? Is it hard or soft?

 

[Beer can]

Looks like warts Alaskan??? Don't know, just reminds me of warts...
And, no, broody not isolated, chicks have a two foot drop if they hatch, should I be concerned? I'ts soft deep litter? Should I candle, if she gets off the nest of course, might not happen, I've seen her off twice in the last two weeks.