Wether makers. We put them on male gonad sacks. I use them to close fish transport bags. We docked tails with a sharp knife.
When I was in college in the last century ('68 yes I grew up in the '60's and I DO remember it) I came home to my sister's house and baby sat the lambs. Ha they were lambing. So I had to go out every few hours to check on them Every time there would be more lambs. Geeez My sister, 4 kids, and BIL went off to a cabin to snow mobile for the week. Schoo break.BUT they didn't tell me they had sheep in the old broken down mostly wall less chicken coop. And so most of them died. I would like to have sheep now but I don't have quite enough room for them. Only about 2 acres here. A lot taken up by my driveway, part steep hill, and 2 car garage concrete pad. So I'll stick with chickens. BTW it hasn't been over 5F today. And I've gotta my quota 4 Eggs. I only have 4 chickens. My BO and ISAB usually lay over night. SLW whenever...... But today at 0800 I had a very warm SLW egg. Pullets and laying small eggs. Then late morning my ISAB laid she always has a nub of calcium on her egg. Early this after the BO laid BIG egg 68grams. Then I just went out ( I had been out at noon time) to check water. Not frozen and there was another a SLW egg. Kinda cool but not frozen. So that's the saga for the cold in Maine. LOL Weather says it's -11F with the wind chill. Ha the trees are totally still No wind in my back yard.
I wondered if those bands were still around and they are. Ha my BIL fainted at the sight of blood. Although he used an axe quite well with the broilers. I hated when that guy came an dehorned the cows with all that blood running down their faces and into the hay they were eating. Cruel IMHO I never could understand why a Holstein couldn't keep her horns.
ISABrown. I don't think it's a true breed but I really don't know. She's the one that got attacked by a dog last year before I got her. She has a fairly large area on the back top of her neck. Maybe small orange size in diameter. But doesn't seem to bother her. And the dog got one tip on the very back of her comb. She's the top hen. I was surprised. She's the smallest hen I have. She doesn't peck the BO because they were brought up together but she does peck the SLW and I've noticed a couple of times now they have put her in her place by lightly pecking right back. The coolest thing I've seen is one of my SLW, Louise ( the other is Thelma sorry) preening my BO. She will take a feather in her beak and run her beak to the end of the feather and then get another one. My BO isn't bothered by that. And then one night when I went to put them to bed There was Black, Orange, Black all snuggled on the roost. So cute.
What hidden disease?
