fuzzi's Chicken Journal

[kcan2]

Glad you are getting some rest! Do you have some help taking care of the chickens, or are they more sort of part of the cure?

 

[fuzzi]

Yes, I have developed procedures for taking care of my own health, as I have met too many incompetent providers.

The chickens are therapy. If I get tired when I go check food and water I just sit in the coop and visit. Joanna comes over and chatters at me, she's the most vocal member of the flocks.

"Didjabringmeanygrapes"?


Sussex girls have officially been named:

Pink - Claudia
Yellow - Lois

I'm going to try to keep one of the Sussex boys as backup, whichever one behaves the best. If Zaccheus can tolerate one, then the cockerel can stay, and then I will name him.

 

[lightm]

@fuzzi
Hopefully you keep improving and your scan result is good today. It is good that you are on so top of everything.

 

[Labsandchickens8]

Ron went Home to be with Jesus this morning.


It's a blessing, he's not suffering anymore.


Thank you for your kind words, and prayers.

I'm so sorry Fuzzi, but so happy that you know he's with Jesus. I try not to respond to old posts as I read through these threads, but I felt I needed to respond to this one.
I feel that I "know" you a little from this thread and Shadrach's. Speckled Sussex are my favorite breed because my one Sussex is so sweet and they are beautiful. I love the pictures and I'm so impressed with all the work and chicken keeping you have done almost with no help.
Thank you for the wonderful journal!
Back to reading

 

[fuzzi]

I'm so sorry Fuzzi, but so happy that you know he's with Jesus. I try not to respond to old posts as I read through these threads, but I felt I needed to respond to this one.
I feel that I "know" you a little from this thread and Shadrach's. Speckled Sussex are my favorite breed because my one Sussex is so sweet and they are beautiful. I love the pictures and I'm so impressed with all the work and chicken keeping you have done almost with no help.
Thank you for the wonderful journal!
Back to reading

Thank you for your kind words!

After feeding the Sussex I sat and rested a little. The "littles" are getting bigger, and are not quite as flighty.

 

[Shadrach]

Still running a fever, but am feeling a little better. I put chicken drumsticks in the slowcooker to make bone broth. After about 4 hours I checked on them, and they smelled SO GOOD. First time in 5 days I felt hungry. I ate one with just a little salt, yum! I then ate a second drumstick. I left the bones in to continue to make broth.

I have a work-in appointment tomorrow with my PCP. I want to make sure I don't have bronchitis, or pneumonia.

Those meals after when one has been too sick to have much interest in food taste wonderful to me as well/

 

[Labsandchickens8]

 

[kcan2]

The littles look like they stand about as still as the tiny “air dolphins” at my place!

 

[Labsandchickens8]

While snakes can be pesky and very rarely dangerous, they can also easily be rehomed to a more wilderness area. They are superb mice/vole predators and clean out a lot of the things that cause us the most trouble. The presence of one inside the coop or run is just an indication that security is not what it might be.

I had 2 to 3 snakes this summer. One I just saw trying to get in the side but because it couldn't, I thought it was safe.
Last one ate 3 jumbo wooden eggs and sat it's giant, python like self on top of the nesting box house. It was well in the way to dying. I read that you can move a snake far into the woods but it will heat you back to the coop. Once they know there are tasty eggs somewhere, they keep coming back.
We turned the front door into Fort Knox with hardware cloth, to the point it grabs my arm, short, pants every day - but no more python.
I can post the picture but a lot of y'all have seen it. I know, I know snakes are good, but I detest them. We've had many venomous ones over the years

 

[fuzzi]

Making bone broth.

The solids have been strained out, onion has been discarded, bones put aside, meat and carrots saved for consumption.