Granny's gone and done it again

[Nomadicus]

My little girl almost 19 years ago. Still miss her. This is Daisy. We took her in from a family that got her for their kids but the young son grossly abused her. She didn't like anything green. Green carpet or green grass. She would go out into the middle of the street so she didn't touch the grass when she tinkled.

 

[Hannah Jean]

My little girl almost 19 years ago. Still miss her. This is Daisy. We took her in from a family that got her for their kids but the young son grossly abused her. She didn't like anything green. Green carpet or green grass. She would go out into the middle of the street so she didn't touch the grass when she tinkled.

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She was beautiful! It's so sad how things get abused

 

[Granny Hatchet]

My little girl almost 19 years ago. Still miss her. This is Daisy. We took her in from a family that got her for their kids but the young son grossly abused her. She didn't like anything green. Green carpet or green grass. She would go out into the middle of the street so she didn't touch the grass when she tinkled.

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What a doll baby.

 

[Nomadicus]

I lost a pet silkie rooster and one of the last two big girl hens this last week. Expected the loss of the hen as the was a 26 month old Cornish Rock girl. A real lap full. Like a small turkey. I hope to get a short video and some pictures of the last one as I don't expect her to be with us a lot longer. Out of all the silkies I hatched last spring only 2 roosters and one pullet survive now. They just don't thrive for me like full size girls and boys. Can't keep my eyes open any longer. BBL

 

[Hannah Jean]

I lost a pet silkie rooster and one of the last two big girl hens this last week. Expected the loss of the hen as the was a 26 month old Cornish Rock girl. A real lap full. Like a small turkey. I hope to get a short video and some pictures of the last one as I don't expect her to be with us a lot longer. Out of all the silkies I hatched last spring only 2 roosters and one pullet survive now. They just don't thrive for me like full size girls and boys. Can't keep my eyes open any longer. BBL

I'm sorry for your loss

 

[microchick]

I lost a pet silkie rooster and one of the last two big girl hens this last week. Expected the loss of the hen as the was a 26 month old Cornish Rock girl. A real lap full. Like a small turkey. I hope to get a short video and some pictures of the last one as I don't expect her to be with us a lot longer. Out of all the silkies I hatched last spring only 2 roosters and one pullet survive now. They just don't thrive for me like full size girls and boys. Can't keep my eyes open any longer. BBL

I'm so sorry Nomadicus. That really sux. No other way to put it. I was talking to DH this morning about what could have been wrong with the Egyptian Fayoumi rooster I lost yesterday, telling him the symptoms. He hated to say that it sounded like neurological Marek's disease.

I told him I had thought about that. Have to remind myself that resistant doesn't mean immune.

 

[Nomadicus]

I've lost a handful out of hundreds of birds as adults. I don't know what from but I believe they ate either nightshade or to much lantana. Both are toxic. The silkies didn't. I caught a most loved Easter Egger rooster jumping up to get at night shade and he died a few days later.

 

[Nomadicus]

To late for a nap. Time got away and now it is time to start daily rounds. I won't be back inside for long at a time until coops are closed up for the day.

 

[microchick]

I've lost a handful out of hundreds of birds as adults. I don't know what from but I believe they ate either nightshade or to much lantana. Both are toxic. The silkies didn't. I caught a most loved Easter Egger rooster jumping up to get at night shade and he died a few days later.

I lost a bunch of hens last year. Healthy that morning, go out in the afternoon and they are sitting like they have the old grim reaper standing behind them with that old scythe aimed at their heads. An hour later, dead.

I was also having a horrible mouse problem. So bad that they were chewing the tails off of my roosters when they were on the roost. Finally got desperate enough that I had to put out bait. Chickens didn't eat the bait but I'm just about certain they were eating as many of the small mice as they could that were on deaths doorstep. The hens were bad at it so I think that is what was behind the sudden deaths.

Amazing that they could eat so many that the toxin would build up enough to do them in. So my big advice to people building coops. NEVER NEVER NEVER use a shed or build a shed with double walls. If you do you will never control the mice and or rats.

 

[microchick]

Man I gotta get something accomplished to day before I go out to feed and water.