thistlewick
Crowing
13 yesterday
Day before yesterday when it was time to lock up, Penelope - our sweetest and most docile lady, a Cream Legbar, was sitting down on the concrete step outside the hen house. Everyone else was in, and she was just there, squaddled down on her feet and tail down. I asked my husband if he wanted to pick her up (I was doing something else and also, I do most of the chicken things, and he LOVES doing anything so I wanted to give him the opportunity to hold a chicken, it's his favorite) and asked him to palpitate her gently to see if there was anything.
He doesn't know what to look for (hell, I don't either I just have read around here on things) but said her legs felt fine (she is a bit wobbly sometimes)
He placed her on the roost and her tail was down and she just seemed
((( so I went and checked her crop; EMPTY - alarm bells! Then I went and felt her backside to see if there was possibly an egg in there, but no that end of her felt fine.
We didn't really know what was up - he held up a hand of feed to her and she ate some, but stopped -- it was roosting time and she was sleepy. So we just thought we will see how she is in the morning.
She was perfectly fine next morning and something occurred to me -- we had snow sticking to the ground the past 2 days. THEY HATE IT. They stay close to the barn and under the lean-to and don't do anything and it's DIRT there, no grass, no nothing -- SHE didn't even go back to the hen house to eat I guess, during the day. Most of them will. Hell, SHE will, typically. They are eating me out of house and home this winter lol
anyway, they do still forage like pros when it's sunny and the ground is 'normal' so yesterday, since it was still snow on the ground, we brought them out scratch in the morning and a tub of their food to sit in the lean-to, so they didn't have to walk in the horrible WHITE STUFF on the ground lololol
She was fine yesterday
Day before yesterday when it was time to lock up, Penelope - our sweetest and most docile lady, a Cream Legbar, was sitting down on the concrete step outside the hen house. Everyone else was in, and she was just there, squaddled down on her feet and tail down. I asked my husband if he wanted to pick her up (I was doing something else and also, I do most of the chicken things, and he LOVES doing anything so I wanted to give him the opportunity to hold a chicken, it's his favorite) and asked him to palpitate her gently to see if there was anything.
He doesn't know what to look for (hell, I don't either I just have read around here on things) but said her legs felt fine (she is a bit wobbly sometimes)
He placed her on the roost and her tail was down and she just seemed
((( so I went and checked her crop; EMPTY - alarm bells! Then I went and felt her backside to see if there was possibly an egg in there, but no that end of her felt fine. We didn't really know what was up - he held up a hand of feed to her and she ate some, but stopped -- it was roosting time and she was sleepy. So we just thought we will see how she is in the morning.
She was perfectly fine next morning and something occurred to me -- we had snow sticking to the ground the past 2 days. THEY HATE IT. They stay close to the barn and under the lean-to and don't do anything and it's DIRT there, no grass, no nothing -- SHE didn't even go back to the hen house to eat I guess, during the day. Most of them will. Hell, SHE will, typically. They are eating me out of house and home this winter lol
anyway, they do still forage like pros when it's sunny and the ground is 'normal' so yesterday, since it was still snow on the ground, we brought them out scratch in the morning and a tub of their food to sit in the lean-to, so they didn't have to walk in the horrible WHITE STUFF on the ground lololol
She was fine yesterday
.... How many years before Apple tree fruit? ..
