Illinois...

[megpie021]

Well, you could keep the pair and make some more babies

Unfortunately we are not allowed roosters here, and our neighbors are too close to try to and sbeak one by. Husband says to just look for homes for them and we can get two more sexed chicks. Any one want two little sweeties? We will give em away if we know they will be cared for. We have been handling them every day and I am attatched. He was nervous about getting straight run chicks anyway, and them looking like boys isnt making him happy. I wasnt supposed to get attached to them for this reason.

 

[chickendreams24]

Welcome newbies to Byc and to the Illinois thread. Quite the week here so far! Please read below.

The chocolate cuckoo Orp chick passed away between 3 and 7 Monday morning and was sent for a necropsy today. Thank you very much red tape.

We set chicken eggs for the Easter hatchalong on Monday at noon.

Yesterday we discovered something had damaged our kitchen cupboard under the sink. And later learned it's a groundhog. It would seem it hibernated in the crawl space under our kitchen floor and became stuck.

Everyone remember those holes last fall under our porch? I believe we know the cause. Well apparently the thing can't find its way out and of course has no access to water. Yesterday it chewed through the water line to our sprayer knozzle on the kitchen sink as well as chewing at the cupboard itself. There is a flap of wood that goes around the pipes that lifts out that is it's entrance point.

We were up until past 4 am last night trying to get the thing out. It's large for a groundhog and although I'm not frightened of it I do respect it and feel for it's plight. We are trying to shoo it out through the kitchen and out the back door. Unfortunately this has not proved easy.

Hopefully tonight we can manage to get it out. It is very fearful but not aggressive although if it felt cornered I'm sure it could be. In fact after it got out of the cupboard(pushed the cupboard door open) last night the wood fell and it wasn't able to get back down the hole for some time.

We weren't able to get the door open and get it out before it got the flap up again.

It was quite the fiasco with me trying to soothe the frightened panicked creature. And eventually it turned and walked right up to me in between the kitchen and the dining room. No fear what so ever and sniffed the tote lid that I held as a barricade before looking up at me. I told it gently it didn't want to go that way and turn around and it did. Lol

Quite the night. Hopefully tonight we will be more successful.



Now my friends please I need your thoughts and prayers for my Grandpa. I was informed today that he was rushed from his Alzheimer's care assisted living via ambulance a couple of days ago. His doctor had changed his meds and taken him off his pills for his mood. From what I understand. It was a short conversation. I will know more later. My Grandpa, who is the kindest most respectful man you'd ever meet, except for his Alzheimer's acted up without his pills. Any change at all is hard for Alzheimer's or dementia patients and he began to act out to the staff. From there they sent him to a hospital with a psych ward.

However upon admission tests were run and he has bacteria in his urine which we knew about but his elderly doctor chose to ignore when he saw him Friday. They also did a CAT scan and discovered he has pneumonia and a sinus infection as well as a urinary tract infection. He was not running a fever.

For those that don't know illness in patients who are elderly or have dementia or Alzheimer's often confuses and worsens their mental state. In the last three weeks he has not been recognizing family at all which has been spotty. He has good days and bad days but lately there all been bad.

We are hoping that treating these illnesses will improve his mental state and lesson his mood swings. If he remains violent or threatening of violence the place will not take him back.

Everyone please keep my Grandpa in your thoughts and prayers and keep my family in them as well.

My Grandpa is being monitored and treated with IV antibiotics. He did recognize my Grandma for the first time in three weeks yesterday when he looked at her and said her name.

I will keep you all up to date on Grandpa and on the groundhog when I know more. Thank you guys

 

[Molpet]

Welcome newbies to Byc and to the Illinois thread. Quite the week here so far! Please read below.

The chocolate cuckoo Orp chick passed away between 3 and 7 Monday morning and was sent for a necropsy today. Thank you very much red tape.

We set chicken eggs for the Easter hatchalong on Monday at noon.

Yesterday we discovered something had damaged our kitchen cupboard under the sink. And later learned it's a groundhog. It would seem it hibernated in the crawl space under our kitchen floor and became stuck.

Everyone remember those holes last fall under our porch? I believe we know the cause. Well apparently the thing can't find its way out and of course has no access to water. Yesterday it chewed through the water line to our sprayer knozzle on the kitchen sink as well as chewing at the cupboard itself. There is a flap of wood that goes around the pipes that lifts out that is it's entrance point.

We were up until past 4 am last night trying to get the thing out. It's large for a groundhog and although I'm not frightened of it I do respect it and feel for it's plight. We are trying to shoo it out through the kitchen and out the back door. Unfortunately this has not proved easy.

Hopefully tonight we can manage to get it out. It is very fearful but not aggressive although if it felt cornered I'm sure it could be. In fact after it got out of the cupboard(pushed the cupboard door open) last night the wood fell and it wasn't able to get back down the hole for some time.

We weren't able to get the door open and get it out before it got the flap up again.

It was quite the fiasco with me trying to soothe the frightened panicked creature. And eventually it turned and walked right up to me in between the kitchen and the dining room. No fear what so ever and sniffed the tote lid that I held as a barricade before looking up at me. I told it gently it didn't want to go that way and turn around and it did. Lol

Quite the night. Hopefully tonight we will be more successful.



Now my friends please I need your thoughts and prayers for my Grandpa. I was informed today that he was rushed from his Alzheimer's care assisted living via ambulance a couple of days ago. His doctor had changed his meds and taken him off his pills for his mood. From what I understand. It was a short conversation. I will know more later. My Grandpa, who is the kindest most respectful man you'd ever meet, except for his Alzheimer's acted up without his pills. Any change at all is hard for Alzheimer's or dementia patients and he began to act out to the staff. From there they sent him to a hospital with a psych ward.

However upon admission tests were run and he has bacteria in his urine which we knew about but his elderly doctor chose to ignore when he saw him Friday. They also did a CAT scan and discovered he has pneumonia and a sinus infection as well as a urinary tract infection. He was not running a fever.

For those that don't know illness in patients who are elderly or have dementia or Alzheimer's often confuses and worsens their mental state. In the last three weeks he has not been recognizing family at all which has been spotty. He has good days and bad days but lately there all been bad.

We are hoping that treating these illnesses will improve his mental state and lesson his mood swings. If he remains violent or threatening of violence the place will not take him back.

Everyone please keep my Grandpa in your thoughts and prayers and keep my family in them as well.

My Grandpa is being monitored and treated with IV antibiotics. He did recognize my Grandma for the first time in three weeks yesterday when he looked at her and said her name.

I will keep you all up to date on Grandpa and on the groundhog when I know more. Thank you guys

Prayers for Grandpa .. Hope you get rid of the groundhog

 

[ChicagoClucker]

Welcome newbies to Byc and to the Illinois thread. Quite the week here so far! Please read below.

The chocolate cuckoo Orp chick passed away between 3 and 7 Monday morning and was sent for a necropsy today. Thank you very much red tape.

We set chicken eggs for the Easter hatchalong on Monday at noon.

Yesterday we discovered something had damaged our kitchen cupboard under the sink. And later learned it's a groundhog.

Quite the night. Hopefully tonight we will be more successful.



Now my friends please I need your thoughts and prayers for my Grandpa. I was informed today that he was rushed from his Alzheimer's care assisted living via ambulance a couple of days ago. His doctor had changed his meds and taken him off his pills for his mood. From what I understand. It was a short conversation. I will know more later. My Grandpa, who is the kindest most respectful man you'd ever meet, except for his Alzheimer's acted up without his pills. Any change at all is hard for Alzheimer's or dementia patients and he began to act out to the staff. From there they sent him to a hospital with a psych ward.

However upon admission tests were run and he has bacteria in his urine which we knew about but his elderly doctor chose to ignore when he saw him Friday. They also did a CAT scan and discovered he has pneumonia and a sinus infection as well as a urinary tract infection. He was not running a fever.

For those that don't know illness in patients who are elderly or have dementia or Alzheimer's often confuses and worsens their mental state. In the last three weeks he has not been recognizing family at all which has been spotty. He has good days and bad days but lately there all been bad.

We are hoping that treating these illnesses will improve his mental state and lesson his mood swings. If he remains violent or threatening of violence the place will not take him back.

Everyone please keep my Grandpa in your thoughts and prayers and keep my family in them as well.

My Grandpa is being monitored and treated with IV antibiotics. He did recognize my Grandma for the first time in three weeks yesterday when he looked at her and said her name.

I will keep you all up to date on Grandpa and on the groundhog when I know more. Thank you guys

Sending hugs and prayers for you, your family and your grandfather. My mother had Alzheimers, and it is a cruel disease. So hopefully he will be more himself once everything is taken care of and he is back in his own room.

Wishing you luck on the groundhog hunt this evening. Hopefully he will prefer to be outside!

 

[Faraday40]

@chickendreams24

Your family is definitely in my thoughts & prayers. While currently going through our own family medical issues, I can understand all the feelings one goes through during these rough times.

Also I know you tried hard to keep that little orp alive. I'm sure he knew he was loved & at least is no longer suffering.

On a lighter note, you should have charged admission to your house on Feb 2nd to hold your own Groundhog Day party! What fun adventures you guys have up in WI! (Just kidding & trying to make you laugh at a bad situation.

)

 

[Faraday40]

I'm upset with my roos again today. Moose has been a big bully!

Tomorrow is day 20. On day 18, I gave Cookie 2 eggs to sit on, so she'll be in sync & ready to adopt all the incubator chicks. Moose bullied Dummy & sent him running into the coop. Dummy broke through the broody netting, smashed 1 of Cookie's eggs, & pushed her out of the nest box! By the time I went out a few hours later & discovered this, Cookie's uncracked egg was ice cold & the broken one was pretty bloody. I put Cookie back on the egg & will hope for the best. I brought the smashed, bloody egg inside to take a look at the chick color. (It would have been a choc cuckoo orp. ) The yolk was not absorbed. Then all of a sudden it's cold body moved slightly & made a faint peep. I quickly wrapped it with wet paper towel, then put it into a coffee mug in the incubator, but it didn't make it.

As far as the incubator, DD found a pip & woke everyone up at 6am to tell us about it!

That early chick hatched about 4pm today. About 8 pips in there right now, so we're about on schedule.

 

[Faraday40]

Our incubator chicks are doing well. The storm kept me up last night - as well as all the peeping every time a new chick hatched.
Right now we have:
4 pips (2 could be blk or lav orps, 1 choc cuckoo, & 1 penciled rock)
4 lav orps
3 black orps
1 female EE (CCLxOrp)
1 choc cuckoo orp

7-8 eggs haven't started yet, but that's actually good because I have several visitors coming today to watch chicks hatch. It's hard to plan these things because it could all be over or the kids could stare at inactive pipped eggs. Of course when the timing does work out, it's so much fun to see a child's delight as they watch the wet little chick crawl out of the egg. My son's school is on spring break, so we have a few play dates today.

 

[ChicagoClucker]

The Jubilee and Mottled chick's have arrived. They are all very active and hungry.

 

[Faraday40]

Busy day! At one point I had 15 people in my living room. So far 27 visitors have stopped by & I haven't had time to count all the chicks. Cookie's other choc cuckoo chick hatched this afternoon, so I moved her & the chick into the bog brooder. I’ve been slipping the incubator chicks under her. Poor gal can’t count, but I wonder if she realizes that she’s adopting about 20 more chicks. That’s a lot of babies from one egg! LOL


It looks like some quail eggs may have pipped, but none have hatched yet.


Here are a few of my fav pics....

Last night around 10:30pm when I 1st tried going to bed. See those lonely 2 chicks.

This morning at 10:30am. A very crowded incubator!



Here are 3 of the choc cuckoos. The one on left is darker. The other 3 are pretty light (almost like my mauves were). Brick & Godiva are the only combo to make these colored chicks. @Junibutt
Do they have the possibility of being cuckoo mauves or just a lighter brown?



Here's the darker choc cuckoo next to a black orp.


Here are a couple lavs. I think I have 4 (but more may hatch)



Black orps


This chick had something important to say.



Cookie in the brooder. (in the garage)

No Chick dust in the house!


Chicks can go under hen & the overflow can snuggle under the Mama Heating Pad.

 

[Faraday40]

Must add that 2 more visitors stopped by & 1st quail just hatched! (a brown one) Not sure how many are pipped since they're very hard to tell.

Chicken eggs:
2 lavs & a penciled rock have pips.
4 eggs nothing yet

Looks like it may be another long night of incubator watching!